Vagal AF & some new ideas - on Tums, too :-)

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Driscoll wrote

>Thanks for the info Dorean,

Ditto.

>I'm think about asking my docs about disopyramide (Norpace) on my next visit.

30

>hours seems a long time to react though - I'm usually out in 25 hours anyway.

>I've read that it takes around 30 minutes to get into your system.

As I posted the other day, I eventually persuaded my GP to prescribe

Disopyramide, in spite of it not showing up on my Cardio's drug short

list - perhaps it was because I said (a) I had come off the Flecainide

and was now sure it wasn't doing a thing, ( there was no way I was

going on Amiodarone and © intended to try it only if I got an attack

to try and convert !! He was however quite pointed about not ever

taking it within several (4 I think he said) days of Flecainide.

Anyhow, I have had one attack since then (mainly because it is starting

to feel like I am getting the hang of what is upsetting my digestion -

:-) ) but the one I did have started late one morning, before lunch

(an empty gastric tract can set me off, too). I took 1 x 100 mg

straight away and another about 7 p.m. that day. I went to sleep in AF

but woke about 2 am for a loo stop and was in rhythm. I felt quite

strange and different to normal (not unpleasant) and although it was

only one episode, I suspect that the Disopyramide did do something - so

in my case it seems to have taken about 12 hours. I didn't take any

more and stayed in NSR, also kept my insides " going " .

>Does it

>control you heart rate while you are in AF or do you take something else for

>rate control? (I've read that it can increase rate - not something I'm keen on

>when I'm in AF)

I would think that a high rate wouldn't be so bad if it was NSR - for a

vagal AF-er ?? Or am I missing something here?

>I also often sense when I'm going to go into AF (several hours before the

event)

Interesting - how do you tell this far ahead? - I can only usually tell

a minute or so ahead at best, more usually only a few beats ahead !

>so I could also take it as a preventative measure. Sometimes AF is a surprise

>though and I'm not keen on my heart going like the clappers for the first 30

>minutes.

I've had quite a few ectopic beats over the last few months, (since

amalgamectomy and new digestive regime) which have conspicuously NOT

then gone into AF, which I'm quite pleased about, so for the moment I

think I'm going to actually wait until an attack confirms before doing

the diso-P. But if I ever get back to needing to stop one before it

starts I might try this. I only have a 21-pack at present, so want to

be frugal before my return to the doc.

Incidentally - alternative to Tums and Deflatine - baby's Gripe Water !!

Cheaper and better tasting, too. Though you can't simply pop a

tablespoon down if you're driving like you can a tablet or two !

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Best of health to all

Vicky