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Message started by jothenurse on Jan 26^th, 2011, 8:08pm

Title: Tachycardia - RLR or anyone
Post by jothenurse on Jan 26^th, 2011, 8:08pm

Had an episode of tachycardia tonight when I took my dog out before bedtime. I could feel it coming on, as it was rapid before I took her out. Started pounding when I was outside with her, and did get panicky about it. I have been doing better with calming myself when that happens, and it usually comes down quite quickly. Tonight though I had trouble calming myself, ended up taking a .25mg of ativan which now I wish I hadn't because it started to calm down right before I took it. I have tapered my ativan to just .25mg in the am, and my doctor said I could stop them when I wanted to and just use it prn. Now I feel kind of bad that I took one tonight (though I can if need to per the doctor), but I haven't taken one in the evening for months. Guess I am just looking for reassurance that these panics/tachycardia can happen even when you do start doing better. I have to admit that I am not really that frightened right now that the tachycardia happened, but mostly kind of depressed about it. Plus, I'm a little worried about taking the ativan tonight. As much as it does calm me, I still have a med phobia and it can make me nervous to take one at night when I haven't had to for so long.