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I just read that Magnesium could possibly interact with calcium channel blockers, diuretics and anticoagulant drugs. I take all of those (like most ppl with Afib.
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I just read that Magnesium could possibly interact with calcium channel blockers, diuretics and anticoagulant drugs. I take all of those (like most ppl with Afib.
Can you show us what you read? Magnesium is commonly prescribed by EPs for people they also presyescribe those other drugs for.
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How long have you had AF?
Since 2002 but an ablation with Dr. Natale in 2017 ended it, so call it 15 years.
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Was the 2017 ablation your first?
I thought AF could not be "cured." You are saying yours ended? "Ended" as in remission? And, did I see on another thread that you no longer take an anticoagulant?
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Is there a place on here for "success stories"? Some of you have been through a lot of trial and error and have encouraging stories to tell.
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My episodes reliably lasted 6 hours or less and I was a CHADS-Vasc 0, so no, I didn't fear strokes. Once they started to become more frequent and longer lasting, that changed and I went on warfarin, and then later Pradaxa when it was approved in the US.
I was an EMT when my first episode occurred. I woke up at about 4am with a pounding heart rate of 180. It was very irregular, so I knew it was probably afib and I knew from training and experience afib was nothing to fear. I actually drove myself down to the fire station, got an ECG of myself, cursed the obvious afib I was looking at, and drove back home. I was bummed out but not afraid.
Always remember that afib won't kill you. Nobody ever dies of afib if they take anticoagulants and keep the rate under control. So there really isn't anything to fear as long as you follow common sense precautions.
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I read that 2 complication of Afib are stroke and heart failure. I know the stroke risk is why I need my BP under control and to take the Eliquis.
Heart failure develops when you heart is working harder (top chambers not working correctly with bottom chambers). How is that controlled with Afib? Keeping the rate under control (beta blockers)?
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I read that 2 complication of Afib are stroke and heart failure. I know the stroke risk is why I need my BP under control and to take the Eliquis.
Heart failure develops when you heart is working harder (top chambers not working correctly with bottom chambers). How is that controlled with Afib? Keeping the rate under control (beta blockers)?
Yes. Heart failure is avoided by rate control, and those medications are beta blockers.
If you are in AF and take both an anticoagulant and a beta blocker then you have nothing to fear in terms of mortality. You can exist, quite safely, in that state while you figure out your next step to get back to normal rhythm.