Bisoprolol Side Effects

If you are in the UK and NHS, call their bluff, insist that they refer you to a psychologist as your problems need to be resolved and if they are so sure you are "mad", they wont worry about being caught with the bill when your psychologist refers you right back to your GP telling them to cure you as there is nothing mentally wrong with you at all, as they did with me. Every time they through that "anxiety" fob off at me I will insist they then refer me to mental health who got the right hump last time I was fobbed off on them. 

It’s a good idea Peter thank you, I am in Australia we have so many great services I’m thinking I will go back to the hospital and see if they have someone that looks over everything meds, mental health, reports on progress..and echos  etc. has to be someone that can get to the bottom of this.... and eliminate the insomnia is feel great I reckon 😔

Im pleased to hear that you have tried a new tablet that appears to agree with you much better.

Very rare indeed, so hope it doesn't happen to you, the debilitating symptoms I got from the day I took Bisprolol, never went away when I stopped taking them ten months ago.

It has taken me this long to get the NHS to actually listen to my most basic of logic, that a drug that disrupts the Autonomic Nervous System, might be responsible for my now having an disrupted Autonomic Nervous System.

So last week I finally got to see a Neurologist who tells me I have Autonomic Instability. Which is exactly what I found out from a medical equipment manufacturers website, where it states one of the causes of Autonomic Neuropathy is beta blockers.

And my GP had callously informed me I wont find a doctor in Britain who would admit Beta Blockers could have permanently effected me.     

Peter I’m so sorry to hear that 🙏 I really hope this do improve for you soon. It’s so horrible to think that something that is meant to be helping us can cause so much stress and health issues 

I've just researched nebilet... put in nebilet comments. Lots of info from lots people who take this . ...as with all meds...some are good...others not good. Hope this helps you decide. 

    Side effects are a bit of an issue with all beta blockers, but for some they work without these problems. 

  I was curious to know about this  and keep updated on possibilities. 

I hope this helps. 

Thank you for responding Elizabeth.

I must give it a try 😔 I’m so exhausted from the insomnia I can’t cope much longer. Something had got to be better than Bisoprolol for me.

I will update on how it goes 😊

I wonder how Beta Blockers cause acid reflux? Mine was the same, But I am now wondering if it is acid reflux as I have had heartburn in the past, and this is different, not so much a burning feeling as a small painful pressure behind the sternum.

You see beta blockers disrupt the Autonomic Nervous System, one of the things the ANS does is control the smooth muscle constriction of arteries including the heart, there is something called Coronary Artery Spasm, here is an article :-

"A coronary artery spasm is a temporary tightening (constriction) of the muscles in the wall of one of the arteries that supplies blood flow to your heart muscle. This can narrow and decrease or even completely prevent blood flow to part of the heart muscle.

If the spasm lasts long enough, it can lead to chest pain (angina) and even a heart attack (myocardial infarction). These spasms are sometimes referred to as Prinzmetal's angina or variant angina. Unlike typical angina, which usually occurs with physical activity, coronary artery spasms often occur at rest, often between the hours of midnight and early morning.

Coronary artery spasms are more common in people with risk factors for heart disease, such as high cholesterol and high blood pressure, but the spasms can also happen in people who have no risk factors.

Coronary artery spasms may be triggered by:

Tobacco use

Exposure to cold

Extreme emotional stress

Use of illegal stimulant drugs, such as amphetamines and cocaine

Treatment of coronary artery spasms may include medications such as:

Nitrates, which can relieve chest pain

Calcium channel blockers, which can help reduce muscle tightening in your chest

Statin medications, which not only lower cholesterol, but have other beneficial effects on your heart arteries to prevent spasms

You can reduce your risk of coronary artery spasms by quitting smoking and controlling high cholesterol and high blood pressure.

With

Rekha Mankad, M.D."

Now I have my own ECG, when I get seriously bad "heartburn", my T waves which should be a little bump after the R wave spike you will be familiar with, well the T wave as you cna see below, towered over my R wave. And what do I read when the T wave Towers over the R wave?, "Be suspicion of LAD Occlusion", LAD Occlusion being when one of the arteries that feed your heart gets blocked or badly constricted. 

Hi Peter thank you for your response found it really informative.  I had gone to A&E ad was told that there was nothing wrong with my heart. That’s when I got the acid reflux diagnosis. Got a cardiology appointment in two months time. I am praying that all is well

When you go to A & E, they look for markers in you blood that results from tissue damage caused by a heart attack, I dont think a mild angina like constriction is enough to cause tissue damage, but would be enough to cause a heartburn amount of pain. I am going to bring this point up when I next see my cardiologist as the prescription heartburn meds I was given, didnt do the slightest thing, indicating it was not heartburn at all.

It was abpout £150 when I got it, the reason I got my own ECG machine (Prince 180B).was because I could feel something happening with my heart, but in two years the NHS failed to find anything and would send me home, so I bought my own, that way, I could record the symptoms when they happen. Turned out I had the rather dangerous Ventricular Tachycardia. (See pic).

The reason I have learnt so much, is that I am really quite ill now, but the NHS just fob people off now as they dont have the money, so I have to be pro-active, if I wasn't, I would probably be dead by now.

I am 59 now, it was September 2014 NHS first investigated my complaint. The read-outs from my ECG were what put me under a cardiologists care at St Thomas', originally suspected it might be Ventricular Tachycardia, confirmed when they implanted a Reveal Linq loop monitor in my chest.

The treatment for Ventricular Tachycardia was a successful ablation. But I am now quite ill with residual after effects of taking beta blockers, I have been told I have Autonomic Instability. I no longer get VT, but still get ectopic beats, this was like this when I went to bed the other night and look, still doing this when I woke up the following morning. 

Pls could u pm the details of where u bought the ecg machine from?

Many thanks xx