Re: Vagal afib-email helped

March 2, 2001

>Hello again,

>I posted a message yesterday for the first time. I received a

>response on the board and also an email. I want to thank those who

>responded to my questions about what's new it afib. The email I

>received was from a trudy address. I especially want to thank her for

>saying my afib sounded like the Vagal type. I looked up information

>on your board and printed that out. I also went to Yahoo search and

>typed in just the word vagal. I was surprised at how many articles

>there are on just this word. It turns out that alot of my health

>complaints are listed here, in reference with the Vagal nerve. Afib

>and depression being two. I had read in the board response that there

>are only a small number of people with Vagal Afib. I have to wonder

>if there aren't alot more, they just hav'nt put all the symptoms

>together. I have to do further studies. Atleast this time, when I go

>to the doctor, i'll have ammunition with me.

>Thanks again,

>Bev

Hi Bev, welcome!

I think you may be right when it comes to the numbers of people with vagal AF.

I'm sure it's one of the reasons why so many of are struggling to find the

correct meds -since a lot are aimed at the adrenergic form of AF.

Unfortunately I think it's not an either/or situation. Some people find

themselves in the middle and have both vagal and adrenergic triggers. There's

also some strange thing called ' vagal rebound' which can happen when the heart

is zooming along but the mechanism for slowing the heart down just gets in a

muddle. So, for example you may go into AF while exercising but this doesn't

automatically point to adrenergic AF - all very confusing! On a quick browse of

the database

28 entries have ticked vagal and only 12 have ticked adrenergic -this leaves 65

entries unsure. we still have a lot to learn but we are getting there.

Cheers

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D

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