Has anyone else had heart palpitations while on antipsychotics?

[bgrimes86]

I am on Zyprexa 2.5 mg for depression. It has practically cured me but my heart is beating out of synch all the time now. I was diagnosed with a harmless heart arrhythmia a year ago and the Zyprexa is making it much worse. My cardiologist and psychiatrist said it was nothing to worry about but I'm scared. Risperdal also had the same effect, too. I tried Abilify but It made me way too jittery. Has anyone else out there experienced this?

- Ben

[ParamedFlorena]

I can't tell if Zyprexa has that kind of effect on the heart, but what I do know is that every now and then I've got palps myself. I've never been diagnosed with arrhythmia even if a few GP's have listened a little longer to my heart and heard murmurs. I've been told and reassured that these murmurs are very harmless. It's actually normal that there occurs "whirls" of blood flowing through the heart as the pulse rises. Logically, if we compare the heart and its work to a creek where the blood passes through narrower passages these murmurs happen.

Antidepressants do affect the bloodsystem too I guess. Don't take this for fact only because I say it though. In my head, the effect that AD's have on hormones works on stabilizing the entire human being, which includes those parts that keeps us alive, such as that bloodstream and the heartwork that we don't notice if everything is in check and control.

My depression is related to anxiety. Which came first - the egg or the chicken? To me that's a question of if anxiety is a symptom of my depression or the other way... Oh, while I was on Cipralex I did have the palps more often, but that's because the Remeron is working for anxiety too. I don't know if Cipralex did that.

I sit here and look at your MH mood, that you have changed to "feeling normal for the first time in years". I'm glad you feel better. Hopefully, you'll feel just better and better. I'm glad you found something that worked better for you than the Abilify, and hope that you find a way to overcome the arrhythmias too...

Florena