I have recently stopped taking morphine for pain and ever since then my blood pressure has been high and when I woke up yesterday morning I had chest pains and if I got stressed out I felt worse. It felt like my heart was racing and pounding at times. I’m on the following meds.. Cymbalta, Suboxone, Lyrica, Flexeril, Zofran, Celebrex, Zanaflex, Trazodone, and Protonix. When I was on pain meds and valium my blood pressure was normal. Since I went off the pain meds and valium in December my B.P. has not ever been normal. After waking up yesterday I took and Inderal that my Dr. gave me last year still in date to see if it would help my blood pressure. A few hours later though my B.P. went up to 140/102. I asked the Dr. I saw yesterday about valium and another muscle relaxer Soma she mentioned but she refused to give me either one. I’m seeing my primary Dr. this morning and I’d like to know what if anything he may do or give me will help. I feel like I’m always in a hurry and if I don’t get to places on time I will be late and there will be consequences. Life at home is very stressful and I am always thinking about “what if?” Visualy it looks like I’m content and everything is o.k. but inside I feel like I’m racing against time.
Since the B.P. med Inderal didn’t do any good earlier is there a possibility that something else would work?
I took clonodine a year ago but it just bottomed me down very low about 80/60 and I just about passed out so I don’t think I’d want to try that again. While on the pain meds and valium I didn’t get the feeling of always being in a hurry.
My symptoms are as follows..
Heart palpitations
Headache when very stressed
High blood pressure-The systolic (upper number) runs between 120 and 160 and the diastolic (lower number) runs between 90 and 106
Feeling like I am always in a hurry
Nausea that I take zofran for
Depression only due to the severe pain I’ve been in for over six years and only took the Cymbalta while on pain meds and valium cause they were a central nervous system depressant.
I had surgery for a Spinal Cord Stimulator implant in Feb and Oct. It helps but not to the point of me feeling content.
What could possibly be going on?
I know I need to see a Dr. I saw one yesterday and she didn’t even do anything or suggest anything for me. I’m going today to primary Dr. for the blood pressure even though the blood pressure meds didn’t help at all.
The meds Flexeril is a muscle relaxer, Zofran for nausea, Suboxone used to keep patients from taking opiate pain meds, Inderal for blood pressure, Celebrex is an anti-inflammatory, Trazodone is for sleep, Protonix is for acid reflux. Cymbalta is for depression that I got from the pain meds.
I don’t really exercise due to not enough time in my day and I take and pick up my kids from school. My husband cooks the meals but won’t help out with other things around the house. The six years I was on pain meds made it so that the house just got messier and it’s hard to catch up after all those years. I was wondering if I could have anxiety.
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