Heart Palps Support Group

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Mosart!  Wow!  there is so much info on this guy's You Tube!  I feel so encouraged.  I think everyone on this thread should watch.  I keep learning more and more!  Here is the link to one of the videos...He talks about the benefits of Magnesium and the heart as well...clarifying what my gut keeps telling me. Good stuff.

[[Li...]]

I am messed up pretty badly in general from being forced or coerced to take around 40+ different psychiatric medications for almost two decades now.  I have finally made it down to the last medication which is 3 mg of Klonopin.  I am experiencing heart palpitations now as a result of Depakote withdrawal and possibly Klonopin tolerance and/or Klonopin interdose withdrawal.  The heart palpitations are causing me to not be able to sleep at night.  When I finally feel like I am getting tired and when I feel like I'm about to fall asleep, my heart races and it stops me from sleeping.  Can anyone here relate to that type of experience when they get heart palpitations?  What types of treatments have you found to be most effective?  I eat pretty healthy almost every day and I also take 480 mg of magnesium glycinate which I'm surprised hasn't stopped the heart palpitations.  I'm not sure what to do next to stop the heart palpitations as doing this is the only way I can proceed in my recovery.

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LifeInChaos, I've had the same thing every day for 2 & 1/2 years since I started tapering Klonopin. Some days are worse than others, but I have not found any dietary thing that makes any difference. I decided I'd rather be off benzos even with palpitations. It doesn't appear they'll ever go away for me. I know that's not uplifting, but it's my reality. Good luck to you.

[[Ri...]]

Hello all heart palpitations sufferers!

I am just wondering if any of you are currently taking propranolol as a solution for your palps?

I have also sleeping problems and noticed even stronger palpitations when next morning I get up tired

and basically not functional. I find these hear palpitations very scary and leading me for an anxiety attack. When I take 15mg propranolol it helps me to ease and diminish these nasty palps.

By the way, I have eliminated caffeine, my diet is pretty good, but even after taking propranolol I do still have these palpitations.

 

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Hello all heart palpitations sufferers!

I am just wondering if any of you are currently taking propranolol as a solution for your palps?

I have also sleeping problems and noticed even stronger palpitations when next morning I get up tired

and basically not functional. I find these hear palpitations very scary and leading me for an anxiety attack. When I take 15mg propranolol it helps me to ease and diminish these nasty palps.

By the way, I have eliminated caffeine, my diet is pretty good, but even after taking propranolol I do still have these palpitations.

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I have a prescription for the short acting propranolol 10

Mg that I take occasionally. My heart is regular but pounds constantly and is especially bothersome when it wakes me in the middle of the night. So sometimes I'll take a dose to help me get a few more hours of sleep.

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Hullo everyone

Can I pop in here please .

 

Am 18 months into my taper and have reduced from 4-5 mgs of ativan a day to under 1 mg ..

My main sx have been anxiety and insomnia , the benzo belly , indigestion comes and goes.

 

Two nights ago the minute I lay down in bed these heart palpitations started.. Scary as hell !

Seemed to ease off and then woke at about 4 am with the same thing and a full blown panic attack ...needless to say the rest of the body went out in sympathy .. I have always had health anxiety since the cancer days , but manage mostly to keep it in perspective. Something like this blows it out the water!

I do see a heart specialist as routine every two years, and there doesn't seem to be anything much wrong with my heart , although have experiences some tachycardia over the years. Nothing like this though ! I supose that should reassure me it was a panic attack.. I just don't get how it came from nowhere , when I had been having a good day , anxiety was low and tucking into bed at night  and wham !!

 

I am going to read back over  the pages, which i'm sure will be reassuring.. Just was looking for some ideas on how you all 'manage' this... I don't want to be reduced to this blithering wreck if it hapoens again !

Thanks for reading

Bozobertie

 

 

[[Go...]]

I noticed this group has had no activity in a long time. I hope its because you all stopped getting the heart palps and have moved on with living. I am at 2 years out and they have started getting quite bad.  Looking for any hope

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I noticed this group has had no activity in a long time. I hope its because you all stopped getting the heart palps and have moved on with living. I am at 2 years out and they have started getting quite bad.  Looking for any hope

 

I still have heart palps but they don't bother me at all. I have turned them into an annoyance like the tinnitus in my head. We know they are benign so screw them.

 

It's the tachycardia that scares me. Horrible being converted in the er.

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I am over three years out and the palps are so minor now.  they used to be terrible and they scare me every time.

[[so...]]

Hi Palp Buddies,

 

I had racing heart palps for 2 years.  They became intermittent after 24 months, but ebbed and flowed throughout the day.  They were mostly gone for the last couple of months, then yesterday I got a two hour jolt of them again.  Suddenly, they just stopped.  Today, I'm at a lower heart rate baseline.  It feels so much better.

 

Sometimes, with these stubborn symptoms, our internal healing systems just seem to focus on one and fix it once and for all.  This was one of my "core" symptoms and blew up my fear and anxiety.  All I could do was try to "breathe" them away, which didn't work very often.

 

Like Drew said, it gets much better over time, which is evidence we all heal.

 

Sofa

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I've been getting a lot of heart palpitations lately, i actually just went today to get my heart holster for 48 hours but of course, after getting it put on to me, no heart palpitations yet -_- its annoying how our bodies like to make up look stupid in front of doctors and staff.

 

Although i do hope any of this is nothing serious and just the tapering off of the xanax, i guess ill know more next week, but i feel for you guys whose had these things for so long with years on out, because mine have just been for a few weeks and they scare the living hell out of me . i don't know how you guys do it.

