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Originally Posted by BirdDancer
My sleep is crazy lately and I have been waking up in the middle of the night with racing heart. I've had to take Ativan for that, which also helps me get back to sleep. I'd rather not take Ativan, though. I'm thinking of asking my psychiatrist if I can take an extra 20 mg propranolol at night. I have a huge oversupply anyway. Propranolol is mostly for tachycardia, for me, but anxiety and tachycardia are related in my case.
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Waking up with what felt like a racing heart happened again even though I fell asleep at a reasonable time of 10:40 pm. But I woke up only one hour later feeling the "racing heart". I confess that I took an extra 20 mg propranolol this evening at around 6 pm, but why then the issue? And yet, I just got done taking my blood pressure three times in a row, which also measures heart rate, and it was all normal at 110-115/75-80 with 69 to 80 bpm. 69 bpm in the third.
Yesterday, hubby gave my heart a manual listen and he said it sounded a bit fast. I don't know. I don't want to take the Ativan. I'm unsure what pdoc will say if I tell him I've increased the propranolol. If an increase doesn't stop these "episodes" in two days, maybe I will go back down. I don't think the increase is dangerous at this amount. I can measure my BP a few times per day to monitor.