Hi Everbody,
Thanks to all who welcomed me to the site. It was greatly appreciated.
And means so much to me!
I was admitted in to the hospital again for congestive heart failure. What a mess. Long story as you all know, but heart rate went up after a breathing treatment... It was AFib. Started lopressor thru my IV, when that did nothing, started on amiadarone drip, to load it up, that wasn't working fast enough. Once in my room, I tried to get up and ended up collapsed on the hospital floor. I was just trying to do a test to prove to myself that I was just fine....Real smart, sometimes denial is not a good thing!
I had to have a cardioversion done on Thanksgiving... Pretty wild, I did end up home in time for a late dinner. I was very lucky. I have never had the paddles before, makes ya think that's for sure. It seems nicer than the internal defribillator though, I will say that much, Must be because of the drugs. I don't remember a thing.....
I am now on lopressor 25mlg and amiadarone, 200mlg twice a day, also lasix , these are new to my past year regimen. The amiadarone was at 600mlgs a day, but brought me down to 400 after about 7 days. My understanding of this is you shouldn't be on it too long.
Wouldn't you know it really has been the only drug that has kept my arrythmias quiet. I took it last year also, but then i went into CHF and am hoping this drug had nothing to do with it!
Does anyone know if this could contribute to CHF? Because after I was out of CHF my doctor took me off of it and I was just on Toprol, which is pretty much the same as Lopressor, right?
Has anyone else had amiadarone as their primary drug? Isn't chf just when the heart doesn't beat right ? My doctor has once again brought up that, he sees me getting a transplant in the future.........Yikes!...
I know that you shouldn't be on amiadarone for too long, this stinks for me because it really does work......
Any comments or advice on this would be greatly appreciated.... I know I wrote a lot again!... I was trying not to
!
Thanks to all who welcomed me to the site. It was greatly appreciated.
And means so much to me!

I was admitted in to the hospital again for congestive heart failure. What a mess. Long story as you all know, but heart rate went up after a breathing treatment... It was AFib. Started lopressor thru my IV, when that did nothing, started on amiadarone drip, to load it up, that wasn't working fast enough. Once in my room, I tried to get up and ended up collapsed on the hospital floor. I was just trying to do a test to prove to myself that I was just fine....Real smart, sometimes denial is not a good thing!

I had to have a cardioversion done on Thanksgiving... Pretty wild, I did end up home in time for a late dinner. I was very lucky. I have never had the paddles before, makes ya think that's for sure. It seems nicer than the internal defribillator though, I will say that much, Must be because of the drugs. I don't remember a thing.....
I am now on lopressor 25mlg and amiadarone, 200mlg twice a day, also lasix , these are new to my past year regimen. The amiadarone was at 600mlgs a day, but brought me down to 400 after about 7 days. My understanding of this is you shouldn't be on it too long.
Wouldn't you know it really has been the only drug that has kept my arrythmias quiet. I took it last year also, but then i went into CHF and am hoping this drug had nothing to do with it!

Has anyone else had amiadarone as their primary drug? Isn't chf just when the heart doesn't beat right ? My doctor has once again brought up that, he sees me getting a transplant in the future.........Yikes!...

I know that you shouldn't be on amiadarone for too long, this stinks for me because it really does work......


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