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Does anyone with AFIB NOT take blood thinners?
Heart Rhythm Conditions | Last Active: Jan 23 9:08am | Replies (149)Comment receiving replies
I have decided that I am going to quit the blood thinner. CMS has denied me for watchman. So, that leaves me on blood thinners…forever? So, This is a decision that I do not know how to get my doc to go along with. I think I need a docs help to get off eliquis.
I am thinking that I will put turmeric back into my diet. (Was for inflammation).
For back ground. I have Afib so rarely that it took 8 years before any doc ever saw it. Today I have an episode about once or twice a month…on average. The whole thing last about 5 minutes. The irregular heart beat ends and the racing pulse starts. Never saw it higher than 190. In the ER they ran just about every test…Doc informed me then that I had no heart damage.
I do not object to the low level of metoprolol as I think it is keeping my heart rate down….but the eliquis has to go.
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Hello there, Just wondering why you want or need to stop Eliquis. Thank you.
I have paroxysmal AFib and have no symptoms at all. My episodes are sporadic and until this year they were always 30 seconds or less, again with no symptoms. My electrophysiologist did not recommend Xarelto or similar. My cardiologist recommended first Xarelto and finally Eliquis. I always refused until this year when the episode length increased occasionally to 2 hours, but no symptoms. I tried Eliquis and could not tolerate it. So I asked my cardiologist if I could increase my once a day 81mg Aspirin (Ecotrin) to 2 per day and my regular heart medications/BP meds. He agreed that he would be fine with that and I have been fine since. My Pacemaker is interrogated about every 6 months so they keep close tabs on the AFib.
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I had a friend who faced much the same choice and made a similar decision. Sadly, he is no longer with us, and it was not a pleasant way to go. How about an alternative. like Xarelto? I am on 20mg/day and tolerate it well. Costly, but I'm still here. Good Luck.