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by Gotrhythm - 2019-01-15 14:39:39

The pacemaker didn't cause afib. It's more likely that afib has been happening intermittantly for some time--maybe only a few times in a year--too rarely to be picked up by an 8 second EKG. You only know about it now because the pacemaker sensors, which are always on, recorded it.

Just for the record, my brother doesn't have a pacemaker, but in the past year has developed intermittant afib, whereas I have had a pacemaker for 8 years and don't have any afib at all.

Neither the presence nor absence of a pacemaker causes afib.

Afib, like many other glitches in heart rhythms, just happens--cause unknown. It becomes more likely to "just happen" as we age. 

afib from pacemaker

by Skeet - 2019-01-15 14:48:25

I don't think anyone knows what triggers afib. Not all of us know when we are having an afib episode. I do not know. I only know when my PM tech tells me I had an episode which could be your case, and maybe you had afib all the time, and maybe not. Hope you get it resolved.

Skeet