Can an arrhythmia cause symptoms like dyspnea and fatigue? What havoc can arrhythmia cause?
Arrhythmias can cause temporary symptoms when they are occurring. Once they stop, the symptoms go away. There are many, many types of arrhythmias – many are benign and cause no problems with the heart other than temporary symptoms like shortness of breath and once you remove the causative factor, they stop. For these, you can go to WebMd.com and type in palpitations and read up on this condition. For more serious arrhythmias, often medications are needed to control the arrhythmia and sometimes, if meds are missed or serious illness makes these medications not work as well as they should, the heart can go into a very fast rhythm that might need medical intervention in an ER setting to get the rhythm back into a normal one.
