| Name | Henry |
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| Location | Los Angeles |
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| Age | 57 |
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| Diagnosed condition | stand alone Afib. |
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| Years with condition | 7 |
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| Frequency of episodes | in the begining once a year now every couple of month |
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| Duration of episodes | 10 min to 7 hours |
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| Event preceding first AF | none |
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| General health | good , non smoker, non drinker |
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| Current state | i just had one episode about 10 days ago lasted abour 15 minutes then it went away |
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| Triggers | the first few time it was caused only by drinking alcohol. Thereafter it started also by heavy eating and lately no cause at all. 90% of the time it occured at night or early morning hours. MY BIGGEST PROBLEM IS THAT MOST OF THE TIME I WAKE UP FEEL THE FASTR HEART RATE AND WITHIN MINUTES THE FAST HEART RATE CAUSES PULMONARY ADEAMA AND HAVE TO GO THE EMERGENCY HOSPITAL. |
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| Preventions | Not drinking alcohol, caffein, not going to sleep after eating |
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| Current medications/side effects | provacol, zetia, altace, cardezim, sotalol, aspirin(adult)
sotalol causes sexual dysfunction and therefore I stopped it. |
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| Past medications/side effects | I been on Stalol since the inception of Afib, until yesterdayand stoped becasue it did not work anymore and causes sexual side effects. |
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| History of surgery | none |
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| Future plans | eperiment with different medication until I find one which slows the heart rate down to a point that when I get the Afb it wont cause pulmonary andema. |
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| Personal comments | This illnes changes your entire life style. I love to travel but now I am concerned, I have to stay up for about 3 hours after I eat before I go to bed. I have to prop up my head in bed. This illnes just sucks big time. |
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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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