I had my tilt table this morning and I took my propranolol last night because my cardiologist wanted to see how I respond on my current meds (I haven’t been diagnosed with anything yet, besides anxiety and tachycardia by my last cardiologist who wouldn’t test me and doubled my meds instead). I did get tachycardia when they raised me before the first blood pressure standing, because I could hear it… the second time it went off I asked and she said it was my heart rate a bit high “which is normal for the test”. I then passed out I think when there was 2 blood pressures left they said. I just remember waking up after that laying down. She said my dr will let me know the results next time I see him. She did say my blood pressure didn’t really go down much at all (because I asked if my bp was back to normal, I assumed the nitro made it go low?)
It’s been about 1.5 hrs and I still feel lightheaded, a bit physiologically anxious and jello ish. Will I just feel bad the entire day?
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Couple weeks ago I posted whether to get a second. I decided to. It’s been 3 days and 2 nights (who’s counting?) and each night and day has gotten better and calmer. The potty training though… omg 🤦 I forgot how hard it is… everywhere but bare floor is a pee pad 😂 like c’mon bro. But he’s super snuggly… lays on my toes while I work, loves snuggling like my 5yo, and oh so cute. Frederick. He’s an F2. My oldest is an F1.
I’m on propranolol for my tachycardia episodes, and Xyzal and Zantac (h1 and h2 blockers) for possible MCAS or some type of urticaria (still in diagnosis process, he’s leaning toward MCAS). I saw a second cardiologist recently bc my first one just doubled my dose over the phone with his nurse when I told him I woke up feeling it about to happen, took my hr it was 80, stood up, and 1 min it was 142 (on propranolol 10mg 2-3x a day). At 10 min it’d gone down to 132. I took 20 to calm it down (hadn’t taken 10 yet since I just woke up).
The second cardiologist DOES want to do an echocardiogram, stress test and tilt table test, but wants me to stay on all my meds - he said typical protocol is to stop the antihistamines and the beta blockers for both tests but he wants to see if he can get it to happen on them since I’ve had breakthrough episodes (I would say it’s extremely more manageable on them, less frequent and less intense).
Has anyone else had a cardiologist have them stay on the meds?
I’m worried if it DOESN’T happen and then insurance denies a second test or something and I don’t get diagnosed.