Posted by Babak on July 26, 2015, at 3:11:48
In reply to Re: Help with Methylphenidate induced tachycardia,, posted by rjlockhart37 on July 26, 2015, at 1:14:40
> a vary "vary" option is to add Tenex, or Clonidine......their not heart medications but they regulate blood pressure, and could help in some way with maybe the tachycardia.....
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I have tried Clonidine which although lowers my blood pressure it actually makes my tachycardia worse. Same as Ramipril and other blood pressure medications I have tried.I have talked about this to my doctor and it seems that the way they lower blood pressure is by relaxing the blood vessel whose contraction actually reduces heart beat as in a feedback system without which the heart keeps beating faster.
Statins work but the other side effects are intolerable which unfortunately in my case include depression, anger, headache, muscle pain and change in liver enzymes levels.
I have not tried Tenex because my previous Pdoc was of the opinion that in my case is not suitable but I am changing doctors as I have moved out of UK. So it may yet to be tried.
However it does sound that like clonidine it works again by regulating blood pressure although it affects the nervous system at a lower level which might be promising. Thank you.
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