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Sleeping on left side

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cantrell45015
cantrell45015

Can anyone sleep on their left side without causing the afib to act up?  I have a pacemaker on right side now and leads get in the way of laying on right side.

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  • bluenoodles1
    bluenoodles1 cantrell45015

    Posted

    I certainly struggle if I lay on my left with afib starting, or beginning to play up. it was certainly worse before my meds seem to have got it under some sort of control

    my other big trigger is indigestion

    best of luck

    • derek76
      derek76 bluenoodles1

      Posted

      Yes, indigestion is the trigger for me when it stimulated my vagus nerve. Does your BP go up as well. Something set my digestion off after lunch and my BP went as high as 160/115. 157/129, 170/114 in the consecutive readings. By 5.30 it was down to 123/89. Last night before going to bed it was 113/76.
  • derek76
    derek76 cantrell45015

    Posted

    I thought that pacemakers were fitted on the heart side of the body. What was the reason for putting it on your right ?
    • cantrell45015
      cantrell45015 derek76

      Posted

      Placed on right side to prevent lymphedema due to lymph node removal under left arm.  
  • suzanne48640
    suzanne48640 cantrell45015

    Posted

    Ive had my pacemaker on my left side for about a year and a half.  At first, I couldn't sleep on my left side but it seems now that I can without a problem, although I am a right side sleeper.  who knows..

  • diana95576
    diana95576 cantrell45015

    Posted

    Hi Cantrell,I cannot sleep on my left side ..sometimes if I flip over in my sleep it wakes me up  immediately I am a left side sleeper but not anymore.On very rare occasions it allows me to sleep on my left side but not very often. If I eat too much,don’t eat enough, eat too late wait too long between meals to eat or eat the wrong kind of foods like brussels sprouts I notice it brings on atrial fib it’s such a mystery on why although I’ve been reading a lot that it has to do with the stomach.
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