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Bisoprolol making PVCs worse

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daz71600
daz71600

i have been taking Bisoporol 2.5mg for 5 days now and my PVCs are worse than ever. i am having them all day and night with whatever i am doing. i went to A and E and the doc said it cant be a side effect of the beta blocker and to continue taking them. i was prescribed these to make me better and im worse than ever. i feel like my life is over. This was the last throw of the dice for me. ivehad these for the last 7 months since contracting Covid and i am a shell of the man i once was. i cant support my family anymore so whats the point. I am optimistically waiting for the Bisoprolol to "kick in" but i cant see it happening.

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  • tony52050
    tony52050 daz71600

    Posted

    Daz

    Firstly I would be more forceful with your doctor. They often seem to have a blind spot about this condition but clearly you are understandably very distressed. You need to extract some better treatment or ask for referral to a cardiology unit. There are also people researching the effects of covid on the heart as it is not uncommon, particularly in younger men. You might find out who these people are and approach them directly.

    Presumably you have tried the many techniques people on this board suggest, to mitigate your episodes?

    These include burping and humming (To stimulate the Vagus nerve) brisk walking, ensuring that nothing you are eating or drinking is exacerbating the situation. Also Protecting against traffic pollution, reducing the amount of radiation from servers and mobile phone

    Are you keeping a daily diary of what you eat, drink or do that might identify spikes in your condition?

  • Khaled01094
    Khaled01094 daz71600

    Posted

    iam exactly same as you ,,,got Covid in March 2020 and on the fourth day of the symptoms started having those horrible Ectopics and nearly two years down the line never completely gone away ...i didnt have any for 3 months last summer and then in October started and currently having a bad episode 4 months non stop ...i had an appointment with an Electrophysiologist on the NHS and he said if the Ectopics are coming from the ventricles he will ablate them but if it is coming from the atrium he will not ... currently iam waiting for 3 tests holter monitor,, echo,,stress test....but over a year ago i had echo and holter private the echo was normal and holter showed PVC and PAC....i tried beta blocker and calcium channel blocker but done nothing for me so i stopped ...beta blockers wont stop the Ectopics from happening but it can lessen the feeling of them but not with all people ...iam sick of them it is really disrupting my life i used to jog all the time before covid but i stopped because of Ectopics..iam going to push for ablation because is making my life miserable...have you had any tests ? ...but for sure for some people Covid can harm the heart like in our case either it caused heart inflammation myocarditis and in return messed up the heart electric or caused caused some cells to become very irritated and keeps firing which cause Ectopics...

  • joshuapryce1987
    joshuapryce1987 daz71600

    Posted

    5 days is not a long time. 3 months is the average time frame for medication to completely work.

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