drug treatment

[macshac]

I was diagnosed with tachacardia when I was 18,The Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford England admitted me and after many tests and trials gave me Librium, as the irregular heartbeat was caused by anxiety and only happened badly after a anxiety attack.
This drug worked well and controlled the attacks for 32 years without an event.
About 8 years ago a GP doctor decided I should not have been taking Librium for this long and stopped the medication.The attacks have been getting worse and worse to the point last year when I was admitted to hospital to try to regularise my heart beat.
I now take a beatablocker(propranalol) which has made my life a misery with its side effects but I cannot seem to get through to the various GP's I have had that betablockers are not controlling what causes the Arythmia.
Has anybody got any suggestions how to get a GP to accept the 64 years of experience I have lived with and put me back on the drug which does control the problem????

[tickertock]

If a certain drug works take it especially if it is not a dangerous drug , benzadiazepines are sure safer than anti arrhythmics say like flecainide for example, I take diazepam(valium) as needed as a muscle relaxant due to spondylitis. I'm not on the bandwagon that believes in precribing ativan, valium and those line of drugs for everything but i'm not on the bandwagon that refuses to to prescribe them at all especially if a patient responds to them well and shows success, my opinion only I'm not a doctor.

[oldie]

i had alarming tachys and took inderal (propanolol) as the need arose. Worked wonderfully well.
What were your side effects? If you took librium for so many years successfully and without side effects why not go back to it?  I would.  I have Tafil or similar drugs always handy for anxiety. I take it as needed, not every day. I get stressed out, sick, dizzy, nausea, breathlessness, waves of malaise around the body. All gone with .25mg of  diazepam

[macshac]

Every one has been the reason you gave, about addiction.But every visit to a different GP when we moved was a different experiment.
I suspect doctors do not listen to patients and perhaps I am being arrogant in saying at 64 I have so much experience of my own body and condition perhaps I do have something to add.
Its good to swap experiences if only to affirm the situation and confirm I am not becomming paranoid.
I recently moved to Ireland and the first thing the GP did was to make me an appointment at Cork hospital to investigate an ablation even though I explained there is nothing wrong with my heart but I admit I am of an anxious nature ,inherited needless to say.I tend to worry about everything and the worst attack I had last year was after the asian Tsunami.Which rather proves it is anxiety driven.

[deedle1976]

What reason does your doctor give. Is it expensive? My GP is always banging on about the cost of everything he prescribes for me.

[macshac]

I could fully understand the addictive problem but having taken the drug for 32 years addiction was not the problem and incidentally I stopped it immediately with no withdrawal symptoms.
It seems all the doctors I have seen since ,wish to ignore the possible cause and only treat the symptoms. It is so galling when it was controlled for the 32 years.
Thanks for your comments

[deedle1976]

Your GP probably doesn't  want to put you back on the Librium because  it can be addictive, so their guidelines state its use should be restricted to no more than a few weeks to  avoid dependency.
I totally undrestand your frustration though.