Does anyone have any experience with nifedipine? I just spent two days in the hospital for some chest pain/breathing issues. Good news is the baby is fine, though they did find that I was contracting some. I spent 24+ hours on a heart monitor and they did find that I have an arrhythmia and episodes where my heart rate jumps up. However, I didn't have a major episode while being monitored. Anyway, the other tests didn't find anything (leg ultrasound for clots, echo, blood work) so they sent me home with what they admitted was just a guess at a solution. They think it could be related to the contracting, or a spasm of my esophagus, so they prescribed nifedipine to take just when I start to feel an episode coming on. However, I'm feeling a little unsure bc I already have low blood pressure and overnight when they gave me the meds, it dropped to like 76/30 at one point. But they didn't seem alarmed. Any thoughts?
The birth center I'm using is closed today though I could page them if I really need to. I have an appt scheduled with them on Monday. I was really regretting that I went to the closest hospital instead of the one that the OB from the birth center has privileges at. I haven't talked to them about what the doctors said because I wasn't given much information until late last night, right before I was discharged.
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