I have had cardiac arrythmias since I was 16, tachycardia to be exact (heartbeat well over 100 beats per minute).  I would have anywhere from 1 to maybe 6 episodes a year.  Some years I might not have had any, but that was rare.  Saw many doctors and cardiologists.  From all the tests I did, they didn't see anything serious, I didn't have the fatal kind of arrythmia.  They just said, "Stay away from caffiene."  I discovered on my own the importance of electrolytes, especially potassium and magnesium.  This has helped me tremendously.  NO DOCTOR has ever told me to eat better, eat more fruits and veggies and beans, etc with potassium and magnesium, this is something I had to find out on my own.  PLEASE talk to your doctor about what they think about adding more potassium and magnesium in your diet.  Not sure if the medication you are taking will interfere or cause problems if you add these minerals, so talk to your doc.  Here's what I wrote on the importance of potassium:

http://www.thedoctorstv.com/GreenFish/posts/14343-Are-you-getting-enough-potassium

It's a possibilty.  But I'm curious do you suffer from any GI problems? 

It's a possibilty.  But I'm curious do you suffer from any GI problems? 

Koolkatwood; I had GI problems since I was about 12. Doctors told my mom I had spasmatic stomach and treated me with something like Maalox; later I was diagnosed with IBS and was give prescription meds which I stayed on for years (can't remember the name) until I had a reaction to it (urticaria). A few years later, I was put on Nexium but since I didn't have Gerd, I stopped taking it.  Sometimes I think I'm having gall bladder attacks; pain in the stomach (severe pain to the left of the stomach) below the ribs where it's always tender to push.  I've had barium swallows and upper/lower GI series with no positive results.  I've been hospitalized a few times because of the pain and they said I had gerd....but I don't experience anything like my husband does with indigestion, belching, burning, acid reflux.  I just have the pain/soreness/tenderness and the irregular heartbeat with inverted t-waves.  Sometimes my heart beats so loudly that  I can't get to sleep; other times I lay there and listen to it and it sounds like it stops.  Now I'm curious, why did you ask about GI problems? 

Hi Bongenie, sorry it's took awhile to get back to you on your question.  I had looked up AFIB, seeing if there was any way of getting off coumadin.  What I read was real eye opener.  their is a forum of AFIB patients and one made a statment that their dr told them 40% of AFIB patients had GI Problems.  I myself have had battle IBS, gerds, and gastritis since my teen years and starting having palpitations and irregular heartbeats in my early thirties at age 39 was diagnosed as having AFIB.   Now I was speaking to somebody else this past week and her brother had AFIB and after five years was getting ready to have his 2nd ablation.  Which he's fortunuate I had my 2nd one within in the year of the first one.  Well anyways I had asked whether he had gastro issues, she said it was funny I asked that he has crohns.  So I strongly think there is something to this.  Check this out and google for more info AFIB  and gas  

 http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Heart-Disease/Stomach-Gas-and-Arrythmia/show/337994