Atrial fibrillation: improving symptoms
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- In this video, Dr Sanjay Gupta discusses an interesting study which shows that rate control is as good as rhythm control in Afib for improving symptoms. My website is www.yorkcardiology.co.uk and my Facebook page is yorkcardiology@gmail.com
I've had A fib episodes on and off , for about 15 years. I stopped caffeine and started taking magnesium. Episodes went away for two years now. It may not work for everyone, but it is cheap and easy to try.
what strength magnesium and type?
What kind of magnesium and how much did you take? Are you still doing well? I plan on trying the magnesium...
I take magnesium and it works for me …magnesium Glycinate is best for heart I take 300mg but it’s easy to research for yourself some magnesium works for anxiety and some works for constipation.
In which form did you take magnesium?
How you feel when a fib occur
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I love this video about AFIB. When diagnosed, it was a whole new world for me and you've made it less traumatic, less scary and less hopeless. You are my CZcams Cardiologist. You keep me informed when my Cardiologist doesn't have time.
Brilliant, Sanjay. I am ever impressed with the relative few in the medical establishment who embrace lifestyle medicine. You are truly a blessing to the community. You epitomize what the medical establishment should represent.
I am in the Faculty of Medicine of a world-recognized university (dominated like most Faculties of Medicine by ‘Big Parma’), in the Department of Physical Therapy. Most health professionals and public do not appreciate physical therapists’ commitment to people’s health and well-being overall to maximize their heath, reduce disease risk, maximize functional capacity, and reduce disability across the life cycle. We are not simply addressing bad backs, teaching crutch walking, and mobilizing patients with strokes. You are an excellent health coach and committed to empowering your patients, but also empowering the patients of physicians worldwide who lack the vision, knowledge, or interest, in supporting patients as they need and should. The practice of care needs to transition to one of ‘health’ care rather then the primary focus on ‘sickness’ care in this era of mostly lifestyle related chronic disease - lifestyle choices and change typically address the ‘cause’ whereas expensive and risky drugs and surgery focus on symptom relief. Shouldn’t we all be focussing on the ‘causes’ of these dread and incapacitating, and costly conditions? Causes, where there is no doubt. Does it not constitute ‘malpractice’ when we do not translate the best knowledge and evidence?
You mentioned pairing up with a gastroenterologist. This might be a prime opportunity to profile Dean Ornish’s seminal work (over 30 years old now first published in Lancet), yet has lagged significantly in being translated into mainstream medical practice, on the ‘reversal’ of heart disease and more recently (along with many others) other chronic diseases with diet (nutrition and exercise). ‘Vegan’ nutrition has the most compelling evidence. No other nutritional regimen has been shown to do this. Anatomically/metabolically, humans are ‘vegan-by-desugn’ (see Milton Mills’s Comparative Anatomy of Eating’). The more people adhere to plant-based nutrition, the healthier they are; the more they digress, the sicker they are. Those living in the Blue Zones of the world attest to this, where people often live to be 100 years with little-to-no end of life illness or disability. They consume largely vegan diets.
For exhaustive literature on vegan nutrition, see excellent evidence-based videos by Dr. Michael Greger’s site nutritionfacts.org and Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine at PCRM.org. We need to share this information foremost with the public so they can make informed choices. Currently, the public is at the whim of ‘big food’, often ‘food’ that is sophisticatedly engineered to be addictive; edible products that are inherently of low/no nutritional value, calorie dense, inherently disease-risky, and cheap. These substances are loaded with fat, sugar, salt and a myriad of additives that we have no idea about their long term effects on children in particular. Marketing of these products particularly to children and low-income groups has also reached a new level of sophistication. Our policy makers have been influenced by powerful corporate interests, forfeiting their responsibility to serve in the best interest of the public.
Given decades of exhaustive supportive literature, the medical establishment has largely failed the public by not translating this evidence given its ‘weight’, in favour of much less efficacious drugs and surgery, and on informing policy makers about the science.
Thank you again. Professor-Elizabeth
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Thank you Dr. I have an a fib very and lightning, keep the videos coming, you never know when you hit on someone's medical problems again thank you
Dr. Gupta, I hold you in very high regard.This is the perfect video I have just found that helped me to decide that I am just fine doing rate control, which works for me. I have no symptoms and I am on Metoprolol, which keeps my BPM at below 80. God bless you for all that you do. Sincerely, Louise
Thank you so much for explaining this to me. More than my own doctors ever done!
