Anti-arrythmics only kept me in SNR following electrocardioversion. I used Propafenone 225 mg 3 times a day, also used the stronger Rythmol SR 425 mg twice a day.
I am now in permanent AFib, and my symptoms are considered too mild to consider trying an ablation. I was willing to try as I am not able to jog for exercise when in AFib. I can walk, even miles if not a steep grade, but no heavy duty exercise. I am on HR control with BB and CCB and clot mitigation with warfarin. I am also a senior, so....
So, your drugs have put you back in NSR? Do you mind my asking what drug you're on or if it is an anti-arrythmic? I'm feeling better in general, good days and bad, but I think many of my issues are due to work stress. My goals are to stay out of Afib and the ER and feel better. So far it's working.
Thanks for the input. I will discuss it with the cardiologist for sure when I see him in July. Not sure if I want to ask for a higher dose now, as the nurse or nurse practioner are the only avenues available to me until I see the doctor, and I'd really like his input, face to face, not thru the "I'll leave a note for the doctor," route.
If I follow you, you are on 1/2 the dose the cardiologist would have liked to put you one. Given you 3 week experience that suggest it is helping, it seems reasonable to me to discuss going up a step, to 150 not the 200 full dose, twice a day.
I don't (or haven't yet) had any real bad side effects from heart drugs. They haven't done me a lot of good either, or more correctly they have been able to put me in normal sinus rhythm. So, given my relatively good experience with drugs, I'd go to the full dose as soon as possible.