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Atrial Fibrillation
 Poster: A snowHead
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@kitenski, going back to my "thing" about risk perception, I don't think it's possible to answer that sort of question in general terms.
Doesn't it depend on what's important to you?

With some cardiac conditions the risk of a catastrophic episode, like the one which saw my husband drop dead at the top of the stairs (probably dead before he hit the ground) is real.

For me, this is not an important risk. In fact it's exactly the way I would choose to go. I am much more fearful of the sort of decline which sees people with heart failure unable to cope with even minor exertion, unable to lie flat in bed and puffed up with untreatable oedema. I would prefer to be dead, so if I DID enjoy pushing myself physically to my limits and taking on big athletic challenges (which I don't.....), that's exactly what I would do, even if my doctors advised that it would increase my risk of sudden cardiac death. I've seen sudden cardiac death and (for the dead person at any rate) it's not something to fear.

But having made that decision, I'd not be stressing about it and taking my pulse every five minutes. That stress would just increase the risk.
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@Origen, yes I get what you are saying, but if (in my case) I could do less "full out" bikes/runs and thus increase my longevity and thus more skiing/hiking etc I think it's worth doing.
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