Guest guest Posted August 4, 2004 Report Share Posted August 4, 2004 In a message dated 8/4/2004 6:58:45 PM Pacific Daylight Time, sellmak@... writes: > I haven't found any for me, > but I'm going to cut out dairy for a while to see if that's causing > me problems. I've also cut out chocolate, alcohol, and high-calorie > Kirk, Unfortunately you may have to cut out dairy for quite a while to see if the elimination has any effect. Cutting dairy really worked for me and reduced my afib to nearly zero compared with the previous years when I was in afib 50 percent of the time. However, it was a long, drawn out process for both Angus, the person who suggested dairy elimination, and me. For Angus, it took about seven months after he quit dairy before his afib episodes stopped. For me it took nine months before afib stopped, and for both of us, our afib worsened during those months right after stopping dairy. We also developed other problems which seemed to be a remanifestation of health problems we had suffered before. I was very discouraged about four months after quitting dairy when my afib worsened and would have stopped if Angus hadn't encouraged me by telling me that he had gone through the same process. He had quit ahead of me, of course, so he had reached the afib-free state while I was having the worst of the problems. So the dairy elimination strategy is a gamble and hard to follow through on, but if it works, it is really worth it. You have nothing to lose because one can survive very well without dairy as long as one takes calcium supplements. I have been off of dairy for more than three years now, and tests show that my calcium level is fine. Good luck to you and plan to give the trial at least a year before giving up. in sinus in Seattle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 5, 2004 Report Share Posted August 5, 2004 I have not found any trigger foods for myself yet except alcohol. I have, however, cut out caffeine many years ago before I was diagnosed with afib to reduce ectopics. Dairy is not a trigger for me, I was vegan (no animal products at all including dairy) for almost 5 years and I had my first afib episode during this time. I have added dairy back into my diet recently and no (knock on wood) episodes since adding it back in. Weird how different we all are in what does or does not trigger episodes for us. Barbara Kersten Lothlorien Goldens Lorien@... http://www2.bccom.com/lorien/index.htm Cassie, Jewel & Harry Lori, Beren, Gilly, Junior & Arrie waiting at The Bridge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 5, 2004 Report Share Posted August 5, 2004 I have not found any trigger foods for myself yet except alcohol. I have, however, cut out caffeine many years ago before I was diagnosed with afib to reduce ectopics. Dairy is not a trigger for me, I was vegan (no animal products at all including dairy) for almost 5 years and I had my first afib episode during this time. I have added dairy back into my diet recently and no (knock on wood) episodes since adding it back in. Weird how different we all are in what does or does not trigger episodes for us. Barbara Kersten Lothlorien Goldens Lorien@... http://www2.bccom.com/lorien/index.htm Cassie, Jewel & Harry Lori, Beren, Gilly, Junior & Arrie waiting at The Bridge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 5, 2004 Report Share Posted August 5, 2004 I have not found any trigger foods for myself yet except alcohol. I have, however, cut out caffeine many years ago before I was diagnosed with afib to reduce ectopics. Dairy is not a trigger for me, I was vegan (no animal products at all including dairy) for almost 5 years and I had my first afib episode during this time. I have added dairy back into my diet recently and no (knock on wood) episodes since adding it back in. Weird how different we all are in what does or does not trigger episodes for us. Barbara Kersten Lothlorien Goldens Lorien@... http://www2.bccom.com/lorien/index.htm Cassie, Jewel & Harry Lori, Beren, Gilly, Junior & Arrie waiting at The Bridge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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