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Palpitations triggered by cocaine

Posted by daxrrr @daxrrr, Aug 10, 2018

Hi to all, I explain my problem. I'm a 24 year old male and I had a very occasional use of cocaine for the past two years (I used it every 4-6 months). But the last time I used it (a month ago) I had chest pain and a sensation of tingling/electric shock in the arms. From that episode I already performed 3 EKGs that resulted normal but I started suffering of heart palpitations: now I can feel my pulse in parts of my body where I didn't feel it before. For example if I join my thumb and my index, I can feel the pulse between the two fingers, or I can feel it in the fingers if I cross my hands, or I can feel it between my feet if I touch them with each other. Obviously I don't want to touch that stuff again! I just wanna know if I will have these sensations for the rest of my life or if they will go away sooner or later. Does anybody had a similar experience? Thanks in advance for your replies and sorry for my bad english.

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beap | @beap | Jan 24 9:55pm
In reply to @ben1999 "I think I have the same thing as you, all ECGs / test are fine, I’m..." + (show)
@ben1999

I think I have the same thing as you, all ECGs / test are fine, I’m being told the same thing heart is fine it’s just anxiety but it’s feels like something is wrong.
Old post not expecting a response but in case you see this, did this get better for you?

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i also have a very similar experiences they say it gets better ive only had for 5 days since the cocaine and constantly feeling the circulation throughout my body and heart has been almost unbearable and extremely worrying which makes it worse (especially when trying to rest) ive been tested cardiologist and all that and only major thing was high blood pressure
wondering if any improvements for u?

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ben1999 | @ben1999 | Jan 25 2:18am
In reply to @beap "i also have a very similar experiences they say it gets better ive only had for..." + (show)
@beap

i also have a very similar experiences they say it gets better ive only had for 5 days since the cocaine and constantly feeling the circulation throughout my body and heart has been almost unbearable and extremely worrying which makes it worse (especially when trying to rest) ive been tested cardiologist and all that and only major thing was high blood pressure
wondering if any improvements for u?

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For me it certainly was just chronic anxiety , i started with propranolol to stop the situational anxiety from worrying, then a course of Sertraline (zoloft) has eradicated i would say 99% of those palpitations.

speak with your doc and give that a go

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beap | @beap | Jan 25 2:00pm
In reply to @ben1999 "For me it certainly was just chronic anxiety , i started with propranolol to stop the..." + (show)
@ben1999

For me it certainly was just chronic anxiety , i started with propranolol to stop the situational anxiety from worrying, then a course of Sertraline (zoloft) has eradicated i would say 99% of those palpitations.

speak with your doc and give that a go

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i think these might help but last night when trying to sleep my ears started ringing very loud and started doing research on these medications and heard it can make the tinnitus symptoms worse so idk what do to now im going to check with my docter today
thx for ur feedback

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