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Has anyone weaned off multaq after 15 days?
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@loswalt0525 Chances are that it will only get worse. It's a progressive disorder, unfortunately, and for most people it progresses to permanent, full-time, AF. This is when the heart is most vulnerable to morphological changes that affect its function and efficiency. Right now, today, is the best your heart will ever be going forward. I would urge you to very carefully research 'catheter ablation' and consult an electrophysiologist about having that procedure. It is the 'gold standard of care' for AF patients. The treatments, all of them, lose efficacy as your heart progresses toward more advanced forms of AF. So, my urgent advice is for you to learn about catheter ablation, if you haven't yet, and then to seek the services of a good EP.
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@gloaming thank you for that advice. I have had a PFA ablation 6 months after I first got Afib. It helped a lot but I still had Afib 8-14% of one week out of a month. My EP wanted me to either have another ablation or start Multaq so I did. Now, that Multaq was not tolerated and had to be stopped, I had 44% Afib last week. I told the EP I would do another ablation instead of dofetilide. That’s the only other medicine I am a candidate for. He told me I could take amiodarone 200 mg daily until the ablation. After talking to him, I decided I don’t want to take amiodarone. If my Apple Watch shows less percent of Afib this week than last, I want to wait it out and not take amiodarone. What would you do? I was going to try to talk to my EP again but they are all busy. Lots of Afib and not a lot of Electrophysiologists. The ablation is probably a few months out.