Medication

So sorry your suffering, when they ran a heart trace for 24hrs on me due to disturbed sleep from sezuires they found I had a irregular heart pattern due to me having an extra heart beat! It's not dangerous but if I over do it I get dizzy from this extra heart beat! The feeling tired in the morning could be a side effect of this sleeping tablet, did you read the side effects on the leaflet? Hope you feel better soon.

Amanda that sounds very much like what I'm going through. I've had premature heartbeats since my 20s and I was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. They were worse during pregnancies, and definitely during stressful times. I have medication for that, but it just seems to be getting worse regardless of any anxiety. Physical activity seems to trigger it. I've gained quite a bit of weight, which seems to have made it worse as well. I've had the 24 hour monitor done several times and have been told the irregular heartbeats are harmless. That was years ago. Now I've had the semi-fainting thing going on and that scares me. Thursday I see a sleep specialist and should have a sleep study soon after that, perhaps that night. From what I've read, fibromyalgia can trigger these weird heart beats as well. Jana

Wow, I never knew that you've taught me something new! You are very knowledgeable on this subject. Good for you for learning about this. It all helps you in the end. I hope they can help you when you see the sleep specialists. We all need a good sleep especially so when you are ill.

All medication has side effects, so you start with one then other is taken to deal with the side effects of the first and so it goes on. So you end up on no end of drugs to deal with the original problem, I just bung them all together and have a cocktail.

It is a case of just getting on with it! And when one decides it's no longer going to work you just have to get your Dr to either increase it or change it! It just becomes part and parcel of your life!!