| Name | Female age 40 |
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| Location | Vancouver, WA |
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| Age | 40 |
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| Diagnosed condition | Atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter |
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| Years with condition | 3 months |
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| Frequency of episodes | Dozens of times per day / night, maybe averaging once per hour |
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| Duration of episodes | Anywhere from a few minutes or a few hours |
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| Event preceding first AF | Emotionally stressful / hurtful event |
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| General health | Good general health, overweight |
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| Current state | Very ill |
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| Triggers | They seem to happen whenever I relax. I can't sit down or lay down for more than a minute or two and they begin. Sometimes they even happen while I'm walking, exercising, etc. This makes it hard to sleep, I'm awake on my third day straight right now. |
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| Preventions | Nothing prevents them, I've tried everything I could find on the Internet. |
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| Current medications/side effects | Tenormin, 50 mg a day. I started out with 25 mg. a day, but they made the palps no better, actually got worse. Doctor said "Double the meds." Palpitations seem to be actually more frequent and severe with this treatment than without, so I am weaning myself off of them. My doctor tells me it's a problem I'm going to probably have to "live with." He hasn't actually seen me in person for this, it's all been diagnosed over the phone and with a take home heart monitor. I hate HMOs. Also, an aspirin a day. |
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| Past medications/side effects | None. |
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| History of surgery | None. |
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| Future plans | I plan to get off Tenormin / atenolol, have been weaning myself down for a week now since it does me no good anyway. Plan to continue to take an aspirin a day, and pray a lot. |
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| Personal comments | Sudden death from heart attacks runs in the female side of my family. My cousin died at 42 while in a fight with her husband and daughter. My aunt died at 48 of a heart attack. My mom is on heart meds. But get this: my TWIN sister has no symptoms. |
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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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