Digoxin and low potassium
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Many diuretics can cause potassium loss. Low levels of potassium in the body increase the risk of digitalis toxicity. Digitalis toxicity may also result in persons who take the drug and who have low levels of magnesium in the body.
Risks include taking digitalis medications such as digoxin or digitoxin along with medications that interact with digitalis such as quinidine, verapamil, amiodarone, and others.
You should NEVER trust advice about medications you get on forums. If you ask this question to a cardiologist on expert forum, he will probably answer that he won't give advice on meds, and neither should lay people like us.
I 100% second Ireneo and her opinion on letting doctors handle your meds.
It seems you have some kind of bradycardia (slow heartrate) and your BP is low.
I had a cardia ablation for atrial flutter on March 26. Supposedly it was a success, and I remained on 150mg daily of toprol xr and 1 tablet daily of digoxin.nwith that my pulse remained at rest between 57-65bpm with a high of 70bpm. I have short periods of feeling my heart race but it always reverts back and it's just a few seconds.
But today it did not go back, shot up to 107bpm briefly and has slowly increases from 91bpm to 95bpm.
Dr has now started me on Eptus 25 with strict advice that I do blood test for Potassium every week and report back to him. LVEF very rarely improves. I have an ICD implanted to address pacing and sudden heart stoppage. I feel fine and drive car and do all normal activities. Just be sure to limit your water intake and salt intake. Best of luck.
It can be a tall T wave and the cause includes hyperkalaemia (too much potassium in the blood), hyperacute myocardial infarction (heart attack...heart muscle damage) and left bundle branch block (causes arrhythmia). Usually requires other abnormal wave forms in addition to the t wave abnormality.
Causes of small, flattened or inverted T waves are numerous and include ISCHEMIA (blocked or partially blocked arteries), age, race, hyperventilation, anxiety, drinking iced water, LVH, drugs (e.g.
I went to my cardiologist, she increased my digoxin from .25 to .375 and told me that my potassium level was on the lower end of normal to eat a banana or drink a glass of OJ daily. I had asked her if she thought it was some sort of panic attack (I have no prior panic attacks) with really no response other than lets monitor for the next 3 months. Well it has been 3 weeks now and I have woken up at least 2 times a week w/ the same problem.
Hi, I've been living with bulimia for nearly three years now and two weeks ago was struck down with a strange feeling of what I can only describe as "wobbly" weak-feeling legs, and also just a general weakness in my body. It is as if my legs are detached from the rest of my body. This made me feel dizzy, and anxious of going out in case I might fall.
I went to the dr and my blood pressure is continuing to increase so they added another med to lower it and they tested my potassium and sodium. My potassium was at 3.5 and the range is 3.5-5. I am taking a hctz with spironolactone and they added lisinopril. The dr was more concerned about the potassium going to high because spironolactone and lisinopril are potassium sparing but after the tests I don't think that will be a concern. My sodium was also on the low end of normal 3.
So, when the potassium level becomes low, it results in muscle malfunction and muscle twitchings, and you have experienced muscle crapms.
Low Potassium can also cause the heart contracts prematurely.... muscles that assist in breathing become weak and lead to respiratory arrest. The kidneys become unable to concentrate urine and this leads to excessive urination and thirst.
There can be a digestive problem. "The bowel motility is also hindered.
) and came across some interesting stuff regarding Florinef and low potassium levels. It is listed on the side effects sheet, but frankly, I didn't pay much attention to that. Anyway, in reading more about low potassium, I've found that it can cause:
•Fatigue
•Patient may experience problems such as Myalgia and muscular weakness
•Patient may experience hyponatremia and also may experience confused i.e. anxiety.
A low ejection fraction is one of the predictors for sudden cardiac death and potentially your father would be a candidate for an implantable defibrillator. The medical treatment should include digoxin, beta blockers (carvedilol) and an ace inhibitor. Whether your dad should have surgery depends on the severity of the mitral valve leakage and his overall general condition. At times the heart function and mitral regurgitation can improve on a good medical program.
I have some Afib and some PAC's, my doc said Digoxin and Toprol do the same thing, I chose the Digoxin.
Does anyone take the Digoxin for these conditions and it works? Which do you think is better?
After three weeks her episodes returned to 4 weekly. All occurred with activity and were relieved by rest and sublingual nitro. Her daily medications include Digoxin 0.125 mg, Furosemide 40 mg, Warfarin 5 mg, Lovastatin 20 mg at HS. Captopril 12.5 mg. KCL 20 mEq BID, and the nitroglycerine described above. We are to describe the pharmacological treatments present in this persons treatment plan.
It is highly unlikely, but clearly the sodium- potassium flux generates the electrical potential for nerve conduction, so low potassium will decrease the threshold of susceptability to a siezure. Low potassium makes the electrical system "twitchy". There is probably a co-factor involved. It is pointless to "seek studies". Don't get into an intellectual battle with this guy. He clearly is not that sharp a tack. Just keep your potassium levels within normal limits.
I am taking 25 mg of metaprolol split in half. Half in the morning and half at night. I also take 0.25 of digoxin and 5 mg of lisinopril. I have only taken the metaprolol and digoxin for less than a week so I guess it will stabilize soon. So far it has not really helped the arrythmias. If it does not help in several weeks maybe my cardio will change them. Thanks again for your help.
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