Question: My daughter suffers from major depressive disorder, panic disorder and migraines. She has been on buspirone 30mgs, verapamil 120mg , gabapentin 900mgs, serzone 200mgs, paxil 60mg, topiramate 200mgs,
Geodon 120mgs, xanax2mg, levothyroxine 100mcg, ropinirole 2mg, trazodone 400mg, Imitrex as needed.
She has been on the above meds for about 5 years. July 3rd she was hospitalized with a heart rate of 36.
They immediately stopped all her meds for 3 days saying it was the meds that were causing the low heart rate. After 3 days they started slowly adding them back. After a week in the hosp, they sent here home with a decrease in all her meds. and stopped the verapamil completely. Here heart rate was then 54. She was in such a state of depression and withdrawal that her Psychiatrist had her go back to the above amounts on paxil, serzone, busbar, and topirimate. When she came home from the hosp. Her gabapentine had been lowered to 400 mg and her Geodon to 80mgs. Here heart rate has continued to run between 40 to 55 for approx. a month. We ran out of 80mgs of Geodon so lowered her to 60 mgs.
after about 4 days here heart rate is is running in the high 50's into the 60's and a couple of times in the 70's. Does that mean that Geodon is the cause, or is this a coincidence? The drop from 80 to 60 is kicking her butt, not sleeping, anxity, dizziness so bad that she falls. Was it too much of a drop to go from 80 to 60? Her Psychiatrist put her on vraylar 3 mg per capsule. I've been afraid to give it to her
because I think it is in the same family as Geodon. Will this affect her heart rate? There is not much on the web about vraylar and her psychiatrist as well as family dr are on vacation.

Now I am really confused. I have read several articles saying that Geodon can cause bradycardia.