← Return to Metoprolol and Flecainide for A-fib causing anxiety

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@justkiddingkim6

I am trying now to work with my primary care physician and the physician assistant in cardiology. They have come up with two medications which I will look up and let you know what they are. I am totally against adding medication to counteract another medication side effects. I am more for switching the meds than adding meds. Thus, the reason for this post. I have been told by the doctor that these meds don’t cause anxiety so I want to hear from others who have actually taken the meds if they have experienced this before I start adding meds. I remember reading from this site that anxiety was experienced with only 25mg of metoprolol and I am on 100mg per day. I also have not had anyone say they have been on Flecainide, which I am also interested in.

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@justkiddingkim6, I neglected to make clear that my wife was on Flecainide for three weeks after her SVT diagnosis last Fall. Her dosage was 100mg twice daily. Her experience was unpleasant -- in fact, probably hazardous, because it caused her to reach fatigue within 15 minutes while simply walking on a treadmill. This is a woman who has performed 60-mile 3-day hikes raising money to fight breast cancer. Her cardiologist switched her to Cartia XT for a month, then dropped the extra medications and returned her to her regular medicinal regimen before the end of 2019. Now, she's in the gym downstairs for an hour 5 or 6 days a week. Martin