Re: How I got mine at a young age

I guess I'm not super young, but I'm 34, so I guess I'll respond to "how I got mine at a young age."

However, I should say that I'm not sure that everyone with AF should blame themselves for getting this horrible affliction. You can get AF for a myriad of reasons, some but not all under your control.

Anyway, I got AF because I didn't have good nutrition and rarely ate much of anything, ever since I was a young child. I ate a high sugar, processed food diet with lots of coffee. I was always super thin despite what I ate. I excersized a good bit and had high energy, but never excersized to the extreme. So that was the foundation for me getting AF.

Then the year before I got AF, I did a string of things that were like the straws that broke the camel's back.
I donated eggs to a fertility clinic, and they had to give me hormone shots. Then I started birth control and it didn't agree with my body at all, screwed up my hormones. At this time I was rushing to finish a master's degree while working full time in a stressful workplace (teaching public school in an inner city). Then I went to my doc for severe headaches and she prescribed tramadol. I took it for a while, trusting my doc until I found out online it was an opiate. So I immediately stopped taking it cold turkey and that stress led to my first adrenal crash where I was in the hospital. That was a little over a year ago.

Also, I found out I had a parathyroid tumor on my parathyroid gland, and that it had been there about 5 yrs or more. Supposedly the stress of it being in my body added to me getting AF. None of my docs want to take the tumor out though because it's supposedly a difficult case. So the tumor is wreaking havoc in my body even though it's benign. Getting it out would help the AF somewhat, but only to a degree.

So there are many paths to AF, but I wouldn't go as far as to say we should all blame ourselves for getting AF! Some stress is unavoidable, and some people just simply don't handle stress as well as the next hardier person. Also,
when there are other physical disorders in the body, a person is even more likely to get AF.
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