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First symptoms that something wasn’t right - Atrial Fibrillation

David talks about how he first noticed something was wrong and how this resulted in being diagnosed with AF.

Health Awareness and BehaviorDiagnostic Process Insightsatrial fibrillationbreathlessdry coughirregularity in heart rate
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David, you were eventually diagnosed with atrial fibrillation. How did that journey start? It started about 2012 when I thought I noticed an irregularity in my heart rate. It was checked out thoroughly, completely, totally and no one could find anything. I then subsequently thought I was losing fitness and I kept telling myself I'm not swimming enough, I'm not cycling enough, I'm not doing this. Just walking up a flight of stairs and having a conversation was getting a bit breathless. Then I started having a very dry cough, persistent but not major. It piggybacked on a chest infection in March 2016, and I blacked out. I got into the A&E at West Middlesex where I was told I had AFib. I was more worried about the cough, but that's the first identification, solid identification that I had AFib.

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