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Pirate
Thanks. I will discuss some of this with my doctor. I am travelling for a while so cannot get any labs done. I was taking 81mg asa daily but am reading now here that it really doesn't help, am I reading this correctly?
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Pirate
Is it possible my afib was just a one time deal from drinking too much?
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Elanor
I'm on my 4th cardiologist. All they want to do is prescribe medication, not discuss prevention. I quit sotalol and the doctor who prescribed. I also quit taking metropolol and flecainide and the doctor who prescribed. I finally found a doctor who would let me wear an event monitor for a month. No afib, but lots of SVT. He says he'll let me quit taking Xarelto if I let him perform an ablation for the SVT. I truly do not believe him, but don't know what else to do.
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Elanor
Thanks for the input. My confusion stems from the fact that ablation for SVT is not performed at the same location in the heart as for afib. So I don't understand how ablation for SVT could relieve me from taking an anticoagulant prescribed for afib. Unless, of course, ablation for SVT is known to relieve afib. But that doesn't correlate with anything I've read. I guess that discussion would be for another thread. Does anyone know of someone who has had ablation for SVT in order to cure their afib?
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Elanor
I was told by the doctor prescribing Xarelto and other meds that I was probably having afib events all the time unnoticed by me. Three years later I finally convinced an EP to let me wear an event monitor.
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jmwe29
Pirate, from what I see online, there are other anticoagulants that would be a better choice simply because there is no antidote for Xarelto like there is for others. If you start bleeding, there is little or nothing that can be done. Personally, I'd avoid the stuff like the plague. I was helping an older lady that died of internal bleeding on that stuff, thus my interest. Is your doctor getting a kickback for prescribing that stuff??
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Jackie
I just did an online search and noted a number of reports on this topic so apparently it's still a practice. Of course, the physician doesn't have to buy into that reward system, but it does exist.
Re: Anticoagulation, again September 01, 2017 09:13AM |
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jmwe29
Carey, I surely didn't intend to aggravate you. Just saying, if an anticoagulant has no antidote, personally I'd think twice about using it.
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