[Closed] Arrhythmia

Saying does 'arrhythmia' affect your riding is like saying does 'weather' affect your riding; what arrhythmia are you talking about?
Has it been diagnosed and named by a doctor?

Not fully. Spent last night in A&E following some palpitations. Identified an 'arrhythmia' but ECG, bloods, urine and X-ray showed no obvious underlying cause. Got to have an echo and a 'tape'(?) this week.

Reading up seems lots of people suffer irregular heartbeat with no identified cause and no real effect on their life.

slainte 😕 rob

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiac_dysrhythmia

You could have a look through this sort of thing, but I suspect you should wait for all your tests and general pokings by Drs before you start scaring yourself with maybes and mights.

Hope it's nothing and that you're wasting everyones time!

I have it, but apparently it's no big deal. That said, I did randomly collapse about a month ago. ECG and blood pressure is basically fine, but still waiting for results of bloods, etc.

mine does all sorts of odd things, double beats, skips, wanders off for a fag and forgets to come back now n then. Had all sorts of tests and 24 hr monitors etc... came back as "well apart from the fact that your pulse drops to stupidly low bpm when you're sleeping, it all seems to be ok"

*shugs* **** it, it's been like that for about 8 years, it keeps going, that'll do for me, but if it does get any more strange I'll go back to the doc's.

I wouldn't worry too much, but it's always best to get stuff checked out rather than panic.

It reall depends what arrhythmia it was. It could be something temporary caused by anything from drugs to caffeine or it could be csomething you've had for years and just never had an ECG before. There are so many and most are harmless. But it's probably best talking to your GP or a cardiologist
About after your results are back and if they're not sure then contact a Doctor
Specialising in Sports.

I have Afib episodes, in fact I'm having one now after after having a beer to soon after a 85 mile ride. I only get episodes on long road hard rides or after heaving drinking and eating. I've had a few test and the consultants don't appear to be worried. Main issue is because I've been diagnosed with it it makes getting permanent health insurance very difficult.

yeah....
really you need so much more information...
It could be Afib like chappy above - doesn't affect life that much other than maybe some medication through to rhythms that might have more of an impact.

The echo will be to visualise your heart, and see what it is doing during its cycle, see if theres any physical defects and also see if theres any defects in the valve performance. The tape (?) i assume is a 24 hour tape - basically i would guess your heart is not giving problems at the moment - normally these odd beats occur when you're not at the hosp nicely wired up to a machine so they normally wire you with a small portable recorder that will just monitor your heart over a set time period with the aim of picking up some irregular beats, this allows them to see the nature of the rate and see where it stems from.

The issue is lots of things can cause an arrhythmia - it doesn't have to be a problem with your heart so really at this atage it would be a case of needing to find the cause.

Reading up seems lots of people suffer irregular heartbeat with no identified cause and no real effect on their life.

I would suggest you maybe have a google and a think of the important Q's for when you see the doctor...

(by the way am in no way medically trained and this is my opinion only and doesn't reflect anything more than the rammbling of a muppet)

Afib

You know, I'd never heard [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrial_fibrillation ]AF[/url] referred to as AFib until someone was posting about it on here, and certainly have never heard of it referred to as such in real life.

Andy

Rob, arrhythmia's come in different types like said already.
my heart went into permenant AF (atrial fibrilation) 18 months ago.
i went from riding 5 days a week commuting and riding on a weekend to no riding what so ever for the 1st 8 months.
anything steeper than a kurb left me panting for breath.
in the last year i have had 2 cardio versions which are electric shocks with paddles, to try and put my heart back into proper rythm and 2 cardiac ablations, where they feed a cathater up a vein from your groin direct into the heart, where they burn specific area's to try and get the heart to beat correctly.
all these procedures have failed.
so i am still in perm AF.
and my consultant has decided that there is no more that he can do for me.
there is a procedure called a mini maze that i am gonna push for, but if they will not do this, then it is a life of warfarin and beta blockers.
my cycling is rubbish now to be honest.
hills are taken in the granny gear at a walking pace, and i can spin out at about 10 mph on the flat.
i bought a electric bike to enable me to go on a cycle touring holiday last september.
it was ok, but will neer be the same.
i know a couple of blokes who have heart murmurs and a odd rythm now and again, but this is totally differant to AF.
if you try to exercise hard in AF, you just cant no matter how hard you try. if you persist you just black out and leave yourself fubared for a few days.
i realy hope you are not in AFmate, and i hope you get sorted.

Thanks for all the comments.

Not jumping to any conclusions yet, just looking for some 'real-world' experiences. Never having experienced anything like it before yesterday it was all a bit befuddling, but whatever's going on doesn't seem to have affected me physically so far other than feeling the skipped beats every so often.

slainte ➡ rob

Some of my medical texts refer to AFib rather than AF regarding Atrial Fibrllation, but some of them are from the States. And one of my lecturers calls it AFib all the time.

Two countries divided by a common language.

what line of work are you in zerocool?