Eliquis and AFIB

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1-833-200-5343
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100 tablets 5mg Apixaban were $56.01 before Trumps tariffs

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Discount Canada Drugs
discountcanadadrugs.com
1-833-200-5343
Use referral code BER-LEO-540 for $20 off.
100 tablets 5mg Apixaban were $56.01 before Trumps tariffs.

@sherryzitter -- Thank very much for posting the name of the pharmacy.

I'm on the Olympic Peninsula, on the Canadian border -- we can see Victoria BC from here. If anyone knows of a legit, reliable, honest pharmacy in BC, Canada, I'd love to know about it.

@marybird

You're fortunate to have such great insurance coverage and be eligible to pay only $10 for Eliquis. I have a Part D plan so don't qualify -- even though my income is low enough to qualify for hospital discounts. So I'm paying $240 a month. Rather, I'm CHARGING $240 a month, because I can't possibly afford it otherwise, and that added debt load has bad consequences.

I'd really like to know how to find a reputable Canadian pharmacy where I could order it.

@afiber I went on Eliquis for paroxysmal AF about two years ago, and had virtually no side effects, but wanted off it, perhaps to go to “pill in a pocket”, and certainly because it cost me $300/mo. after ins./Med. But an echocardiogram since then means anticoagulants, period, forever, as my two “benign congenital murmurs” have now been diagnosed as a POF, or leaky valve, which is yet another stroke risk factor. Several months ago I was switched, per my request, to Xarelto, which is only $28 after insurance, but my spontaneous bruising and eye bleeds are worse, and I’d return to Eliquis if the price were lower. Just my two cents worth. Good luck…

@lucyva Unfortunately, it's not all that uncommon. And it's also a chicken/egg conundrum where mitral valve prolapse can cause AF, and AF left to run a long time unchecked can cause mitral valve prolapse.

You are apparently in the newest, or 'paroxysmal' stage of AF where it comes and corrects itself on its own. This is the best place to be, not in the more advanced and intractable stages like persistent, long-standing persistent, and (gulp!) permanent. It is at the earliest stages that AF can be beaten into submission, for want of a bellicose term, and so an ablation is always a worthy consideration in discussion with a good electrophysiologist; the earlier the better.

Note that this is a permanent disorder and that it tends to progress, especially if not treated early. Even though it can't be 'cured', it can be stopped. The gold standard of care is currently the catheter ablation, or perhaps the MAZE or Mini-MAZE procedure done at some hospitals. It's worth reading up on all of those, plus the side effects and long-term efficacy of all the various drugs routinely prescribed to control arrhythmias.

Anyone had mitral valve repair/replacement surgery then had AFIB ? I have had 2 episodes of AFIB , one required cardioversion and the other treated pharmacologically and reverted to NSR;I experienced these episodes within 2 years of mitral valve repair surgery; was prescribed and taking Eliquis but cardiac ablation has been recommended due to my age age (64). Anyone else have similar experience?

Risk is assigned on the basis of probability, which is a field of mathematics. When I said earlier that there is an assigned risk of about 90% assigned to clots coming from the LAA, what I was implying is that...IF...one gets a clot that can legitimately and rationally be attributed to one's heart arrhythmia, like atrial fibrillation in this case, the probability that the clot came from the LAA and nowhere else in the heart runs at about 90%. It does not mean that you run a 90% risk of a stroke if you are in AF and you do not take a DOAC. That assigned risk is stated in the literature as about 'six times what the risk is for a stroke for people with the same comorbidities and at the same stage of life (age).' IOW, your risk of a stroke when you are fibrillating rises to six times what you would otherwise expect your risk to be at your age an in your condition. The AF changes everything....but only when it happens and for a few weeks afterwards.

'''and for a few weeks afterwards.' That is exceedingly important right there. The cardiology field has determined that clots can leave the LAA weeks after the last run of AF and do their damage. This is a very sobering thought! And, if we assume it's at least close to being true, then shouldn't a patient remain on a DOAC for some time after his/her last bout of AF, or after an ablation? The answer is yes, and that is why patients are told, pretty much routinely, that once they have AF they should accept a prescription for a DOAC for life. Even if a Watchman is installed and it proves to be leak-free at the six-month TEE, the conscientious EP will ask the patient to at least take a 'baby aspirin' once a day forever...the 81 mg variety of ASA.

@rice Don't really think you can think in terms of percentages when dealing with a medical condition. If for whatever reason you develop a stroke it's 100% and if you never get one it's 0%. Don't really think there is anything in between.

Best to talk it over with physician and come up with maybe not a perfect plan but one that you're willing to adjust and live with.

I am 75 back in May when they were trying out different BP meds I had Afib 4 .times the last one August 25 each event lasted a few hours. I don’t eat read meat I run 5 miles 3X a week they put me on 5 mg 2X a day it had caused me pain in the knees and ankles and back pain I see my cardiologist for 6 month follow-up on 1/8 I was thinking about asking if I could reduce or stop the medication I was wondering what the chances are if getting a stroke if I stop taking it?