Thank you to all who replied. My son spent the night in the hospital and his AFIB resolved on its own, i.e., his heart went back into regular rhythm by morning. Apparently one treatment is to give the patient a shock to get the heart to reset. Thankfully they waited and didn't have to do that. A couple of things: the person transporting him from the emergency room up to the cardiac wing of the hospital said that they were seeing a lot of young people like him coming in for heart issues, and, come to find out, there is an entire subreddit for people with AFIB and yes, the number of people with this problem has skyrocketed "with COVID" according to the subreddit. No one will admit that the vaccine was partially or wholly responsible. But here is the thing -- everyone who got the vaccine also got COVID, usually multiple times. That was certainly the case with my son. He got COVID before he got the vaccine, then got the vaccine because he would be fired if he didn't, then had COVID two more times after the vaccine. So if you got the vaccine, you certainly got COVID, leaving the door open to blame everything on COVID and not the vaccine. That is what I am seeing. They have put my son on a low dose of calcium channel blockers. I don't take any medicines or advice from allopathic practitioners, but I don't try and impose my views on others. I leave the door open for non-allopathic care and do what I can, but no nagging or insisting. Is that the right call? I struggle with what I should do every day. And those I care for keep going to doctors.
Re: AFIB and Tachycardia -- update
Date: 2023-06-11 11:36 am (UTC)They have put my son on a low dose of calcium channel blockers. I don't take any medicines or advice from allopathic practitioners, but I don't try and impose my views on others. I leave the door open for non-allopathic care and do what I can, but no nagging or insisting. Is that the right call? I struggle with what I should do every day. And those I care for keep going to doctors.