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I'm so sorry. My mom got anaplasmosis from a tick bite in the summer, and was sick for month, including afib (when she's always had a strong heart).
The good news is that when the afib started, the meds they put her on fixed it in 2–3 weeks, without the need for the planned cardioversion. Here's wishing the same for you.
And yes, it sucks when health issues cascade like a line of dominoes falling one after the other. Stick with it, and trust that there's another side where you can come out strong and your doctors stop worrying much about you — a number of us here in the forum have made it through to there.
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Was the drug they gave her Metoprolol? I am a little puzzled by What you wrote about cardioversion. They don’t let you go two or three weeks Staying on afib. Normally, they cardiovert it the first day.. do you mean the Afib kept coming back?
Over a year ago, I was in the hospital for four days with afib. They couldn’t Cardiovert me because my PCP had given me an antibiotic that had a four day half-life and screwed up the electrical charges in your heart. They did try to Cardiovert me the first day, and it didn’t work. On the third day gave me metoprolol and within about an hour the afib stopped.
Since then, I’ve spoken to a retired cardiologist friend and he told me he takes metoprolol whenever he feels his heart speeding up, Or if he’s under stress, Because it prevents afib, for him.
I had my doctor switch me from Coreg to Metropolol and it has resolved my heart rate rising unexpectedly and hopefully he prevents the next afib event.