3rd August 2004
Quote from jp3892:Asthma is generally linked to palpitations and arythmias through medication such as albuterol and theophylline.
And Serevent. You cannot forget Serevent.
There is such thing as cardiogenic asthma, where the asthma is cardiac in origin. I'm not so sure this is what you have though since you only have a heart murmur, but I'd keep it in mind.
If you've still got the Allegra - take it! It's probably a higher dosage of antihistamine than the OTC stuff. I take it, it's fine, unless it's Allegra-D, which will probably give you more heart palpitations.
Another chest x-ray probably won't show anything, so it would be of little use to request another one. What I would do, however, is see if you can get a referral to a pulmonologist.
Take care.