<human>: Background - I've had weird heart problems for a long time (since my early 20s, and I'm 38), but over the past few years it got really vicious. At times I would almost pass out, get numb in my limbs, have trouble breathing, and just generally feel like I was having a heart attack while my heart raced or stopped or just flipped out depending on the episode. 

It got really bad at the end of last year - I became disoriented in a restaurant with my fiance and had trouble breathing....so we went to the emergency room where they diagnosed me with atrial fibrillation. It's not a lethal rhythm (you don't typically die from it...sometimes from complications but a lot of people can live with it on medication) but my version of it just happened to suck a little extra than most cases. They tried cardioversion on me a few times in the ER (the thing where they shock you with the paddles to try to get you into a normal rhythm) and it didn't take, so they decided to schedule a cardiac ablation surgery. That's where they go into your heart with a catheter and burn or freeze the electrical conductors that are causing the problems. 

The first one didn't take, so we had to do it again - anything to stop these attacks from happening every other day. Great news is the doc says he thinks he got it this time...I'm cured (we hope). And given that it's my cake day I choose to believe him. 

Couldn't think of anyone more worthy of sharing it with than you, Reddit. Thanks for letting my lurk for the last five years and keeping me entertained. I needed it.

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<bot>: Had a non-life-threatening heart rhythm that was hopefully cured by a few surgeries. Celebrated by telling Reddit on 5-year cake day.