hopefulbutscared
31-01-14, 21:10
Hello Guys -- I apologize if my first post here would be relatively long, but I am suffering and need some people with similar experiences or know what I am talking about.
I posted my concern in another forum - they're nice people there but this forum seems to be much more active and I hope to get some good feedback as I am going crazy really!
I am a 36 Years old male - I am overweight , Drink coffee and smoke! I rarely exercise. I've have anxiety (Health Anxiety specifically) for as long as I can remember. Every time I find something new to obsess about and I "REALLY" dig into it and always expect the worse, but thank God, only good always came back.
I don't have high blood pressure, cholesterol or diabetes. the thing is: my resting heart rate "WAS" in the mid 90s, and this is very much expected due to my characteristics mentioned above and my bad habits.
I took Cipralex for the first time ever about 5 years ago, it was miraculous and changed my life, but for a reason i do not remember, I stopped it. (took 10 mg for 1 year) then about 2 years after stopping my first time, I had some issues again and had to get back to it, started at 10 and went up to 15 mg and stayed for 2 years at 15 MG and also it worked VERY VERY well. Then again, I felt I was doing great to I decided to stop it again.
5 months after stopping the 2nd time, Family member illness (or whatever the underlying reason was) I got it back and full blown! I took Xanax which did not help me instantly when it used to do so (I also forgot to mention that when I took Cipralex in the past, I used to take Xanax with it) - I went back to the Doc and he said you shouldn't have stopped the 2nd time and he thinks it was a mistake, he put me back on 10 mg for 5 days, then took me up to 15 mg - have been taking 15 mg for the last week or so - a total of 12 days now on the med.
Now, the concern: I know 12 days isn't enough for it to work (although the first two times it did work in about a week or less) - but whats driving me crazy this time is my heart rate!!! I know very well that Cipralex would cause an increase in heart rate and so does Anxiety and panic attacks! but instead, my heart rate all of a sudden is @ 60 to 65 all the time! I've never been on such low heart rate before - and I didn't do anything to earn it.
I have many medical equipment at home including a portable ECG and a sleep study unit. I decided to hook myself on the sleep study unit and stupidly enough forgot to disable the auto-alarms. Slept and it buzzed my life when it started tweeting saying my heart rate was 45!! This number is a number I NEVER saw in my whole life - and since this alarm (about 20 hours ago) uptill this moment and I am in a state that only a person sitting next to me would know or understand!
The meds I take are: Pantoprazole (PPI for acid-reflux) , Xanax sometimes up to 2 MG daily, and Cipralex 15 MG!
If you have the slightest idea of a help, please do as I need it badly!
Thanks,
~Zac
P.S. I had an Echo for the heart about 3 weeks ago and it was 100% normal. Abdomen ultrasound, chest x-ray and full blood test.
I posted my concern in another forum - they're nice people there but this forum seems to be much more active and I hope to get some good feedback as I am going crazy really!
I am a 36 Years old male - I am overweight , Drink coffee and smoke! I rarely exercise. I've have anxiety (Health Anxiety specifically) for as long as I can remember. Every time I find something new to obsess about and I "REALLY" dig into it and always expect the worse, but thank God, only good always came back.
I don't have high blood pressure, cholesterol or diabetes. the thing is: my resting heart rate "WAS" in the mid 90s, and this is very much expected due to my characteristics mentioned above and my bad habits.
I took Cipralex for the first time ever about 5 years ago, it was miraculous and changed my life, but for a reason i do not remember, I stopped it. (took 10 mg for 1 year) then about 2 years after stopping my first time, I had some issues again and had to get back to it, started at 10 and went up to 15 mg and stayed for 2 years at 15 MG and also it worked VERY VERY well. Then again, I felt I was doing great to I decided to stop it again.
5 months after stopping the 2nd time, Family member illness (or whatever the underlying reason was) I got it back and full blown! I took Xanax which did not help me instantly when it used to do so (I also forgot to mention that when I took Cipralex in the past, I used to take Xanax with it) - I went back to the Doc and he said you shouldn't have stopped the 2nd time and he thinks it was a mistake, he put me back on 10 mg for 5 days, then took me up to 15 mg - have been taking 15 mg for the last week or so - a total of 12 days now on the med.
Now, the concern: I know 12 days isn't enough for it to work (although the first two times it did work in about a week or less) - but whats driving me crazy this time is my heart rate!!! I know very well that Cipralex would cause an increase in heart rate and so does Anxiety and panic attacks! but instead, my heart rate all of a sudden is @ 60 to 65 all the time! I've never been on such low heart rate before - and I didn't do anything to earn it.
I have many medical equipment at home including a portable ECG and a sleep study unit. I decided to hook myself on the sleep study unit and stupidly enough forgot to disable the auto-alarms. Slept and it buzzed my life when it started tweeting saying my heart rate was 45!! This number is a number I NEVER saw in my whole life - and since this alarm (about 20 hours ago) uptill this moment and I am in a state that only a person sitting next to me would know or understand!
The meds I take are: Pantoprazole (PPI for acid-reflux) , Xanax sometimes up to 2 MG daily, and Cipralex 15 MG!
If you have the slightest idea of a help, please do as I need it badly!
Thanks,
~Zac
P.S. I had an Echo for the heart about 3 weeks ago and it was 100% normal. Abdomen ultrasound, chest x-ray and full blood test.