After that whole crazy runaround a couple of weeks ago trying to get my meds sorted I suddenly had not one but two appointments with the cardiologist! The first one (today) came via my visit to the Duques del Infantado hospital and the second (July 9th) from my GP. Whatever. I went to this morning’s and have decided to hold onto the other appointment just in case.

They did an ECG (normal) and I explained to the cardiologist that I haven’t been taking the bisoprolol (beta blocker) and that I am not feeling well on the flecainide (heartbeat regulator). He said not to worry about taking the beta blocker with Losartán, the other bp med I’ve been on for ages. Then he said he’d cut down the flecainide to half a pill twice a day, and start the beta blocker at half dosage as well. And he even gave me a schedule…

Treatment
Apocard 100 mg (flecainide) – half tablet every 12 hours, breakfast and dinner
Lixiana 60 mg (anticoagulant) – 1 tablet every 24 hours, at breakfast
Bisoprolol 2.5 mg (beta blocker) – half tablet every 24 hours, at dinner
Losartán/HCTZ (bp med) – 1 tablet at night

Revision in 6 months.

I think I can live with this adjustment for now. To be honest, the tachycardia has pretty much stopped so maybe this is working and I just need less of the scary Apocard drug? I told him that when I saw my GP she said she couldn’t change my prescription he said… well, now she can, it’s all in the new report. Which he then printed out and gave to me. Meanwhile, I have this other appointment set up for three weeks from now in case I need it, and if not I’ll cancel it. Ufff…