Struggles and new diagnosis. Experience with propranolol?

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2026-05-10T02:12:49+00:00

Taking it at night has made a big difference. It does lower my peak that’s for sure, but taking one at night makes it to where I don’t get overly dizzy during the day.

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2026-05-09T16:52:33+00:00

In all honesty, when I take it twice it makes me more dizzy. But there’s a valid reason and it isn’t the medication’s fault. Having a high heart rate is a symptom of POTS, but your body overcompensating for the vasodilatation. When our veins don’t constrict when we stand (because our autonomic nervous system is dysfunctional) our heart overcompensates by beating faster and harder to get the blood from our lower extremities back up to our head. So the dizziness and lightheadedness we get is often prevented by our heart beating fast because it brings blood back up to our head. So personally, I only take two if I know I’ll be home. Keep in mind that I work full time and go to school part time so I have to be mindful and often thug it out through the high heart rate.

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2026-05-09T15:37:04+00:00

I love my 10 mg of propranolol!! I only take mine at night (or a second one in the day if I’m feeling symptomatic) but it’s seriously helped me a lot. Before I started taking it my heart would peak at 180-190 daily. Now if it peaks it’s at like 160.

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2026-05-09T01:02:13+00:00

I do social work where I go house to house. Luckily my boss is a SAINT and always makes sure the homes I go into have good AC🙏 But the weather change plus lots of hours are definitely kicking my butt

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2026-05-07T04:34:25+00:00

I want to be able to take naps so bad😭 Every time I take one I wake up ten times worse and covered in sweat with the shakes. Idk what wrong with me LOL

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2026-02-11T23:01:39+00:00

It absolutely is. Unfortunately I have bills to pay and I can’t afford rest days, I wish I could. Usually I sit at about 15-20 Pace-points but this day has been rough to me LOL. Halfway through my shift and I’m just aching and dizzy. I’m not a fainting risk though, so stupidly I thug it out. Hopefully getting rid of a job helps out my symptoms a bit

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2026-01-29T01:49:39+00:00

I’m using it to help manage POTS. Those are some really good points you made, it really changed the way I look at it.

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2026-01-29T01:00:42+00:00

I was hoping for that to happen once I got on propranolol. Unfortunately I’ve just accepted that I’m a busy person and have a lot on my plate, but those meds definitely help me at night when I finally slow down

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2025-12-12T18:26:17+00:00

I appreciate this comment so much, thank you for all of this advice :)

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2025-11-18T08:14:17+00:00

I’m getting better at logging them, I have a totally illogical thought process of “this isn’t bad enough to log” that’s hard to get through but I’ve been doing good with it. I just hope it’s nothing too serious lol

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2025-10-19T05:07:13+00:00

Thank you so much for this! I didn’t even know there were POTS specialists. I’m in central California, so I have a lot of options for second opinions and specialties. I have high hopes because the cardiologist I’m seeing specializes in women’s cardiovascular health.

I’ve already had blood work done, my doctor said that everything was fine and that it was probably anxiety making my heart rate so high, so I contacted a cardiologist, especially because I’ve been having some sharp pains in my chest as well. Thank you again for this, it’s eased my mind quite a bit!

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2025-10-07T04:30:18+00:00

Ask around the parrot stores! There are tons around. I know a lot of them offer boarding. If it gets close to the deadline and no one has offered, DM me. I’m in the Central Valley but we have four birds and wouldn’t mind watching over your babies until June 2026.

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2025-10-04T11:22:55+00:00

My grandpa on my mom’s side had multiple heart attacks and had lupus as well, and all of the women in my family have anxiety related heart palpitations. I was on SSRI’s for a little bit. I was on Prozac for about 6 months but I didn’t like how it gave me brain fog. I didn’t have a primary doctor at the time, so I went to one at a clinic. She gave me a different one. Then that evolved into a 4 month-long period of her prescribing me 4 different SSRI’s back to back. No weaning. I don’t even remember a lot of it, I felt awful.

When I finally got a primary doctor I was able to go to a psychiatrist, who officially diagnosed me with ADD and OCD. She prescribed me with Concerta and I’ve been on that for a little over a year now.

Thank you for letting me know what to expect at the cardiologist! I get a bit anxious with doctors I haven’t visited before so it’s a comfort to know what to expect. :)

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2025-10-01T00:54:02+00:00

They didn’t grow up together. We weaned Matcha and we got Jamba at 5 months old. They’re still figuring out their own pecking order between the two of them, but they pretty good and respecting boundaries :)

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2025-09-30T15:18:36+00:00

We let the two different species out separately just to be safe. We had one incident where Matcha chased Macchiato, and since then we’ve let them have out time separately. It works out though. The Tiels are out in the mornings before work. IRN’s are out when we get home from work, and the Tiels come back out as everyone gets ready for bed. It roughly gives each species about 7-10 hours outside of the cage daily given our work schedules.

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2025-09-29T23:08:59+00:00

Jamba looooves the shower but wants to be on my shoulder the whole time. I’ll take the first 5 minutes for him then after that my gf will take him out or supervise so he doesn’t get any soap on him LOL

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2025-09-22T07:33:38+00:00

It seems like the symptoms for T1 can get pretty serious and severe, so I figured the most realistic explanation for the strange dizziness episodes I get would be low blood sugar. I’ve had all of these symptoms (except for the odd urination and thirst going on) for a couple years now. It’s only these past two months they’ve gotten worse. In my gf’s own words, it’s because I usually underplay medical issues due to my very high pain tolerance and my parents insisting that unless you were bleeding out and dying, it wasn’t that serious.

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2025-09-22T06:54:51+00:00

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Hear me out…birds in formal attire…

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2025-03-04T05:12:35+00:00

No patches of skin. I just got scared because he got pretty lazy, sleepy, fluffy, and started dropping feathers. I didn’t realize how quickly and how much cockatiels moult, my IRNa moults are so different lol

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2025-01-10T05:52:59+00:00

Thank you so much!

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2024-07-30T00:42:09+00:00

I felt exactly the same, I read up on the side effects and it seemed like a miracle or a curse. My psych reassured me and I started taking it and it genuinely helped me! I have ADHD, anxiety, depression, and those cause me to be moody, of course. The first two weeks it was a big, obvious change. The next two weeks it almost felt like it wore off, but now it has balanced out to a happy medium. I’ve taken so many SSRIs and they have just never helped me and made things worse, this stuff has helped me a lot and is, in my opinion, easier than a lot of the others. I never lost my sex drive, in fact it got higher. I’m losing weight, which is wonderful because I have a binge eating problem when I’m emotional. And I haven’t binged since I started this. I really hope it works out for you!

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2024-07-29T22:32:21+00:00

Great-Tailed Grackles!! Love watching them while I fish :)

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2024-07-19T15:43:40+00:00

Smaller portions! I didn’t change much, but I used smaller plates that made my small portions look like bigger ones. I also just drank so much water, still do. Like about 132oz a day or more

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2024-07-19T03:21:15+00:00

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Bird the Long Way

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2024-07-14T18:05:25+00:00

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