Medications that alter heartbeat?

Is one here on or stethed someone who takes a medication that effects their heartbeat? I take Adderall (a stimulant similar to Ritalin) and my doctor warned me that it can affect your heartrate and heart workload. When I first took it I didn't notice that but now I'm on a 2nd dose in the afternoon and all day since the 2nd dose I've felt like my heart was pounding and working really hard. I listened to it and it sound really hard and fast, it was cool and yet a little scary. My HR was 105, whereas its usually 70-80. And this was a few hours after I took my pill. A friend of mine listened to it online too and he was amazed by how fast it was also. I think im going to ask to cut down the dose, as it was a little bit of a frightening experience, but I thought I'd share....

You'll build up a tolerance to it soon enough

I have a tolerance to my morning dose, but the 2nd dose made me feel insane. It was just interesting to steth while my heart was like that.

I used to take YAZ for birth control. I could swear up and down that it made me have heart palps. They would happen pretty much everyday right around the same time after taking my daily dose. When I told my doctor this, he didn't believe me and said YAZ shouldn't do that, but he did prescribe another birth control pill if I wanted it. As soon as I switched to Lessina from YAZ..BOOM...heart palps stopped...hmmmm

MANY women complain about Yaz and Yasmin regarding dizziness, palpitations, skipped beats etc.

So I've heard! That's why I got it switched. Didn't want to try YAZ in the first place because I heard a lot of awful things about it but you know, everyone is different.

I have a prescription for adderall and sometimes it makes my heart beat incredibly fast all day.

There are so many medicines which can alter the heartrate or cause arrythmias. The list is legion. Be careful with adderall. In addition to causing any number of untoward mental side effects it can in large doses cause cardiomyopathy. This is a degeneration of the heart muscle which can cause heart failure. It commonly causes palpitations. In addition, it commonly causes sleep disturbances, anxiety and irritability. It can cause mania with all the accompaning problems of hypersexuality, grandiosity and uncontrolled spending. It has been known to cause psychosis as well. Tweakers beware!

There are also medications called Beta-blockers and similar which helps to slow the heartbeat down.

They can also be pescribed to slow heart palpitations down when they are a sideeffect of another drug. They were prescribed to me when I hade heart palpitations from an antidpressant medication

Sertraline or Zoloft. I can also tell you that Sertraline or Zoloft also affected my sexual ability in a negative way. I solved the problem by switching to another antidpressant called Cipralex which I had tried before. I tried Sertraline because Cipralex made me gain weight when I used it last time.

This is my first post on this forum BTW though I've been reading from the past 5 years.

I guess starting with a non fetish post is the way to go.

Hydration is your friend if it gets to worrysome Cheese or other dairy products....

Also this is one of my first post..

I have had disarythmia for a number of years and take nine different scripts each day.i think the beta-blocker is steayd my heart beat.

I knew a young lady who had wisdom teeth removed. She was given Percoset and shared her heart with me online. Her heart ended up beating 3 times per cycle instead of 2. It was amazing to hear. She was OK, by the way.

Some 15 years ago I was prescribed a medication to supplement an under-active thyroid. The first weeks and months it felt like my heart was pounding a mile a minute and every effort became an incredible challenge to complete.

After a few years I suppose either the dosage was adjusted or I became more used to it, but even so. I rue the day I started needing it. It was like a dividing line between being reasonably fit and being able to do physical labor, and afterwards being limited in what I can do physically. One nice side effect of the thyroid medication was that I no longer had such cold fingers and toes, due to a better circulation no doubt.

On a single instance, I was given some sort of atropine derivative to suppress saliva production during a bronchoscopy and that was even worse for the heart. The (old) doctor performing the procedure didn't like the way I was acting, since I felt so awfully weird, on the verge of what I thought to be a heart attack, that he even accused me of being a drug addict. That was in the early 70s when everyone my age was thought to be a hippie or whatever. That didn't go well between me and him.

I recently had an EKG stress test in prep. for my AAA repair. No treadmill running anymore. They just injected a drug IV and it simulated physical activity. My heart rate went way up during the EKG. They also took moving pictures of my heart beating. Passed with flying colors.

To my surprise I wasnt warned that two medications on, when taken together, cause abnormal heart beat with random weird feeling palpations. I'm on zolodex implant but also for pain relief I'm on methadone and oxycodone.

Which makes me feel uncomfortable if laying down, then radom fast palpations, which would be interesting for someone to listen to i think 😃 ??????

In regards to personal use, meds for pain management, pulmonary meds and when I am on oral corticosteroids, they really mess with my cardiac function Personally, I am NOT fond of this happening. 😢

Also I was just put on Lamictal and I'm taking Ephedra to lose weight, so I have heart palpotations very frequently. My heart pumps very hard inside my chest even though it stays below 90bpm. Yiu can see it pumping through my shirt but no one has said anything about it. It causes me to have a bounding pulse as well.

Stay away from Yaz. It took my spouse's life.

I've been on beta blockers for high blood pressure for thirty years. Therefore I don't want anyghing that's going to mess with my heart rate further.

I have had to go to the ER three times with SVT where my heart rate was around 200. An IV dose of adenosine slows it right down to 100 or lower, and over two to three hours it settles back to 75 - 85 which is normal for me.

I took prescription amphetamine for a few years. I did not like what it started doing to my heart. I would occasionally get skipped beats and other abnormal beats. I would feel a tightness in my chest sometimes or a strange pain. Sometimes lightheadedness would follow an abnormal beat pattern. One time, the lightheadeness was so pronounced that my vision began to narrow and I felt as if I was going to pass out. My heart had skipped for about 5 seconds before the vision began narrowing. It scared the shit out of me. Falling asleep was always difficult because my heart was pumping well over 100 bpm, and they were those hard, punching beats, which would otherwise be erotic, but not when you're trying to sleep.

To abuse amphetamines for non medical reasons is to invite disaster. I have seen several cases of oral amphetamine induced cardiomyopathy leading to heart failure and death. Don't play games with speed. There's a good reason why it's a level II controlled substance.

Liquidsky,

AMEN.

CFS!

I fixed it so that it reads more to my liking, lol.

Mashie

Mashie,

Hopefully very few did not see that in the original form that it was! Thank you for immediately taking care of it!

Andie

I hope so too. And no worries, it's my job. Thanks to the both of you for bringing it to our attention.

Mashie

Mashie,

My warm regards, though it is I who am holding a large gauge syringe vs receiving 😁

Thanks Mashie for altering this rather irresponsible post.

Mashie, a karma for you if I can figure out how.

Techno peasant

I'm glad you are with this very strange family

Being prescribed amphetamine by my doctor (or I can sugarcoat it by calling it adderal or ritalin) for social anxiety and communication problems is irresponsible and not a medically related? OK. Sorry for my confusion.

But you originally said "gimme, gimme those pills ". This sounds suspiciously like drug abuse to me. Myself I would never prescribe such meds for such a tenuous purpose.