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Hey there. I’m a 41 year olde male with pretty much this same story. I’m healthy, I don’t drink or smoke. I work out/lift 5 days a week. I’ve been on Seroquel for three years now for sleep and mood stabilizer to help with anxiety/stress. I take 200 mg a day now. Spread out through the day. I started having high heart rates that will last for hours. 13-24 hours. Woke up with 160 rate the other night, then 130 ok a different night. Stayed above 100 for hours. You feel like you’ve ran a marathon. It suck. I went to the hospital twice. They put a halter monitor on. Currently Waiting on results but doc seems confused. They did ekg and echo and he said my heart looks fine. They don’t know why it’s doing this. They thought anxiety attacks at first but I’ve had those before and the heart rate goes back down pretty quickly. They want me to take a beta blocker to lower my heart rate if it does it again. Metapropol. He told me no workouts or things to raise my HR to high for now. This sucks. I’m not old. I shouldn’t be going through these issues. What did you find out? Did you get off the Quetiapine? Did the heart issues go away? Thanks for any help in advance. J
I never started having any problems until around a year ago. I am bipolar 2 & I was put on seroquel to help with mood stabilization issues & sleep ones as well I have been on this medicine since 10 years old the most I have taken was 400 mgs when I was in a extreme stressful situation. Around 2 years ago I had Covid 1 year ago started the palpitations around a year ago my primary yanked me off it I went into a spiraling episode of having to take 10 months off of work now we are trying to figure out why my pulse is getting so high to 103 & having racing heartbeat & all I had to wear a monitor a heart one through primary still waiting on them to tell me what was found I’m prolly going to a cardiologist though I was told by my primary I was seeing seroquel can cause cardiac problems the ironic part is I been fine up until 2 years ago like I said with Covid
Further investigation seems to more point to heart block in people with ankylosing spondylitis due to HLA-B27. I have Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis which is in the same family as AS, so it looks like my Psoriasis is the culprit and Seroquel had no contribution to this issue. Will update if I get anything more conclusive from my Cardiologist.
I really didn't like Seroquel/Quetiapine, but it saved my life and did the job it needed to 🙂