Afib and Chronic Fatigue

Hi all, hope you're doing good.

So does anybody on here suffer with both of the above?

I mean I know we all suffer with the first one. I only ask as I've recently been diagnosed with CFS and I've found my afib has become much more "active". Not that I've had a fully blown (touch wood) episode yet but my heart has been increasingly irritated lately.

Anybody have both and have similar experiences?

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Hi all, hope you're doing good.

So does anybody on here suffer with both of the above?

I mean fun fun tion I know we all suffer with the first one. I only ask as I've recently been diagnosed with CFS and I've found my afib has become much more "active". Not that I've had a fully blown (touch wood) episode yet but my heart has been increasingly irritated lately.

Anybody have both and have similar experiences?

I do though I prefer the diagnostic term used in other countries—Myalgic Encephalomylitis as CFS sounds trivial and this is a very debilitating illness. It often includes autonomic dysfunction (which I have as tested by an autonomic specialist using a tilt table test and other types of autonomic testing.) I have neurally mediated hypotension, as part of autonomic dysfunction, which in plain speak means that my systolic BP drops over 30 points when standing. My EP thinks that autonomic dysfunction most likely played a role in me developing Afib and that makes sense as I seem to have vagal onset (always about 3 am) and the autonomic testing showed high vagal tone and parasympathetic dominance.



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Yeah, apologies. I also prefer ME, because CF makes it sound like it is still, even though it's no longer thought of as, a mental disorder.

I've had some neurological testing, MRI, CT scan, heart echo, amongst other things but nothing has been found. I'm utterly convinced that much of my afib is vagally induced though. I noticed a few extra beats here and there whenever I change positions, move my head forward or back, tilt downwards or move to the side, and so on. But mostly it gets worse when I'm lying in bed. Particularly on either side.

I've had a whole collection of other health issues going on these last 16 months so my heart has taken a back seat, so-to-speak, since my ablation in 2017. But these past 6 months the activity has become more and more frequent. To the point where, last night, it was pounding so hard whenever I got ectopic beats lying on my left side that I was worried it'd wake up my wife. I have also noticed that the intervals between the extra or early beat and the 'pause' are becoming longer, more so when lying down too.

Whatever the cause, I'm sure that the ME has exacerbated the issue no end, because I also have a seemingly mystery breathing issue that no specialist can actually get to the bottom of.