AFibbers Database: Overdoingit

Name	Overdoingit
Location	Ashburn, VA
Age	34
Diagnosed condition	lone AF
Years with condition	1 year after diag, probably had for awhile to less degree
Frequency of episodes	almost daily when diag
Duration of episodes	6 - 36 hours
Event preceding first AF	Started an extreme health kick for 7 months, running 3 days, raquetball 2 days, diet to lose weight. Went from 175 - 155 lbs
General health	Good health, no symptons except noticeable heart palpitations, poundings, skipping
Current state	Normal Sinus, no meds, Stopped all excersice went back to bad diet, junk food, fast food, now 170 lbs
Triggers	Stress, poor sleep, vigorous excercise, too few calories. Dr's said excercise and healthy diet shouldn't be a problem, they always said alcohol, caffine. But in my case they were wrong, I now drink and eat poorly, and do no excercise except mowing the lawn&golf, but Afib is completely gone with no meds. In my case I definitely attribute the cause to trying to do more than my body could handle, I have a strong will and didn't listen to my body and pushed it beyond its limits. I have never been athletic. The excercise routine on top of very demanding job, and stressful family life with young kids, on top of very healthy low calorie diet was too much for my heart to take.
Preventions	Pay attention to body. Before I just ignored signs of strange beats etc, I was in denial, I just ignored this stuff and rationalized that since it didn't make me weak or anything else that it was okay. I was probably in Afib frequently but just ignored my body. It got so bad that my heart was POUNDING and flip-flopping like a fish and I couldn't ignore what was going on in my chest, I went to a cardiologist. Within 3 days I was in the hospital for a week. This was a shock to me, and wasn't good for my condition at all. They did all sorts of tests and I missed many meals as prep for tests, lost 5 more pounds. Had a cardioversion that didn't work. Went on Sotalol. Scared me about to death. Having never been to a hospital in my life.
Current medications/side effects	Got out of hospital. Took Sotolal and Comadin for awhile, sotalol made me cold, weak, and dizzy, heatbeat down to 60 beats per min at times. Stopped all excercise and diet. Went back to eating poorly, drinking beer, caffine. Afibs happened a few times at first but now are completely gone after 1 year. Off all meds and never felt better.
Past medications/side effects	Sotalol, comadin, asprin. Asprin gave me acid reflux.
History of surgery	none
Future plans	Take it easy on myself. Everyone has a limit as to what they can do. Don't overdoit. Fast paced life is stressful enough, dont' kill yourself doing too much. Take time off, cut out added stress. If you are 10 lbs overweight it isn't going to kill you. A few cups of coffee, a little chineese food, a diet coke or two, a big mac here and there are okay if thats who you are. Trying too hard to be healthy can kill you!
Personal comments	Everyone's different. This is just my unique situation. Doctor's don't seem to know anything about cause of lone aFib. All they know is how to treat symptoms. I was so surpised to learn that doctors do very little to understand each persons situation and have a standard treatment only to treat the symptoms. People are complex interactions of mind and body with multiple systems interacting, not just a collection of mechanical parts. It's not their fault, they are paid by the procedure, prescription. Not by the cure. Once you are cured, you have no need to keep seeing them to get your next prescription or test. If you have any choice, stay away from the hospital. They will kill you in there! They get paid by keeping you in there the longest. Trying to get a doctors see you when you are in the hospital is impossible. The nurses treat you like a vegatable or at best an annoyance. They love to stick tubes in your arm and give you drugs and hook you up to all sorts of computer monitors because then they can bill the hell out of the insurance company. The longer your stay the more money they make.
Check list	acebutolol amiodarone (cordarone,pacerone) anisindione (miradon) atenolol (tenormin) aspirin azimilide bepridil betaxolol bisoprolol (monocor,emconcor) bretylium bucindolol carvedilol cibenzoline dicumarol digitoxin digoxin (lanoxin) diltiazem (cardizem) diphenylhydantoin disopyramide (norpace) dofetilide (tikosyn) dronedarone encainide esmolol (brevibloc) ersentilide flecainide (tambocor) gallopamil ibutilide (corvert) lidocaine mibefradil metoprolol (lopressor,toprol xl) mexiletine moricizine nadolol phenytoin procainamide propafanone (rythmol) propranolol (inderal) quinapril (accupril) quinidine (quinaglute) sotalol (betapace) tedisamil timolol tocainide trandolapril (mavik) valsartan (diovan) verapamil (calan,isoptin) warfarin (coumadin) asthma diabetes GERD/acid reflux hypertension hypotension hyperthyroidism hypothyroidism adrenergic vagal familial idiopathic/lone paroxysmal permanent/chronic atrial flutter cardiomyopathy CHF PAC PVC SVT syncope bradycardia tachycardia heart block myocardial infarction rheumatic heart diease sick sinus syndrome stroke WPW electrical cardioversion defibrillator pacemaker ablation bypass maze Male Female

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