do i take bisoprlol or just deal with daily palps and thumping

[scatty247]

hi my names jenny i'm 31 and since may 2008 i have lived everyday dealing wit palps and thumping of my haert doing everything from walkin up the stairs doing the washing even just sitting relaxing.
it all started when i was given an anti sickness injection in hosp and i had an imediate reaction to it i nthought i was goin to die i even cried to the nurse i couldn't die had kids my heart was beating so fast it thought my heart and neck would explode vand faded out waking up on a ward. since then i have never been right. i have been to two heart specialists donhe so many ecgs 24hr onesb a 7 day one a heart echo nand adrenaline test. my heart as doc said is healthy looking so he wouldn't risk an ablation. i was wrongly given calcium channel blockers then given propanolol which gave me bad side affects so changed to a slow release which i had an allergic reaction to. as a last resort my own gp put me on 4 diazapam a day until all tyhe tests had been completed. I now have the choice of taking bisoprolol or just dealing with my heart under the belief thatb i wont just drop ndead one day which is how it feels. i'm scared it affects everyday life i feel so tired and ill all the time nand i'm at my wits bend over risking btea blockers so many people around me say they'll halve my life. is anybody going through this and how on earth do you cope i'm terrified i'll just die cause surely your heart can only take so much pounding!!! any advice would be helpful

[NattyOne]

You really are having a tough time of it. If you've looked through previous posts in this forum, there are SO MANY of us out there, and the medics still don't have a cure-all solution... Back in the summer I was getting so miserable, not depressed, but damn miserable with 'runs' of ectopics, I thought I must get some real help... So I saw a different GP at my surgery, and she re-referred me back to the hospital, resulting in being offered the Bisoprolol. I feel like I now have a 'safety net' and my life back :), after struggling for two years to accept the ectopics. Truth is I never really did, despite my best efforts. I was very hesitant with the Bisoprolol; as so many people seem to take/are prescribed Atenolol for palpitations. But after all the cardiologist recommended the Bisoprolol, so surely he is more experienced than a GP.

I wish I knew what really caused the huge surge in my ectopics, but I have had several circumstances in the past four years, which may have a connection to it, but honestly I don't know. I think it all started with my 'neuralgic amyotrophy' (an episode of nerve damage to the arm; cause unknown, it just happens... can happen to anyone apparently, sods law I had it). I also had chickenpox the previous year; broke my hip at 36 in a freak accident the year before that... All this before I turned 40, last year! Life happens. Like you, and me, if you've got kids, it's seems a 100 times worse.

BUT ectopics are harmless, as the medics say over and over to us. At least some of them are kind enough to offer the medication to help us out. Thank goodness.

All the best,
NattyOne.

[Maj]

Hi Jenny, can I suggest you try magnesium 300 mgs once a day, in the morning? These have worked wonders for me. It's worth a try x

[cthechick84]

hey there scatty im currently taking bisorolol 2.5mg twice a DAY what do u mean by they will halve ur life...abit alarming to read what u put.ive been on them for a while seems ok really want to get off them so im seeing my doc soon to wean off slowly as i stopped them befrore and had a bad reaction to stopping them abruptly so make sure if you do start them that u dnt yo yo the way u take them .i feel ok on them a little slow at times and lightheaded but i guess thats the way they work but hopefully i wont b on them forever.but they have helped me in calming my heart rate so im a little calmer.and my doc said it only stops my heart rate frm running to fast itll take away some of the adrenaline and mae it a little easier for me.to cope. so yes give them a try they may suprise u i doubt theres any risk as there given to people with heart trouble . best wishes c.xxx

[daybyday]

I have a tendency to rapid heart rate.
Went on very low dose of Clonazepam (klonopin) aug. 2009 through psychiatrist and therapy. Right now I'm on .125mg in am, and half of that at pm. I know it is likely more psychological that therapuetic. :-)
I am working with a new dr. to correct some deficencies. Magnesium, vit d, b complex, probiotic, multi vit and mineral. I haven't been told I have any heart problem. 2 ekgs in the past year.
My heart rate was somewhat calmer in the past weeks...until.....I got this cold flu viral bug. My heart rate is up again, but is likely due to my system fighting the virus.
I used Atenelol twice in the past 6-7 years. First time really helped, second time had side effects for me.

