Michelle, I'm not sure if Metropolol is similar to Sotalol (sounds similar though lol). I was originally on Metropolol (started it a couple days after surgery) and my main complaint when I went to the ER a couple wks later was what I thought (still think) were regular, skipped beats. It felt/heard like it was skipping every other beat, which was triggered by me reclining or laying down. But they seemed to think it wasn't skipping beats, but just beating really slow - maybe because of the Metropolol. It was 43 bpm when I was admitted to ER. And then I went into afib a few hrs after being admitted. Anyway, they took me off Metropolol and put me on Amiodarone. I slowly got better. When I first went into afib, they explained I was in no danger because I'm anti-coagulated, so just try to relax... Took my first Amiodarone and the afib went away about 4 hrs later. Had a couple more relatively minor afib incidents over the next few days. And the slow hr (and/or regular skipped beats) episodes lasted for a couple wks I think. Those eventually got better too - not sure if the Amiodarone helped or if it was just finally healing up. As bad a rap as Amiodarone gets sometimes, if used only for a short period (3 months or so) it seems to be safe, and seems to be effective too, at least based on my experience. Hope yours gets better soon. My experience seems consistent with what they were telling me - all the irregular beats / afib stuff is due to the trauma your heart went through during surgery, and usually eventually gets better after about 3 months.
Good luck to you too Pat. They did that to me too - cut my doses in half a couple times. Went from something like 800 mg/day the first few days, down to 400 mg/day and finally down to 200 mg/day (if I remember right). And stayed on 200/day for the remaining couple months I was on it. Still doing good having been off it for about a month now. No more afib!
Good luck to you too Pat. They did that to me too - cut my doses in half a couple times. Went from something like 800 mg/day the first few days, down to 400 mg/day and finally down to 200 mg/day (if I remember right). And stayed on 200/day for the remaining couple months I was on it. Still doing good having been off it for about a month now. No more afib!
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