Iāve had āswarmsā of mostly atrial, but also ventricular ectopic heart beats since I had a couple of afib episodes a few years ago. Started getting more this year: I was surprised when the specialist said they were different conditions, or at least caused by different locations in the heart and connecting veins and arteries ( all my terminology here).
Got much worse, or at least abundant a month or so ago. A week when there would be an hour or so of a beat followed by an atrial ectopic pair, and much irregularity otherwise. Doesnāt seem to be harmful other than feeling a bit uncomfortable. Didnāt stop my gym work.
Calmed down a lot in the past week.
Going to see specialist soon to see if medicine needs rejigging, but Iāve never been able to find out what causes the onset of these āswarmsā of ectopics. Diet? Hormone imbalance? Electrolyte imbalance? Booze? ( I threw in the booze as an obvious one, but I was still getting the ectopic swarms when u was off the grog for 6 months earlier this year).
I trust my specialist of course, but any informed ideas as to what might trigger markedly increased ectopic activity, on a day or months time scale? Just ideas that I might be able to follow up for my own interest.