Atrial Fibrillation (AFib) Support Group

Atrial fibrillation (AF or afib) is an abnormal heart rhythm (cardiac arrhythmia) which involves the two small, upper heart chambers (the atria). Heart beats in a normal heart begin after electricity generated in the atria by the sinoatrial node spread through the heart and cause contraction of the heart muscle and pumping of blood.

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tomorrowsdream 03/04/2012

I've been waking up at night for the last week with right sided pain in my chest. I would think it was gallbladder, but I don't have one. I just had an EKG and an echo a week ago, and they were fine. It's driving me crazy. I take a Prilosec and sometimes a nitro. It doesn't happen during the day...just at night. Does anyone else get pain with A-fib at all?
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heart2222 03/04/2012

I did get chest pains, but my doc said they were not a fib related. DOn't know what it was-muscle strain???

Hope yours subsides.

deleted_user 03/05/2012

After experiencing my first A Fib 8/2010, second 10/2010 the meds seemed to help me and no more A Fib. Then in 12/2010 I started feeling a 'spreading pain across my chest .. say from the middle going left across shoulder area and up my neck into my jaw'. Later I was told this was angina. I had 98 % blockage in the front artery and that was corrected with a stent in 2/2011. So far, no doc has said the A Fib was any part of, or related to the angina.

So, you can have two separate issues going on. It seems like you would be able to sort out muscle strain if that was causing the pain.

The pain I felt from angina was very subtle and became more pronounce with ANY activity. Walking from my car into the house would cause the 'ice like pain across left side of chest'. It was never a sharp pain or never cramping pain.

I had to really press the cardio office - receptionist - nurse - and anyone who would listen to me. I had to describe my symptoms so many times I started to feel kind of foolish. But, when they made appt ... finally and did the treadmill test .... I only lasted about 45 seconds on the treadmill before they told me to stop and rest. The next week I was in hospital for angiogram and stent.

deleted_user 03/05/2012

My daughter also gets pain in the right side of her chest, usually at night or when she has been laying down. It sounded a lot like the pain I used to get with my gallbladder so she went to the doctor to get it checked out. Her doctor thinks she may have a hiatal hernia so they are doing an upper GI on her today. It could be something entirely unrelated to the heart.

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