Prozac and heart palpitations

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780665 tn?1239026549 its purpose) but does it help with palpitations, both categories of it - quickened heart rate and ectopic beats which my doctor diagnosed as being benign and down to anxiety? anyone take anxiety medication and found that it helped to reduce or eliminate these?
475307 tn?1209791613 My mom thinks that my heart palpitations are due to cymbalta (which I am taking for anxiety), which I just started taking a few days ago. Before that, I took lexapro for over two years. I've only been on cymbalta for 10 days and I skipped yesterday because my mom insists that's what's causing my chest pains and heart palpitations. I cried myself to sleep last night and I can't stop crying right now but I have no reason to at all.
Avatar n tn ve been having awful headaches and migraines (especially after just one glass of alcohol), shakiness, fatigue, lower immune system, nausea occasionally, and heart palpitations randomly. I can't 100% say that it is due to Prozac, but I have a suspicion it is. I read that withdrawal symptoms can last 6-8 weeks, so hopefully I'll just have another month of so of these symptoms-- otherwise, I'm heading back to the doctor for more testing! Hope you receive the answers you need as well!
Avatar f tn That is not like me, and I also had continual heart palpitations all day too. That scared me, has anyone else had the heart palpitations, does it go away eventually? I haven't taken anymore today yet. I have a history of heart palpitations due to anxiety. Any help or advice would be appreciated from anyone. Thankyou in advance!
Avatar f tn My heart raced out of control on prozac its the drug from hell.
Avatar m tn Started taking prozac last August and in September I began to have heart palpitations, dizziness, lightheadedness, fatigue, and after five days of this I fainted coming out of a restaurant. After much testing by endocrinologist and cardiologist, heart is fine but failed a tilt table test and a cardiologist diagnosed me with dysautonomia and prescribed midodrine and lopressor. Went to Vanderbilt in March and testing was inconclusive.
Avatar f tn Very sensitive to noise, dizzy, internal shaking or tingling, nauseous at times, vivid dreams, I'm awoken every morning by awful heart palpitations and high heart rate. I'm never taken any medicine like this before. While I was taking it I had to go back to bed for about 4 hours every morning. Tired but cant sleep. I was put on it after covid for heart palpitations.
Avatar n tn I also take Prozac 40mg because my doctor feels that this has taken over my life (which is has) with me obsesssing about my heart. I think the Prozac may be helping me a little bit with the panic attacks from my heart but I still wonder if I should be pursuing this or just dropping it? What would you do with a person with this type of complaint? Do you think I am worrying about this for nothing?
1763027 tn?1313344037 You should contact your prescribing doctor about this, he/she will know what to do.
Avatar f tn This sounds like a panic attack and I say this because it sounds a lot like the ones I've had in the past. It's quite scary to have happen. At times my left arm would go numb even. Almost 2 years later and after having ultrasounds on my heart and being told it's perfectly healthy I have finally realized it is anxiety. Doc put me on blood pressure meds and prozac to control it and I almost feel normal again.
Avatar f tn As far as evidence goes, the only problem this has been shown to help with are those with heart palpitations that are real and not imagined and those with social anxiety. Prozac isn't the best antidepressant for anxiety because it tends to be stimulating, so I'm guessing your main problem is anxiety. Only trying this drug will tell you if it will work, but it certainly was never approved for this purpose. It does help some. It doesn't appear to help most.
1850761 tn?1319366984 t stand up or lift my head from the pillow, nausea all night long, very strong heart palpitations felt like my heart was gonna explode out of my chest, difficulty breathing, fatigue, continuos brain fog, my head doesn't feel connected to my body. Couldn't fall asleep, kept moving and switching sides cause my head was killing me and the nausea was getting worst and then hip joint pains started happening, i couldn't lay on either sides cause it hurt like ****.
Avatar f tn I was on it from 2006-2008 after switching from Zoloft ( it pooped out) In the spring of 2008, I began having hot flashes and heart palpitations. I was 39 at the time, so I thought it may be perimenopause. I also was having light/scant menstrual cycles. I did, however, add strattera to the mix which may have caused problems ( Strattera and Prozac are chemical cousins and sometimes don't play well together) I added the strattera under my pdocs supervision.