Five years ago, I underwent atrial ablation to stop my fibrillation, but it did not completely eliminate the problem. Although I experienced occasional episodes, they did not last very long, so I didn't worry about it much. However, recently I had an episode that lasted about three days, prompting me to seek medical attention. My heart rate is typically around 40 beats per minute at rest, but this time it went up to the 100s. The hospital administered a shock to restore my heart's normal rhythm. I’m an electrical/Electronics engineer which make me to dick more about this procedure and I ended with a conclusion that the procedure has wrong approach i.e. it is a temporary relief! I give you a simple an analogy, your home circuit breaker went down for some reason, in order to fix it you should isolate the appliances one by one to find which one has a short circuit to make the circuit breaker to trip. Say you find the toaster caused the problem after isolating it everything back to normal but you didn’t fix the cause.
Another analogy, the case of a leaky pipe in your house. Instead of fixing the actual leak, you keep using duct tape to temporarily patch the issue. The same goes for atrial ablation. It is a procedure that provides temporary relief without addressing the root cause of the fibrillation. As an electrical/electronics engineer, I have come to this conclusion after researching the procedure extensively. While it may help reduce the frequency of episodes, it does not eliminate the problem altogether. It is crucial to find a long-term solution that addresses the underlying cause of the fibrillation to prevent further complications.
So what would that be?
Agree it's using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. But no one is willing to investigate fully.
I’ve been suffering from Afib for 10 years. After watching your videos I’ve starting taking magnesium and potassium, increasing some exercises and my afib immediately stopped. It’s amazing this is even possible.
When I started keto a year ago I lost 20 LB, felt much better over all, but my afib episodes actually increased. I’m retrospect I think by eliminating carbs from my diet, I inadvertently also eliminated some magnesium and potassium. Now that I’m aware of this and have started compensating it with supplements I’m better in every way. So it seems definitely minerals/diet related. I also take daily electrolytes, which is equally important.
Congrats. Happy for you. Thanks for sharing. Interesting comment which could be really significant.
Had a- fib 11 years ago came out of it with Flecinide…… now I have a-flutter~ will go for cardio version in about three weeks but will put off ablation for now…… the beta blocker I’m taking has kept my heart rate perfect so I have no real symptoms for now…… sound like a plan? Do you agree?
What type of magnesium and potassium are you taking? Electrolytes? Can you explain further. Tq
What is the name of magnesium and potassium u use to treat ur AFib
Thank you so much. This information was very useful and educational. God bless you for caring so much.
Thank you for your intelligent and understandable information. Because of your instructions I have started taking vitamins as you suggested, and am seeing a reduction of the fluttery symptoms already. Im grateful.
I have only just been diagnosed with atrial fib and ectopic beats, - after having a link loop fitted three weeks ago, - because all my ECGS were perfectly normal. However, I knew what I had been feeling for years. At first my thoughts were that this needed to be FIXED rather than just taking medication. However after watching your video, I understand things a lot better, and feel more reassured. We have to try and not worry too much - live sensibly but also as normally as possible and enjoy what we have. Thank you for this video.
Thanks
thank you! i now will understand the relationship between symptoms and treating and resolving the condition .this will help me better understand the doctors concerns and treatment approach.
Thank you for the video. Very informative, helpful and reassuring having just been diagnosed with AF.
Thankyou so much Dr SG, now I understand that it has 2 strategies available to manage and also improve the Afib symptoms.
Thank you, really clear and understandable for a layman. Very comforting.
Absolutely brilliant. I understand my condition so much better now .I feel reassured.Wish I'd been able to access this information and advice when I was first diagnosed .Thank you .
Thank you. You are excellent in clarifying goals of symptom control vs risk reduction.
Thank you for this video doctor.
Thank you Sanjay…another clear and really interesting talk. 🙏❤️
Many thanks for the excellent down to earth explainion and sensible approach !
Hi doctor, very interesting. I understand what your saying. For myself, I'm 70, I would prefer to know that my rate and rhythm are normal, i.e. the heart is working correctly, rather than having to take a number of drugs with their own aide-effects to keep my symptoms in check. But that's me, lol. Great videos doctor, by the way, I went to my primary care doc yesterday and I mentioned I watched your videos and guess what.... she does too! Says she loves them. I thought to myself, now here's a doctor with a lot of good sense......Cheers!
Very interesting video,as always!! Thanks again for taking time from your busy schedule to share your knowledge with all of us 😊 .You are appreciated very much 🙏🥰
Hi Tman. May i ask, what did u do to control rate n rhythm?? My momma is 70, afib n hbp. Meds causing all kinds of side effects.
Thank you very much for this informational video, it really opened my mind about my condición with AFIB!
I appreciate all your efforts to explain in detail to prepare people like me before seeing a cardiologist because my condition is not known why I am in extreme pain and any activity including getting upstairs or even walk in a normal pace impossible to bear (my heart starts beating very fast; I am fit and I don't have diabetes or history of blood pressure) I wish I had a doctor who spent your time to help, researching etc most doctors give me no hope with my condition.
Try meditation, accupuncture, alternative modalities like Qi Gong, gentle massage. Keep going - you will find answers. Best regards, dear person.
