medication for afib?

hey guys! 

 

so ive come here again because it's nice to talk to people that understand what i'm going through.

so as some of you know i have a micra for ventricular standstill....

but my ep gave me absolutely nothing for my afib. 

i contacted my eps secretary who said i need to be re referred not helpful and extremely frustrating.

 

anyway over the past two weeks my afib has been terrible, irregular beats you name it and it's keeping me awake x i felt so awful at the weekend the ambulance was out to me.

 

in the hospital they did a chest x-ray and interrogated my pacemaker but the micra does not show what they need to know.

so whilst i'm waiting for another 7 day monitor to record my heart .. i've had the paramedics contact my gp.

 

i have an appointment with him tomorrow to discuss medication. can a gp do this? i'm really getting concerned coz i feel i'm not being listened to and these episodes are just getting worse

i feel like i'm constantly being fobbed off and i'm getting so upset by the whole thing... will it ever be under control??


4 Comments

New EP

by AgentX86 - 2018-08-29 19:53:21

I'd find a new EP.  You're already under his care.  There is absolutely no reason you need to be referred to him again. I suppose it could be an insurance thing (mine doesn't require any referrals for anything but doctors still do) but this is nuts.

A GP can prescribe a beta blocker (e.g. Metoprolol) to keep your heart rate down and an anticoagulant, without any problems.  Those two things will get you out of danger until you can see an EP.

A Micra with AFib wouldn't be my first choice.  I assume you're proximal, so don't have problems often.  Otherwise, I don't understand the choice at all.

Are you in the US, UK?

by Going Forward - 2018-08-30 00:19:38

I ask because the regulations are different. In the US my Nurse Practitioner can even prescribe flecainide, an antiarrythmic. I see and EP but my NP has at times written the script. 

uk

by krista1 - 2018-08-30 13:46:44

hey all yes i'm in the uk. thankyou so much for your responses!

 

yes my gp has prescribed an antiarythmia x hopefully this will help but he has also referred me back to the cardiologist x 

i did have my afib parosaxmal. so every now and then x where as now it's constant x my heart doesn't beat fast it just goes extremely irregular! 

GOT the meds!!

by krista1 - 2018-08-30 17:21:57

ok guys....

 

so now im really worries xx i have the tablets called flacinadine? i have irregular beats and sometimes it can go very slow but then my pacemaker kicks in if it hits 50xxx 

but i saw this on the leaflet and now i'm worried as i have a slow heart rate and conduction probs x in fact i have a few of these.....

 

Do not take Flecainide Acetate tablets if you:

are allergic to flecainide acetate or any of the other ingredients of this medicine listed in see section 6.

suffer from conduction problems of the heart, such as a slow or fast heart beat or heart block

suffer from heart failure

have severely low blood pressure

have had a heart attack (myocardial infarction)

are in shock due to heart problems (cardiogenic shock)

have rapid and irregular heart beat (long standing atrial fibrillation)

are taking disopyramide (medicine to treat irregular heart rhythms).

have known brugada syndrome (genetic disease that is characterised by abnormal

 

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