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Atrial fibrillation
Hi Everybody,
I've just been diagnosed with A-Fib. I had my first episode of palpitations about 6 weeks ago, and my second one was about 2 weeks ago. Both of them lasted about 6 hours and just went away by themselves. I had hoped it was no big deal, but apparently it means I've got a "condition" rather than simply having had an "event" or two. Anyway, it looks like this all means that I'm going to continue having these events, I'm going to need more medications including warfarin, and eventually I'll have a stroke and die.
Is this consistent with your experiences (except for the last thing, of course)? I'm a 57-yr old male, in otherwise good health. I'm now on a low dose of a beta blocker, I've stopped all caffeine, and I've greatly reduced salt and alcohol (now at 2 beers/day). Any advice or experiences you can share would be greatly appreciated.
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I am not a doctor, but when you already have low blood pressure and given a med that causes it to go lower.....I would have googled the side effects before swallowing or paying for a pill. And then asked the doc why, I believe you fainted because of the too low blood pressure caused by the med. I would wean or get off the med. Not twlling you what to do, but what I would do.
Then I would get off anything that can cause or make afib worse which is anything with caffeine in it and high sugar diet.
@lindy9 I told the doctor at Cleveland clinic about my concern and he said it would not lower my blood pressure enough to cause a problem. The Walgreens pharmacist told me the same thing. I am now wearing a monitor and will probably seek a second opinion soon.
You live inside your body. You already had a tendency for low blood pressure and then taking med and then fainted and feel dizzy. Your opinion counts. I also have low blood pressure which can be too low at times. When donkeys fly, I would take that med.
I could write a book on my experiences. The last one would be my husband was told by two doctors that he did not have cancer. No doubt that at the time he was told that, he had a tumor on his hip. The cancer went through his whole body and he died in excruciating pain even though pumped full of morphine.