Aripiprazole and nighttime tachycardia (racing heart)
Hi everyone, I’ve been taking aripiprazole for about two weeks now, 2ml a day at 1 PM. Initially, I experienced very light sleep, which made me startle really easily, resulting in a sort of accompanying tachycardia (racing heart) due to the fright.
This has subsided a bit, but over the last 2 or 3 days, it's been happening that while I'm drifting between sleep and wakefulness, I get sudden tachycardia, which makes me jump up out of fear. It could also be the other way around, though—meaning I get startled first, and then the racing heart follows because of it.
The fact is, I’ve already written to my psychiatrist, and tomorrow morning I have a cardiology appointment to rule everything out.
I’m just asking you to share your experiences with this medication, whether this could be caused by it, and anything else that might help me.
(I should premise that I really wouldn't want to stop taking it, because otherwise it is helping me a whole lot.)