Heart Palpations and Irregular Heart Beat!

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I'm fed up with my heart issues almost 3 months and still I get Palpations and irregular and high Heart beat. It seems my heart some times  skips and has half beat. I dont know what the hell is it but its giving me a tough time.

Its my worst symptom since day one.

It gets worst after I eat someting. How long can this continue. Prior to benzos I never had heart issues.

 

 

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For me, the benzos were causing heart issues similar to those you report.  They were very unnerving.  I'm off a little over 2 months now and they have subsided.  During my taper, they were worse.  While I was on klonopin, I went to the hospital 6 times with heart concerns and spent a year looking for the cause.  Everything straightens up with time.  Make sure you cardiologist knows what you're doing. 

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I spent a ton of money on cardiologist tests and other doctors when I was 2-5 months out, I was freaked out I had 100 different things, I still am. The best advice I can give you is go to your primary, explain you are going to benzo withdrawal (he will think you are just a hypochondriac,) and then check with him every time something new appears. He will filter out what is worth getting checked. The important thing is that if he clears you, then you are clear.

 

The reality is that benzo withdrawal makes you think a lot of stuff, and 99% of the time it isn't real. Take it from somebody who has waited at the ER a few times cause he thought he was dying, I still want to go about once a week

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That is also my worst symptom , I have POTS pretty badly , I am coming up on 5 months and it started the day after my last dose. Makes me mad . When I stand my HR can do up to 168 , lately though it has started to stay under 100 when I stand and that is an improvement . If anything does go wrong you can be sure it will involve my heart . On Saturday though out of the blue it went up to 158 when I came out of the shower.

I am sick of this . My normal HR is 65 . Sitting now it is 68-100 in Feb though it was 122 sitting up with a BP of 80/50 .My  husband is a nurse that's how I have all this info . He has also been my best source of medical care but we have had to do some fairly advanced stuff to cope with my physical symptoms . I walk 1.5 miles a day , that keeps my heart under 90 - usually - but I cannot walk indefinitely .

 

I also never had any heart issues until this .

I have gone to three GP's because of this .

I am not in my regular town but one that is backwoods and overly religious , as a result I have had one who told me it was because I needed Jesus and to read the Bible , one actually yell at me and say he was not going to give me any pain meds ( we left asap , I am not going to be yelled at when I wanted a cardiologist referral  )  and a third that swears it was caused by constipation?? yet concedes it is some kind of drug related nerve damage . We are OUT of here and back to Southern Cal in June and I cannot wait . This has been a nitemare .

 

 

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I’ve had mine for 12 years they come and go.

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I have POTS or some form of it and now wonder if it was benzo withdrawal or POTS. Found out benzos can help POTS flares. Looking back I had symptoms that may have been POTS related prior to any benzos. I hope for you it clears on its own because it sucks. Even the DR/DP symptoms can apparently be related to the autonomic dysfunction.

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This was my worst symptom as well. My heart would go into an abnormal rhythm and I would drive to the ER. By the time I got there I could tell it was back to normal. This happened when I exercised and sometimes just resting. Had pvcs every 7 beats for weeks.  It has not happened since my first week off. They will go away.

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Most of these symptoms are anxiety problems, not heart problems. Big difference. Understanding the effects of adrenaline on these muscles is imperative to not letting them bother you. Unless tests have revealed that you have a heart disease, we can be comforted with the fact that we’re having daily fight or flight symptoms, then when we’re reacting with fear, and it causes us to release even more stress hormones. The cycle continues. These palpitations, PVCs etc are 100% normal under the circumstances, and won’t hurt us. Hope this helps! ♥️

 

http://cbt4panic.org/audio-number-5-dealing-with-palpitations/

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What is a mini seizure? How do you know you had a seizure? I’m just curious.

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Mine is not anxiety and that was a problem getting it at least checked out  for some months until I was finally diagnosed with POTS second to drug related nerve damage . All the Dr's knew to do was diagnose anxiety  and get me to leave  .

Very frustrating

The reason I say this and it may be the same way with op Is that I can lay down and as I start to recline the symptom will resolve , it will also go down to 40 bpm .  When I sit it will be anywhere from 45-80 . When I walk it goes down to 56 . There is no way I can anxiety my way down to 40 bpm on command and even lower at night . Mine is super unstable but goes up when I chew and swallow and when I bathe and there is no way I can excersize beyond a walk .

I have never had anxiety outside normal anxiety we all have to live with , as in my sig this was grossly mis prescribed for a surgical complication . Many of us , especially those of us who have been on klonopin or ativan have this . I have no idea why .

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I'm fed up with my heart issues almost 3 months and still I get Palpations and irregular and high Heart beat. It seems my heart some times  skips and has half beat. I dont know what the hell is it but its giving me a tough time.

Its my worst symptom since day one.

It gets worst after I eat someting. How long can this continue. Prior to benzos I never had heart issues.

