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(also known as Flecainide)

Flecainide belongs to the group of medicines known as antiarrhythmics. It is used to correct irregular heartbeats to a normal rhythm.

Flecainide produces its helpful effects by slowing nerve impulses in the heart and making the heart tissue less sensitive.

There is a chance that flecainide may cause new ... continue

Treatment Success Rate

Top 5 Communities
Condition Members Success
Atrial Fibrillation (AFib)
35
89%
Arrhythmias
25
88%
Heart Failure
1
100%
Overall, 89% (62 Members) find Tambocor helpful
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Tambocor Reviews

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Working / Worked
Started at 50 mg BID, now taking 150 mg bid and is helping the palpitations cease.
Working / Worked
worked at first but then caused other worse arrythmias.
it is working but like the other he still has episodes where his heart is out of rhythum.
seems to control my A/F sometimes!!! But it's the only one that can control it. Side effects are EXTREME tierdness which i am finding hard to deal with.
Working / Worked
Worked in combination with Amiodarone
Working / Worked
So far working well but Doc tells me that if I start to get chest pain from blockages, This med can be bad. I get a nucliar stress test about every 2 or 3 years to make sure I have no blocked arteries.
Working / Worked
was on this while I waited for the ablation. yes it worked but it was scary if I forgot to take a tablet
Somewhat Helpful
Currently taking Flec-100mg/twice a day. I still experience AF on Flec but symptoms are reduced on this medicine.
Somewhat Helpful
worked for a while
Also a heart rate regulator--50 mg twice daily. I have tried to take an extra pill to return to rhythm as cardiologist suggests but with limited success. Probably too wimpy a dose.
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Discussions

  1. Discussion: Flecainide Experience
    as you all know I am a Flecainide Chick....and happy with it.....I have been told that the 50mg twice a day that I take is the *baby dose* and that th... [More]
  2. Discussion: Flecainide Experience
    For the last 5+ years I have been happily in NSR with Flecainide. The dose was 100 mg in the am and 50 in the pm. But nothing lasts forever. Recent... [More]
  3. Discussion: Flecainide not working
    I agree with you both on not frying my heart quite yet,but my afib is symptomatic, I get really diaphoretic and tired when in it. And I am only 48. Bu... [More]
  4. Discussion: Flecainide not working
    I am a flecainide girl and a very happy one.......I was also told that ablation is the last choice of treatment for me. Having said all that , my dr s... [More]
  5. Discussion: Flecainide not working
    I have been taking Flecainide 50 mg twice a day since Jan 9th and have the worst long lasting afib episodes since been diagnoses with afib, two were a... [More]