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Could a Heitial Hernia cause or bring on A-Fib or heart fluters?

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david72297
david72297

Sometimes my chest.....around the Diaphram area ........stings / feels hot so much that my heart races. This happens usually  about an hour after I eat.

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  • jay7196
    jay7196 david72297

    Posted

    Maybe, have you changed your diet to cope with the AF ? Do you have a hernia? or an ulcer?  I found pain does upset me and makes me rattle, .. good luck .. 
  • frank61666
    frank61666 david72297

    Posted

    Hiatus hernias definitely cause afib episodes and the hernias could feel like severe sharp pains right under the sternum.  But GERD could do that also. Unfortynately, food intolerances also could do that too. Food intolerances could cause histamine release in the gut and that too can cause afib symptoms.
    • david72297
      david72297 frank61666

      Posted

      Thank you very much. Good info to carry to the Surgeons office today........in order to furthur help me to make the informed decision to have the Hernia operation. I am afriad... go in.. that he will say that he does not think it's bad enough. I will see at 2:30 today.
  • frank61666
    frank61666 david72297

    Posted

    Good luck - you might be right; fixing an hiatus hernia is more complicated than most other hernias and most people, patients and surgeons, generally find ways to avoid the surgery unless it is totally unbearable.  They can be done laproscopically today, but the surgery still is 3-3.5 hours long. 
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