Hopefully someone else will have some helpful ideas. I am just curious if you checked iwth a pharmacist, not your doctor, about interactions between the medicine you are taking and xanax. Just another option to try. Be sure to tell them if you are taking any herbs or other meds.
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Has your doctor not done a check to see why your heart is tachycardic? I was on beta blockers from the age of 7, when I was 19 they no longer worked. My heart rate went upto 220 a minute, they found I had a pathway coming off the main valve, I had it ablated.
I suggest you ask for some tests.
bbxx, yes my cardiologist is aware that i take xanax. My neurologist put me on xanax and antivert for vertigo. I only take the xanax when i need it and have bad episodes of vertigo.
Jacqs, the cardiologist did a stress test on me and a heart echo. A previous echo done on me said i had diastolic dysfunction..but when this doctor did it on me he said he saw nothing indicating that and discarded the test. The stress test i was told came back ok..but i had to stop several times during it because my heart rate was maxing out and they almost had to have me stop. I also wore a monitor for a month and it showed i was having severe episodes of sinus tachy and arrhythmias, but nothing wrong with the heart to account for it so i was told something else may be causing it...asthma or thyroid. When i had blood drawn for my thyroid repeatedly it came back normal..but scans always show several nodules..but was told that was nothing to be concerned about and the thyroid didn't seem to be the problem. So i was put on Atenolol and it seemed to control the heart rate problem for the most part until my breathing started getting worse over the last 6 months and it was decided to consider using something other then the beta block Atenolol to see if there was any improvement.
I was put on verapamil as a first line many years ago. It made everything worse for me. I know it helps a ton of people, but I respond much better to beta blockers. I know you shouldn't take them with asthma. Please keep us up to date as to what your doctor tries next. There are several other CCB out there, and if your symptoms are much different between the diltiazem and verapamil, perhaps another will work. Good luck.
Thanks for your input RNRita, I will certainly let you guys know. I decided to go ahead and take another dose of the verapamil earlier and gonna see what happens and if it's anymore effective then yesterday. Feeling quite dizzy and sick to my stomach right now...hope i didn't make a mistake in doing so and not following my gut instinct...which was something isn't right about the way these meds are effecting me.
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Good luck with everything, I think I would ask for a second opinion, just to make sure and put your mind at rest. I know how you feel, its catch 22 as the more you worry the worse it gets.
Take Care
Thank you jacqs23 for your kind thoughts.
Well, something is strange with this Verapamil. Has anyone experienced sleep disturbances with it. I am not sure i know how to describe it, but i kept awakening throughout the night. When i would turn over or move i would experience a tracking effect visually of my every movement i made. It got so bad at times i got up to walk it off for 10-15 minutes and it would get alittle better and then i would go back to sleep to only awaken again to it. Last night was the second night of taking this. The first night i noticed this, but it was not as bad and just shrugged it off. But then it happened again last night and it was far more frequent and intense.
Has anyone experienced anything like this with these meds?