Nadolol

[graemeparsons]

I have just been changed from Bisoprolol 12.50mg to Nadolol 160mg due to long ongoing problems with Bisoprolol. Has anybody any experience with Nadolol, i am taking it for afib hypertension and angina.

[doodle68]

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[cjgroe]

I am currently taking Nadolol, but a much lower dose at 40 mg. It has done much better for me than Metropolol did as far as side effects. One note though, it is really hard to stop taking. I was given the go ahead from my EP to stop it 2 months post ablation, and I wound up with bad beta blocker withdrawal symptoms. We are back to full dose, and planning for a really slow potential weaning.

[graemeparsons in reply to cjgroe]

Thanks i will see how i get on.

[Echinopsis]

I am afraid my experience of Bisoprolol Fumarate was 10mg for AF reduced to 5mg.10mg dose said to be high. This in March 2015 reduced in April. Got to see consultant for first time in June who stopped the BF because it did not suit me. Put me on Diltiazem, a calcium channel blocker which built up to a maximum dose to try to get the heart rate down from 145 . By August it was up to 360 mg, the highest dose along with Digoxin 250mg. Pulse 125. I did not like these and my ankles swelled eventually and the doctor reduced the Digoxin to 125mg. But would not reduce the Diltiazem. I think doctors are reluctant to go against consultants.So this misery went on until April 2016 when a locum consultant put me on Amiaderone and I agreed to a cardioversion and the heart went back in to sinus rythm, and I have been fine ever since, thank God.Throughout this period and still now I am on warfarin.

The pulse went really low, 40 and over time several months increased to 50 then 60.Now it can be 50 to 55 and 60+ when I am active.I try to get some walking exercise 30 minutes a day in 5 times a week. I also do a lot of gardening.I like being on the warfarin because of the checks you get at the clinic which you don't get with the newer drugs, apart from a 6 monthly? check up.I always think the warfarin thinning the blood will hopefully help me avoid heart attacks and stroke. I also watch my saturated fat intake to help keep cholesterol down and have been a bit close to Diabetes.All of these things send me researching on the internet and you have to be careful not to get too carried away with what you can eat or not for the various maladies or you would end up eating nothing.

I avoid alcohol so as not to complicate things by setting off the heart for nothing but a bit of nonsense.I never really knew what the beta blockers BF was for, nor really the Diltiazem etc but the top consutant I eventually saw said as I described the misery of the several months 'they were only trying to help you'! Amazing really.He signed me off in March 2017. I think part of my problem was domestic stress, and since I am now able to ignor this stress, this has probably helped a lot.

I hope this protracted saga may have been of interest, but as said the BF did not suit me and also neither did the statins which I can't take.

Good luck and I hope you will soon begin to feel better.

[graemeparsons in reply to Echinopsis]

thank you