 

prayers for everything though 

[[kc...]]

You might want to try this qi gong remedy, which was recommended to me by a Malaysian qi gong master.  The center of your chest is the "heart point" in Chinese medicine.  Place your two hands over this point (women right hand down/men left hand down), with palms "stacked" above each other.

 

Gently massage this in a circular motion while staring at a point in front of you. (Can be a point on the wall, or an ink spot on a piece of paper, or whatever).  Don't move your eyes from the piont.  Do this as many times as necessary.  This calms the mind and heart. 

 

I know because I no longer have palpitations.

[[kc...]]

Oh, forgot to mention...

 

Try not to think while staring at the spot - and don't worry about the occasional blink.

This really works.

[[Br...]]

Tachycardia is why I was given Ativan to begin with.  Have struggled with it for about ten years but only on beta blockers for about 2.5 years now.

 

Everything seems to make it worse, that's for sure!  See my signature about the GI scope this summer...way to ruin a summer!

 

I'm on a short acting beta blocker now...body rejected the time release one I had been on, and another one I tried.  (Panic attacks and blood pressure spikes both times.). So at least that helps rein in the palpitations.  I totally freak out when my heart races....  the Ativan helps keep my heart rate nice and low, so now that I'm off Ativan, the beta blocker has to do it's job.  Mornings are definitely the worst with racing heart...ugh.

 

 

[[me...]]

Tachycardia is why I was given Ativan to begin with.  Have struggled with it for about ten years but only on beta blockers for about 2.5 years now.

 

Everything seems to make it worse, that's for sure!  See my signature about the GI scope this summer...way to ruin a summer!

 

I'm on a short acting beta blocker now...body rejected the time release one I had been on, and another one I tried.  (Panic attacks and blood pressure spikes both times.). So at least that helps rein in the palpitations.  I totally freak out when my heart races....  the Ativan helps keep my heart rate nice and low, so now that I'm off Ativan, the beta blocker has to do it's job.  Mornings are definitely the worst with racing heart...ugh.

 

how high does the pulse get?

 

how does the er reset your heart when it's at this pace?

[[me...]]

You might want to try this qi gong remedy, which was recommended to me by a Malaysian qi gong master.  The center of your chest is the "heart point" in Chinese medicine.  Place your two hands over this point (women right hand down/men left hand down), with palms "stacked" above each other.

 

Gently massage this in a circular motion while staring at a point in front of you. (Can be a point on the wall, or an ink spot on a piece of paper, or whatever).  Don't move your eyes from the piont.  Do this as many times as necessary.  This calms the mind and heart. 

 

I know because I no longer have palpitations.

 

sounds like you are manipulating the vagus nerve.

 

in acute tachycardia you will be better served drinking ice cold water

 

if you just need to calm down, this sounds fine

[[Su...]]

Ins em to be retarded when it comes to forums and threads.

Please PM and to respond if need be. I likely can't find you here again

 

I had heart palps before starting Benzos last year. After a rapid taper hell- im at 6 months out. Im 45 years old and perhaps perimenopause.

 

My recent NEW symptom is rapid heart racing in the eves and middle of the night.

Along with PVCs and PACs AND heart rapidly beating fast going from laying to standing.

 

I have low bp and can't stand up fast.

 

Is this a withdrawal thing? Is this possible 6 months out? Please PM ME.

Thank you and God Bless...

[[Ca...]]

I am experiencing not just tachycardia but pounding beats, stomach pain, and PACs. Has anybody else had this combo in withdrawal? I am at 1.8 m V a day: made a cut about a month ago that was clearly too much (though it seemed tiny at the time) and am paying...

Would love to hear if people are having PACs/PVCs...

[[Su...]]

Hi, please anyone taking Beta Blockers, take CoQ10. It helps to keep your heart healthy from the Beta Blockers. In Europe they tell you to take it if your using Beta Blockers. Sun

[[Pa...]]

Heart palps pvcs are what started the whole anxiety thing for me in the first place and got me started on xanax.  All my dr. Did was an ekg said it was normal but i couldnt stop thinking my heart would give out.  When i took xanax they would get much better now that im trying to quit xanax they are back almost constantly  10 per minute sometimes every few  beats in im sitting or laying around they go away if walking fast or or doing much.

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Hi, please anyone taking Beta Blockers, take CoQ10. It helps to keep your heart healthy from the Beta Blockers. In Europe they tell you to take it if your using Beta Blockers. Sun

 

Yes, great point. B-beta blockers can lower CoQ10 levels and CoQ10 is essential for the normal function of your heart muscle (and for any cells with a mitochondria, which are most of them).  Cholesterol-lowering statins also lower CoQ10 levels.

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I am experiencing not just tachycardia but pounding beats, stomach pain, and PACs. Has anybody else had this combo in withdrawal?

 

Yes.

 

Has your tachycardia been significant so that you had to have your heat rhythm reset in the ER?

[[Ca...]]

No - it is all PACs and brief runs of tachy - nobody seems worried about them but they are very noticeable to me and drive me nuts. Like right now.

[[me...]]

No - it is all PACs and brief runs of tachy - nobody seems worried about them but they are very noticeable to me and drive me nuts. Like right now.

 

well then you are fine

 

[[bl...]]

I have to take a low dose of potassium and an easily absorbable magnesium. They make a huge difference. If i go into Afib I apply 4 drops of ylang ylang oil to my breast bone rubbed in with dmso. Of course everybody is different. But I’ve had to do this for nine months now. I still have bradycardia but the palpitations and afib have improved. If anyone else has some success or bradycardia resolution, please share. I can’t do pharmaceuticals.