Posted by mav27 on March 2, 2009, at 16:56:42
In reply to Re: Q. Tricyclic effect on my heart » mav27, posted by seldomseen on March 2, 2009, at 10:45:10
> Your heart rate speeds up when you stand in order to compensate for the drop in arterial blood pressure. The system is designed to keep cardiac output consistent to the tissues.
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> Your heart rate is almost always going to be more when you are standing up.
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> Imipramine is notorious for inducing orthostatic hypotension. Have you almost fainted when standing?
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> I am worried though, that your resting systolic BP is 160, the diastolic is also a little high.
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> Seldom.I almost fainted once, so i've lowered the dose from 150mg to 100. An yeah my BP is high but if i take my BP medication which is a beta blocker it makes the hypotension worse.
Also it's not just when standing like in the usual orthostatic hypotension, the BP drop and pulse rise stay like it for as long as i'm up.So i'm hoping the high BP/low pule and high BP low pulse sort of offset each other so the strain isn't greater on my heart in either situation.
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