In my best Arnold immitation:

let me tell you something, I know that GERD and just plain acid and gas triggers palpitations and maybe my lone afib like I know pumping iron can get you into movies. And all that other Vagal stuff as well with the pushing and the turning and the pressure and the palpitating and the lying on the left or the right with a big fully belly...or with the slim, washboard abs - I do not know about this.

I tell you this, I went to the ER thinking I was going to finally die cause my ticker was bouncing around faster than democratic candidates opinions on the Iraq war. 185 BPM happens normally only when I am pumping iron or alone with Maria, I tell you this seriously. Listen to me know and hear me later. And the beat was not like a steady rap beat..no..no, but more like that crazy Rush beat that I like so much. bap, bap, balp ......bapbap....bapbapabp............bap. You know like an ak47 on auto or whatnot and something like this (these are outlawed in the great state of caleeeforneya.

I was thinking for a time it might be better to croke than to put up with all the funny rhythms I have had over the years - I felt like Gray Davis on recall day I tell you. I made my concession speach to the man in the sky I tell you.

And let me tell you something else that will amaze you more than Terminator VI, I was still in afib when I got home with a lower pulse. I took a pepcid AC and within 2 minutes my pulse was as steady as a rock. I am not kidding you now so listen to me now and hear me later.

And you talk about VAGAL and lying on your left side and drinking the cold drinks from the 7-elevens or the sonics..let me tell you, my afib came right after hitting the extra-large cherry brain freeze which was colder than Maria was on our wedding night I tell you. And things like this when on my left side having the same jumpy rhythm only it would go away when I moved. Sometimes on the right side but not as bad - maybe i need to pump more iron on th left side, I do not know these things and other things like that.

I will tell you I am a nervous depressed wreck most of the time because I am a girly man who needs to work out more and talk less. Listen, I am here to pump you up! I could also use some pumping up if you veterans have some more advice. I want to get some of this funny water you have been talking about with the magnisium an pehaps some ther metals like in the terminator.

God bless you all ,

Tom (aka Arnold0

!!! More humor like that just might cure all of us!!!
Carol

Thanks for the cute story. I was on Pepcid, then my doc switched me to Prevacid, now she wants me on Protonix (sp) which they gave me while in hospital on cardiac floor.

Anyone here take Protonix and know of any side effects I should know about before switching?

Thanks,
Debbi