Hi. Just over a month ago my GP recomended Changing anticoagulants from warfarin to edoxaban, which I did. This seems to have coincided with me having many more episodes of AF. The episodes are also lasting longer. I’ve gone from maybe two episodes a month to two a week with one episode lasting four days and the majority of the rest lasting two days whereas an episode would have lasted around 24 hours.
Has anyone else had a similar experience?
I am not medically trained but as both are anticoagulants given prophalatically to lower stroke risk and do not ‘treat’ Af I cannot see the connection, unless maybe you have some anxiety about the change of meds? Otherwise I would gues it is coincidence.
The only way you could find out if it was the Edoxaban causing more AF attacks is by going back on the Warfarin for a while to see if your AF attacks reduce. I'd give the Edoxaban at least a couple of months trial, though it cant be pleasant for you having double the amount of attacks. Perhaps discuss it with your GP.
Jean
The only way you could find out if it was the Edoxaban causing more AF attacks is by going back on the Warfarin for a while to see if your AF attacks reduce. I'd give the Edoxaban at least a couple of months trial, though it cant be pleasant for you having double the amount of attacks. Perhaps discuss it with your GP.
Jean
Before I went persistent I was on Edoxaban for 4 years with only 2 episodes in 18 months but I had not switched from Warfarin.
I changed over during covid lockdowns no change in my afib at all
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