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I hope you get good advice on your next steps. I stayed on Camzyos against my doctor’s recommendation to give up and have surgery. I was feeling so much better and had no side effects, even though my gradient was not improving. I was able to get an enzyme test through my family doctor to see how I metabolize the drug. Seems I need a higher dose. Went up to 15mg and finally the gradient went down by 50%! I’m praying this continues. I wish we were part of a study on longer term effects of Camzyos. I want to
be optimistic but always wonder what’s next! A new drug, afacamten, is awaiting approval. For people who don’t respond well to Camzyos. Maybe your doc knows about it. Hope you feel better.

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Thank you for your good wishes I am sad it didn’t work for me. That’s life.

Hi I was just wondering if you meant mavacamten not afacamten because that is Camzyos. It is sold under the brand name Camzyos. I have been in it for 4 months now. My gradient do go down for month 2 and 3 but back up on month 4 so now they are increasing me from 5 to 10. I had terrible dizziness for awhile but it finally calmed down after about a month. I hope it doesn’t come back with the increase dose. Is there actually another drug awaiting approval? Glad the 15 is helping you now. Did you have any new side effects?