Bisoprlol withdraw,any help please

Doctors will always blame anxiety and not address the problem. Get well soon

thank you

Hello Peter, I was on bisoprolol 1.25 for 9 months, I felt terrible on them,affected my breathing, lightheaded, dizzy, I had another svt attack one month later and went back on them, saw the electrophysiologist 3 weeks ago and He recommended an ablation and stopped the Bisoprolol, 3 weeks later I feel terrible, I wondered if I,m having the same reaction as yourself.  I can honestly say I feel like a zombie, it’s affecting my life, most of the time my mind is whirling thinking why do I feel like this.

Hi Ann been off it for 5 days now but still have my heart pounding and feeling like am so sick. I feel cold chills. Been doing ECGs and all ok.  In the morning anxiety is up the roof. Muscle pain and legs.

There are some on this forum who talk about it being up to 9 months before they are fully back to normal. Hopefully you will be one of them, though a shorter space of time would be nice.

If you do find you are at the stage I am, one year later and things connected to my Autonomic Nervous System are still getting worst, then please do keep in contact, well you dont have to wait a year to keep me informed. If you are in the UK, you are going to need all the help you can get just to show your doctors that such a reaction in possible. They like to say you have anxiety and to go home and stop bothering them.

Took me nearly a year of showing my GPs that I now had problems with my ANS, they took no notice, in the end I got a cardiologist to listen to reason, he said I might be right and apologised for using the anxiety card, had a referral to an Autonomic Neurologist, and guess what?, took them five minutes to confirm what I had been saying all along. 

Everyday now seems a new symptom to add to the many. I normally feel the cold, but I am finding it odd that other people are complaining that it feels so cold, whereas now I have no heating on, and am sweating with the heat at night, outside with a tee shirt during the day, and thinking its really mild.

My heart has been missing beats and pounding all morning, felt dizzy feel a bit better at the moment,don,t know how long that will last!

i went to my doctor Wednesday because I was getting long pauses in my heartbeat, nearly passing out with it, I also have a slight leak in my mitral valve, I came away very angry because I get blank stares from the doctor and I also find it very hard to understand what he is saying, he is Sri Lankan.  The electrophysiologist said I should have the valve checked but he took no notice.  His answer was to get the ablation done but I read so many comments about it being unsuccessful it made me hesitate, I do not know what to do for the best, will it make me feel better than I do now or will it make me worse.  I,m usually quite active but this problem is affecting my life.  Thanks for your reply I mainly shadow on here most days. I live in Romford essex

Do u find that u get anxious when that happens. Been feeling it for two days now I dnt know if I am anxious which is causing it or it is making me anxious 

Difficult to know whether the problems cause anxiety or anxiety causes the problems, feeling absolutely terrible just makes you feel fed up with not being able to live a normal life.

Hello Ann

An ablation is always worth a try, even if unsuccessful - it can usually buy you months of sinus rhythm happiness, even if it fails later.  Some find it is a cure for good, others are unlucky enough to find it only lasts a few weeks.  I opted to have an AV node ablation eventually, against the advices from some as it is an irreversible procedure, but have since had three years of heart peace and no Bisoprolol as I opted not to go back on it after the procedure..  The ablation procedure itself is nothing to be scared of and you can even watch the screen as it is carried out if you like.

Very tru. Do u feel chest pain with the pounding heart. Been doing ECG and all normal but wat is not normal is the way I feel. I never used to feel like this b4 Bisoprolol. 

Morning Ann. How are u feeling today. Am on day 7 without it

No, I can,t say I get chest pain, I have when I,ve had a short svt attack.  Just feel so tired and weak, I,m trying to drink a 

lot of water to flush the Bisoprolol out of my system, I,m sure it lingers in the blood stream for a long time and the funny heads must be damage from it.

i am feeling a bit depressed this morning,I say to myself be strong several times a day, ectopics firing away this morning. I pray you will recover soon, I,m 71 soon and don,t look it, I don,t know your age but life goes so quick so we must try to make the most of it.

Am feeling better today but still get eptopics beats there are really irritating. Am 36. Am going to focus on the positive and pray. Am great full for life. 

Ann can u have a normal heart rate y reading in when u have a svt attach. How is svt diagnosed 

I feel a big thud then my heart races at 191, 197,  after half an hour I have to go to a and e to have it put back, the dreaded adenisone pauses your heart momentarily , I was given it 3 times, they can,t do it more than that, but it didn,t go back into normal rhythm, they then put sotalol in my drip and it went back slowly, it was 4 hours before I went home.  The small attacks happen when it feels as if my heart has stopped, they last for a couple of minutes.  You can feel your heart racing when it happens, chest discomfort , can,t breathe.  I,ve had ectopics for 43 years, I was very alarmed when I first experienced them at age 28 but over the years I have had to accept them or go under.