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I mean, permanently or temporarily? Apparently my heart has been stopping on and off randomly all year. :(
Get this... I was in the hospital in January. I wake up, check my phone... Nurse comes in.
"Were you asleep about an hour ago?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Your heart stopped for 8 seconds."
". . . Um... 'thank you'? I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do with that information..."
Apparently it happened a few more times in March. I have an implanted heart monitor now, always watching.
Amazing, from your "apparently" I take you were never awake when it happened. I wanted to ask how it feels. I have an arrhythmia that gets my heart either fluttering or skipping a beat but it happens like a couple of times a year. It feels super weird.
I've had a-fib and congestive heart failure, 2 heart attacks, and open heart surgery.
Each of the times my heart has stopped, I was asleep, no awareness of it until the doctors and nurses told me.
With the heart monitor, I can press a button when something feels "off", and report symptoms like being dizzy or passing out. Doc says I've been getting extra heartbeats sometimes. Low blood pressure has been a problem too.
When I pass out from low blood pressure, the first thing is I get super dizzy. Then a ringing in my ears so loud I can't hear anything. Then my vision closes in and turns red and I wake up on the floor.
Interesting, that's my experience with anesthesia.