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albuterol and heart palpitations

Posted by lilianna @lilianna, May 14 6:38am

Good morning to everybody,
if you have been taking albuterol (inhaled or nebulized) have you experienced heart palpitations and high heart rate. I have been using it for the last 13 months and may be the last three months I started having really fast heart beating and my pulse is always around 90, if I do even light chores such as washing dishes, walking around the room, it goes up to 100s. I thought it was symbicort, so it was changed to arniuty ellipta, and then to spiriva respimat. Now I just use albuterol inhaler and I really think it is the reason (unless it is the med for MAC). Please share your thoughts.

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irene5 Irene Estes | @irene5 | May 29 10:55am
In reply to @lilianna "thank you Irene, it took me a while to answer but the change to levalbuterol did..." + (show)
@lilianna

thank you Irene,
it took me a while to answer but the change to levalbuterol did help. It is through the inhaler. I noticed right away the palpitations dicreased in frequency and the stress test which I had two weeks ago did not show any changes. Next week I am going to get hooked up to the monitor, I think they use a patch now, just to eliminate other heart concerns. The issues just multiply with time. Now I have a flare-up (the first one since I started MAC meds) and the cough is horrible (second day on levofloxacin, extra airway clearance, nebulizing 7%. I pray it helps.

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Oh good!! Make sure you drink plenty of water with the Levofloxacin. Wishing you well! Irene5

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