Anyone Take Medication to Slow Heart Rate?

i just drink redbull to slow mine

My wife has to take beta blockers and limit her caffeine intake. She feels a million times better than before she started a few years ago.

Wife took Sotalol to help prevent sudden tachycardia. It helped her a lot and the only side effect she had was that she got sleepy sometimes, which was cured by a quick nap. Otherwise there was 0 change in her daily routine. She was also mid-20's though

My doctor thinks I am "suffering" from tachycardia, and I"m going for a holter monitor test on Friday. She says I may need to take medication to slow my heart rate. I don't like taking medication but the thought of taking medication which affects my heart rate terrifies me. I don't really know what negative symptoms having a fast heart rate can cause or has caused (other than increased risk of death), but at the same time, I didn't know what effect the medication would have on my body.

Exercise

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I didn't know what effect the medication would have on my body.

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Far less than having tachycardia.

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I think my fast heart rate is due to family history of heart problems, lack of sleep and exercise, nervous personality, and high stress job.

I don't see it as being an underlying medical condition that needs a drug to fix, and I don't think my heart rate is "that" bad. Sitting here at my computer, it's 78 bpm. It's in the upper 80s to low 90s when I stand up. at the doctor's office it was 98-109

take Inderal

I find it weird when people check bp or hr at mid morning and freak out because it's elevated. They claim it's only accurate right after you wake up. I think many people on bp medicine have high bp because of anxiety over high bp.

Yes. I have postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) that causes my heart rate to go spike due to dysautonomia/inability of my body to maintain proper blood pressure control upon sitting/standing normally or quickly. My blood pressure will drop, heart rate will spike and I will nearly blackout or fully blackout. Propranolol helps to control these symptoms to some degree.

Propranolol also helps the effects of the fight or flight problems of dysautonomia that allows too much adrenaline release. This mimics and can be misdiagnosed as panic attacks and anxiety disorder but actually is related to dysautonomia and is treated fairly well with Propranolol. There are people that go decades being sent to psychiatrists for anxiety/panic disorder and are put on SSRIs, etc. to find out years later that these meds would never touch the real culprit of their rapid heart rate episodes related to dysautonomia. There's still a lot of awareness to be done on this in the medical community based upon what my cardiologist and geneticist say.