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Hello all...not sure if this is the place to put this and I am learning alot reading these posts! I was diagnosed with afib in 2021 (tho I suspect I have had it longer once I learned the symptoms) and am in persistent afib at this point. One failed cardioversion in 2022 and am having an ablation at the end of this month at a hospital in Boston. Doc wanted me to do a course (loading) of amiodarone and try another cardioversion before that but I just couldn't get past the side effects of that drug. Anyway...am going into the ablation without the cv and the drug hoping for the best...Wonder if my 2 bouts with covid have anything to do with this....
I'm sure there are posts about persistent afib...not sure what they are going to do was told I might have to be put on tikosin if 'its a mess in there' since I didn't want to do the amiodarone (would require a hospital stay to see if I can tolerate the tikosin). Kind of anxious (well, am anxious) about the whole thing. I'm 64 soon to be 65.
Thanks for any reply, etc.
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Hi unhcatfan, I'm wondering what concerns you have with Amiodarone side affects. Yes there is long term effects but is a great medication and I was on it for about 10 years. Now in very high doses I myself at the end had issues with it but on the low dose it was very helpful in my case. Now when my heart was at its end and I was waiting for a Heart for transplant, to keep me going, they had me on a IV version which did cause a bad reaction.
Also my problem was VT not afib so maybe my dose level may have been different. Its been over 5 years now since my transplant so I don't remember the dose levels.