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Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Feb 5 2:53pm | Replies (23)Comment receiving replies
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.
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I take low dose Metoprolol (25 mg) to keep paroxysmal Afib at bay but once or twice a year it pops up. When that happens, I take an emergency dose of 50 mg. That had always worked in the past, but this time it didn't. I also have gotten Afib from anxiety. When I was diagnosed with prostate cancer I went into Afib four times in one week just from being at such a high anxiety level.
Now they want me to see an electrophysiologist and possibly do an ablation. It seems East Coast doctors are much more aggressive than when I lived on the West Coast. The couple times this happened when I lived in California they just gave me propofol, cardioverted me, and sent me on my way two hours later. Here, they want all sorts of tests and followup.
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I don't know the details, but she'd been on strong antibiotics for the anaplasmosis before the afib started, so that might have affected the timing. The afib stopped for two days and then restarted, and then a few days later it stopped altogether and her heart went back into normal sinus rhythm.