Diagnosed with Afib as a healthy 27 year old and looking for advice January 14, 2019 07:11PM |
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Thank you for your response. I haven’t had any side effects from the flec. Yet I heard about people having a horrible time on it. I assume it’s possible for side effects to appear later? I am fine with having an ablation but New Zealand is a small country and there is no one on the list of approved ablationists. Is it better to travel somewhere for that and pay a lot of money?
I do a lot of bench press unfortunately and deadlifts and squats etc like a body building routine. The bench press is reasonably heavy, usually between 220-300 pounds for working sets. That stuff is my passion though - do I need to give that up or does it not matter now I’ve already got afib? I had no idea weight lifting stressed the heart I thought it was a healthy thing to do
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Thanks for your reply George. By ‘trigger’ do you mean the general cause of his afib or it would trigger Afib episodes. Prior to taking my medication my episodes were usually caused by work stress and I would be in Afib just sitting in my desk at work for about 3-4 hours a day and it stop around 3pm most days.
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For now I will try ensure I don’t go above 80-85% of my 1 rep max for my workouts to try reduce stress on the heart. I hope that is sufficient
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@georgeN - The concept of being able to eradicate - or at very least greatly mitigate your afib just through supplementation and avoiding triggers perplexes me a bit. I guess what I am asking is what is so bad about an ablation or a life long commitment to flec that makes you want to take that route? Is flec really all that horrible? I mean I have been fine on it so far but any insights into what the medication can do long term is really appreciated. Google just provides a generic list of sides like every medicine. Likewise with an ablation - if you get an experienced ablationist isn't that essentially a cure?
I seemed to be getting a lot of afib when I was stressed out due to work being really hectic and some relationship stressors as well - I had my cortisol levels tested and it was extremely high - stress is something that you cannot really actively eliminate. I mean of course I could make some healthy lifestyle changes but if its an outside agent like work or a relationship causing that stress it seems like its something I cannot control. Maybe the weights have some impact too but I've been pumping as hard as I've liked all my life (albeit young life) so far and no problems. Are there any more tests I could do to confirm whether weights are the trigger? Just seems a depressing predicament to have to limit the activities I do in my twenties because of this. I wanna live my life ya know... And of course in your situation there is always the added risk of being in afib whilst not knowing you are in afib all the while having that increased stroke risk? Just wondering what made you decide that route over the medication/ablate route.
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@wolfpack- that certainly sounds very grim. I have given it a cursory google search and what you are saying seems sound - that lifting does indeed stress the heart. A shame that its not really emphasised at all, I had no idea until today and I have been lifting for years. I did have some scan on my heart (I think it was just an x ray and a heart echocardiogram or something) and they said my heart was structurally normal. I assume that also means that my heart was not enlarged and this aorta vein thing or atria (sorry not up with all the heart anatomy just yet since I am new to afib) was normal? Or would that type of test not look into that aspect of it.
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Thank you for your response. I haven’t had any side effects from the flec. Yet I heard about people having a horrible time on it. I assume it’s possible for side effects to appear later? I am fine with having an ablation but New Zealand is a small country and there is no one on the list of approved ablationists. Is it better to travel somewhere for that and pay a lot of money?
I do a lot of bench press unfortunately and deadlifts and squats etc like a body building routine. The bench press is reasonably heavy, usually between 220-300 pounds for working sets. That stuff is my passion though - do I need to give that up or does it not matter now I’ve already got afib? I had no idea weight lifting stressed the heart I thought it was a healthy thing to do
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My money’s on weightlifting as the root cause. AF or not, continuing with it risks valve damage as well. When you press extraordinary amounts of weight, you essentially squeeze the daylights out of your heart. It can’t pump against that. That creates immense back pressure, pushing blood backwards across the tricuspid and mitral valves and stretching the relatively thin atrial walls. It may be worth considering to de-train a bit.
Discuss this with your cardiologist, of course. By all means solicit his or her opinion on the weightlifting. I’d be interested to hear the response.
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Re the CHAD score - is there a way to calculate that myself to know what my stroke risk is? I suppose I can google that but figured I would get more insight trying here as you all seem to be experts in afib which is encouraging and makes me feel less alone so thank you all.
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Re the CHAD score - is there a way to calculate that myself to know what my stroke risk is? I suppose I can google that but figured I would get more insight trying here as you all seem to be experts in afib which is encouraging and makes me feel less alone so thank you all.
[www.mdcalc.com]
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