This is helpful to me because I am a fib taking medication for it really work and thank you Doctor 🥼God bless you for the videos
Thank you. I’ve recommended your channel to many. Great information which we can understand. You’re the best Doc! Keep up the good work. Excellent channel. ❤️
Thank you this interesting and informative video. It has helped me to understand my PAF and I am not quite so scared now.
thank you for put up this video. It helps me to understand afib
Thank you for all your efforts to help us improve our lives. I have continuous afib and it is almost debilitating. It is a struggle but I think understanding is the first step to victory and your knowledge is very helpful in that regard. I have to find ways to improve my strength and endurance.
Thank you so much for such an in depth explanation of afib.🌞
Thank you for clearing that up, it made me understand, a lot more
Thanks for this info.
This makes me much more acceptive to my condition of which i’ve been living with for almost 2yrs now.
I had an Ablation done this past July but it seems to NOT have worked.
Now..And after listening to your Analogy’s i am more content with letting my Dr.‘s figure out the Gameplan for me rather then myself.
Thanks Bunches Doc…Your Awesome!🙏🏽❤️💯
Is there a difference on the size of the left atrium and late complications of heart failure? In addition the 2 group had similar duration of af and its frequency?
Thank you Dr Gupta,
I've been a practicing Naturopath/Chiropractor for over 40 years, always striving to get people to alter their lifestyles and of course diet. I come from a Natural Hygiene upbringing, which has been espoused by such people as Dr. Shelton, Dr. Burton of Australia, Keki Sidwa of England and many more. I'm so glad to have found your videos so that I can pass them on to my patients. ...Carl S Bosco
Yes this infomation is very helpful Dr. Gupta. Thank you.
I recently got a bad news that my heartbeat is slow - bradycardia. I felt so down and so lost as I have no idea what this meant. And to see a Cardiologist, it is impossible, as the medical professionals have been enlisted to treat Covid-19 patients. My prayers were answered when I chanced upon my first post by Dr Sanjay Gupta on slow heartbeat doesn’t mean that your heart will stop beating. That led me to another dozen of his other posts, and it has allayed my fears in a big way. These posts are done with so much patience, love, teaching, and coaching. As it resonates so much with what I needed, it has ingrained a deep sense of trust in me and made me feel much better. Thank you once again, Doctor, and you’re an amazing person!
Useful information .thanks
Thank you so much! I really appreciate your advice .
Thanks so very much for the details on rate control and rhythm control.
I was diagnosed with AF 13 months ago and prescribed Diltiazem for rate control and Pradaxa. Three months later I had a subdural hematoma (non traumatic cause) requiring a craniotomy and luckily without any complications; Pradaxa was discontinued. Four weeks later Pradaxa was reinstated due to pulmonary embolism. Since I had the bleeding event and now on the anticoagulant that caused it, I challenged my doctors to address this issue. They responded and had the Amulet procedure to cover the left atrial appendage in January 2024. I have paroxysmal AF and asymptomatic 17:31 with my episodes lasting an average of four hours before returning to NSR. My doctors said that they don’t recommend ablation earlier than one year after the Amulet procedure. Meanwhile, I am still on rate control and asked my doctors about rhythm control. After watching your video I feel more informed to discuss with my doctors and hear their advice. Thanks again Dr Gupta.
Keep on your videos are brilliant...the only answer I didn"t find was why I had severe chest pain up in to jaw the first time I went into afib....same pain I had when first diagnosed with stage 3 hf and severe cardiomyopathy....angiogram coronaries clear...
Thank you so much! This is the kind of info I need but was not getting from cardiologist. I did not tolerate blood thinners so I got off. Next suggestion was oblation Not! I don't want some one mucking about with most vital organ. I am willing to make lifestyle changes and doing so .. better food and fasting when able. You are a God send. God bless you and the work you do.
Sanjay, you are a prince!
Dr gupta interesting facts on AFib knowledge enhancing video thanks 13/12/2019
I really like your videos. I had afib in 2017 went back by itself. Then on Dec 26th 2021 my heart went into afib, was at work, tested my Apple Watch ECG 4 times and knew I needed to go to ER. Once there it was determined that it had been in afib long enough that I needed to be shocked back into rhythm which worked. I have had sinus rhythm since. I did notice that my Apple Watch in the year since had detected higher rates here and there. I am on blood thinners. Not sure if I need that if I have not had an episode for more than a year.
Thank you for this information. Much appreciated.
This was so helpful… I don’t think I want ablation… seems to come back anyway… so glad to here the analogies… so helpful
❤ Thank you for such valuable and informative videos.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta you are the best and this video is still relevant in 2019, you mentioned the ablation era, what time line would that era be?
