Just for information purposes that you may consider.
If I get palpitations I do this:
- Dose with magnesium citrate 300mg every hour until gut tolerance is reached (laxative effect)
- To swallow the tablets I mix a half bullion stock cube in a mug (300mL) of bone broth. I add extra pink salt to taste.
- If available, have an Epsom salts warm bath. If not a hot shower seems to help.
- I do yoga breathing. Just basic stuff of long breath in - hold - longer breath out - hold and repeat (It’s very relaxing). Occasionally I will cough as as symptom of the palpitations. But a cough can act as a minor heart defibrillation for some people.
- After 2 hours, I will add in another magnesium form. I use magnesium aspartate, as that was the form the emergency doctors used at the local hospital.
- Between 6 - 8 hours of persistent AF I will take a 10mg dose of a beta-blocker called propranolol.
That usually sorts it out.
Otherwise I drive in to the ER and say I have chest pains… then it’s on to the hospital roller coaster.
The cardiologist and my primary care doc wanted me on the beta-blockers all the time like a preventative. But I said no. I did not like the side effects that came with the blood pressure drop.
I reckon that with a slow baseline heart rate (mine is about 60) that slowing it more with a beta-blocker then sets up the whole ectopic beats scenario again. I don’t want to fight my heart with drugs. Beta-blockers would be a concern with your already low resting heart rate. They are useful when in atrial fibrillation, but not a long term medication, in my opinion in this context.