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MY ECTOPIC HEARTBEAT, MY THOUGHTS, AND AFIB
ECTOPIC HEARTBEATS GETS PERSONAL
I have mentioned ectopic heartbeats in a few of my previous posts, and have spent many hours researching it and watching videos about it. The main reason is because I experience it from time to time. But whenever it strikes it gets personal.
It is one thing to read and write about it, but feeling it in your chest is something else. Then you get a real sense of this thing, this monster and the thoughts he brings with him.
MOST RECENT “ATTACK”
We were driving home, from Cape Town, two days after I did the Cape Town Cycle Tour, which I plan to write about when I felt something in my chest. Yes, it was my heart but the thing was I could feel it. For me, with my AFIB history, that usually is not a very good thing.
For now, I do not think that there is a link between my “possible” ectopic heartbeats and the 4:46 hour time of my 109 km Cape Town Cycle Tour.
My first worry was “is it AFIB”.
I started to concentrate on my heartbeat, and I try and get an idea of what is going on. Is it irregular beats or just “hard” beats that I’m feeling? It’s not constant and I only feel a few “hard” beats every now and then. About 6 to 12 “hard” beats, a sense of relief, and…