Wow , thanks so much for this video. I'm newly diagnosed with Afib went to Emerg 4 times in 2 weeks before I finally got a doctor to prescribe me Ditiazem and Xarelto and probably have to increase dosage to lessen symptoms. I go into afib about 3 times a week. I know this from my symptoms and Apple watch ecg confirms that I am in afib.
Now you made me understand, and removed a lot of fear, that I just need to improve my symptoms not worry about going into afib. Thank you so much
I was diagnosed with afib in Feb 2017 and I was going into afib every 8 days, then 2 times a week and now I am in afib all the time. But it does not bother me and the doctor at the hospital said if it is not bothering me they will leave it as it is for the time being, and if it bothers me then they will do an ablation. I am on 20mg rivaroxaban and 5mg of bisoprolol. I had a TIA in Feb 17 and that's when they found out I had afib.
@@keithwalker4121 Does your heart rate increase or is it just irregular??
@@gloriamaryhaywood2217 It does both, my heart rate is around about 90. Before I was put on bisoprolol it was 180. i feel more tied these days.
Larry etal, I had nearly constant AF as of early 2018. It was so bad that one time I passed out cold without ANY warning and fell face down to the floor. My doctor, a "Functional and Integrative Medicine" physician felt it must be caused by the raging inflammation I had. The test for that is called C-Reactive Protein (CRP) and my result was 11.7 but where the "normal" range is 1 to 3 but "below 1" is considered optimal. In early 2018 I started, out of desperation and not knowing to whom to turn since the two cardiologists wanted me to have a heart Ablation surgery - as did my family physician. I refused. AFter about a month or so of doing Time Restricted Eating (TRE) and Intermittent Fasting (IF) a sore caused by frostbite on my hand, which had not healed in 15 years (not a typo), healed completely! About 7 months later a redo of the CRP test was: 0.05 (NOT A TYPO). Someone from the lab that did that test and called it into me, was giddy with excitement because "we have never seen in all our years any CRP result that low." I also did a Calcium Factor (catscan of the coronary artery) test encouraged by my cardiologist and it came back as ZERO - the lowest category of risk (for example above 400 is consider very high risk).
My AF improved by at least 95%!!! Go to CZcams and search on IF and TRE. Leading researchers and practitioners are Dr. Satchin Panda, Dr. Valter Longo and the channel SIIM LAnd - a brilliant young man who is a practitioner but knows his stuff so well that he has talked at conferences. Good luck
@@littleo353 How many hours per day do you fast?.. And for how many days per week? Also what was your calcium score Before you started IF?? Congrats on your results!!!!👍
Great work, thank you!
Happy you talk about prevention. I think most of us can start younger taking good care of our health by our lifestyle: healthy unprocessed foods, proper stress management, good amount of sleep, exercise, etc.
How very kind ..thank you so much!
Without AFIB I would have never met you. Blessings come at a cost sometimes. Thank you, Doc! 💖
You have a big Heart and I love you from my Apex . ♥️🤣🙏
I had my first very dramatic AFib attack in March as I was out walking . Now I’m 2 weeks post RF ablation as the antiarryrhmics did not suit me . I take xerelto and Metoprolol . Your videos were THE best and helped me learn so much . I love how you simplify the information and keep me from getting overly anxious . Gods blessings always as you continue your great work . 🙏
Hi
Dr, as always a great video I have A,F, And on your advice stared taking Magnesium and I have to say it’s the best advice I have ever been given I take it in a powder form but can please tell
Me,In teaspoons how many should I take, Thanks for your time Dr,
Best explanation. Thank you
really goog, thanks again.
Thank you for this information.
Interesting video, I was diagnosed with AF about 4 years ago, age 60, an X-ray showed enlargement on my left side, Symptoms were high heart rate and breathlessness and palpitations. My cardiologist snt me for a cardioversion which worked but only lasted about 12 hours. My cardiologist was reluctant to send me for an ablation as it had failed in so many previous patients. I was signed off by my cardiologist in January 2018, the letter he sent me said my chance of stroke was minimal so he would not start anti-coagulation until I was 65. I had a big stroke in February 2018! Luckily I was seen quickly and in a centre of excellence where I was privileged enough to have a thrombectomy. I walked out of the hospital 4 days later with only minor muscle problems (left leg not wanting to get into trouser leg without a little (Dr Strangelove!) help. I'm on beta blockers, digoxin and calcium blockers and lead a fairly normal life. I get tired quick, lack stamina but that is partly due to my lack of excercise. I will look at the website and watch more of your vids, thank you Dr Gupta
I am 59 and recently diagnosed … was having lots of episodes… am scared, panicked and have trouble sleeping!
