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A-fib before being diagnosed with celiac disease:

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Once diagnosed with Celiac a month later ( Dr. said A-Fib was a result from Celiac and took me off heart med.  Followed gluten free diet and no longer had a problem 

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I developed what was described to me as a 'benign' heart arrhythmia 14 years ago - premature atrial complexes. Ectopic beats that I used to feel - some were quite hard and uncomfortable. Haven't noticed a single one since I have been gluten free for 4 months. I have not yet been formally diagnosed as coeliac but think there is a good chance that I am.

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This is interesting because I too went to the emergency room on at least two occasions before my diagnosis in the mid 1990's because of what seemed to be an irregular heart beat. They didn't find anything, but I definitely felt like it was heart arrhythmia. The symptom went away after going gluten-free.

I learned years later when we summarized some research on this topic that certain heart conditions can be related to celiac disease, and here are those articles:
https://www.celiac.com/celiac-disease/celiac-disease-amp-related-diseases-and-disorders/heart-failure-and-celiac-disease/

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On 7/12/2021 at 5:39 PM, Russ314 said:

I developed what was described to me as a 'benign' heart arrhythmia 14 years ago - premature atrial complexes. Ectopic beats that I used to feel - some were quite hard and uncomfortable. Haven't noticed a single one since I have been gluten free for 4 months. I have not yet been formally diagnosed as coeliac but think there is a good chance that I am.

 Seeing that other people are having same symtoms and it wasn't just me hopefully Dr's see these messages and use it for their knowledge, these messages in here could be very helpful for other people I hope the Celiac Foundation is keeping records of certain posts.  Nothing better then getting information straight from the people .

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On 7/13/2021 at 11:34 PM, Scott Adams said:

This is interesting because I too went to the emergency room on at least two occasions before my diagnosis in the mid 1990's because of what seemed to be an irregular heart beat. They didn't find anything, but I definitely felt like it was heart arrhythmia. The symptom went away after going gluten-free.

I learned years later when we summarized some research on this topic that certain heart conditions can be related to celiac disease, and here are those articles:
https://www.celiac.com/celiac-disease/celiac-disease-amp-related-diseases-and-disorders/heart-failure-and-celiac-disease/

Thanks, for the links. The one on coronary artery risk speculates a link to low grade inflammation originating in the gut. I wonder whether eating a gut friendly diet would be beneficial?

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It could be beneficial for many reasons, take a look at this:

https://www.livescience.com/centenarians-gut-bacteria-aging-bile-acids.html 

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