Posted by papillon2 on March 10, 2012, at 17:17:30
In reply to Re: heart issues » papillon2, posted by Vincent_QC on March 10, 2012, at 10:14:22
> > [my heart rate] was unstable when I first started Nortriptyline and again after each dose increase. The instability is no longer there, but the tachycardia has remained.
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> Hummm ok... normal I guess... if you feel comfortable with the 95 pulse rate it's good then ;-)Comfortable would be the wrong word. It is uncomfortable, but I put up with it (and other side effects) because:
(1) my depression is treatment-resistant -- very few anti-depressants have sufficient/any anti-depressant effect for me;
(2) the only other anti-depressant which has helped recently is Remeron, which has side effects that are more unpalatable for me (weight gain, hunger, associated anxiety & risk of ED relapse) and even then it is not as effective as Nortriptyline in some ways;
(3) the alternative -- untreated/undertreated depression of a severity which is life-threatening and involves a total loss of functioning -- is not an option.If I were to write off every medication that has side effects, well, I'd either be dead or back where I started: so depressed I am unable to walk, talk, eat, drink or think about anything other than jumping in front of freight trains. That is no way to live.
Ring the bells that still can ring
forget your perfect offering
there is a crack in everything
that's how the light gets in
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