Update-new problem help

So I went to the Ep specialist to get checked out since I am in so much pain.
I am now in a-fibb and have been for 5 days. This is 5 weeks post pacemaker.
They started me on Metropolol and xarelto. They said if my heart doesn't go back into its own rhythm I will have to do cardio version. I am so scared.
I had stopped taking Xanax last Thursday and had to take one today I think it helped a little my heart feels calmer.
My Ep specialist thinks for some reason I have fibromyalgia and my regular doc prescribed cymbalta. Yikes I feel like a Guinea pig.
He said my pacemaker is working fine and he suspects I have been in afibb before.

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Cardio version

by dhusemann - 2015-10-08 06:10:16

Cardio version is an attempt to for normal sinus rhythm by adding additonal lower powered shocks.

not defib, which is a large shock to force the heart to stop and and they restart at normal rhythm.

Blood thinner (xerelto) is to help prevent clots for the blood that stagnates in the Atrial chamber due to afib.

Metropolol is a beta blocker. lower blood pressure and decrease heart rate.

depending on the severity of Afib maay have to look into ablation.

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oop qualify

by dhusemann - 2015-10-08 06:10:24

I am not a doctor, so verify verify verify. even when it is a doctor always good to get a second opinion.

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I just want to share about the quality of life after my pacemaker, and hopefully increase awareness that lifestyles do not have to be drastically modified just because we are pacemaker recipients.