Metformin and A fib

[Lenaropes]

I found this article very interesting. Anyone her had a cardiologist place you on the "diabetic" med Metformin with positive results in A fib? Metformin for Atrial Fibrillation? - DSMdiabetesselfmanagement.com/...

[mjames1]

Thanks for posting. Also heard good things about that drug. If my blood sugar stays borderline, may just ask my doc for a trial on it. Maybe anyway!

Jim

[FancyPants54 in reply to mjames1]

But if you do, keep your eye on your vitamin B12, it tends to fall with Metformin use.

[Lenaropes in reply to mjames1]

I am going to ask my husband's cardiologist too.

[Kingdaddy]

Fascinating, thanks for sharing. I’m not diabetic but I was taking metformin for its anti-aging properties. I had stopped it last Feb (2022) to get into a clinical trial for a knee issue, and I actually got AFIB in March of 2022. Really strange.

[Lenaropes in reply to Kingdaddy]

That is very curious.

[Tapanac]

coincidence you say about Metformin. I had an echo last December and quite a few things of worry showed up. Then I received a letter from cardiologist advising my GP to start me on a form of diabetes drug as it was found during tests and trials that as a side effect to diabetes it also helped the heart

I can’t remember the name of the one he suggested but I looked up Metformin but that particular one wasn’t recommended it was another from the same family. Think it began with J

The trouble is it did say thst it could cause urinary tract infections!!!!!

Worth looking up

[Heilung18-Gesund in reply to Tapanac]

A lot of non-anti-arrhythmic medications and even supplements are helpful against AFib, but efficacies are at most in the 80% range, never 100%, so arrhythmic events do occur.

Besides metformin, the SGLT2i’s are antidiabetic drugs that are amazingly cardio- and renoprotective and also have impressive anti-arrhythmic impact. They work in part by inducing glycosuria and thus may pose a risk for UTI’s. Examples are empa- and dapaglifozin.

[Tapanac in reply to Heilung18-Gesund]

wow thankyou. I think the last one you mention was the one the cardiologist said, but didn’t want the UTIs

I will look up the other one tomorrow that was mentioned in Google and ask your opinion on that one

Goidnight

[Lenaropes in reply to Tapanac]

Wow very interesting.

[Dollcollector]

Good, a drug that is good for your kidneys as well as your heart. Most heart medication is bad for your kidneys.

[Lenaropes in reply to Dollcollector]

Exactly and my husband's kidneys were damaged by chemo so there is another caution we worry about.

[Dollcollector]

l have chronic kidney disease probably caused by the heart medication.