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Is there any hope with afib?

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li29885
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Feeling very hopeless. I'm only 37 yo. I have three very young kids. They are only 8, 5 and 3. I had a very wonderful life and a pretty wife and a very good job. 

I think I messed myself up by taking a vegan diet for two weeks before afib. I watched a damn film about how good vegan diet is, then I decided to try it for two weeks to see if I would feel great. I wasn't obese, my BMI was 26 before I took vegan diet.  I did the vegan diet only in the hope of getting even more healthy and to avoid heart disease. Up to the point I had afib, I was very fit and healthy. And I was a man that always full of energy, creative, passionate, calm, confident and family oriented. I also had a strong mind that once I decided to do something, I would achieve it. 

So I started the vegan diet and obviously I didn't eat enough. For the first few days, I felt very tired, and one the 3rd day, my heart skipped beats for four hours until I ate my dinner. I didn't link it to the diet but thought it was just caused by my anxiety. I also had diarrhea for the first few days. Then few days before my first afib, I started to have heavy sweating during sleep, then on the 14th day, I woke up at 2am with afib. My whole life changed on that day.

I was put on metoprolol after the first episode, and had another three episodes in the first three months, all happened during I was sleeping. I'm not exactly sure if the vegan diet put me into afib, or there's other things. Now I had stopped metoprolol and not taking any daily med and didn't have any episode for three months. I also notice when I lay on my right side, my heart rate would rise immediately and beat irregularly. I didn't notice this before afib. Not sure if afib changed my nerve so it acts like this now?

Any way, now I don't know how to live my life. I'm so scared not only the risk that afib brings to me, but the long term prognosis of afib. I know I'm doing good for now having an episode for three months, maybe I can even make it to three years? But even though, if I could live to 70 yo, I feel it's a true suffer to live in fear for the next 33 years. 

Now I only want to sleep, and I don't feel like myself anymore. I'm not as active as before when I was with the kids, and I lost all my passion and hope for the future. I tried so hard to not think about afib and tried to live a normal life as before, but I can't really do it. The afib thing is always in my head 24/7. I'm so draining and feeling desperate.

I apologize for the rant/vent. Can you please tell me there's hope for afib? I really don't see any. Sorry, and thanks.

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  • frank61666
    frank61666 li29885

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    Evidently potassium supplements are not advised; to me it has something to do with money.

    Anything green means potassium as well as meat from animals that eat green, like cows, sheep, etc., especially their organs, like livers.

    Fat is good.  It takes fat to burn fat.

    Frank

    • patrick45945
      patrick45945 frank61666

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       Wondering why potassium supplements are not advised? I read somewhere here at this forum that potassium and magnesium supplements were good for a fib so I asked my cardiologist and he said they were fine. I also read that they were good for my tinnitus. What is wrong with potassium supplements? 
    • frank61666
      frank61666 patrick45945

      Posted

      To me, there is nothing wrong with potassium supplements, but some think that too much can induce a condition called hyperkalemia.  You can google that term. In the USA doctors do not like patients to take things into their own hands because a little bit might lead to too much of a good thing.

      I have been an exercise nut for over 30 years, and if I take a gram of a potassium supplement prior to a workout I have a huge increase in energy and stamina.

      Like I said earlier, most people are deficient in magnesium and potassium and doctors are not using the correct methods to measure them.

      Doctors measure potassium and magnesium but removing the blood cells and measuring the serum without the cells. In fact, they should be measuring the magnesium and potassium inside of the blood cells. That is where they are active and where the deficiencies cause symptoms,

      I really think that years of being deficient in magnesium and potassium is a major cause of afib. 

      Frank

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