lindajane1971
23-03-10, 15:53
Hi everyone
my symptoms - ectopic beats, adrenaline rushes in chest, nausea, anxiety, dizziness
Just as i thought i was improving..................this last week ive had hardly any adrenaline rushes, only a few ectopic beats and was smiling a lot more and then this morning while making my morning cuppa......bang.......severe dizziness, felt like i was on a boat or had come off a roundabout or something, lasted about 20 seconds.
I had an appointment with the doctor this morning anyway but that was an hour away however i panicked and went immediately to the surgery and just sat in the waiting room 50 minutes until my appointment.
Doctor says the dizziness is probably a inner ear problem and has given me PROCHLORPERAZINE BP 5mg 3 times a day. However just opened the packet and see straight away "there have been rare reports of sudden death with prochlorperazine. these are possibly caused by heart problems" Well thats it......i just cant take them, there is NO way on this earth im taking anything that says sudden death on it, i logically know that the drugs company has to put on every single possible side effect but omg this is just too much for me to cope with. It dont matter what anyone says i am not taking these tablets.
Does anyone have vertigo or inner ear probs and found anything non medincinal to help????????
he also asked how i was getting on with citolpram 10mg that i was prescribed two months ago, and i had to admit i aint taken any as i just cant face heighteneing my current symptoms. He was quiet angry, not with me he said just with the way side effects were printed on medications, i know deep down i need to take this medication but i just am too terrified to take one. He said that the most common thing patients came back to him with was nausea and vivid dreams which usually settle after a few days and he said that he wasnt just saying that to pacify me, he really thinks that i would benefit from them as he could see since he last seen me that my anxiety had escallated quite a bit.
I thought i would be clever and thought if i got to the root of my anxiety then i wouldnt need to take meds for it which i thought would just mask the problem and not cure it! Its not working!
I just dont know what to do :wacko:
my symptoms - ectopic beats, adrenaline rushes in chest, nausea, anxiety, dizziness
Just as i thought i was improving..................this last week ive had hardly any adrenaline rushes, only a few ectopic beats and was smiling a lot more and then this morning while making my morning cuppa......bang.......severe dizziness, felt like i was on a boat or had come off a roundabout or something, lasted about 20 seconds.
I had an appointment with the doctor this morning anyway but that was an hour away however i panicked and went immediately to the surgery and just sat in the waiting room 50 minutes until my appointment.
Doctor says the dizziness is probably a inner ear problem and has given me PROCHLORPERAZINE BP 5mg 3 times a day. However just opened the packet and see straight away "there have been rare reports of sudden death with prochlorperazine. these are possibly caused by heart problems" Well thats it......i just cant take them, there is NO way on this earth im taking anything that says sudden death on it, i logically know that the drugs company has to put on every single possible side effect but omg this is just too much for me to cope with. It dont matter what anyone says i am not taking these tablets.
Does anyone have vertigo or inner ear probs and found anything non medincinal to help????????
he also asked how i was getting on with citolpram 10mg that i was prescribed two months ago, and i had to admit i aint taken any as i just cant face heighteneing my current symptoms. He was quiet angry, not with me he said just with the way side effects were printed on medications, i know deep down i need to take this medication but i just am too terrified to take one. He said that the most common thing patients came back to him with was nausea and vivid dreams which usually settle after a few days and he said that he wasnt just saying that to pacify me, he really thinks that i would benefit from them as he could see since he last seen me that my anxiety had escallated quite a bit.
I thought i would be clever and thought if i got to the root of my anxiety then i wouldnt need to take meds for it which i thought would just mask the problem and not cure it! Its not working!
I just dont know what to do :wacko: