Posted by judy1 on May 18, 2001, at 22:02:43
In reply to Re: panic disorder » judy1, posted by Elizabeth on May 17, 2001, at 16:42:47
My shrink talked to my cardiologist today about my nitro use. The agreement seems to be that the chest pains I am having are GERD related rather than angina and he put me on carafate. GERD is very common in PD, and boy does it hurt- according to my shrink worse than a heart attack. Apparently nitro smoothes the muscles involved so that's why it works (and in 1 minute no less). Actually there are noreal side-effects of nitro other than to make sure you're sitting down if you take it, otherwise you'll be in a prone position afterwards. (and sometimes a headache) It's one of those drugs I always have on me- judy
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