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  1. Tom Sawyer says:

    I had an afib episode once over a year ago, I have had no trouble since. Not sure what caused it, I had been working nights 60 to 70 hours a week for a couple of months after being on days for many years that may have contributed. Possible dehydration , stress at home, to much caffeine, not sure. The doc put me on meds for awhile but after about 5 months I told him I didn’t want to take any more. He basically said that it would probably happen again if I stop eating the drugs. I still work nights 60 hours most weeks, I still have one cup of coffe everyday, I don’t exercise but really want to, not enough time. I take magnisium supplements and daily vitamins. The reason I am posting is that after the afib I was very scared that it would happen again my heart was racing very fast , that kind of afib is scary, but here I am over a year later and I’m OK. It seemed like the doctors just wanted to keep me coming back and writing more scrips, assuring me that I’m a sick man but my blood work is all good and I’m only 47. I think prayer helped me more than anything.

  2. BigDonutz says:

    I’m 45 yrs old and just found out I had AFib last Monday, when I was in the hospital.
    I’m curious to know if AFib is a modern western phenomenon. In other words, if you compared the population of western societies with a healthier society like Japan, is the amount of AFib the same in the population?

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