Posted by Vincent_QC on March 8, 2009, at 10:27:59
In reply to Re: Nortriptyline = Tachycardia, posted by Incubusfan on March 7, 2009, at 17:43:42
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> Before you quit, try taking your full dose before bed time(2 hours before you go to bed), this works best for me for the side effects of meds(heart rate, sedation, etc). Just a recommendation.
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> I don't think Trimipramine is available in the US... hey we get some drugs you don't, and you Canadians get some of your own :) I wish we had your UHC though... :(
>Hi !
To be honnest, I take my first 10 mg of Nort before bedtime, the day my PDoc prescribed it to me and I had the worse night since a while, I remember I wake up in the middle of the night and I had a real fast heart beat rate...and I was not able to sleep at all... The morning after, I take the other 10mg dose and my heart start to race again but a lot more than at night...So the night after I don't take my 10 mg dose before bedtime, I Wait in the morning, the first dose was ok, I was able to feel my heart racing faster than usual but it was tolerable...nothing to make me more anxious...The second dose around noon was crazy...after 1 or 1/2 hours I got this really fast heart beat that was crazy as hell...but after 1 hour it was ok...so I forgot this and say to myself it will be like this only the first couple of days... The third day was horrible, first dose in the morning was ok, the second dose was a disaster, the 160-165 pulse rate was too much for me... I Can't imagine feeling like this all the time, even increase my dosage to 50mg...forget it!!! I don't want to play with my life again...it's worsing my SAD and my GAD as well as my panic disorder so I don't know why I will stay on it and continue this med...Yeahm in the Canada we have some meds that you don't have in the States...but I think the States have more meds avaible on the market than the Canada...the good thing is that in the Canada, we have a lot of generic meds who cost nothing...or just a little bit if you compare with the States, where the meds are a lot more expensive and often not generic and patented for years and years to comes...That's the best of both world I guess...
Well, thanks for you help... I will see what my PDoc will told me tomorrow, if I can reach him on the phone...
Have a nice day!
VIncent ;-)
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