User Reviews for foxglove

I'm on digitalis for heart failure; how long can I expect it to lengthen my life? I've been on it for a few months... at this point my heart is failing and doing "flip-flops".. how long do you thing I might have (truthfully please).. I'm a planner.. I'd like to know!

Pulse reduced from 105 to 80 after 4days.i did not want to take Beta blockers

In 2001 following surgery I had days of very very frequent atrial arrhythmias including PACs, couplets, and runs of atrial tachycardia. I could feel the arrhymias. Atenolol did nothing to control them. Digoxin 0.25mg stopped the arrhymuias almost right away. The doctor discontinued the digoxin after 6 months free of atrial arrhythinias. In May of 2013 I again began to experience bouts of atrial arrhymias that I could feel in my throat. There was one run of what felt like atrial fibrillation... for about 1 hour while I was sitting in a meeting and could keep my hand on my pulse. The rhythm was totally irregular during that time. It converted to what felt like a normal sinus rhythm after getting up and moving around. The doctor had me increase my Atenolol 50mg to twice a day. That did nothing but seemed to increase the arrhymias. A holter monitor for 24 hours revealed thousands of premature atrials beats and 55 runs of atrial arrhymia. He then ordered Digoxin 0.25mg daily. The first dose resulted in a significant reduction in atrial arrhymias and within a day or two they were almost totally erraticated. In the 2 months since being on Digoxin, there is only a very rare occurance of a premature atrial beat, based on what I feel in my throat when they occur and checking my puse at least daily. Read More Read Less