Avatar m tn s all trial and error. Even though Prozac and Paxil are in the same class of drugs and both affect how the brain uses and evacuates serotonin, they don't work exactly the same. If they did, the FDA wouldn't have given both a patent all those years ago. And also note that when one takes one of these meds you have to taper off it as slowly as you need to in order to make sure you don't suffer severe withdrawal when you stop, so you're usually not taking both at the same time.
Avatar n tn 49 year old female. Started having PVC's and PAC's around age 29. Went to doctor and put on holter which showed short run of v-tach. They put me in the hospital and did a complete cardiac workup on me. Could not find anything wrong. I became completely obsessed with this heart thing and have been worrying ever since. I am so scared every time I feel a skip it has totally taken over my life. Doctor has put me on Prozac for the last two years but I still worry.
Avatar n tn Do you not get physical anxiety symptoms with medication such as heart palpitations,out of breath,focus on your breathing,chest tightness,tiredness,head aches and dizzy????
Avatar f tn my dizziness started last week and started out of no-where i found out tonight that, while moving my eyes left-to-right, I can actually control if I have "palpitations" or not - or even that? I found that when I move my eyes left-to-right, I hear irregular pumping (1or2) so it sounds as if the DIZZINESS/eye movement is causing the pounding. I placed my hand over my heart, and I'm not feeling any abnormal *heart* beats in conjoint to the random body pounding.
Avatar m tn m on 10mg of Prozac, 1.5mg of Klonopin, and 37.5mg of Atenolol (to regulate my heartbeat because I would get a lot of heart palpitations [hard, fast heartbeat, skipped/extra beats] from the anxiety). Since being on this combination of meds, I've been much better. However, on Tuesday, I made the dumb decision of drinking more alcohol than I should have while on all of these medications (had 5 or 6 beers).
Avatar m tn i have taken this for years and never had this effect but just recently aabout a month ago started back on 50 mg of zoloft and i am getting lots of heart palpitations.. going for stress test this month already had echo echo fine couple leaky valves with age but nothing seroius.
Avatar m tn Haven't taken AD meds for heart issues before myself, but I do have palpitations (PVC's) and the occasional "flutter". But I got put on beta blockers because of these and HBP. However I was recently put on Fluoxetine (Prozac) for CDD, and they seem to have completely gone away.
Avatar m tn I have been prescribed Prozac which did nothing but increase the episodes of bradycarida and heart palpitations; and xanax which did nothing but make me feel tired. The symptoms and conditions I commonly experience 1. Cardio issues- PAC’s, PVC's, rarely arterial flutter, tachycardia, bradycardia, chest pain, venous/vasoconstriction, venous/vasodilation, Hypertension; and lightheadedness. 2.
492307 tn?1214186739 I began having heart palpitations, hot flashes, tunnel vision, intolerance to cold, and basically feeling like I was hit by a truck! What is really frustrating is that my anxiety issues were never really treated, they were only "masked" I have been off prozac for 5 months now and I feel so much better mentally!!
7970489 tn?1395885877 I was assured by my nuero doctor and primary doctor that MS does not effect your heart rate.I also noticed a increased sense of smell and taste, intense hunger, butterflies in my stomache, minor tremors, and increased depression.I however did stop taking my Lexapro three weeks ago, only 5mg so im not sure if that had anything to do with it, i would think not.Has this happend to any of you?
1330182 tn?1279815900 I would say that they were overkill ( I was a fat zombie lol) The highest dose of Zoloft I ever took was 50 and the highest dose of Prozac was 20mg . I had to stop taking prozac because it was giving me heart palpitations.. I started prozac in 2006 and was on it till november of 2008. When I stopped taking it then, I was ok for a while then I started having anxiety and digestive issues.. So I went back on Prozac in October of 09 to see if it would help me calm down.
Avatar m tn I am a 21 yr old female and am a healthy weight for my size. For the past 24 hrs I've been experiencing dull chest pain, which is usually mild to moderate and seems to be mainly on my left at and above my breast but it extends to the other side. For the last few months, I've often noticed heart palpitations, esp when I'm laying down, where my heart seems like it beats really fast for a minute or so and then slows down.