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Long QT

Posted by janiem07 @janiem07, Jan 8 9:20pm

I was just recently diagnosed with Long QT and will see what my cardiologist recommends to treat this at the end of this month. I am currently wearing a heart monitor for 30 days. In 2 weeks I go in for other heart tests, an echo and an ultrasound. Does anyone else have this and what is your treatment plan. Also I have SLE Lupus and I’m on a beta blocker. Thanks for any advice and or support.

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jc76 | @jc76 | 2 days ago
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@gloaming

Falling asleep can be the toughest part of the entire night. I have a very active mind, hard to shut off some nights. What I learned, with some reliability and success, was to build something in my imagination, or to run through all the steps in a process in order that they need to be performed. This type of cognition seems to lull me and I'm asleep, most often, inside of a few minutes. So, cold-firing a steam locomotive, or setting up a telescope and getting it polar aligned, or imagining I'm explaining to someone the processes going on in stellar interiors. There's a lot of knowledge in those, and some things have to take place before others. This iterative thinking can lull one into sleep.

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I was put on Trazadone to get me sleep. It had an effect on me that would prevent my mind from racing, and I fell asleep. I have been off that now for several years.

What I do is similar to you. When I find my mind racing or worrying about something, when I lay down to sleep, I try concentrating of my bank balance or how much weight I can use doing numbers in my head for the next 3 months, etc.

It makes your mind focus on something else besides worry or racing and quite frankly boring. It works for me so I thought I would add to the discussion.

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windyshores | @windyshores | 2 days ago
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@jc76

I was put on Trazadone to get me sleep. It had an effect on me that would prevent my mind from racing, and I fell asleep. I have been off that now for several years.

What I do is similar to you. When I find my mind racing or worrying about something, when I lay down to sleep, I try concentrating of my bank balance or how much weight I can use doing numbers in my head for the next 3 months, etc.

It makes your mind focus on something else besides worry or racing and quite frankly boring. It works for me so I thought I would add to the discussion.

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@jc76 trazadone is on the list of meds that pose a risk for long QTc interval. The list of meds is very long!

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jc76 | @jc76 | 2 days ago

@windyshores
Thanks, Windy for that information. Will check with my psychiatric medication specialist when I see her next month. I am not sure, but she probably got same go ahead for me to take like she did the escilotiopram (spell).

She did try Ambien (spell) but did not work for me at all. The trazodone did and finally got sleep. I have not taken it for over 2 years now.

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windyshores | @windyshores | 2 days ago
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@jc76

@windyshores
Thanks, Windy for that information. Will check with my psychiatric medication specialist when I see her next month. I am not sure, but she probably got same go ahead for me to take like she did the escilotiopram (spell).

She did try Ambien (spell) but did not work for me at all. The trazodone did and finally got sleep. I have not taken it for over 2 years now.

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Escitalopram was also on the list of meds with risk in terms of long QTc interval.

I am having some insomnia and was going to ask my MD about trazadone but was glad I checked.

@jc76 hope you are getting a good sleep these days!

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jc76 | @jc76 | 1 day ago
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@windyshores

Escitalopram was also on the list of meds with risk in terms of long QTc interval.

I am having some insomnia and was going to ask my MD about trazadone but was glad I checked.

@jc76 hope you are getting a good sleep these days!

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@windyshores
Yes, on the Escitalopram I was made aware of that by my Mayo Psychiatric medications specialist. She said she had cordinated taking it with my EP and HF doctors to confirm if I could take in without and complications specific to me. They gave permission.

The trazodone really worked for me. I am sure if she checked the Esciptilopram she checked the traszodone. But I am to see her again shortly and will asked about it and if I am okay to take if need again. Thanks for that information.

I was able to stop taking both trazondone and Xanax completely.

Yes sleep is much better these days. But from time to time I have to play the game I play to keep mind from racing when something really bothered me on that day or night.

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