Digoxin effect on potassium
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I am curious as to why your cardiologist would have you on digoxin. It is used today mostly for atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter. It has been surpassed by beta blockers and/or calcium channel blockers as a first line choice. Did you perhaps experience syncope before your ablation? High ventricular rate leads to insufficient diastolic filling time. Digoxin slows down the conduction in the AV node and increases its refractory period, and it can reduce the ventricular rate.
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 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.
Several years ago a pychiatrist put me on 40 mgs of Adderil. I started having arrythimias according to a pacemaker check. Could this medication cause all of this to happen. Plus a paid mgmt dr put me on a strong muscle relaxer years before this and my heart beat dropped to 40 beats and this caused me to have the pacemaker. I sleep walk a lot and sometimes find some of my meds are gone and this occasion sev muscle relaxers weren't in the bottle.
Is amiodarone as safe a drug as digoxin or linoxin for A-fib as far as long term side affects are concerned?
Bradycarda is a heart rate less than 60 bpm at rest. That would be designated by the per minute count of the "P" wave on the EKG. May or may not be significant. The danger is a very slow heart rate and that can cause blood clots, 50-60 isn't a problem.
It hasn't been stated the configuration of the T wave abnormality. It can be a tall T wave and the cause includes hyperkalaemia (too much potassium in the blood), hyperacute myocardial infarction (heart attack...
Well, high or low potassium has an effect on anyone. Potassium is used to maintain a balance between chemical and electrical reactions in the body, potassium being an electrolyte. Excess Potassium is removed from the body by the Kidneys and so this would be a starting point. The Hormone aldosterone controls the rate at which the kidneys remove potassium,water and sodium from the blood and this hormone is a steriod type produced in the adrenal gland.
It is not an uncommon EKG tracing, often meaningless and requires supporting evidence for any dx. There are heart drugs e.g., digoxin, quinidine, tricyclics, and many others and there can electrolyte abnormalities of potassium, magnesium, calcium that will cause an non-specific ST-
The electrical impulses follow a conductive pathway and non-specific intra ventricular indicates there may be a right side interruption (in matter discussed, can be left side) to an impulse causing dyssynchrony.
s explanation where he states digoxin is used to treat irregular heartbeats. I was on digoxin for a few months following my congested heart failue event. It is my understanding the medication is used to increase contractility of the pumping chambers. My medication for stablizing heart rate is a beta blocker (coreg) and an ACE inhibitor.
My research: "Digoxin is contraindicated in patients with ventricular fibrillation.
The drug info says these can be side effects and i am wondering if these are a forever side effect or just my body getting adjusted. The doc said it take 6 days to be therapeutic so why would i be getting the side effects now?
However, in general calcium channel blockers and beta-blockers are preferred to digoxin. Digoxin has been around for a long time! I used Digoxin over 50 years ago for my PSVT, and my recollection was that it did little to prevent episodes. There are so many newer drugs now that are far more effective. My basic understanding of Digoxin is that it works on the heart's electrical system and decreases the heart rate, but increases each stroke volume.
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