| Name | Marion |
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| Location | Canada |
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| Age | 67 |
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| Diagnosed condition | paroxsymal/afib/flutter |
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| Years with condition | 4 yrs |
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| Frequency of episodes | recently been in fib for 2 months. On new meds so the jury is out! |
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| Duration of episodes | Can be an hour or two or longer - days |
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| Event preceding first AF | Breast cancer 2000. High blood pressure for 25 years. |
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| General health | non smoker |
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| Current state | hopefully cured |
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| Triggers | Mostly when just laying quiet or to the extreme when stressed out. No more wine at the dinner table. |
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| Current medications/side effects | Sotalol 160 mg 2 x day - tired most of the time.
Zestoretic 20/25 mg
Lipitor 10 mg.
Adalat 60 mg.
Potassium
Warfarin 3 mg. |
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| Past medications/side effects | Metoprolol - very tired - headaches daily. Did
not lower my blood pressure at all.
Diltiazem gave me a rash - had to discontinue.
Propafenone - had atrial flutter while on those meds.
Digoxen had no effect
Verapamil had no effect
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| History of surgery | No surgery for this as yet. |
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| Future plans | Trying to stay on meds as long as I can - before I have to have any procedure. Trying to avoid going on amiodarone - maybe unavoidable if I run out of options. |
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| Personal comments | I am trying to learn more about this problem and coming to this website certainly is helping. I realise it an illness which is very unpredictable and hard to find the right treatment for each individual - we can only hope in time someone will put their finger on the right button and then we can all breath a sigh of relief as we slip back into NSR.!! |
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| Check list |  acebutolol | amiodarone (cordarone,pacerone) | anisindione (miradon) | | atenolol (tenormin) | aspirin | azimilide | | bepridil | betaxolol | bisoprolol (monocor,emconcor) | | bretylium | bucindolol | carvedilol | | cibenzoline | dicumarol | digitoxin | | digoxin (lanoxin) | diltiazem (cardizem) | diphenylhydantoin | | disopyramide (norpace) | dofetilide (tikosyn) | dronedarone | | encainide | esmolol (brevibloc) | ersentilide | | flecainide (tambocor) | gallopamil | ibutilide (corvert) | | lidocaine | mibefradil | metoprolol (lopressor,toprol xl) | | mexiletine | moricizine | nadolol | | phenytoin | procainamide | propafanone (rythmol) | | propranolol (inderal) | quinapril (accupril) | quinidine (quinaglute) |  sotalol (betapace) | tedisamil | timolol | | tocainide | trandolapril (mavik) | valsartan (diovan) | | verapamil (calan,isoptin) | warfarin (coumadin) | asthma | | diabetes | GERD/acid reflux | hypertension | | hypotension | hyperthyroidism | hypothyroidism | | adrenergic | vagal | familial | | idiopathic/lone | paroxysmal | permanent/chronic | | atrial flutter | cardiomyopathy | CHF | | PAC | PVC | SVT | | syncope | bradycardia | tachycardia | | heart block | myocardial infarction | rheumatic heart diease | | sick sinus syndrome | stroke | WPW | | electrical cardioversion | defibrillator | pacemaker | | ablation | bypass | maze | | Male | Female | |
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