| Name | Gayleyne |
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| Location | Sydney Australia |
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| Age | 58 |
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| Diagnosed condition | paroxysmal atrial fibrillation |
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| Years with condition | 8 |
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| Frequency of episodes | Daily |
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| Duration of episodes | Vary from short to 24 hours |
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| Event preceding first AF | None |
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| General health | Blood pressure |
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| Current state | Struggling to maintain normal life and am about to consider ablation. |
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| Triggers | I do not seem to be able to identify a trigger but when I'm in AF I can not drink or eat as this increases the heart rate. |
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| Preventions | I do not have a prevention that controls the episode. |
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| Current medications/side effects | Metoprolol 100mg twice a day
Warfarin (Coumadin) various depending on INR
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| Past medications/side effects | Sotalol
Flecainide
Enderal
I do not tolerate these very well and have had many side effects. Plus they do not control may AF. |
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| History of surgery | I have had cardioversion both electrical & drug. Each time I am an emergency at hospital. I have not had any surgery. |
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| Future plans | I am about to undertake an ablation as the AF is causing great distress. When I experience long episodes I feel very unwell with dizziness, vomiting & sweating and can not function with my daily life.
I am quite concerned about the procedure and am interested in other peoples experiences with ablation. |
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| Personal comments | I hope that I can gain an insight to other peoples experiences through this site. |
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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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