Fleicanide

[Pacific]

I’ve just taken 100 mg of Fleicanide; 2 pills that were 50 mg per tablet. I meant to take 1 Bisoprolol pill of 1.25 mg. I’ve taken a double dose of Fleicanide. Should I go to the hospital? I would really appreciate some responses regarding this.

[bantam12]

The patient information leaflet that comes with the meds says if you take to much contact A&E or your Dr at once, you could call out of hours for advice.

[Pacific in reply to bantam12]

Thank you. I did call the ambulance service for advice and they asked lots of questions and used my body weight to assess my risk. Fortunately I feel absolutely fine. I will never make this mistake again.

[Hidden]

I take 200 Flecainide as a PIP. The 24 hour limit is 300 so I’m sure you will be fine. There are people who take 100 morning and evening. Di

[Pacific in reply to Hidden]

Thank you. This is very reassuring 😊

[Drounding in reply to Pacific]

You've done the right thing by calling and asking what to do.

I take 100mg flecainide am and pm and 5mg Bisoprolol am. You should be fine but I can understand how you feel and everyone is different when it comes to dosage.

[Bagrat]

My husband used to put out our respective pills ( no longer!) .He gave himself my flecainide and me one of his heart pills. I noticed but he'd already taken my flec. No effect whatsoever.

He now has doset box for his and I do my own!! Good to check though

[jeanjeannie50]

You'll be fine, a lot of forum members take that dose (100mg) twice daily. It's so easy to make a mistake though and I guess we've all done something similar.

[Thomps95]

Absolutely fine. 100 mg is a benign dosage and what virtually everyone who uses it for PIP would take as a normal dosage. That said, flecenaide is a serious drug so all of us who use flecenaide need to be careful (especially if there are small children around) - but you have nothing to worry about taking 100 mg. You can probably just miss your next dosage.

[wilsond]

No you can take 300 mg per day. I was on 100 mg twice a day at the beginning of my treatment. Xx

[Evemato]

Good you called the doctor. When I was first prescribed flecanaide I was on 100 mg. twice a day. I soon began experiencing dizziness, pronounced weakness, a sense of “swirliness”, and nausea. My pulse dropped to a very weak 40 bpm and blood pressure was equally low. I am 5’ 8” and weighed around 135 pounds. Dosage was switched to 50 mg. am and 100 mg. pm. I had no more difficulty. Hated the drug as there were other physical ailments that surfaced which I had never suffered before, e.g. swollen feet, spider veins on ankle regions, chronic tinnitus, light flashes, etc. So happy and blessed now to be medication free.

[jkdjack]

I had a cardioversion about 2 1/2 years ago and everything relating to my A.F. went fine . on Warfin andHeart Beat averaged between 55 and 62 and then about 2 months ago I experienced a dramatic change in my tinnitus to the point I was told that I required something to tone down the 24 HR noise in my head so I got some Hearing Aids and they just mask the noise but last week I called my Cardiologist and told him that perhaps me taking 50 MG of Fleconide twice a day could possibly cause my Tinnitus because we had tried all the other Drugs that I take for Blood Pressure and to my amazement the Tinnitus totally disappeared, now silence for 4 days so I hope it continues.