 

 

It’s been over 4 months off for me and I still get this.  It’s not as bad as when I was in acute BWD but still there.  I have learned to just kinda ignore it and hope I don’t have a major cardiac issue. So far, so good.  Hope yours gets better soon!

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Mine is not anxiety and that was a problem getting it at least checked out  for some months until I was finally diagnosed with POTS second to drug related nerve damage . All the Dr's knew to do was diagnose anxiety  and get me to leave  .

Very frustrating

The reason I say this and it may be the same way with op Is that I can lay down and as I start to recline the symptom will resolve , it will also go down to 40 bpm .  When I sit it will be anywhere from 45-80 . When I walk it goes down to 56 . There is no way I can anxiety my way down to 40 bpm on command and even lower at night . Mine is super unstable but goes up when I chew and swallow and when I bathe and there is no way I can excersize beyond a walk .

I have never had anxiety outside normal anxiety we all have to live with , as in my sig this was grossly mis prescribed for a surgical complication . Many of us , especially those of us who have been on klonopin or ativan have this . I have no idea why .

 

What drug caused nerve damage? What kind of nerve damage? Where? Again, just curious. 😊

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I spent a ton of money on cardiologist tests and other doctors when I was 2-5 months out, I was freaked out I had 100 different things, I still am. The best advice I can give you is go to your primary, explain you are going to benzo withdrawal (he will think you are just a hypochondriac,) and then check with him every time something new appears. He will filter out what is worth getting checked. The important thing is that if he clears you, then you are clear.

 

The reality is that benzo withdrawal makes you think a lot of stuff, and 99% of the time it isn't real. Take it from somebody who has waited at the ER a few times cause he thought he was dying, I still want to go about once a week

 

I disagree about going to a doctor every time something new comes up in withdrawal. Why? Seeing a doctor over every symptom only costs us money (including insurance) and helps to feed our fear.  Realizing what is normal within the spectrum of anxiety/withdrawal goes a long way toward extinguishing our fears, (which are normal too.).

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https://www.benzo.org.uk/manual/bzcha03.htm The best info out there as we wait for our autonomic nervous system to "reset". This system governs all automatic processes in the body, breathing, heart beat, digestive system, etc. When its affected all systems are affected. After two years of being off benzos I notice great improvement with more to come. Everything heals slowly, or quickly. It depends on the person.

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https://www.benzo.org.uk/manual/bzcha03.htm The best info out there as we wait for our autonomic nervous system to "reset". This system governs all automatic processes in the body, breathing, heart beat, digestive system, etc. When its affected all systems are affected. After two years of being off benzos I notice great improvement with more to come. Everything heals slowly, or quickly. It depends on the person.

 

Great reminder!!! Just read through there again earlier today.

 

“Anxiety. Anxiety persisting after the acute phase of withdrawal may be partly due to the uncovering of a learning defect caused by the benzodiazepines. These drugs specifically impair the learning of new skills, including stress-coping strategies. Such skills are normally acquired continuously from childhood to middle age or later as experience of life accumulates. Their development may be blocked for a period of years during which benzodiazepines are taken. After withdrawal the ex-user is left in a vulnerable state with a decreased ability to deal with stressful situations. Full recovery may require many months of learning new stress-coping strategies to replace the years when this facility was blanketed by pills.

 

Secondly, benzodiazepine withdrawal may uncover life problems that have never been fully addressed. For example, the impairment of memory caused by benzodiazepines may prevent the normal resolution of personal stresses such as bereavement or a car crash. Such buried or half-forgotten experiences may have to be faced after withdrawal and may prolong both anxiety and depression. It is not uncommon for a widow or widower, first prescribed benzodiazepines on the death of the spouse, to go through the grieving process for the first time after withdrawal, even though the bereavement had occurred many years previously.

 

A third factor may operate in people who have had frightening experiences during withdrawal. This is not uncommon in those who have undergone rapid withdrawal without adequate explanation, often in hospital or detoxification centres but sometimes at home when their doctor has withdrawn prescriptions. Such people may develop symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in which their experiences are constantly repeated as flashbacks or nightmares and so prolong the anxiety.

 

In addition, many (though by no means all) long-term benzodiazepine users are constitutionally highly strung, sensitive people with relatively low self-esteem, whose anxiety problems have led to the prescription of benzodiazepines in the first place and whose continuing anxiety (possibly heightened by the benzodiazepines) has prompted the doctor to go on prescribing the drugs. It may take a long time for these people to regain, or attain, full confidence in themselves.

 

Despite these factors, protracted anxiety symptoms, including agoraphobia and panics, do tend to subside gradually and rarely last more than a year. The process may be hastened by good psychological support and by the measures described under acute anxiety symptoms. Believe it or not, people often feel more self-confident after withdrawal than they did before starting to take benzodiazepines.”