AFibbers Database: Dan J.

Name	Dan J.
Location	Tyler, TX
Age	49
Diagnosed condition	paroxysmal atrial fibrillation with atrial flutter
Years with condition	3
Frequency of episodes	Every 3-4 days off medication, every 1-2 weeks on medication
Duration of episodes	12-24 hours
Event preceding first AF	none
General health	good health, active, non-smoker/drinker, borderline hypertension
Current state	learning to live with it
Triggers	Drinking cold cokes etc. Used to drink cold orange juice late a night, frequent trigger. Frequently starts spontaneously at night while sleeping.
Preventions	I've gotten off of all caffeine, quit drinking cold drinks and tried to reduce stress.
Current medications/side effects	Been on rythmol 3 weeks, went 18 days with no A-Fib, have had lots of "spasm" like skipped beats last few days, one 5 hour AF episode and one 22 hour episode next day. Also taking a 325mg aspirin a day and COQ10. The rythmol has slowed my resting pulse to 48-52, and limits my exercise pulse rate to about 110. Other than having to scale back the exertion rate, there's no problems.
Past medications/side effects	Was on metoprolol, lowered blood pressure, but didn't seem to help A-Fib. Was supposed to take tambocor but after 3 doses would cause tightness in my chest and neck.
History of surgery	None heart related.
Future plans	Would like to try ablation sometime, EP MD thinks pulmonary veins may be the problem. Seems to be possible vagal trigger. Will study sites like this.
Personal comments	My EP doesn't seem to get very scientific about things. Try this medication, then another and so on. The info on magnesium etc. in this and other forums is very interesting.
Check list	acebutolol amiodarone (cordarone,pacerone) anisindione (miradon) atenolol (tenormin) aspirin azimilide bepridil betaxolol bisoprolol (monocor,emconcor) bretylium bucindolol carvedilol cibenzoline dicumarol digitoxin digoxin (lanoxin) diltiazem (cardizem) diphenylhydantoin disopyramide (norpace) dofetilide (tikosyn) dronedarone encainide esmolol (brevibloc) ersentilide flecainide (tambocor) gallopamil ibutilide (corvert) lidocaine mibefradil metoprolol (lopressor,toprol xl) mexiletine moricizine nadolol phenytoin procainamide propafanone (rythmol) propranolol (inderal) quinapril (accupril) quinidine (quinaglute) sotalol (betapace) tedisamil timolol tocainide trandolapril (mavik) valsartan (diovan) verapamil (calan,isoptin) warfarin (coumadin) asthma diabetes GERD/acid reflux hypertension hypotension hyperthyroidism hypothyroidism adrenergic vagal familial idiopathic/lone paroxysmal permanent/chronic atrial flutter cardiomyopathy CHF PAC PVC SVT syncope bradycardia tachycardia heart block myocardial infarction rheumatic heart diease sick sinus syndrome stroke WPW electrical cardioversion defibrillator pacemaker ablation bypass maze Male Female

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