Well, you know how it goes. Just when you think it’s safe….. So I had the Klonopin for just 24 hours, I’d had just one good night’s sleep and there I was thinking that things were on the mend. I was taking metoprolol, a beta-blocker, to keep my heart rate down, I felt more energy […]

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A chronic illness is a strange companion: the more deeply ingrained it gets into your body, your life and your psyche, the more it becomes a condition of existence, a normality rather than an abnormality. For me, the chronic condition that was underlying much—who knows how much?—of these cardiac events was the fact that all […]

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