Coreg (was Re: : Amiodarone dose)

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Hi,

here, who's really grateful to finally begin receiving lots of list

messages! I was mystified at first by the references to Coreg. So I went to

the Mayo Clinic page under Hart Failure, treatments and drugs, and was

reminded that it's just the Caarvedilol I've been taking for months now, a

Beta Blocker. I'm certainly glad to hear testimony about it seeming

obviously helpful, but now that I know what it is, I'm not surprised. Here's

the Mayo Clinic URL for the page listing treatments and medications that may

be familiar to most fellow listers, just as a reference:

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/heart-failure/DS00061/DSECTION=treatments-and-d\

rugs

Amiodarone dose

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> > Date: Friday, January 2, 2009, 3:42 PM

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> > A few months ago my EP doc started me on amiodarone. I started on

> > 400mg/day orally and a few weeks later I went to the hospital for IV

> > infusion for 3 or 4 days. Even before I went to the hospital for

the IV

> > I had some side effects. When I went home after the IV I had more

side

> > effects and some of the original side effects worsened. My EP lowered

> > the dose to 200mg/day and after a few weeks some of the side effects

> > subsided.

> > The doctor said that he was not sure that the lower dose would be

> > effective in preventing shocks from my ICD. Is anyone on amiodarone

> > 200mg/day? If so, is it effective?

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