Guest guest Posted January 15, 2002 Report Share Posted January 15, 2002 ----- Original Message ----- From: trudyjhnew >Amiodarone does mask ectopics that's a fact. Two EP have > told me this, I believe digoxin may have the same sor >I think this is true of digoxin. I would be interested to know if it >stops them or just somehow makes them unnoticeable. Trudy, In my experience this is not true. I was originally put on digoxin before my open heart surgery in 1982 because of my heart valve damage. I had ectopics, presumeably because of the valve damage. I was on the digoxin until 1997. It never did mask the ectopics or stop them. They were never a problem either, at the time. The cardiologist took me off the digoxin at the time because my heart seemed quite strong and healthy, apart from the consequences of the valve damage. He said research had suggested that it didn't really help ectopics as much as they had thought. Regards, Diann in Sydney Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 15, 2002 Report Share Posted January 15, 2002 ----- Original Message ----- From: lisam20011 Hi, It seems that nobody on this board likes Digoxin. Could somebody explain to me why. I am on it, should I be concerned? / , Digoxin plus metoprolol is doing a great job of controlling the rate of my chronic Afib at the moment. My understanding is that as long as the levels are checked occasionally, digoxin is one of the safer drugs around. It has been around for a long time. Regards, Diann in Sydney Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 15, 2002 Report Share Posted January 15, 2002 no its workred for me sotolol almost killed me if you feel good let her rip exercise thats the trick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 15, 2002 Report Share Posted January 15, 2002 i take digoxin and it is far superior to sotolol whicjh is terrible i have reduced the med side effects 10 fold doing execise and feeling almost normal dg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 15, 2002 Report Share Posted January 15, 2002 > Hi, > > It seems that nobody on this board likes Digoxin. Could somebody > explain to me why. I am on it, should I be concerned? > / , my cardio added digoxin to toprol after an afib episode a few months ago which happened when I was wearing a monitor, and my pulse got to (I don't remember) 130 or 140. I then heard a lot in here about people's cardios who had warned them away from it because " it causes sporadic afib to become permanent. " My doc had not heard this. I did a web search, and found one paper where people coming to an er with afib were half given digoxin, and they took maybe 5-7 hours to revert to sinus vs. the non-digoxin folks who took 2-3 hours (again I haze out on the exact numbers.) However, I foudn another paper which said digoxin helps. I think it is Hans Larsen's site which warns very strongly against digoxin, but of the references he gives, I couldn't find any on the net as they are too old. So I am reserving digoxin for when I actually have an attack, provided my cardio agrees (and doesn't throw me into the street at my next appointment because I discontinued it.) It certainly helps during an attack, as it makes the flopping mammel in the chest effect much less noticeable, Trudy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 15, 2002 Report Share Posted January 15, 2002 , I forgot to mention that another reson my cardio prescribed digoxin was that I had some SVT - just very fast heart rate - enough to potentially cause fainting while driving, etc., and she felt the digoxin would prevent that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 15, 2002 Report Share Posted January 15, 2002 > i take digoxin and it is far superior to sotolol whicjh is terrible > > i have reduced the med side effects 10 fold doing execise and feeling almost > normal Can you say more about how you reduced the med side effects? And, do you have adrenergic or vagal afib? Thanks... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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