Fish Oil Fails to Hold Off Heart Arrhythmia

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Treating arrhythmia the standard way (drugs + operations) can be pretty expensive. Of course, in some cases this is the only cure, but in other cases arrhythmia can be cured and can ONLY be cured by following a certain diet. But you have go through some tests first to see if your arrhythmia is caused by a physical flaw in your heart or from other factors (stress, bad nutrition, etc.). How do I know it works? I'm a living example! None of three different pills doctors prescribed me had any effect, but the change of diet did. Read my whole story (along with complete medical documentation) here:
http://www.mcarticles.com/a/how-i-cured-my-arrhythmia-a-personal-story

nmajca 6:51AM August 31, 2011

First, I do medical research, so I am trained to do analysis.
After reading some of the studies that started to appear a few years ago that said omega-3's could reduce Afib and arrythmias, I raised the dose I was taking from 1,000 mg a day net EPA/DHA to 3,000 mg net EPA/DHA per day, with a product that is mostly DHA -- Jarrow Formula's MaxDHA, which is a triglyceride version of omega-3. This is somewhat different than Lovaza, an ethyl ester.
So I take 6 capsules twice a day, which gives about 3,000 mg of DHA and 400 mg of EPA. After 20+ years of trying to deal with afib, I found that I had no problem when I took this high dose. For two years it worked, and then I suddenly had an AFib. I realized that because I hate taking pills I had only taken 6 caps in the morning, with no night dose for about three weeks. So, I figured the half dose wasn't enough to work. Resuming the full 12 capsules a day and my AFib almost never happens and when it does, it happens for maybe 30 seconds a few times a year. It's not thundering in my chest and it goes way quickly.

Michael Mooney of CA 5:31PM November 19, 2010

no reason to simply give up on fish oil. There are a lot of documented benefits, check them out at www.diet-myths.com

kate of IL 4:45PM November 16, 2010

I had A-Fib for years and finally got a Micro Maze procedure done in Mesa Arizona. I am off all meds and doing just fine. I really believe that there is no cure for this condition. It's a terrible condition to have. Sometimes I almost passed out. My heart would stay out of rhythm for hours. Sometimes I thought I was going to die and several times we went to the ER. The medications I was taking were killing me and giving me no quality of life. I saw a segment on the news about the Micro-Maze and I looked it up and contacted the doctor who did the procedure. Two weeks later I had it done. My regular doctor told me the procedure wasn't proven....he wanted to keep me on pills that brought my heartbeat down to 35 per minute. Walking dead. I haven't had an episode in four years.

Loreen Eliason of CA 4:44PM November 16, 2010