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Night time Episodes
My husband has been having night time episodes for the last 4 months. He is a 25 yoa male. He wakes up feeling like he needs to take a deep breath. He then notices that his heart is pounding out of his chest. I've seen his pulse range from 90-160 during these episodes. His blood pressure also increases ranging from 140/80 to as high as 200/100. He then started having a resting HR and BP that were higher then average. He only has these episodes at night.
We went to the doctor and they did EKG's all neg, stress test-neg, halter-neg, echo- neg. Doctor put him on Bystolic. The medication lowered his HR and BP he was running 70-80 and BP between 110/60 to 130/40. He continued having these episodes but they were less intense. The Bystolic started lowering the HR and BP too much and my husbands arms started going numb and tingling. Dr. decided to stop this med.
In the middle of this they diagnosed him with sleep apnea. They started him on the CPAP. I thought this might be the cause....and would solve the problem. But is hasn't.
My husband has now been going through this for 4 months. He is now having all these symptoms plus the numbness and tingling in his arms. Everyone keeps trying to treat it like anxiety. But he doesn't have increased respirations or any type of panic. Even with Xanax and Ativan it does not bring down his HR or BP. As a nurse this doesn't seem to be anxiety.
Please help.
We went to the doctor and they did EKG's all neg, stress test-neg, halter-neg, echo- neg. Doctor put him on Bystolic. The medication lowered his HR and BP he was running 70-80 and BP between 110/60 to 130/40. He continued having these episodes but they were less intense. The Bystolic started lowering the HR and BP too much and my husbands arms started going numb and tingling. Dr. decided to stop this med.
In the middle of this they diagnosed him with sleep apnea. They started him on the CPAP. I thought this might be the cause....and would solve the problem. But is hasn't.
My husband has now been going through this for 4 months. He is now having all these symptoms plus the numbness and tingling in his arms. Everyone keeps trying to treat it like anxiety. But he doesn't have increased respirations or any type of panic. Even with Xanax and Ativan it does not bring down his HR or BP. As a nurse this doesn't seem to be anxiety.
Please help.
This might sound strange….he can try rubbing on over the counter cortisone cream before he goes to bed. If it works in helping him sleep through the night, he might have adrenal fatigue. The adrenal gland also produces cortisol. If AF causes a cotisol crash while sleeping the body responds by cranking up the adrenaline. A sleeping person that gets a jolt of adrenalin wakes up thinking they are having a panic attack. Good luck, SeaWeed
Get him back to doctors and demand a second opinion as this dont seem right at all.
My opinion would be to go to another Doctor.... That is most definately not normal, and I would figure that the CPAP would help, but if its not go to another doctor for a 2nd opinion...
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