AFibbers Database: Jesse Potch

Name	Jesse Potch
Location	Cleveland OH
Age	54
Diagnosed condition	lone atrial fibrillation
Years with condition	7
Frequency of episodes	weekly
Duration of episodes	1Hr to 4 Days
Event preceding first AF	routine EKG before knee surgery
General health	bad knees, overweight, teetotaler, exercise regularly
Current state	lone a-fib
Triggers	stress (coming down from stress), bearing down, exercise (coming down from exercise), the weekend (coming down from the work week), gulping down a cold drink, chocolate, sleeping on my left side, bending down, overeating, loud, booming music with booming base,
Preventions	laying on right side, some exercise when I start getting very relaxed, drinking apple cider vinegar (in AM.), (foot rubs help),
Current medications/side effects	asprin (325mg/day) zochor (10mg/day) for cholesterol though it's only 140
Past medications/side effects	atenolol (from 25 to 100 mg/day) made arrhythmia worse digoxin (25 mg/day) made arrhythmia worse flecanide (50mg/twice a day) vision problems, made arrhythmia worse
History of surgery	rf ablation 07/99 (failed) rf ablation 10/99 (failed) new doctor wants to go back into the right side of my atrium, make a hole and enter the left side, then ablate a pulmonary vein; I don't want to undergo the surgery
Future plans	quit all meds except asprin; look at diet, vitamin supplements, exercise, wholistic approach
Personal comments	I look forward to using your database and the support group until "a cure" is discovered or I can get this under control. I receive a lot of prayer.
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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