Atrial Fibrillation (AFib) Support Group

Are you suffering AF on any other occasions? If so your doctor may have some ideas about increasing your AF medication before the flight or perhaps anti-anxiety medication. Taking aspirin before the flight may be advisable if you are not doing so to prevent a stroke. If the AF is irregular but the pulse rate not altering then your doctor may not be very concerned. In my case I have AF for a part of each day, but a couple of times a year the pulse rate takes off to 160+. For this reason I have decided not to fly anywhere for more than 3 hrs as it is a drama getting the pulse rate down again. See doctor.

I am petrified of flying. Usually I don't know if its my Afib or palpitations from fear. However I went on Prozac 6 weeks ago because I was having really bad panic attacks and we had to fly to NY and for the first time in my whole life (69 years) I wasn't afraid to fly. It was so amazing that I just couldn't get over it. So maybe its not the Afib at all but palpitations from panic of flying. I have chronic Afib but never noticed it on the plane at all. Good luck.

I have had a-fib before going on a plane and flew for 8 hours. My mom had died and I was on my way home to seattle from WI. I went into a-fib just before I left. I did come out of it after I got home.