I sure will pray for your brother Richard.

When I turned 32 I started having an irregular
heart beat too. They call my condition Atrial
fibrillation. About 3 years ago it became so horrible that my heart would go out of rhythm for 29 hours at a time. This would happen a couple times a week. I thought my life was falling apart. I had three children and had no idea how I was going to take care of them since this condition made me bed-ridden. I discovered that certain foods really triggered the problem. Coffee, too much sugar and especially artificial sodiums, sodium nitrate, sodium benzoiate and the one in baking powder.
My cardiologist put me on digoxin to slow my heart down but that only made things worse and I gained alot of weight on that medicine. I became totally sodium intolerant where even canned spaghetti sauce would get my heart going. Finally in 2003 they put me on an anti-arthmia called flecainide. It helped regulate my heart but seemed to cause other problems like numbness in my arms. Even on the medicine I continued having problems with my heart. I would cry out to God all night long to heal me, as it is hard to sleep when your heart is out of rhythm. I have really good news though...God has completely healed my heart!!! And I have been medicine free for almost two weeks now. 23 is still very young and this conditon does not have to become chronic or permanent. If the Lord can take away my conditon, which was so chronic at 36, he can surely do the same for Richard. All the doctors told me that my condition would never go away, they were so wrong because Jesus has completely healed me!! Hope this helps and encourages you.

Praise His Holy Name,

Kathleen in Idaho

Oh, I hope things work out, and that God gives the doctors wisdom to find the problem and a solution... It's no fun. The last couple months my heart has been racing. Today was the longest yet, making me lightheaded and weak. It's no fun. I can't imagine having it as bad as your brother's had it. I prayed for God's healing for him.

A little correction to what I posted yesterday:

Not all of my episodes lasted 29 hours. Most were only between 8 and 12 hours. I did have some that lasted 24 hours and my longest one was 29 hours. Sorry about that. I was typing in a hurry.

~Kathleen