Olive

It has helped me more than anything. I take 20mg four times a day. Before I started it I was having headaches a lot, but now they are much better. Good luck.

B positive.

Dehydration will show a high hemaglobin and hematocrit. It will drop when properly hydrated.

I can work because I have to, but that leaves me unable to do anything social or fun on my off days. All I do is crash.

I work nights and I just switch it to taking it in the evening. My worst time is at the begining of the shift, that's when we are most busy. I take a klonipin before bed and sleep fine. It's not the best, but it works.

It has helped me with energy when I take it, but most opiates give me a boost when I take them. Which is the issue. Last year I had multiple surgeries and complications, I noticed I was taking them not just when I was in pain, but also to feel better. I quickly weaned myself off. I wish there was something like them I could take, but I know that even tramadol I would overtake now.

I get this when I don't take my antidepressant for several days or abruptley stop another med. That is what causes if for me.

I have been working night shift and the first couple of hours I struggle. My heart rate races, I feel faint, and I'm diaphoretic. Monday I start day shift for a month and was wondering what others do to help minimize symptoms. I don't want to faint while taking care of a patient. Then I become the patient.

I haven't had any side effects. In fact it has helped me feel more relaxed since it has brought my resting heart rated down. Also I was having migraines before and it has helped with that. I know it is used for migraines also. It hasn't been a miracle drug, I don't have any more energy with it, but it has helped a lot. Good luck.

I take 20mg four times a day. It has helped my heart rate tons.

Bless your heart. I've felt bad for so long I don't think I remember what sex is.

prunes or prune juice/coffee/milk of mag. We consider that the GI cocktail for post open heart surgery that have not gone yet. After that and we got them up to walk we would sometime follow down the hall with towel because you couldn't get back to the room quick enough. lol. I have also heard of mag citrate to get the bowel cleared, not the whole bottle like with preping for a gi test. good luck with it. I keep prunes around for me.

Good luck

Trudy

I pray for you. I so wish you had a better support group. Bless your heart for going through this by yourself. Yes, you are living with family, but it sounds like they are mean and controlling. I wish you the best.

Trudy

I usually feel off for the rest of the day, sometimes a couple of days.

No they have no clue at all. Even my husband, who is very compassionate and understanding, doesn't always get it.

Whoops! Check that, they finally faxed it in. But it did take a frustrated email.

I go to see him in one week so I plan to discuss my frustration then,

The specialist was supposed to call in Midodrine for me Friday, but she still hasn't done it. I was hoping to get started on it before starting night shift this week, but that didn't happen. I have called every day and left a message, but no one has bothered to call me back. I think it's totally unprofessional and I really don't want to go back to her. I was supposed to return to see her in one month, but the earliest opening is in 3 months. I think I will just stick with my regular cardiologist there since she has done nothing for me anyway.

So glad that ya'll are moving forward. I think of her often and how hard it must be at her age and be sick. I pray that she keeps improving.

Trudy

Dude I take 200mg a day for fibromyalgia and it helps a lot. It can cause dizziness in the beginning, but it passed for me. It also helps with anxiety. Like I said it really helps my pain and I wouldn't want to go without it now.

Trudy

I am cardiac RN and that's a lot. I know that my k got so low that I was having PVC's, but it was easily fixed. Sounds like they don't have a clue yet and it's good that they want to keep her to watch her and monitor things. I would be interested to see what the echo shows. Also have they considered temporary pacing wires til they make a decision on the pacer? They just but a line in her internal jugular vein and float the wires into her heart. It's not too bad and easily removed when they decide. If I can help you with anything, maybe answer questions, please ask. I can imagine how scared you are.

Trudy

I don't think that is to small either, not enough to think she has a eating disorder. I totally see your frustration. She ate fine before she was sick and she is trying to eat now. Obviously she is getting enough in that her labs are not critical. Yes they are low, but if they were critical the arrythmias could be a result of that. I had issues with malnutrition the past 3 years and I was underweight, everyone assumed that I wasn't eating. But I ate tons, I also went to the bathroom tons. Turns out I had gastric fistulas and everything went straight through me. Thank goodness I had doctors the understood and treated me accordingly.

I wish you the best of luck. Tell her to be strong and prove them wrong. That is all she can do.

Trudy

I was officially diagnosed with POTS. The autonomic cardiologist thought that my stomach would not handle salt tabs and put me on fludricortisone. I explained that I did not have a stomach, lol, she didn't think the salt tabs would be good going straight to intestine. Anyway she started me on 0.1 dose of fludricortisone and after a couple of days I had severe pitting edema, I thought it was only supposed to be trace edema. I work standing up a lot so the edema is not good, but if the med helps? Does anyone know if the edema goes down after a couple of weeks? Please help?

Great for you!

I have had chronic fatigue for years. Now my ferritin is 8, but my hematocrit is normal so they won't transfuse iron. I feel like crap with the fatigue. In January my ferritin was low and my doctor infused iron then, I felt much better. He is out with illness and I'm having trouble finding someone to infuse. I should also mention I don't absorb iron by mouth.