Aspertame connection

who knows

by Tracey_E - 2017-06-21 18:11:40

It's common knowledge large amounts of aspartame are not good for us, it's suspected that smaller amounts aren't much better, however I've never heard of any one thing that we consume causing electrical issues. Some medications or infection can cause it but usually the cause is unknown. It's highly unlikely that lifestyle choices caused it, if it is you'll probably never be able to prove it, and really, what difference does it make? We can't change the past so no need to beat ourselves up over it, it's just a waste of time and more stress on the body. 

Reading the Internet Connection

by IAN MC - 2017-06-21 19:08:53

I have SSS and didn't have it in the old pre-internet days . I am certain that reading stuff on the internet has caused all of my heart problems !

Ian

PS    I think it was a very good reply by Tracey

I'm kicking it.

by WiredandTired - 2017-06-22 08:04:47

I know it doesn't matter at this point but all of the usual suspects that are suggested may cause it don't seem to apply to me.  Except possibly age and it's not like Im ancient......49.  No past heart surgery, no medications, no apparent disease that could've caused it.  It just puzzles me.  It is what it is, but it can't hurt to get rid of the aspartame.  It's horrible for me anyway.  I just wish Stevia wasn't so gross.  lol.

Caffeine

by Theknotguy - 2017-06-22 15:02:05

Have a lot of afib, post PM.  Now have two programs running on the PM for afib in addition to the PM being a PM.  It was hard but had to get off all caffeine - or as much as  I can avoid.  That includes the aspirin that has caffeine in it.  Feel a lot better.  

Won't say it was easy.  It was about three years before I could watch a cup of coffee go by without trying to suck the cup dry.  Ah well.  Won't say it's easy but you might want to think about getting rid of the caffeine too.  

Hope everything else goes well for you. 

2 cups a day

by WiredandTired - 2017-06-22 15:11:24

Is that bad?  In the morning I get my fuel with 2 cups of caffeine and then it's strictly decaf in whatever form...coffee....tea....pop....and no to those aspirin you spoke of too.  The kicker?  I went to no caffeine years ago because I was getting migraines and I drank a ton of pop.  I know....horrible.  Since my PM I haven't had a single migraine yet.....now it's still early (a month) but now I'm wondering if my head splitters were from SSS and insufficient oxygen all along.

Dang....a girl can't even get a cup of coffee anymore!  Yet Keith Richards is probably doing lines on a supermodel's navel at the Playboy mansion right now, no health problems...  ;)

Let it be

by Gotrhythm - 2017-06-22 18:14:36

When I was first diagnosed with SSS, it seemed to come out of the blue. I had a lot of denial around it, needing a pacemaker, the whole thing. I really resisted the age connection, with far less excuse than you have. :-) I was after all, only 69! 

Once  I stopped denying my symptoms, I could see that I had had them for at least 20 years, maybe longer.  Because they were rare, always transitory, and seemed to be unaccmpanied by anything serious, I ingnored them. Basically forgot about them as soon as they passed.

Aspartame isn't good for you. But I never used it, becuase it made me feel funky. And I got SSS anyway. 

Why do some people's natural pacemakers give out early? [shrug shoulders.] 

Do everything you can to be responsible for your health. Try cutting out all caffeiene and see if it makes a difference. But don't waste time trying to second guess what's past.

Great advice.

by WiredandTired - 2017-06-22 20:58:28

Sometimes there isn't an answer to be had.  That's going to take some doing for me....Lol

the usual cause

by Tracey_E - 2017-06-23 17:57:49

The usual cause for electrical issues is NO KNOWN CAUSE. Very, very few patients have  the answer to that question. Electrical issues just happen at random. Ever have two phones/tv's/laptop/ipod or anything electrical and one lasts years and years but the other fizzles and stops the week after the warranty is up? You didn't treat them differently, you didn't buy them at different stores, one isn't a cheaper brand, but one just stopped working correctly. That's us.