| Name | Patty |
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| Location | Marlboro, Vermont |
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| Age | 70 |
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| Diagnosed condition | lone atrial fib |
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| Years with condition | 10 |
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| Frequency of episodes | 2 per month |
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| Duration of episodes | 6-12 hours |
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| Event preceding first AF | none |
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| General health | excellent, physically active daily |
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| Current state | coping, looking for a cure |
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| Triggers | burping
beginning exercise too rapidly, biking uphill right at the start
heartbeat gets too high bringing on burping
alcohol (therefore I don't drink)
being hungry then burping then afib
travel/stress
dairy |
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| Preventions | meditation
eat every 3 hours/ don't get hungry
start exercise slowly
take small amount of baking soda in water when I feel indigestion/ burping
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| Current medications/side effects | 12 mg Atenylol daily It lowers my already lowish blood pressure and pulse
Doesn't change frequency or length of episodes , but seems to settle the heart in between episodes
1 adult aspirin daily |
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| Past medications/side effects | diltiazem taken when I had an episode didn't have an effect except to lower heartrate during the event |
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| History of surgery | none |
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| Future plans | I'm going to try a highly absorbable magnesium recommended by Carolyn Dean |
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| Personal comments | Stress is one of the big triggers and I don't have much stress in my life. But more frequent episodes for longer durations have become very stressful!!! |
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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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