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Amiodarone
by oscar4114, Jan 07, 2008 11:32AM
Anyone still on Amiodarone after having a cardiac ablation? I've been on it for 7 months since my ablation. If still on Amiodarone, have you had a second ablation?
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I asked my family doctor if he felt I could quit sotalol (it made me
totally lethargic, withdrawn, etc.) and is there any replacement
drug that would help the fact that after two ablations I was still
in atrial fibrillation most of the time. One other question I posed
was that since I WAS in fibrillation during the first ablation, and was NOT in fib for the second, though I was taking sotalol, how would I know
if the ablations worked or not? I mean even with sotalol I still had
frequent (weekly) episodes lasting 4 days to up to a month. So, I asked, "would getting off sotalol prove to be an indicator one way or the other.
My doctor rang up my cardiologist and they had a 15-minute chat, after which he came into the treatment room and told me that they had mutually decided that they should change my heart medicine to Amiodarone. Which I agreed to - even though I've heard some pretty scary stories about it - and it has been about 6 months I've been on Ami and I have to say this: I am fibrillating full time now...BUT I no longer feel it. My wife says I'm a "changed man" my personality is back, I have lots of energy, and I don't think about my fib as much.
Alan