I've just been diagnosed with supraventricular tachycardia and have taken my first Bisoprolol 2.5

Sorry you are having such a rough time, in answer to your question, I didn't have to give up driving when I was put on it, you may be lucky enough for it not to affect you at all.

Thanks you , you hear so many worrying things about beta blockers & the issues & troubling interactions they possess , having a defibrillator fitted into my heart I've just got to be so stringent in my drug research and any serious interactions they may entail 👍👍

if you are not happy discuss it with your cardiologist, there are other beta blockers out there, it's your body after all, I query everything and yes I have refused meds I'm not happy with, I think my GP sees me coming in the door and hides sometimes lol, but like you I research very carefully.

Hi there, do you mean sick sinus syndrome?

Sick sinus syndrome (SSS), also called sinus node dysfunction (SND), or sinoatrial node disease, is a group of abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmias) presumably caused by a malfunction of the sinus node, the heart's primary pacemaker. That's where the abnormal heart rhythms come from.

Hi phoebewhite thanks for your message , no I've got brugada syndrome or sudden adult death syndrome ( SADs ) it causes the heart rhythms to speed up & can stop the heart as it doesn't allow the flow of blood to circulate around the heart .

The electrical rhythms are disrupted as with other electrical disturbances & usually requires the patients to have a defibrillator to regulate & pace any fast rhythms back into sync or it sends out a shock to the heart .

Taking this new drug is already causing me issues , so when I go back to St Barts I'll speak to the specialists to see if I can change this medication

Hello thankyou for replying yes I appologise about the spelling yes sick sinus syndrome I have a pacemaker fitted and I'm on warfrin to help. It's the tiredness and terrible dizzyness when I try to stand that affects me I've not moved from this chair and my heart doesn't seem to be racing so not taking this beta blocker may help somewhat as before I was given it I told the doctors I couldn't take beta blockers nor calcium blockers nor digitoxin but they haven't listened. I didn't even know I had AF had I had not gone to my gp over a swollen leg and they sent me for a treadmill test and that's when it came to light now they are fussing around me like a swarm of flies. I can't take these medicines because the sensitivity of side effects it's bad enough having a pacemaker fitted.

Yes the tiredness is a problem for me as well and I have been on it for 3 years now, some days I can hardly put one foot in front tof the other, if you have read the other comments in this discussion some folk take it at night, may be this would help you a bit, I was going to swap to nights but haven't done it yet, I might give it a go though.

I mentioned the tiredness to my GP and he told me to take the Bisoprolol in the evening. I've done this for a week now and feel I can cope better.

Yes I have heard this before, I will pluck up courage to change it to evenings, It's stupid really, I consult Dr Google too much and read that your heartrate is lower at night anyway, so as mine tends to drop to 48 after taking Bisoprolol I suppose I worry that it will stop altogether!

I too said this. He told me not to worry. I has already taken my morning one and he said take another this evening at about 6.

That way the main "hit" of the tablet would still be while I was awake.

I must say I seem to cope better with every thing even physical work in the stables during the day now and sleep better. I've even stopped having to take my herbal sleeping pills.

I take them every evening around 6pm now.

I discovered an interesting fact via Dr. Google.

It seems a super-fit athlete might have a resting heart rate of just 40bpm and not even notice. So it's clearly about quality rather than quantity as such.

I wouldn't worry about its stopping altogether though. Beta blockers tone down the effects of adrenaline and noradrenaline to give your heart an easier time. They're therefore given to give it a rest, not break it!

OK, I'll be brave tomorrow and take it in the evening, my GP did say a couple of years ago I could do it so I'm not going against any medic advice, if you don't hear from me again......................................................

PS I'm definitely NOT a super fit athlete LOL.

You'll be fine!!!

I was a little worried about the double dose, but my GP said you have to do that and NOT leave the gap.

all was ok.

xxx