In my copy of the founder of this site, Hans Larsen's book, "
Long Atrial Fibrillation, Towards a Cure," there are a number of reasons listed as to why you don't want to take digoxin. Here are a couple:
Several pharmaceutical drugs including digoxin (Lanoxin, digitalis) and some drugs (theophyllines) used in the treatment of asthma, chronic bronchitis, and emphysema (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) can trigger an afib episode.
The same goes for digoxin (Lanoxin, digitalis), which actually enhances vagal tone(1). Numerous medical experts have warned against the use of digoxin for vagal LAF and indeed, more recently, against the use of digoxin for any kind of LAF. Digoxin tends to increase the number of episodes and may cause the condition to become permanent[6].
In 2004, initially had a cardio who told me that digoxin was his favorite afib drug. We'd have hour long "discussions," I would not take it. He finally passed me off to the EP in the practice who told me that he didn't prescribe it.
