So I started taking 300 mg of Alpha GPC along with 1600 mg of NAC and curcumin (theracurmin), as well as vitamin c, zinc, and magnesium a few weeks back some time around the beginning to mid may, and I stopped on May 19th after I started getting slight chest pain, shortness of breath, numbness in my hands throughout the day, and a severe cough that wouldn't go away (at it's peak I was coughing probably 100 times a day). I did some searches and found that people commonly get shortness of breath on Alpha GPC, so I stopped everything. The shortness of breath initially subsided a bit, but by monday I started having wild chest palipations and had apparently developed a sinus arrythmia and short pr interval. I once again found myself struggling to breathe, and with numb hands, so I went to the ER where they took an EKG and tested my vitals and sent me on my way claiming that it was anxiety. I finally got home around 7 AM and tried to lay down to fall asleep, but found that every time I laid my head down, I would get really lightheaded and feel my heart skipping beats. Looking at my fitbit, my heartrate dropped rapidly during these occasions. I went back to the hospital where they did another EKG and took vitals yet again, did a chest x-ray that was normal, and fed me a benzo. The benzo made me not care about anything, but my hands remained numb, and I still felt a strange slight pain in my chest.
I continued to experience weird symptoms the following days, one day came with a really painful headache that just wouldn't stop, and my blood pressure felt crazy high, though I didn't have any way to measure it. I took some curcumin and it went away and I managed to sleep that night.
Fast forward to the end of the week and I found myself in the hospital again for the usual mild chest pain, difficulty breathing, the weird blood pressure fluctuations, numbness in my hands and feet and mouth. These were all dismissed as anxiety, but blood tests were done and everything came back normal. I went to the hospitals a few more times, a CBC and a basic metabolic panel were performed which both came back normal, they checked for the enzyme that checks if you've had a heart attack, and a thyroid hormone test.
tl;dr version:
Took alpha GPC, NAC, curcumin, and a few vitamins and minerals as supplements for about 2 weeks.
Developed shortness of breath and numbness in my hands toward the end of those two weeks.
Stopped taking everything, ended up in the hospital 2 days later for irregular heartrate and high blood pressure.
Continued to end up in the hospital.
I'm still suffering from fluctuations of blood pressure, which seems to go from too high too to low. My diastolic is unusually high for my age according to a cardiologist I saw.
One night while sleeping I woke up, and when I sat up I lost vision in my left eye and felt like I was going to pass out.
My heart rate has also been fluctuating unusually.
All tests came back normal, though the thyroid test was on the low end of normal
TSH HIGH SENSITIVITY 0.611 uIU/mL 0.35 - 4.94 uIU/mL
If anyone has any idea of what's going on, I'd love some advice, I'm kind of concerned, even though every doctor i've seen has told me everything is okay, the benzos I'm on have not alleviated the issue, indicating that this is definitely not anxiety related.