I am trying to calm myself down over it! I take a blood thinner, beta blocker and Flecainide… I am having trouble with sleep and am wondering if it’s the beta blocker
thank you, though I would be dead in 5 years if I didn't have the ablation
I'm 62. very tired, but thanks to you i know longer am worried. ablation is 90,000, insurance only covers 18,000. happy I found you:)
Extremely grateful for your videos. I do have a question though. Does this mean that performing a cardioversion during a paroxysmal afib episode does not reduce the risk of stroke? I was thinking that reducing the duration of the afib episode will reduce in lesser chances of clot formation (while patient regularly takes coplavix, diovan, rovista and herbesser).
Thanks Dr Gupta
Thank you so much, god bless you 🙏🏻
Grateful for the well explained video, truly more than my own cardiologist ever done! I have this on & off Afib after one of my artery was inserted with a stent 18 months ago. A few days ago I have a heavy meal of pork rib soup with herbs. The next day I experienced Afib for the whole day starting in the afternoon till the next morning without actually triggering it knowingly. Had many frightful nightmares & heartburn too. Slept really badly that night but still manage to wake up in the morning, thank God. Now its quite back to normal with short on & off Afib. On top of the regular hypertension, anticoagulant, cholesterol medication, I was given Concore 2.5mg tablets which I took once a day. My question is if there is another prolong Afib attack, can I take more of the lowering heartbeat Concore?
It's important to find a product that is a blend of magnesium in its various forms. What I started with and have used almost exclusively is the product made by Jamieson. A well known and established supplement company.
They formulate their products from natural sources. They don't elaborate what those sources are, but their product has Magnesium Oxide, Magnesium Gluconate and Magnesium Lactate.
The percentage of each is not specified.
I had tried various Magnesium products, some only had Magnesium Oxide. Some offered Chelated Magnesium Oxide. Chelation makes the product more biovailable, Stronger absorption. A side note is that Magnesium Oxide is cheaper than most and that's why I presume it's in most blends. However, I recall reading that the Oxide by itself does better when blended with other forms of magnesium. A synergistic effect.
You may try the Jamieson product or a similar blend. I settled on the Jamieson blend as I found it to be most beneficial.
Start out slowly. Take ONE only of the 250 mg tablet with supper. Best with supper in case you get the runs and will need to deal with that promptly. This can happen the first time only and that's it. Or it may take a few days. Everyone is different.
If within 2 weeks, you feel no change, double the dose,, again being cautious the first time you do that. It's called titration up to the level that it begins to work. For me, that was 1500 Mg.
Some people only have one or two attacks a year and they go to emerge to take care of it, so they;re lucky. Myself, it was 3 times a week. At the worst, the emerge protocol stopped working as well as it used to and in any case, going to emerge that often may send someone to seek the standard protocol.
One, as mentioned is a pacemaker. But first, they fry the AV node, and that is a bundle of nerves, like a biological microchip. This stops the AF but it also stops your heart. So now you need a pacemaker to keep your heart going. The problem there, is that it could limit any activities that require a faster heart rate,,, fight or flight. Simple exercise like climbing stairs may leave you short winded.
But these days, they may have pacemakers that respond after a fashion, to what the AV node does.
There;s the drugs and some say that a minimum dose of this or that works perfectly with no side effects.
Another techniques is called the Maze Procedure. It's open heart surgery just like the pacemaker but in this case, they crisscross your heart with a knife and when these heal into scar tissue, the errant signals are disrupted somehow, but how well that works, I don't know.
I hope that helps. I haven't kept up with the subject,, no need to anymore, but I found in a body building magazine that not only is magnesium responsible for some 300 biological processes, which includes nerve conduction and muscle contraction.
Your heart is a muscle and the AV node is a bundle of nerves that feed timing signals to the various chambers of the heart.
Well, there it is. I've told many doctors about my experience and some were intrigued but many dismissed my experience as anecdotal.
As I haven't had a cold or flu for over 15 years, what if most of us are mineral deficient provoking a weaker response by our immune system.
Who knows how beneficial Magnesium might be for that diseese that shhall not be n@med. If you reply, don't mention that disease, you might get flagged and your reply could get wiped out.
Best of luck, let me know, if you wish, how things turned out for you.
Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor, have no medical training and some of my information may be outdated. I HAVE noticed that magnesium is getting a lot more mention on the Internet. Perhaps a search for, "magnesium and atrial fibrillation" will give you a good start in researching whether you want to try this or not.
Works for me, I'm happy.
Thank you for this information
Very interesting. I just went into AF last night with RVR. Was scared on passing out so went to Hosp to get me out of AF via intravenously. I’m getting real close to having the ablation. I have discussed it with my electrophysiologist and Cardiologist. I’m just so nervous to have it done for some reason. I thank you so much for your great videos and I read all of the advice that others give.
Did u have the ablation done? I'm scared to have it done. I'm in persistent a.fib now. I've had two cardioversions. One lasted 6 weeks. The most recent lasted 2 days. I don't know what I should do.
