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Atrial fibrillation (AFib) and medication side effects
Heart Rhythm Conditions | Last Active: Jul 30 10:18am | Replies (103)Comment receiving replies
@karenatmayo, Welcome to Mayo Connect, we are pleased that you have joined our online patient support group. I am sorry to hear of the side effects you mentioned in your post. While I've never been diagnosed with A-Fib, I do have a problem with rapid heartbeat. I started off with one med that left me with the same side-effects you mentioned and also a problem with excessive, busy dreaming at night (not nightmares, just very vivid dreams). I contacted my cardiologist and he switched me to a new med and it is working quite nicely without the side effects. Do you take the med with meals? Sometimes that can help. If you are still having problems, keep working with your doctor or look for a second opinion. There are lots of options out there.
I would also like to introduce you to one of our moderators @kanaazpereira who will be able to invite some of our other members into your conversation about treatments for A-Fib.
Keep in touch and let us know how you are doing. Teresa
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Hello. Please note that my earlier notes above are from May 2017. In 2017, I had tried dofetilide, dronedarone, propafenone and flecanide, one after another while in the hospital last year. None worked except flecanide but it made me ill so I did not continue In June 2017, it was then recommended to have an AV node ablation with pacemaker but I did not do that because I needed to first find out why I had anemia. After a visit to Mayo in Rochester in June 2017, I saw a hemotologist and was finally diagnosed with advanced breast cancer so I am now in treatment for that so don't want to do a pacemaker right now with all I am dealing with. I am suffering now with on-and-off a-fib and PVCs and only taking metroprolol and Xarelto so no nausea or appetite problems. We will wait and see.
Hum, vivid dreams are a benefit. Your unconscious is talking to you.
Is anyone having issues with Eliquis? I am about to start that medication and just wondered what to expect.
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C@karenarmayo To the REPLY offered ... Do ... Please let us know the name of your AFib pills that seem to cause you little nausea by taking them. DILTIAZEM 240 mg morning and 120 mg at night to treat high pulse rate while my INF number is, today, happily 107/71 WARFARIN 4-6 mg weekly on varied days. This regimen is as a result of DIGOXIN 24 mg with the night pills was causing nausea, dishes, and a general feeling that I was indeed sicker with this extra boost . CARDILOGIST did not want a plan that would keep me only on DILTIAZEM for long lengths of time. So I feel more a less contained but for some dizziness when getting up out of bed for a while. My CARDIOLOGIST Has recommended that I see another (cardiologist) Doctor Electropysiologist for a second opinion about my pill plan and if this doctor can recommend yet another catheter ablation procedure to get things stablized. I understand that if this time the Cather ablation is successful the need for strong drugs would be unnecessary. My problem of today is learning about SECOND OPINION quest for alternate diagnosis and plan.