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I am on asprin theorpy and verapamil . My heart rate falls into the 30's for a few seconds then back into the 60's is this normal or something I should worry about ? Does this happen to anyone else ?
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When I had a 7 day monitor fitted it recorded my 36 bpm heart rates with
at times 3.5 second pauses between beats.
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I was on verapamil from 2000 until 2012 when I had my aortic valve replaced. My AF was the result of that operation.
After my 7 day monitor I was fitted with a pacemaker. Many people are not aware of their slow heart rates. When I has getting my pacemaker another patient had a heart rate of 26 bpm that was only found when he had a pre hip operation check up. He'd never noticed and he evidently had no prior problems.
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The pacemaker does not stop AF it kicks in when my heart rate goes under 60 bpm or it has too long a pause between beats. The next thing is to have an AV Node ablation that makes the heart pacemaker dependent but you still have AF but supposedly the symptoms are less.
Have you asked about a Cardioversion? I had two that each time put me back into NSR. Between the first two and since other medical procedures (colonoscopy and DRE) stimulated my vagus nerve and put me back into AF.
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I stopped real coffee as it tended to often give me heartburn but tea and Instant are OK. Sorry to hear about the wine as I sit drinking my glass of Fitou:-)
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I blamed bisoprolol and when I stopped it only lessened. I blame AF my GP says No. I have had a back problem for about the same lenght of time that might be the cause. I listed dizzyness and all my other problems the other day and looked at Losartan side effects and thought Bingo. My GP agreed that all could be associated with it and is referring me back to the Hypertension Centre. I said I'll stop Losartan he said just to reduce the dose. Will see what happens.
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My BP can drop from 210/110 in the morning to around 106/74 by afternoon. They keep on saying it is the average that counts!
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In 2000 I had chest discomfort that was my usual indigestion and went to the doctors to get something for it as I was about to go on holiday. She checked my BP at 210/110 (not much change over the years) and sent me to the chest pain clinic.
They did an ECG and an echocardiogram but would not do a stress ECG as my BP was so high. Prescribed Amlodipine and Atenolol and said to come back at the end of the week. Then my BP was 168/?? and they did the stress ECG and said that I had angina (rubbish said my GP who knew my active lifestyle) ) as my heart was not getting enough oxygen but let me fly to Barbados. I had three weeks of side effects and pleaded to be taken off them when we got back.
All the other drugs apart from Verapamil and Losartan recently gave me problems.
They did an angiogram that was clear in 2001 as the stress ECG was a false positive as was a much later one in 2011.
No sleep aponea. I can get spikes at odd times day or night. Now I tend not to take my BP first thing in the morning. Really I am a night person and always say that I feel at my best when somwhere with a seven or nine hour time difference thoght that probably would not work if I was permantly so.