Just looking for comments please. I have been taking the above with flecanide for suspected AF but I know my heart doesn't race it's just misses beats every so often or regularly if my stomach is playing up. I take laprozole for my stomach also.
I have recently stopped the beta blockers and feel massively better and less bloated and happier in all.
Has any one else done this and found same results.
I found the beta blockers were making me worse and causing my stomach to be upset that set off my missed beats. Vicious circle and all that.
So i am now feeling loads better. How do other people find it ??
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Hi Rocket I take the BB Nebivolol and haven't experienced the same side effects as yourself . I feel calmer/fitter more relaxed (maybe due to adrenaline activity being reduced)
The only problems I am experiencing (and they may be due the the anticoagulant not the BB ) are hot flushes /tinnitus is worse/ a funny headache so my head feels as though it is in a vice and being crushed. However, my Blood Pressure is down to a reasonable level as is my pulse rate and the PAF seemingly under control and I wouldn't want to do anything to jeopardise that . So am prepared to tolerate all of the above in exchange for no lengthy episodes of PAF.
After a month my headache has felt a bit better over the last couple of day, is it coincidence I wonder that I have started taking Magnesium Taurate this week.
A few weeks ago, with GP and Cardio agreement, I stopped taking Bisoprolol. Even though I was only taking 1.25g, it was still causing breathlessness and eye problems. (I suffer from dry eyes as well)
Since stopping taking them regularly, I am feeling much more energetic, which is good - school holidays means taking care of various youngsters several days a week!
However, after a few days, I do find that my heart rate gets more and more erratic, (Apple Watch recording HR of between 35 and 155 in a couple of hours - but not AF) and have found that if I take just one tablet every week or so, it keeps everything ticking over smoothly. Haven't mentioned this to GP yet, waiting for my next lot of NOAC blood tests before attempting to get an appointment!
Hadn't thought about the bloating, but that has improved since I'm not taking Bisoprolol regularly.
Very surprised to read that you are having NOAC blood tests.....are you new to them....I understood that not monitoring blood was was one of the benefits of NOAC's over Warfarin.
Hi, I am on Apixaban and one of the early requirements was a quarterly blood test on the kidneys. After about a year I had this test extended to every 12 months.Terry
I was told to stop beta blockers as it dropped my heart rate too much. I am on Flecainide and warfarin only. Beta blocker tried again when I got a few runs of regular tachycardia but again had to stop and gradually reduced flecainide to 50mg twice a day
Agree with other post. Flec is typically not prescribed or taken on its own and is usually prescribed with a rate control drug. Talk to your cardiologist or EP but my EP indicated to me that Flec should not be taken on its own when I asked him the same question a few months ago.
Read all these comments with some interest and confusion. I apparently have PAF and am on Flecainide (150x2) daily plus I take Perindipril and Bisipolol. I am constantly exhausted and can barely cope with my part time job most days. I am off to bed most evenings by 9pm and that's only because it's unfair on my dog for me to go to bed any earlier, though many a time I fall asleep on the sofa.
Is it the meds that are making me so tired? I am also on Exemastane (breast cancer drug) though this tiredness has been an issue long before my cancer diagnosis.
I recently had another 5 day monitor which just beeped randomly all the time. I haven't heard anything back about it so am assuming there's nothing showed up.
How much bisoprolol do you take? It is known to produce tiredness, so a decrease in this (with your doctor's agreement) might make a lot of difference.
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I take the BB Nebivolol and haven't experienced the same side effects as yourself . I feel calmer/fitter more relaxed (maybe due to adrenaline activity being reduced) 
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