Nebivolol

[BobD]

Further to a previous post there is a short term logistics problem with Nebivolol as my local Lloyds do not have 5mg. They hope to have it on Thursday. (went to pick up my party bag this morning.)

These short term problems are very common in the drug industry. I understand that the manufacturers take x amount of time making one drug and when they think they have enough they switch the line to a different one and so on. Most of the time it works fine but occasionally there may be a spike in demand and this happens.

A few years ago it was flecainide for a couple of weeks.

Bob

[Coco51]

Thanks for the update! But no problem for me. Can't get the EP interested in prescribing Nebivolol, sadly. Stuck on Bisoprolol. Are you better on Nebivolol?

[BobD Volunteer in reply to Coco51]

Never tried Biso. When I started my AF journey atenolol was the beta blocker of choice. (showing my age there)

[Loafinabout in reply to Coco51]

I didn’t get on at all with Bisopropol and have been stable on Nebivolol for some time

[Loafinabout]

That’s useful info Bob, thanks

[jeanjeannie50]

A few weeks ago I asked the cardiologist I saw if I could try Nebivolol and his answer was, "It's not for you". How I wish I'd asked why! He'd seen my ECG, so I can only guess perhaps it was to do my atrial flutter.

[Hylda2]

Thanks Bob, wondered why pharmacy had kept me waiting ages

[Crystalbowl]

A few weeks’ ago, the independent pharmacy where my prescriptions went to told me they didn’t have any Nebivolol. I am on 2.5mg daily. They suggested I try another pharmacy so I tried Boots and they had 2 boxes and agreed to give these to my pharmacy. I was only entitled to one which I collected in a small bag along with some other meds which were in a separate, larger, bag. I then walked home but when I arrived I had somehow lost the smaller package. I have no idea how. I was carrying them in my hands and I didn’t feel or hear it fall. Anyway, after a few expletives, I retraced my steps but no sign of it. I went to Boots to see if they still had the other box, who told me they had given both boxes to my pharmacy so I went there and they told me they had given them to someone else. The following day I asked at another independent pharmacy closer to where I lived as I thought it was possible someone might have handed them in there as I had passed it on my way home the previous day. They didn’t have that but they did have 3 boxes and agreed to let me have one. I then went back to Boots to ask them to sort out the scrip with the new pharmacy which they did and I went back to collect them. They were so helpful, I decided to have my scrips sent there in future. I had to get some more Nebivolol a few days’ ago and I got two boxes from them, one of which has an expiry date of October 22, which they pointed out, but I will have used them before that. It does seem, though, that there could be a shortage.

I was on Bisoprolol previously, as well as various others, but seem to get on better with Nebivolol.

[Flossie72]

I had to wait a whole month before I could collect my last prescription. The pharmacist did not seem to know what the problem was, and was definitely expecting a delivery long before it actually occurred. I was just relieved that I had a month’s supply at home. Sue.