Originally Posted by cyclezen

For myself, I've tried to 'control' mine mostly with improving diet over the years, keeping well hydrated and paying attention to my Hypoglycemia. Its only been recently that I've been more successful in controlling my caffeine intake. A few years back, during my long hiatus of 8 years away from pedal-power, I could have mild episodes while just in 'normal' life (under some circumstance though - usually stress related). Now, at 23 months after pedalling reentry the Afib is entirely confined to hard cycling - race level, and like jppe, I have an unusally high heart rate. So when I hit 194 an episode starts. There's hardly a solid training ride I do that doesn't take me weill into the 180's but over 190 is usually confined to racing/hammerfests. I'm not about to stop the hard cycling, but once I get close to 190 I try to shut 'her' down. Hard thing to do, cause every Sunday Hammerfest with the young guyz sends me up there everytime. Pretty soon gonna have to relegate that whole thing to 'fond memories'. Its a hard thing to accept that age does bring further limitations, c'est le guerre...
Not sure if this self-maintaining 'method' is gonna work long term, but right now I've seen great improvements over where I was 8 years ago at 50. Everyone makes their own choices. Right now I'm happier to be my own Health Captain, rather than turn that over to the Med Establishment. YMMV