Resting pulse symptoms and conditions

Abilify was recently added to my medication of Depakote 250 x3 (i have been on this for 10 yrs), Zoloft 40 mgs (8 years), and Buspar 40 mgs (8 years). I started taking Abilify last Tuesday the 17th of March. The first night I took it I had trouble sleeping..(but i also had some caffeine that night)...for the next few nights I still had trouble sleeping...I also noticed an increase in my pulse, rapid heartbeat...and my blood pressure! This past Saturday, my blood pressure was 141/91 which was my left arm, then my right arm was 138/90. My resting pulse was 90+ with my heart pounding. I went into work today (i work in a doctors office) and had a nurse take my BP and it was 153/95...now my BP is normally 120/60...the lowest its ever been is 90/70. So to have my BP this high is very strange. I called my doctor and she advised me to stop it ASAP and to call her if i have any more problems. I already have a scheduled appointment on 04/01/09.

I had a terrible experience with Macrobid. Be sure to read the side effects! I started taking Macrobid on Saturday and immediately felt weak with no energy. By Monday night I was having a hard time breathing deeply. On Tuesday morning I experienced a racing heart rate & was taken to ER. My resting pulse was 120 and my blood pressure was 177/88. Very frightening. No more macrobid for me.

I was on prednisone while getting over pneumonia to help with my breathing. I was only on it for 7 days and the doctor didn't have me go off of it gradually. I missed the last dose on the 7th day and by bedtime, my muscles were sore enough it almost hurt to lay down. I took the last pill that night before I went to bed and had no muscle soreness in the morning. After that, the muscle soreness came back, along with dizziness. My pulse was also higher than normal. Two days later at night, I was still having muscle soreness and dizziness, although not nearly as but, but I was having a lot of trouble breathing and my pulse would refuse to go below 100 no matter what I did and the problems continued thought the night. The next morning I went to the clinic that prescribed me the predisone because the information they gave me said to see a doctor if these problems persisted. I told them I thought I might be having a predisone withdrawal because my mother, a nurse, said it was the most likely problem from experience. They completely ignored that saying it had been several days since I've stopped the steroid and kept asking me about my asthma (inhalers weren't working and it was definitely not an asthma attack -- I've had plenty of those, to all different degrees) and ended up giving me medicine for anxiety, which helped the closing of my throat, but none of my other symptoms. Three days later, my resting pulse is down to 80, but my breathing is so much worse than it would be with just my normal asthma and taking my inhalers as much as is allowed. I had no noticeable symptoms when I was on the prednisone except being less able to sleep. If it keeps up, I intend to go to a different doctor to see what is really happening, but I don't think it's 'normal' to have the withdrawal symptoms for this long after only having it for 7 days. I know I took it when I was younger (I'm 22), but I don't remember ever having issues going off of it before.

I am a 39 year old white male that had aortic valve replacement surgery five years ago. About three months after the surgery (which went off without a hitch) I had a tremendous spike in my BP that went on for a few days (200/100 - enough so I could see my heartbeat in my eyes!). My Dr started me on Toprol XL 75 and while it brought my BP down some, it didn't bring it down a lot. He moved me to 200 mg a day and now my BP is around 105/55 with a resting pulse around 50.

While I experienced many of the side effects listed here (feeling groggy, confused, etc) they only lasted a few months. I must admit that I did pack on about 20 lbs over six months. However, unlike so many who choose to blame drugs (or lack thereof) for their problems, I took it upon myself to start exercising and guess what?!? The weight comes off! I now weigh less than when I graduated high school, I am in better shape than any time in my life and I believe that exercise helps me sleep better at night. All of this even though I still take 200mg a day. Given that some of you say that you're practically dead at taking 25, I should be 6 feet under or weigh 400 lbs.

I guess what I want to say is that perhaps instead of jumping on the bandwagon here that Toprol causes all of your problems, perhaps you want to take your own health into your hands and begin to eat a little better and exercise (and don't give me "but my ankles are swollen!" excuse - there is something called water aerobics). I don't deny that it can cause some side effects, but it can work wonders with your BP. You just have to DO SOMETHING to help keep the weight off (which then help with the sleep problems, mental clarity, etc).

I have been having the same problems for about two months. Heart palpitations, chest pain, left arm numbness, spouts of rapid heart beat (up to 150 beats a minute) while laying in bed. Other things that I have started putting with this is I broke out in hives several months ago, I had yeast infections every month for a year, I have had dark hair pop up on my face that was never there before. I have been to the ER many times, I have had an EKG, the whole blood work done, chest x-ray, stress test, and a holter monitor. They did catch PVCs and a few other irregular heat beats on the monitor and EKG but no one seems concerned about. I have been at my wits in and like you felt like a horrible mom and wife. Not hardly any to function. I finally thought to look up IUD and heart palpitations and BOOM....there was pages and pages of women talking about this. I am relieved in some ways but still not convinced! I just don't know if it could actually cause PVCs or other irregular heart beats but I guess it could. I hope this was the problem. I got the IUD out last Friday and I seem to feel a little better each day, although last night I did have another attack of racing heart-147 bpm. I'm 27 years old, with not family history of heart problems, I am thin, I have low resting pulse and have always had low blood pressure. I guess the IUD makes more sense than a heart problem. It's just very scary when you have two small children at home and you're afraid you might not wake up the next day! I have never been a fearful person, I am very laid back so when the docs kept throwing the anxiety and stress thing at me, it REALLY didn't make sense! I have been under way more stress several years ago than I am now and this has never happened. I have had the IUD for two years. I have researched hormone imbalance and it does add up to the same. I think it's possible for the IUD to malfunction and instead of squirting out a small amount of the hormone daily it could be giving way to much which gives us a hormone imbalance. Let me know how you are doing and if your symptoms have gotten better with time and thanks for sharing your story.

