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Bendroflumethiazide has caused me palpitations!

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Bakerbuzz63
Bakerbuzz63

I have been taking Bendroflumethiazide for 8 years & have had problems with heart palpitations the entire time, eventually I had to take a beta blocker to counteract the palpitations. I have only realised this recently after losing 30 lbs in weight and trying to discontinue my medications due to a very low pulse rate. Firstly I tried stopping the beta blocker but after a few days I had severe heart palpitations, so I reversed to stopping the bendroflumethiazide first then a few weeks later the beta blocker and I'm feeling great. Bp is normal & no heart palpitations...!!!  This was all monitored by my doctor, who had to look up in his medical journals that bendroflumethiazide can cause palpitations. I am now medicine free thanks to a healthy life style and weight loss of 30lbs.😃

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  • MrsO-UK_Surrey
    MrsO-UK_Surrey Bakerbuzz63

    Posted

    Great to hear your good news.  A consultant once told me that for every stone of weight lost, blood pressure could reduce by 10%.  Good to hear of a GP who has gone the extra mile to in researching your meds.
  • jane243
    jane243 Bakerbuzz63

    Posted

    A good friend of mine was on bendroflu ....for many years. She never questioned anything her dr said and eventually succumbed to gout. Had she read the leaflet in the packet she might have realised that gout was a known side effect of the med.

    Really pleased you have been able to become medicine free, not many folk can say that ! Brilliant!

  • Fisherman
    Fisherman Bakerbuzz63

    Posted

    I am very much a "newby" to this forum so cannot offer any advice of a more "technical" nature but what I have observed is the positive impact that weight loss and life style changes appear to have on bp. Exercise also plays an important role.

    I only take ramipril and statins but appear to have bp under control by losing almost a stone (I wasn't overweight anyway, so just a skinny fella now!) and started regular daily exercise and cut out alcohol . Seems to have worked for me. I think your 30lbs weight loss is significant so well done for keeping at it. Good luck for the future!

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