Originally Posted by jazzy_cyclist
Good luck, Fox - hope this is the one that does it for you.
Although, I don't understand the relation between SA and afib. Isn't SA just not getting a good breath of O2 because your airway is blocked?
It is more than that - it is actually stopping breathing for up to a minute.
The negative effects is that your heart must work much harder to keep your cells oxygenated, which over many years essentially puts a great deal of strain on your heart and also ups your blood pressure, which causes the damage which causes AFib, as I understand it. Your BP is supposed to drop 10 points at night. Mine doesn't - my highest BP during the day is just after I awaken.
I think this is an area in which more research will be helpful. The correlation between SA and AFib was only found about 5 months ago. This is new stuff.