User Reviews for flecainide oral

I started taking this about 4 years ago for occasional flutter and a-fib. No symptoms since taking the drug so I consider it very effective. I recently went off the drug at the doctor's suggestion to see if symptoms return as this drug can have serious side effects.

Lots of side effects from taking this med. Ended up in the ER and was hospitalized for 5 days!

i can still feel my heart racing at times even when i take the pill

I have had several afib episodes. many E.R. 10hour afib duration but all is well for 4months.

A-fib and pvc's since 1980, on flecainide for 3 months, it is wonderful. Bystolic and Lisinipril rounds out the picture for minimal pvc's and normal bp. 67 years old.

I had a very difficult time increasing up to 200mg per day. I never really reached that amount but did use 50mg at night or to reduce increased heart rate periodically. I did keep this on hand so that I could get back to NSR without cardio version, but have found 3000 mg of Hawthorne root to work about the same, just takes a bit longer. I now take 1500 mg Hawthorne and 500 mg magnesium along with 120mg ubinquinol per day. Flecainide is a sodium blocker which your muscles release sodium to function. Your heart being a muscle will eventually be negatively impacted by this drug. Find an alternative or go for an ablation. Drugs are not the long term answerRead More Read Less

I often had atrial fibrillations with tachycardia, which lasted some 20 minutes each time. After taking Flecainide,as prescribed by cardiologist, normal heart rate resumed within an hour. I now take it twice a day. I felt some weakness for some three weeks only and then resumed normal life. I have MS for 20 years and I suspected that could have been the cause of heat problems but neurologist cannot prove it. I am doing fine now,just coping with MS.

The medication is effective; side effect I notice most is usually 2 hours after taking the drug: fatigue, needing to rest (kind of feels like someone slammed on the brakes). After that brief feeling (about 20 minutes) the rest of the day I feel great; no near fainting episodes any more.

Has been working well, since in the last year have had no A-Fib episodes or black-out spells. Do notice if I miss a dose the past few months, I get a bad migraine headache. Am starting to reduce dosage from 100 2x day to 50 2x, to see if I'm ok with that. Because for the last year I have also been on Thyroid meds for Hypothyroidism, so they seem to be helping my heart condition too.

Works, well

I found the drug effective in treating my condition but the side effects were not acceptable. Ie.heavy legs , tiredness lethargy and lastly urge incontinence, which was not good and although I suspected that this was due to flecainide, it was confirmed when I stopped taking it and the urge incontinence disappeared too.

I took flecainide (with atenolol to reduce risk of torsade de pointes) for a year and it completely stopped my paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, and had the added unexpected benefit of stopping a problem I had with occasional muscle cramping. But the atenolol dropped my normally low heart rate and blood pressure to an untolerably low level (about 40 for the heart rate), so I stopped taking the combination.

The drug did not completely stop my problem. I still have missed beats several times a week. But it is a big improvement over what it was. The drug "flecainide 100 mg two times a day" causes constipation, dizziness, and weight gain. .

I am still being evaluated by my doctor on this medication. I am not sure the side effects are caused by this medication or some other medication that I am on.