My heart checkup was good!

My check up was really good with no abnormal heartbeats. In fact, that's been a first! :)

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I did, however, speak with the cardiac nurse who did confirm that I should still keep a serious eye on my stress levels though and take the mitigating of stress factors in my life seriously.

She also mentioned how electrolytes are a key component in heart arrhythmias (which matches my own research, too) and recommended a magnesium supplement. What I didn't know is that women my age (perimenopausal) tend to start losing magnesium and so, I was grateful she kind of gave me a heads up so I can get on it. Interestingly, though not surprisingly, my actual cardiologist-electrophysiologist didn't think electrolytes (magnesium) were the biggest factors in warding off a return of Atrial Flutter or another arrhythmia. He did not emphasize a big concern for stress. While he continued to emphasize how the arrhythmias tend to be genetic, with little in the way of anything the patient can do preventatively (as opposed to a heart attack, which is heavily affected by diet, exercise, stress), he did not say I should just ignore stress either. He is not the first cardiologist-electrophysiologist I've seen to feel arrhythmias' causality lies more with genetics than anything else. However, I tend to favor a common sense approach which airs on the side of caution. I will likely want to be very mindful of stress and will probably look into a magnesium supplement anyway. There a good deal of data out there linking magnesium to arrhythmias, so as long as it's safe to use then, I'd rather just cover my bases and take the darn mineral already! :) There's also a good deal of data linking stress to EVERYTHING, so I probably can't lose being mindful of it. I'll get into the political and for-profit aspects of all this later. I feel they are also critical components to the whole scenario.

For now though, the report was good and the results were in my favor. Phew!