Hunter
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I was hooked up on a machine that took blood pressure readings every 3 minutes there was never a drop in blood pressure and my heart rate went up gradualy and peaked at 128 to 130 and stayed that way for over an hour not counting the first hour after eating the hamburger.I had heard of post prandial hypotension and asked if that was the problem and they said no.It was the first case of post prandial tachycardia unrelated to a blood pressure drop he had ever seen.
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I told my POTS Dr. that my heart raced about an hour after eating and he said he wanted to see it. So he had me eat a hamburger and lie down my heart rate averaged 95 bpm but after about an hour it was averaging 128 bpm he said he had never seen anything like it in over 20 years of dealing with POTS patients.His theory was to much blood pooling in the abdomen to aid digestion.
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Justin I was reading the what helps section of this site and it is listed there check it out.
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I Don't really know much about this drug, the Dr said he has had good results with it for pots patients with high blood pressure at times. It's not supposed to raise the blood presure like some of the other medications the ones he mentioned were proamatine and fluronef I've had 3 injections so far without any dramatic difference in symptoms but he started me on a low dose and plans to increase it so I figured I would try It a few more times to give it a fair chance.
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I have recently been diagnosed with severe pots although I've had it for several years no one knew what it was. The doctor I'm seeing for pots has me taking 75 mg atenolol and octreotide injections. I've read here where several of you are taking atenolol but has/is anyone taking octreotide injections? Thanks