Posted by Vincent_QC on March 5, 2012, at 10:12:07
In reply to Re: Best non-MAOI for these symptoms? » Vincent_Qc, posted by papillon2 on March 5, 2012, at 7:05:07
> I take a tricyclic anti-depressant -- which are notorious for cardiac side effects -- and I benefit greatly from the addition of Aspirin 100mg and 3g fish oil. If I stop one or both of them, the cardiac side effects (tachycardia, palpitations and chest pain) worsen. You might like to give Aspirin and fish oil a try should you resume taking a medication which gives you heart issues.
>Great idea for the low dose of Aspirin since it's good to protect the heart from blood clots, stroke and many others cardiovasculars diseases since a fast heart rate can lead to that in long term view. I'm just worry for myself about taking the Aspirin cause my INR (coagulation time) is long and I have bleeding hemorrhoids... For the fish oil it's making me anxious, don't know why but regular Omega-3 for the heart always do that to me, the Omega-3 higher in EPA and low in DHA are ok for me but not sure they can help for the weak heart issues...?
What is your average resting pulse rate? Is it stable or can jump from 60 to 140 in less than 1 second? I can tell you than when I try the TCA's but wasnt able to stay on them for more than 1 month, the Nortriptyline was not tolerable at all with a resting pulse rate of 160 and more at only 10 mg, at the time I was a heavy coffee drinker, more than 8-10 cups a day... Also had the very fast heart beat on the Desipramine, Imipramine and Elavil but not with the Clomipramine but the clomipramine was too much for me, pins and needles effect everywhere in my body, dizziness, over sedation, cognitive problems at 50 mg I just stop thinking that I will not survive... In fact the TCA's are the only meds I wasn't able to take (with the exception of the Parnate) before the panic disorder enter in my life again...
One of my biggest problem with my heart rate is that the resting pulse rate when i'm sit can be as low as 60, most of the time 80-90 but as soon as I get up i'm dizzy and just walk in the house it's increasing to the 140 and more... when I strain for a bowel movement or strain from a physical effort or just climbing the stairs, it's start beating very fast and irregular, like I have a too strong vagal nerve action... Also my blood pressure who was normal-high (average of 140/90-95 before last june is now on the low side, mean around 100/70...when i'm more anxious the systolic decrease and the diastolic increase leading to blood pressure of 90/90...who is not normal I think but my Cardiologist seem to not think it's dangerous and just told me to drink more liquid with 10% and more of salt inside, he think I don't drink enough...
> I have also found that my heart gradually became used to each dose increase over the period of a month. My resting heart rate is still roughly 25 bpm faster than usual, but I can better cope with it and I rarely have any chest pain or palpitations.
>Normal, the body need some time to get used to the effect of the med you take...and normal that you cope better with the cardio symptoms since the med is working so no more worry...
What I find difficult is to start the med at first now... i'm so afraid of the heart symptoms that I can't... just thinking about it make me sick. I know that I will have to start it eventually and each day I told myself that I should start it but I can't...of course the more I wait and the worse it will be...
> For me, having a fast heart rate feels like anxiety. This is not surprising, given that anxiety often makes one's heart beat faster. So even though I am not anxious about my heart beating so fast, I suspect I would feel less anxious if it didn't.
Of course for me the fast heart beat is anxiety related for sure... it's just the others symptoms who make me more anxious like the dizziness, chest pain, numbness in the left arm, weird blood pressure...
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