Verapamil And Exercise?

[E246]

I seem to get short of breath more easily when i exercise since i have been on verapamil.

Is this a side effect? I have tried to find something about this online but not much info. I keep forgetting to ask the doctor.

Thanks

[Chaos]

Sorry I don't have any experience with Verapamil personally. Is this what they put you on for the microvascualar angina?

My daughter, who also has POTS, is having a ton of chest pain recently. Our POTS neuro assures me this is normal for patients, but I remember reading your post about this months ago. How did you get diagnosed? Any specific tests we'd need to request from a cardio to make sure we're not missing something?

Hope you are having some success with your treatment now that you have gotten a more (hopefully) accurate diagnosis.

[E246]

Yes, The diagnosis has come from two doctors separately and is often made by exclusion of other possibilities.

I had a heart mri of the micro vessels which showed no damage but the private doctor i see and trust specialises in chest pain and believes this is what i have.

I also have a fib which seems to trigger the post. And because the cadrio is not a post specialist so am not sure what is pots and what's MVA.

For a long time i was told it was just pots but it did not answer all the questions like the surges that left me with chest pain for 12 hours at a time and were debilitating. And this is similar to people with MVA

Not sure i have quite got to the bottom of it but at least have meds that have made a big improvement - some of it maybe due to retaking HRT - so no good for your son.

Keep me posted.

[thegron]

Verapamil essentially slows down your heart, thus preventing it from keeping up with the demands of rigorous exercise. During exercise, your heart rate needs to rise. Verapamil is preventing that rise in heart rate and therefore, you tire more easily during exercise.

I recommend speaking more about this with your health care provider. The explanation above was for purely educational purposes