AFibbers Database: MickEnt

Name	MickEnt
Location	Southampton UK
Age	54
Diagnosed condition	Atrial Fibrillation
Years with condition	1 year from May 2006
Frequency of episodes	weekly
Duration of episodes	10 to 24 hours
Event preceding first AF	Drinking alcohol
General health	Good, overweight, have never smoked regular drinker
Current state	Premanent AF
Triggers	Alcohol, lying on left side, coffee & tea.
Preventions	Cutting out Alcohol
Current medications/side effects	Amiodarone- erectile disfunction, numb fingers , cold feet. Warfarn no side effects so far.
Past medications/side effects	Digoxin, only taken for a few weeks
History of surgery	Varicose vein removal from 1 leg in 2000 Cardioversion in April 2007 (didn't work)
Future plans	I want to get off Amiodarone as it doesnt seen to work, my pulse is always around 105 bpm at rest, it usually goes up to around 180 when exerecising. Will try another drug, try to get fit, lose weight and try to cut down on alcohol, currently drink around 8 units a day(2 cans of strong larger)
Personal comments	Over the past 20 years I occasionally had irregular and fast heart beats lasting a few hours after drinking red wine. With me it's not so much the fast heart rate that bothers me, it's the floppy feeling in the chest and the feeling of only firing on 3 cylinders.
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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