I went to the ER today, they checked me all over for the third time..
Blood pressure was normal, oxygen level was normal. They did a breathing test where I had to take a deep breath and breath into a small portable thing that checked to see if my respiratory was fine. Said that was perfect. They did a blood test, that was fine. My heart is fine except it has a bit of a rapid beat. They said it's probably not anxiety. So I they nor I have any idea of what it is, and it doesn't appear to be going away, but not getting worse. My doctor isn't in until Jan 3rd, but my appointment is Jan 7th. So hopefully I can get a hold of him after the new year and tell him. Because like some of you said the Ritalin can cause heart problems, but he said after being on them both for 6-7 years he sees no reason why they would cause any problems now. Although Ritalin can cause rapid heart beat, and in which case can make a person more likely to have anxiety. Anxiety runs in my family, my mother has it and her mother has it. Although that's not what it is, I only had one panic attack and that was when this first happened. Of course long term effects do happen so he said to talk to him when I can. So hopefully my pediatrician can tell me a few things and hopefully since I don't really even need these pills anymore that I can come off of them. It's not so bad during the day, but right when I go to go to sleep it's like it's hard to breath, and makes me panic and stuff and it's really hard to go through every day, but I mean I know i'm healthy and I'm fine, so really there's nothing for me to worry about. I just tell myself that there's far more worse things out there than what I have, and that this will go away in time. So yeah, all I can do is hope my pediatrician knows some things, other than that I guess I'll just have to wait it out.
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