| Name | Janet B |
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| Location | London, UK |
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| Age | 49 |
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| Diagnosed condition | Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, sino atrial disease tachy/brady cardia |
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| Years with condition | 5 |
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| Frequency of episodes | daily |
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| Event preceding first AF | hysterectomy |
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| General health | good, arthritis, hayfever |
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| Current state | have a pacemaker, but still get tachycardia |
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| Triggers | at first mostly at rest in evening after dinner, but now stress or activity but very unpredictable |
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| Current medications/side effects | fleccainde, often doesnn't work can take more if needed up to 300mg per day. and cause vision problems and constipation.
warfarin.
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| Past medications/side effects | tenormin - couldn't play sports. too tired. completely ineffective for afib. |
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| History of surgery | pacemaker May 2001. better initially, but a fib bad again now. |
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| Future plans | may have to give up work as stress a trigger and need to rest during episodes. |
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| Personal comments | My brother also has this condition. No other relatives have it.
Has anyone received any disbility allowances or had to leave work? |
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| 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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