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Aged 61-70
Interview HF01  

Interview HF01

Age at Interview: 65
Sex: Male
Background: Retired butcher; married with 2 children.
Brief outline:3 heart attacks 1978, 1980, 1994. Angina. Ventricular tachycardia, Cannot recall being given a diagnosis of heart failure though he knows he has it.


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Thinks that amiodarone affected the functioning of his thyroid.

 



The thyroxine, when I mentioned earlier that initially I was put on, when I was first given pills, medication from the hospital, amiodarone was one of the medications that I was given. This subsequently led to a thyroid problem which had only just recently come to be known about and what it, it caused, I think it's the under usage (whatever the right word is and I'm sorry I can't think of it at the moment), of the thyroid.

Now because of, under normal circumstances, if one had this particular problem, nine times out of ten you would either have an operation to take it out (take the thyroid out) or, you would be given a particular medication that kills the thyroid. Because of my heart condition it was decided not to operate. But they wanted to control the thyroid, knowing that it was the amiodarone that had caused it in case at a future time it was needed to put me back on to amiodarone for my heart condition.
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