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A Cure for Ectopics?

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sherpa_al
sherpa_al

I have suffered from ectopics/palpitations for several years now, following an ablation to treat AF, particularly at rest when my heart rate can be down mid 40s. I have recently started taking a bog standard magnesium tbalet daily (375mg), and the ectopics seem to have disappeared.

Has anyone else had a similar experience with magnesium?

Concurrently I have been trying to isolate foods that cause bloating, and have removed tomatoes from my diet; bloating anecdotally seemed to trigger my ectopics. So magnesium and no tomatoes, and now no ectopics, hope it continues!

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  • stevenZ
    stevenZ sherpa_al

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    I have just started to get ectopic beats very scary! Been for my first ECG and now awaiting blood test results. Interesting you mention bloating as I have also felt bloated while these have been going on. I even wake up bloating and water seems to make me bloat so unlikely to be an intolerance. I'm just so confused and down about it, there are days I don't want to get out of bed or eat in fear of triggering them off again.

    Is it normal to also get an ache in the chest with them? This is another worrying symptom I have started to get

    • sherpa_al
      sherpa_al stevenZ

      Posted

      Hello Steven, I had palpitations/ectopics for several years, didn't know what the problem was, only bothered me when at rest or in bed. When I got bloated it seemed to set the ectopics off. AF diagnosed Nov 2016, stroke in Dec 2016, ablation Jun 2017, still got ectopics, and yes I could feel the pain of trapped wind in my chest at the same time, needed to burp a lot to clear it. The ectopics only bothered me when my heart rate was sub 50bpm.

      Turns out daily magnesium (since Oct 2020) has returned my heart to an NSR, proven by a 48 hour ECG monitor a couple of weeks ago. A food intolerance (tomato) has been identified, and now excluded from my diet, massive difference, but I did have AF, and if you do have AF, it needs to be confirmed by ECG. You could download the Kardia app onto your phone, and purchase the finger pad and keep a regular check of your own ECG, albeit, it's a single lead ECG.

      Hope that helps a little, BTW are you in the UK or the US?

      Cheers

      Sherpa

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