@@thefuzzfactor2989 Talk to your doctor again as soon as possible. Also look into your diet. AFib is many time related to low/lack minerals, treglycerines and vitamin intake.
I really enjoyed your talk. You made something my doctors explained to me in terms very much over my head easy to understand.I have one question, Do people with persistent Afib have more or less problems?
You did it, Sanjay! MTJM is up and running! Congratulations and a huge wish for a great success! If it operates like you, it will be and the people of England will be the beneficiaries of your effort, hard work and genuis! 💖
Thanks a ton Peggy!!
What is MTJM?
Thank you so much, Doctor Gupta for these outstanding videos. Gob Bless you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to do them. I was just diagnosed with AFib last month after my Orthopedic Surgeon caught it in a pre-op exam in preparation for knee surgery. I am a 71 male with a Score just 1 on that risk 9 point risk scale. I am now working with a Cardiologist who put me on 81mg of aspirin and scheduled several tests over the next few weeks, including a Sleep Study because I have snored like a freight train all my life. All this new to me and to this day I am completely symptom free so this diagnoses was totally unexpected.
I am also newly diagnosed with afib. About two months ago. Never had any problems except slightly elevated blood pressure. Then had an AFib episode at 3:30 am which woke me up from my sleep. Now on beta blocker plus blood thinner. Haven't had any problems with these meds but wish I didn't have to take them all the same! I am 64 years old. My electrocardiogram showed normal structure of my heart. Never have had a snoring issue. I think it has to do with the vagus nerve being stimulated in my case. Strange how different things can trigger AFib in different people!?
@@gloriamaryhaywood2217 Good luck, Gloria.
Hi Dr Gupta, please explain about reducing ones life style...eating less cheese and drinking more water? Not sure what you mean in a layman's term. Less salt, less butter, more vegetables ?
I like you, you are a good person. 👍
A fascinating video, thank you. I would be interested to read the 2002 published New England Journal study -- do you have a link please?
Thanks doctor for this video
thanks maqbul:-)
I'm one of the lucky ones. I feel no symptoms. I do feel my heart beating erratically and rapidly but can usually walk it off. Most of the time it doesn't last long enough to do anything. A little scary, hearing what happens in relation to blood and the heart. Since I was put on Meds, the episodes seem to be milder and comes and goes pretty quickly. I can live with it. Actually it's a reminder to watch my diet and exercise!
Can u tell me what medications ur on
@@madgamerbtr7375Already on Lisonpril, Simvastatin for many years. Cardiologist put me on Metoprolol, Warfarin (was initally on Eliquis ($500/Mo) but couldn't afford it. With Warfarin you have to get bloodwork done repeatedly to regulate it to suit your needs but it is cheap) I also take a Multi-Vitamin, Calcuim/D 600+D, Omega-3 Fish Oil, Mega Mineral (Magnesium).
My Doc suggested Cardioversion, I told him I was afraid to do that and he told me we can stay with rate control. I feel fine on my beta blockers, Digoxin and blood thinners. I know most hate taking drugs but it works for me. I have zero side effects and although I wont be a marathon runner, daily life is good!
Thanks a ton doc, God bless you:)
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Where to find this study, please, and thank you for those fantastic lectures! Carry on please!
Thanks Dr .v.inf .For rate control I took beta blocker. I have a Hocm.from last 10 years .
Thank you so much Dr Gupta! I wish my doc had explained the di ference and corresponding meds! Your very good at this..knowledge is relief..and sometimes power. Thank you again.
thank you maribeth
I have had a Pacemaker for 6 years, which keeps the bottom of my heart beating. (I had been diagnosed with left bundle branch block 6 years before this) Now I am having periods of Afib lasting up to 15 minutes. I don't feel well and appreciate your videos to teach me. How does a pacemaker affect a patient with afid?
Thank you so much
Thank you. My doctor told me I had A fib and I could have a stroke. that is all she would share with me.
What are your thoughts on METOPROLOL? Can a heart beating fast & maybe fatigue & seemingly flopping around in the chest , SEEM like A-FIB, but really be a symptom of just being sedentary & having let the heart muscle get weak?*** to me, there are many reasons that a heart may go up........
Thanks so very much for taking the time to educate everyone about a fib. I've listened to all of them and it is very comforting to have knowledge about it. Doctors do not have the time during office visits to give very much info. An echo revealed that i have atrial flutter. (five years ago I was told I have SVT and have been on Verapamil ever since.) My doctor wants me to go on either xarelto or eliquis. I am 61 years old with borderline diabetes (am not on medicine) I weigh 220 and am 5 foot 2 inches. I told my doctor that I'd like to wait a year to go on it so that I can lose weight and perhaps not need it. I am on blood pressure medicine valsartan for that. I am a woman. I was told I have a 4 percent chance of having a stroke. I am afraid to go on the new drugs because I read alot about them and they can have terrible side effects and even death. I think I might be better off not on them if i eat better, exercize, lose weight. I know that as I get older the risk of stroke increases. Would it hurt to wait awhile and see if I can naturally get better holistically.
