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No sleep or sleep meds

Sleep Health | Last Active: Aug 9 10:04am | Replies (115)

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@lisaschultz327

Hi Cindisue, you’re 100% right. And just so you know, the doctors kept saying I suffered from depression which I do and insisted on putting me on the new SSRIs and Seroquel which is being used off label. Well, those drugs caused me to develop tachycardia and bradycardia which ultimately led to heart disease. Now I am Afib and Aflutter. I have a pacemaker now and am scheduled for a Watchman implantation as well. I really think if I had had enough sleep in my life, maybe I wouldn’t have developed the heart condition. I also think doctors are all to willing to put you on the newest drugs before all side effects have been discovered and ignore the tried and true drugs. While I was hospitalized with the heart issues, the doctors took me off all of my medications and then slowly 2 at a time starting to let me take them again. They gave me the clonazapam back right away because it doesn’t affect the heart. At the end of my 6 day hospitalization, I was back on everything but the SSRI antidepressant and the Seroquel. They told me never to take those psychiatric drugs again because of the side effects to the heart. I found it interesting that the cardiologists didn’t see clonazapam as a threat which is a benzo.

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Lisaschultz327..... Happy to hear you got your Clonazepam back and are doing well. Yes, it's like all the regular doctors are brainwashed or are just told to tell their patients that benzo medications are extremely bad and they will not prescribe them. Like you said, they just want to put you on the SSRI'S that the FDA or insurance companies tell them to prescribe. SO wrong!! There is a War against benzos going on right now because of some people abusing them....so we all are being punished by not being able to have them prescribed to us....even though we DON'T ABUSE THEM!