| Name | Mike |
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| Location | Southern Maryland |
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| Age | 26 |
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| Diagnosed condition | Lone AF |
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| Years with condition | 1/2 |
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| Frequency of episodes | 3-4 times a week |
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| Duration of episodes | 2-6 hours |
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| Event preceding first AF | None |
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| General health | Drink on the weekends |
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| Current state | On my third medication |
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| Triggers | Taking deep breaths, laying down, eating too much...pretty much anything involving my diaphragm muscle. |
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| Preventions | Sometimes flexing my stomach muscles seems to make it go away, but that might just be coincidence because other times I just look like a fool flexing his stomach muscles. |
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| Current medications/side effects | Verapamil - Keeps my heart rate down when I have an episode |
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| Past medications/side effects | Atenolol - It made my AF episodes go from 2-3 times a week to 5 or 6 times a day. It also made me sleep about 12 hours a day...no life whatsoever.
Diltiazem - Made me dizzy and didn't really do anything for me |
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| History of surgery | My cardiologist told me that I should get an ablation...however he is a military doctor and there is no way I would let a military doctor do that to me...
I'll wait until I get out of the military (in a year or so) and see a civilian doctor. |
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| Future plans | Get out of the military so I can actually be seen by real doctors that know what the hell is going on. |
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| Personal comments | Just glad to know there's a whole bunch of people who have been there and done that when it comes to different treatments. |
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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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