AFibbers Database: Cliff Weyhing

Name	Cliff Weyhing
Location	Michigan
Age	42
Diagnosed condition	Vagal Mediated Atrial Fibrillation
Years with condition	2
Frequency of episodes	Weekly
Duration of episodes	6-24 Hours
Event preceding first AF	None
General health	Overweight, GERD
Current state	1 episode in the last two months
Triggers	Sleep. Stress. Alcohol maybe, but not consistantly. Same with tomato sauce (garlic?). Eating late, but once again, not consistantly.
Preventions	Nothing that has worked consistantly.
Current medications/side effects	Norpace CR 600Mg 2x day. Very dry mouth. Aspirin 325mg/day - No side effects.
Past medications/side effects	Sotalol - No side effects - Regulated episodes to weekly, but didn't eliminate problem. Atenolol - Same as Sotalol Rythmol - Irregular heartbeat worse - got off that after a very long weekend. Cardizem - Lowered A-Fibb heart rate, no side effects
History of surgery	None
Future plans	To live another 100 years
Personal comments	Norpace seems to be working. Have only had 1 minor episode in 2 months, and it went away 2 hours after I took meds.
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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