It seems that the heart beats unevenly, the pulse then becomes more frequent, it disappears, you feel sudden dizziness and weakness - all these can be symptoms of atrial fibrillation. In fact, along with such manifestations, atrial fibrillation may not give any symptoms, unless they are established on the ECG.
Atrial fibrillation, whose main symptoms are unstable pulse and heartbeat, fully justifies its name. The auricles do not beat in time, like a healthy person, but create as if chaos in the heartbeat. While listening, the rhythms change, they may be uneven, with the sound of cotton. The pulse at a ciliary arrhythmia can both grow up to 180 strokes, and sharply to be slowed down.
Symptoms of atrial fibrillation
These include:
- disturbance of heartbeats rhythms
- rapid pulse or slowing chaotically
- dizziness
- dyspnea
- general symptoms of weakness, fatigue, loss of strength
- bouts of sweating
- a sudden sense of fear, a feeling of anxiety
- in rare cases, fainting.
The signs of atrial fibrillation manifest themselves in completely different ways. There are patients who do not experience any discomfort and are diagnosed with atrial fibrillation. Usually the signs of such a disease become apparent on the ECG.
Other people experience arrhythmia attacks from time to time, which is manifested in a sudden deterioration in health, uneven heartbeat, chest pain, dizziness and even a pre-stupor condition. When examining such patients, heart rate irregularity is heard, chaotic atrial work is audited and atrial fibrillation is diagnosed.
Patients who are diagnosed with constant atrial fibrillation gradually become accustomed to such functioning of the body and stop noticing deviations. Discomfort occurs in the case of a sharp increase in heart rate. Such atrial fibrillation on the ecg has all the signs of a sinus rhythm deviation.
As a rule, restoration of the sinus rhythm in this case is not a task of treatment. Doctors try to normalize the main symptom - increased pulse, after recovery of which the patient begins to feel normal.
Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation - symptoms
If an attack of atrial fibrillation occurs suddenly, and the symptoms persist for a short time, then disappear at all, then they talk about paroxysmal atrial fibrillation.
With such a disease, the deviations in the rhythm of the heartbeat, the sinus rhythm on the ECG are only visible at the time of the attack, and one of the treatment tasks should be the normalization of the sinus rhythm.
The main symptoms of an attack of atrial fibrillation are:
- a sharp increase in heart rate
- rapidity, and then slowing down the heartbeat, lack of rhythm
- a feeling of flutter in the chest, uneven heart rhythm
- dizziness and shortness of breath
- weakness, loss of strength, sudden loss of energy
- general feeling of anxiety, uncertainty, panic .
Symptoms of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation may occur on the background of physical exertion, a general decrease in immunity or disease, with excessive use of beer, carbonated beverages.
Atrial fibrillation on the ECG - signs
To determine the form of arrhythmia, the patient is prescribed cardiogram of the heart. And the observation is a long time, mixed with physical activity and monitored changes in heart rhythms.
A characteristic feature of atrial fibrillation on the cardiogram is the absence of P teeth on the graph, as well as the irregularity of shallow waves that occur spontaneously and without a definite algorithm on the whole cardiogram.