[scatty247]

thanks all for your replys its so nice to sign in and find so many in the same situation. as so many of you also do i find the skipped beats really frightening but the hard poundeing even scarier if i walk up the stairs to go to the toilet for egs my heart can pound like i've run a marathon you can actually hear it if stood next to me and this is what i am finding harder coping with on a daily basis. the palpitations occur between 10 to 30 a day. i am so tempted to try the beta blockers as aside from the other side effects the propanolol was thye 1st time in my life i did.'t have any awareness what so ever that i even had a heart but the insomnia and throat sweeling outweighed the benifits.
as for beta blockers halving your life that is what i've been told by 90% of my friends and family they have all said just cope if you can "the doctor said you wont drop ndead and its not dangerous" easy to say when they c ant feel there heart jumping around like a fly in a box!!!
also the worry is the tiredness i'm feeling now i'm not sure if thats reaction from nearly being weaned off the diazapam but if the bisropolol caus tiredness i may aswell bring the bedroom downstairs now lol!
do any of you have people around that also insist its stress or you caus it yourselolf by worrying? they dont understand laughing guarentees me huge palps lifting my left arm and even sitting cuddling? i know i've rambled on ALOT and i really appreciate every1 who takes out the time to read but i am so grateful to find people going through the same that i can relate to thanks all x :yesyes:

[scatty247]

hey there scatty im currently taking bisorolol 2.5mg twice a DAY what do u mean by they will halve ur life...abit alarming to read what u put.ive been on them for a while seems ok really want to get off them so im seeing my doc soon to wean off slowly as i stopped them befrore and had a bad reaction to stopping them abruptly so make sure if you do start them that u dnt yo yo the way u take them .i feel ok on them a little slow at times and lightheaded but i guess thats the way they work but hopefully i wont b on them forever.but they have helped me in calming my heart rate so im a little calmer.and my doc said it only stops my heart rate frm running to fast itll take away some of the adrenaline and mae it a little easier for me.to cope. so yes give them a try they may suprise u i doubt theres any risk as there given to people with heart trouble . best wishes c.xxx

hi sorry i didn't mean to alarm but 90% of family and friends all claim the life halving and pressure me to stay away from them if i have the choice!
funny you saying they calm the adrenaline thats how i feel everyday when i'm not getting popunding or palps i just feel like i'm in a dentist waiting room edgy even if i'm happy. i also had problems coming off the other beta blockers stopping them can worsen y0our symptoms. can i ask do you drive? if so did they affect that also is the tiredness an ongoing thing or do you adjust to it? thanks very much

[cthechick84]

beta blockers are given to people with heart problems so im sure that they would acctualy prologn ur life not halve it anyway i couldnt put up with the pounding and jumping so i chose beta blockers but there not for everyone and yes i have noticed that they do make me more tireder but not halving my life any . i dnt drive not so fourtnuate lol wish so cnt help u with that . i didnt notice the tiredness straight away maybe its just me as i do have a full time job and 3 children under5 .but they slow me down not my reaticons and no drowsiness but they could make u react different u wont no untill u try but bisoporlol is very different to propanaolol and has better effetcs on some people much better tollerated so my doctor has studied and i did read online ..xxx hope this helps any

[scatty247]

i have tried the bisoprolol thanks to this site and although i have started of with half the dose the side effects are minimal my heart has gone from 30+ palps a day to 4 or 5 the only bad side is that at about 3pm i feel ill for coup hrs but maybe this is caus i'm not taking full dose an they are wearing off?! i'll be trying the full dose but so far fingers crossed they are helping
thanks all:yesyes:

[NattyOne]

Great to hear that the Bisoprolol helped with the palps., even on half a dose. From my own experience on the 1.25mg dose (I've not yet had the 2.5 mg dose), I sense that the medication starts to wear off about 10-12 hours after I've taken it. Say I take it at 8am, by 8pm the effect seems to be wearing off quite a bit.

Only once when I took a tablet (1.25mg) did I not feel like I was getting much benefit, all the other times I felt that there was a huge improvement. The time that I thought it didn't help much, if at all, I was on a day trip to Manchester shopping with a friend and three kids! So I guess I can blame it on that really...

All the best, NattyOne.

[darnielle]

Hi Jenny, can I suggest you try magnesium 300 mgs once a day, in the morning? These have worked wonders for me. It's worth a try xThat really works? I have heard that works...racing, skipped beats...don't want to take meds...thanks for advice!

[Typer]

I cant take a beta blocker, had it once and was fine...this time wheezing...so no go for me.

Scatty I can relate to all your symptoms. That thudding racy heart just happened when I got up from the sofa. Its fast and hard...sometimes its like a pulse in my side. If I bend forward, lift my left arm up, lean on my left side...eat, even talking can set them off for me.

Ive had a few weeks with hardly any, but they come back with a vengeance for me.

Stress was and is the cause of mine I am sure.

Dont forget to visit RLR's site. Its down right now though...it does that now and then

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