Author: tearj3rker
Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2011 10:38 pm
| johnboy wrote: |
| wow 400mgoxy- is a lot for 18 months’.. jimmy" i was taking close to 500mg a day for 9 months of the liquid form,and did not feel a thing from it!! i have arrithythmia/ palp-tear3" what the heck is QT- prolongation? |
It should be alright johnboy, but may be worth mentioning to your doc.
Certain medications have been shown to mess with QT interval. For me it was Amisulpride, which is no longer prescribed for that reason, and once an accidental Seroquel overdose had me waking up to bad palpitations. QT prolongation is a form of arrhythmia, where the rhythm of the heart beat changes, gets broken up, stops / starts or brings on palpitations. In its mild form it can be quite frightening.
A lot of psych medications can cause it to varying degrees – like tricyclics, anti-psychotics, some SNRI’s, also methadone, and to a lesser degree buprenorphine.
http://www.sads.org.uk/drugs_to_avoid.htm
It may be worth investigating if you believe a medication may be behind it johnboy. There are heaps of medications on that list, many which only contribute mildly to people who are already vulnerable. So don’t freak out.