Hello Robert, saw your post, I have severe Afib, have had 3 ablations, 6 cardioversions and my next step is to have the pacemaker. I take Eliquis which is the best blood thinner out there with less restrictions. I don't take any other drugs for anything other than acid reflux I take Nexium...it's important to take a stomach pill before the Eliquis as I want the blood thinner to work and not be blocked by my less of acid stomach. Going to see a dietitian would be beneficial and walking as much as you can is important as well as drinking lots of water to stay hydrated because Afib is often caused by dehydration.
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My husband is in good health but was just accidentally diagnosed with Paroxysmal AFib
R there ways besides hard chemicals and el shock to reinstate normal beat and rhythm
He’s 88 and I’m worried about side effects
I want get him out of AFob
We are naturopathic and live healthy life style
Thank you so much for helping 💖
Thank you.
My HR on my printout was 110 BPM and the diagnosis was "AFIB, Irregular and Rapid Heart Rate". I felt fine, no symptoms. Never have and never any chest pain. Trying to adhere to some Lifestyle Changes, along with Blood Thinners and BP Meds.
Please keep doing heart & digestion healing videos. Both of mine destroyed by modern meds.
It's important to find a product that is a blend of magnesium in its various forms. What I started with and have used almost exclusively is the product made by Jamieson. A well known and established supplement company.
They formulate their products from natural sources. They don't elaborate what those sources are, but their product has Magnesium Oxide, Magnesium Gluconate and Magnesium Lactate.
The percentage of each is not specified.
I had tried various Magnesium products, some only had Magnesium Oxide. Some offered Chelated Magnesium Oxide. Chelation makes the product more biovailable, Stronger absorption. A side note is that Magnesium Oxide is cheaper than most and that's why I presume it's in most blends. However, I recall reading that the Oxide by itself does better when blended with other forms of magnesium. A synergistic effect.
You may try the Jamieson product or a similar blend. I settled on the Jamieson blend as I found it to be most beneficial.
Start out slowly. Take ONE only of the 250 mg tablet with supper. Best with supper in case you get the runs and will need to deal with that promptly. This can happen the first time only and that's it. Or it may take a few days. Everyone is different.
If within 2 weeks, you feel no change, double the dose,, again being cautious the first time you do that. It's called titration up to the level that it begins to work.
Some people only have one or two attacks a year and they go to emerge to take care of it, so they;re lucky. Myself, it was 3 times a week. At the worst, the emerge protocol stopped working as well as it used to and in any case, going to emerge that often may send someone to seek the standard protocol.
One, as mentioned is a pacemaker. But first, they fry the AV node, and that is a bundle of nerves, like a biological microchip. This stops the AF but it also stops your heart. So now you need a pacemaker to keep your heart going. The problem there, is that it could limit any activities that require a faster heart rate,,, fight or flight. Simple exercise like climbing stairs may leave you short winded.
But these days, they may have pacemakers that respond after a fashion, to what the AV node.
There;s the drugs and some say that a minimum dose of this or that works perfectly with no side effects.
Another techniques is called the Maze Procedure. It's open heart surgery just like the pacemaker but in this case, they crisscross your heart with a knife and when these heal into scar tissue, the errant signals are disrupted somehow, but how ell that works, I don't know.
I hope that helps. I haven't kept up with the subject,, no need to anymore, but If sound in a body building magazine that not only is magnesium responsible for some 300 biological processes, including nerve conduction and muscle contraction.
Your heart is a muscle and the AV node is a bundle of nerves that feed timing signals to the various chambers of the heart.
Well, there it is. I've told many doctors about my experience and some were intrigued but many dismissed my experience as anecdotal.
As I haven't had a cold or flu for over 15 years, what if most of us are mineral deficient provoking a weaker response by our immune system.
Who knows how beneficial Magnesium might be for that diseese that shhall not be n@med. If you reply, don't mention that disease, you might get flagged and your reply could get wiped out.
Best of luck, let me know, if you wish, how things turned out for you.
Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor, have no medical training and some of my information may be outdated. I HAVE noticed that magnesium is getting a lot more mention on the Internet. Perhaps a search for, "magnesium and atrial fibrillation" will give you a good start in researching whether you want to try this or not.
Works for me, I'm happy.
Thanks for these videos I have had 4 afib attacks and underlying IHSS which makes them devastating painful even after several ablations still getting pvcs and pacs which make me feel really bad. I have had a few short spells without any arythmias and felt much better. Any advice on getting rid of arrythmias all together ?? What are pacemaker advantages n disadvantages
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I so wish I'd discovered your channels 5 years ago .Is it more beneficial to take bisoprolol in one 10mg dose or split the dose to 5mg b.d.?