After 20 cyscosopies and three bladder ops. for bladder cancer I am now having periodic UTI's which necessitate urgent anti-biotic treatment.
Recently for the first time Ciprofloxacin was prescribed for 7 days at 1000mg/day. After six days I could not walk and my hands felt as if all the bones had knitted together. The pains in both areas was intense and I could not understand what was happening.It took 10 days for the pain to subside and I can only hope that reading these experiences that is the end.
One other thing must be reported and that concerns resting heart beat.Every six months I take my own blood pressure and pulse readings and report same to my GP in order he may check my medication.
After five years of such readings whereby the resting pulse was averaging 45-50 after this little episode it has shot up to 77-80.
The BP has not altered.I agree I too will never take this drug again!
Thank you all from Buckinghamshire in the UK.

As an endurance athlete and having used these eye drops for 15 years, I am now experiencing an inability to even jog because my heart rate will not rise enough to compensate for the effort required, I then get chest pain accompanied by visual fainting changes - then I stop and walk! On suspending the eye drops for a week or more this symptom disappears. A cardiologist assures me that my heart is sound. My resting pulse is in the 40's, and BP 90/60. I am in my late 60's and have completed over 60 marathons.

I wish I found this site before I started taking this crap. I started Advair again about two weeks ago 50/500 one puff at night and one in the morning. At first I would just get a little dizzy sometimes when I took it and a mild head ache a couple times but the last three nights I keep waking up and its hard to get back to sleep even though Im tired and I have noticed my heart beating faster then normal. I have only been getting six or five hours of sleep a night which is not enough for me especially because I have been surfing for hours the last few days. I do think it has helped my ashtma when I go surfing but after reading all of these bad side effects I dont think I will ever take it again. The last time I took it was about a year ago and stoped because it made me feel dizzy and I only took it for about two weeks. Before I started it again I told the doctor that it made me feel dizzy a couple times and he said people just accomodate to it. Its to bad they cant make something that helps my lungs like it does without all the bad side effects. Im going to not use it tonight and see how I sleep and tomorow when I go surfing I will see how my lungs are without it.

This is a follow-up to my previous posting (Tue, 13 Sep 2005 10:32:40 -0500 by Guest, #13255). Almost 3 years on lisonipril now and only positive results. As noted in my previous post, I had BP of 150/160 over 85/90. Now consistently at 120/60 with resting pulse between 45 and 55 BPM. I would recommend this drug for people who are athletic. I run 30 to 40 miles per week, (8 to 9 minutes per mile,6 days a week)and will run another marathon in April. Lisonipril was given to me because I am athletic. After starting on lisonipril, my athletic performance improved dramatically since my BP dropped to normal levels. I would be interested to hear from other athletic people to hear of their results. I am 60 years old, 5' 11", 180 lbs. and take no other medications, eat a low fat diet (about 2200 calories per day). Perhaps other posters could put their age, weight, height, diet and exercise programs/habits into their posts. Since there are more than 1 million people on this type of medication, there must be some other people with positive results, otherwise, how could it stay on the market? P.S. I do have the infamous "cough", however, I have had a chronic nervous cough most of my life (smoked 3 packs a day from age 14 to age 37, quit now for 24 years) so my cough continues - and - I can appreciate how getting the cough for the first time could be a serious problem. I simply live with it.

I have been taking Lisinopril for 2 years and my side effects have been lower BP and improved athletic ability. When I started taking it, my 5K (3.1 miles) race time was 26 minutes. I immediately incurred a significant improvement, reducing this time to 24 minutes and less after 3 months of meds. I have also run 4 full (26.2 mile) marathons during the past 2 years, all of which were more comfortable than previous ones, when I had high BP before Lisinopril. (Marathon times were 4 hours). I am 60 years old, 5'11'', 180lbs. BP is 120/65 (had been 150/85). Resting pulse is 52. Lisinopril is the only medication I take (or have ever taken). I eat a healthy diet, get plenty of exercise (run 6 days/wk, about 30-40 miles), walk 1 mile at 10 am (coffee break) and another mile at 3pm every day, as well as the running. I was told that Lisinopril was the BP med for people who are athletic, or at least do some moderate, regular exercising. Perhaps future people posting could include their weight, height and exercise regimens. I would be interested to hear if other athletic people have any negative side effects. Mine have been only positive.