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My wife spent about seven years before she was finally diagnosed with A-fib. She was having some problems with her stomach. An EKG was routine for the visit as it might have been her heart. A run of a couple of seconds prove the A-fib that was never before caught on a cardiogram, although several were performed and proved negative. She would have bouts at night mainly when lying down and would have what I diagnosed as A-fib (I was a nurse practitioner in Anesthesia for 25 years and knew what A-fib was like on palpation. After diagnoses she was treated with blood thinner. She continued having this strange symptom that I thought might be a hiatal hernia and finally she submitted to have an upper EGD (edoscopic gastro duodenoscopy), which prove that she did indeed have the hiatal hernia. I suspect that the A-fib was the first sign of the hiatal hernia. She had the problem for now over seven years before confirmation of the heart and esophagus. I do not blame the practitioners for not finding the error, because they are not trained that one part of the same system can cause the other. I certainly believed that they did and I was right. If you haven't done so elevated the head of bed up 6 - 8 inches. My wife is now sleeping better with the treatment she is received. I am also a ND physician myself and we will be doing natural therapy that hopefully will eliminate any drugs for the stomach. Ron Naumann