Thanks Dr. Gupta. As always insightful and helping. I have a question. I had double by pass at the age of 38. I am now 45. Get stress echo and all blood tests regularly evey year. Sometimes twice a year. In January this year I was detected with 4 PACS in jolted test. In July it was 8 PACS & 12 VPCS. Now I feel more than 40-50 a day.
8 yrs ago I was put on 2.5 mg Nebivolol (beta blocker), even thought my BP was 120-80 before, during & after the surgery. Now it is 110-70. However my resting heart rate used to be 110-120 before surgery and after surgery it went down to 60-70 with beta blocker.
Recently I quit beta blocker for a week and my ectopics were down to 4-5 a day but my BP went up to 135-85, and pulse is now 70-80.
Are my ectopics being caused due to beta blockers?
Should I continue beta blockers?
Can ectopics / beta blockers lead to AFIB?
Must add that I saw your videos about in July and since then I have started on Magnesium. Increased it gradually and now I'm taking 2000 mg of Magnesium Orotate, 1000 mg Magnesium Childrey, 500 mg Taurine, 200 mg Potassium & 100 mg Vitamin B6... in addition to 2.5 mg Nebicard (Nebivolol), 10 mg Rosuvastin & 150 mg Clavix-AS (blood thinner & anti-cogulant).
I'm male of 45 yrs from New Delhi... leading a very active life.
Thanks again for your priceless videos and guidance, helping millions like me around the world. Thank you!
Sorry for auto correct.
Jolted = Holter... and Childrey = Chilated.
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Sorry, just checking. Are you still alive? What have you been through since. You seem to be taking a lot of magnesium!
Hi.....if bisoprolol has af under control......is it ok to take digoxin
Hi dr Sanjay, I’m hoping you can help as I’m a anxiety suffer. My biggest fear is that my heart will just stop beating for no reason, your palp videos helped greatly and I get the extra beat one, I just had a ecg and was all fine, I have a steady heart beat and just have this fear that it will just stop beating, I don’t fear heart attacks just this, I constantly focus on my heart beat when going to bed, can you share your view please. Thanks steve.45 year old male and hopefully in good health
My heart skips a beat & has done that all my life. I have afib & I'm 83 yrs old. All the medications I've been given for it seem to cause restriction of my breathing, so I quit taking them. Cardiologist wasn't too happy when I told him I couldn't breath good on the medications (several) he gave me. Why take them if they make me feel as bad or worse than b4 I took them? I also have acid reflux & when i stopped taking meds for that, i could breathe better with the afib problem as well. I'm also on blood thinner (xeralto). At my age, I don't see any reason to stay on a medication that makes me feel worse. I'm supposed to have an endoscopy & they want to do a partial colonoscopy at the same time. I'm afraid to undertake that after Joan Rivers passed from having been put to sleep...said it cut off oxygen to her brain. My classmate also died from having been punctured in her intestines while having a colonoscopy. Makes u think! I'm about ready to call off the appt with the gastrologist!
Yes!!!! Exactly - I can go all day - no problem - but night time - I spend the whole night trying to listen to my heart beat!!! Nerve wrecking!!!
What about the long-term effects of AFib medication, such as Metropolol and Digoxin, which someone who has had an ablation would not have to take?
I understand that being in afib a ling time will "remodel" the heart, which is not good. Also I am only on CZcams, so hope you can put the links here,also. Thank you so much for your information. It's hard to understand, but I'll listen to it again.
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Any advice to control or eliminate atrial flutter? Developed it post TAVR protocol bio prosthetic aortic valve replacement
I am confused. I am taking Beta blocker(Atenolol) and Amioderone for I guess rythm control. Why do I need both? I asked my Cardiologist if we can do just rate control. He said that the beta blockers were lowering my BP too much at times about (99/58). So he gave me Amiodarone. Don't like the Amiodarone due to product side effect warnings! Now my heart rate is around 62 and BP is still low? I haven't had the rapid heart beat with this combo, but I am exhausted.
the difference between rate and rhythm would be the ingestion of meds for years with side effects, or not? ablation would be med free and the other would require those decades old meds that cause the symptoms the rate may not? The list of side effects of the meds is the same as the symptoms you would have if gone untreated?
My daughter somehow came down with this Afib problem after hysterectomy surgery. I saw you on the View speaking of new pathways to brain and heart. What you said could or might be possible however...With all the genetic mixing in our foods and with the different medications that people take, along with that fact of us being mortal, is why we developed so many, many deminishing conditions. I hope I wasn't thinking faster than I am typing this message. Thanks.
i agree..its very difficult to tease out whether the adulteration of our food and environment contributes to our sickness
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