Originally Posted by DnvrFox

Thanks.

I was pretty severely criticized by a couple of folks for having "medical" stuff (we 50+ folks aren't supposed to have "medical" issues) on the forum.

But, I thought that even if there were a couple of folks out there who were going through the same thing that it might be useful to have other's experiences to bounce ideas off of.

Originally Posted by skydive69

This thread started by DnvrFox is easily the most significant thread I have read here or anywhere else on the internet. I have suffered a few rather wide spread incidents over the past three years, and as I delved deeply into it, I was amazed to discover the number of very good local athletes with the same experience. As you are well aware, a good aerobic athlete is more apt to suffer AFIB and HVT than a "normal" person.

Originally Posted by rideorglide

Thanks again for having the courage to bring it up, and damn the torpedoes. In the government world you'd be good for a Meritorious Civilian Service Award, I reckon. So here, I'd say a Meritorious Cycling Service Award.

I think that's an advantage of these subforums compared with some other places Web where any deviation from the concept of the idealized cyclist age 18-24 with no health issues at all, is greeted with a great deal of ignorance — almost ignorance of some of the vagaries of aging and genetic tendencies — or worse, derision.