Norvasc and tachycardia
Common Questions and Answers about Norvasc and tachycardia
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My bp soon came down to 90/70s. I was told to stop Norvasc and then Lopressor. I watched for a rebound but my bp and pulse were within a normal range for a few weeks without them. I continued to check my bp about every day. One day a relative said something very cruel to me at the exact moment I was taking my bp. My diastolic was 110, but systolic and pulse were normal. My diastolic wouldn't come down so I took Clonidine (as my dr had prescribed for an emergency.
He wants me to start on Benicar 20 mg and Norvasc 5 mg. Well I took the benicar day one and forgot to go pick up the norvasc at the pharmacy and did okay. The second day on the Benicar I did good but when I left work I forgot to go to pharmacy for Norvasc so I was gong after dinner. Before I had the chance within a 2 minute time frame my heart rate went from normal to 160 bpm and would not stop. Went to er where they did blood work and said all blood work looked normal.
I was taking 100 mg a day for high blood pressure for about 7 years (increasing dosage) and stopped cold (replaced by Norvasc) a couple of days ago. While I'm sitting here quietly my heart rate is 110 bpm and I can feel it pounding in my chest. I do have an appointment with my GP tomorrow but was wondering if this is ok? It feels horrible, but definitely better than having my heart stop. Does the heart rate stabilize at a more reasonable rate eventually?
I worry about taking the Norvasc also since I have read it can cause increased heart rate. If I have sinus tachycardia and my doctor has decreased my beta blocker..should I be concerned with the Norvasc causing a dangerous arrhythmia? My heart rate now ranges from about 50bpm up to 90 resting. In addition, I have huge pauses in my heart beat when I breath fully in and start to breath out and vice versa. It makes me feel dizzy when it happens and wakes me up at night.
Er said i was fine, my doc wanted the holter test. I do smoke, and have high blood pressure. Was on norvasc up untill that day, then doc switched me to hctz. Anyway my results.. 105306 QRS complexes. 3 ventricular beats. 41 supraventricular beats isolated. minimum bpm 44, max 145. max sinus pause 1.63 seconds...st channel 1 2.4mm 0mm.. st channel 2 1.4mm -0,6mm..st channel 3 2.6mm 0.2mm...conclusion sinus tachycardia. sinus bradycardia, ventricular ectopien (unifocue) occ, pac's, pvc's.
I take 5mg Norvasc with 100 mg of a beta blocker(Lopressor) and Isosorbide (Nitrate) and Tricor every morning without any problems. But I am confused as to why Norvasc and Cardizem. They are both calcium channel blockers. Maybe someone can enlighten me on that. Have you talked to your pharmacist about any concerns?
5 Xanax in the morning and at night I have not had one PVC in the last three years I feel like a different human being! Every now and then I get a 3 second run of tachycardia but it goes right away and sometimes I’ll get that flip-flopping feeling and a couple skipped beats here and there but I don’t let it bother me because it’s nothing and I mean nothing like the terror I was going through all those years.
I have recently gone off Toprol XL after ~ 1 year of tx due to it making me feel sluggish and making exercise difficult. This has been 2 weeks. Last week, my doctor also switched my verapamil ER (300mg) to Norvasc (10 mg). For the last several days my heart has felt it is racing. Because my BP meds were switched up, I have been monitoring my BP which in turn has a HR output.
My resting HR is now anywhere from 90 - 109 BPM.
t even want her on any medication, Flecainide and Norvasc included, but only did so for her comfort and my insistence when her bp was over 200 because I was afraid of another stroke. The latest cardiologist in this group suggested "Sick Sinus Syndrome" during her hospital visit and the possibility of a pacemaker in the future, but she is the very first in this large group to suggest anything may even need to ever be done.
9 170 but my blood pressure is always fine at home i do suffer from anxiety but it goes thru the roof when i see a doctor or go to the ER i am 27 years old, i have to see a doc once a week for another condition, but it never fails my pulse and BP rises very high in doctors settings, once i come home both my pulse and pressure is fine again , my worry and problem is how much damage is being done to my heart when my blood pressure spikes like this once a week?
another thought it would be a good idea to reduce the tenormin to 50 mg and take 5 mg of Norvasc; and the third, suggested to gradually replace the tenormin by 5 mg Norvasc, and to be increased if needed, to 10 mg.
Having read so much about Hypertension and its medications, I'm inclined towards the second opinion, i.e. 50 mg tenormin in combination with 5 mg Norvasc. However, I don't have a problem with the first opinion. My problem is with the third; I prefer to keep taking Tenormin.
it was discovered 10 weeks ago that i had a aneurysm on my ascending aorta 6.4 with a bicuspid aorta vavle. i had surgery 7 weeks ago st jude aorta valve dacron graft for ascending aorta. Four days after surgery i need a pacemaker due to the surgery. My question is there any long term risk or dangers of this that i should look out for. I take amiodarone (200mg) for a-fib that i developed after pacemaker surgery and celexa 20mg, zocor 20 mg. norvasc 5mg. coumadin 7.5mg m & w 5 mg.
Hi Nick,
In short, anything is possible and many meds mixing together certainly make it harder to know what is doing what.
Norvasc appears to be for blood pressure normally and a list of drug interactions can be found here : http://www.rxlist.com/norvasc-drug.htm.
I claim no knowledge except of what site to look at for this info. Much of it I wouldn't follow either but it will hopefully mean something to you.
ve had esophageal mammomaphies and I have esophageal spasams and sometimes cannot swallow the food in my mouth and have to spit it out-or choke. I take Norvasc, blood pressure med to help the spasms. I cannot burp at all but everyone in my family --and friends-- have to put up with my continuous passage of gas. I also have IBS. In 2009-2010, I was hospitalized 3 times for a total of 14 days. But I found the most remarkable gastroenterologist.
I have started taking Norvasc for Hypertension and am having side effects such as nausea, headache, and it seems to be causing some eye pain and pressure. My concern is that I had retinal detachment surgery in March of 2008 and have not had any pain until I started taking Norvasc 5mg. daily. Is this a side effect that is normal and will it subside or is it a reason to discontinue this drug?
Secondly, having tachycardia during sleep (and being brought rather abruptly awake by the palpitations) is also not uncommon. Some patients seem to have symptoms ONLY while sleeping while others have symptoms during sleep, but also while awake. There is some research that suggests the mechanisms and triggers of sleep only arrhythmia may be specific to certain types of arrhythmia and certain causes.
Thirdly, certain types of SVT are associated with frequent urination.
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