Another New Dug, Same Old Problem...

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Well just as i thought i had maybe got away with my new Calcium channel blocker drug, 3 days in yet again the same symptoms that i get from drugs that dont like me.

I wonder if anyone can give me their opinion on what could possibly be going on.

I have been taking Sebelium for my migraines, i have started on a tiny does of 2mg at night, but ideally they want me up to 10mg in the future.When ever i experience problem with drugs this is what happens and it started last night.

I am laying in bed to go to sleep. I lay on my back with 3 pillow so not to put any strain on my heart.

I then feel my heart beating faster, then it starts to start-stop and feel like its beating all over the place. Then i begin to get tingles in my hands and feets, and they feel like they are swelling although they are not.

Next comes these very painful random stabbing pains that i get at the top and back of my head, my body, my hands and feet, just about everywhere. I then get like a wave of faintness come over me but because i am laying down i do not faint.

I can promise this is not anxiety, i even lay there thinking, i just want to sleep!!! So i know i am not making this worse in my head.

I am now wondering if its becuase my heart rate is always so fast, even laying in bed its approx 100bpm. Is this happening with most drugs becuase my heart beats to fast becuase i am laying still, the adrenalin has no where to go becuase i am not using my arms and legs. Is this just palpations enduced by having a new drug in my system on top of a heart that does not slow down.

I even wonder if i could have IST becuase my resting HR is always 100bpm and shoots up by even turning over on bed, not standing up like the classic problem in tachy associated with Pots.

Im so upset that yet again another drug thats doing this. Is it not a reaction as such becuase why does this happen when i am laying down onyl? Even with BB or Ivabardine it always started when i was laying down at night.

Any help gratefully recieved...

[gertie]

I react that way when I take antihistamines & sometimes it will progress into a seizure. Most people that have seizures

can't take AH. I believe Flunarizine/Sebelium is an AH. Have you tried Gabapentin/Neurontin or a similar drug for

migraine prevention? If I take a 100mg Neurontin cap at night I sleep better & do not feel drugged the next day. I am a

person that does not tolerate drugs but it does not seem to bother me other than I sleep better.

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Hi Alicia

You are right it is an anti histamine, I thought this could be ideal as it may help with any MCAD that i believe can also effect the way i keep reacting to drugs.

Do you know what the reason is that AH drugs can do this?

I worry that if i react like this on 2mg, what will happen at 5-10mg!

I am on a tricyclic drug, have been on it for years aswell as Clonidine that was trialed for a month. Clonidine did not give me this type of scary reaction but it didnt help either.

I have some Lyrica/Pregabalin in my cupboard which i have not tried yet. Maybe its worth a shot later.