Question: I saw my PCP last week. He did an EKG – normal. Called the sleep doctor again and updated him. Told him I thought propranolol would treat this and let me get some sleep. Told him I saw somewhere on line that this was just another form of sleep disturbance. He said I should call my psychiatrist as he had never prescribed Gabapentin. I’m a mess during the day as the tachycardia slows to 80 or 90, sleep is elusive and anxiety has been setting in even though I practice mindfulness meditation. What’s your guess?

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I have been experiencing tachycardia at the instant of falling asleep. I have restless leg syndrome (RLS) and though it was taking a different form. My sleep doctor asked me “what do you want to do”! I told him (last week) that since I thought it was a morphed form of RLS that I should continue treating it with Gabapentin. The Gabapentin doesn’t stop it, it only lets me fall asleep despite the tachycardia.

I saw my PCP last week. He did an EKG – normal. Called the sleep doctor again and updated him. Told him I thought propranolol would treat this and let me get some sleep. Told him I saw somewhere on line that this was just another form of sleep disturbance. He said I should call my psychiatrist as he had never prescribed Gabapentin. I’m a mess during the day as the tachycardia slows to 80 or 90, sleep is elusive and anxiety has been setting in even though I practice mindfulness meditation. What’s your guess?