My husband

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Hi everyone,

I have been reading up on this group, and seems to be so full of

information...my 36 year old husband was just diagnosed with A-fib.

He was having what he thought was heart palipitations due to a lot of

stress he was feeling. For the past two years, he has been battling

generalized anxiety and mild depression. These A-fib episodes just

started about 1-2 months ago. He was having them daily...mostly

noticing them at night. 2 1/2 weeks ago he started on Celexa, and at

the same time, was given an appt for a holter monitor. With those

results, was sent to a cardiologist, who told him he has a-fib, set

up a stress test and an echocardiogram for next week.

He has been put on Toperol and aspirin. On MY urging, he has stopped

caffeine, and does not drink anyways, and it seems to have decreased

the # of episodes he is noticing.

I am not sure what questions I have...I guess one is can stress cause

these? I have read mixed information....I am very overwhelmed with

all of this. We live about 1 hour from Boston, and would really like

him to see one of the docs up there for a second opinion on how this

should be treated.

Thanks so much for listening!

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p.s. I'll add that I took Lexapro (a relative of Celexa) for awhile

for anxiety, but I found that it was actually causing depression.

Just something to be aware of as a possibility. It stopped within a

couple of days of my discontinuing the Lexapro.

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p.s. I'll add that I took Lexapro (a relative of Celexa) for awhile

for anxiety, but I found that it was actually causing depression.

Just something to be aware of as a possibility. It stopped within a

couple of days of my discontinuing the Lexapro.