I received an email yesterday from HU saying:
Looks like you have experience with Bisoprolol, can you help Westie2012?
"...Also wants me to cut down bisoprolol ftom 5mg to 2.5 for a week then stop it completely if I don’t get palpitations ...."
Arrhythmia Alliance
Westie2012
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When I clicked on the post it said "message deleted".... anyone have any clue what this was or is about please?
There are a lot of strange things going on at the moment which are unsettling and unexplained. AF admin is under quite a bit of pressure at the moment and the forum isn’t being followed as much as normal at the moment so unless you are experiencing real problems, we are told that normal service will be resumed next week.
Not sure if it will explain what’s going on in your case, but if a member believes that there is a fellow member who can help a poster, there is a facility for making that poster aware by clicking @ followed with the nickname of the member you are referring to. Whether or not that’s what’s happened in your case, of course I don’t know. Apart from that, scroll down 6 or so posts and read the “Forum update” post from Tracy
When I took a break from posting on this forum last year, I too kept getting messages like yours with identical wording, except Flecainide was used instead of Bisoprolol.
First time it happened I checked, thinking I could help someone but the thread had about 20 answers with excellent advice from other members.
From then on, I deleted the emails.
Yes, I also have gotten quite a few of them. At first I thought they were to help posters who weren't receiving responses, but your answer makes more sense. I just never associated the emails to times I wasn't posting on a regular basis. They probably pick you out if you've posted before on the subject and/or it's in your profile. No big deal. If you want total privacy, and want to be left alone, never go on the internet 
Jim
This is what I tend to do too.
Often , if you've included the medications you take in your profile, or have posted on a medication before HU will contact you with one of these messages to see if you will add your reply and experience of it to a post you might not have seen to help the poster.Sometimes, as these seem to be automatically generated requests , you can find that the post is on a forum you aren't a member of or don't use very often. Then you can decide if you want to join that forum just to add your helpful reply.
I'm not sure why , in this case , when you finally looked at the post it said message deleted but it could have been that by the time you looked at the post the original post that had generated your message had been taken down by the person whom wrote it.
If the post is still there you can still add a reply though to help .
They aren't specifically sent by your own forum or admin , they are alerts created by HU . It also happens more often , as Finvola says, if you haven't taken part in the forum for a while to encourage you to participate and get more traffic heading to the site.
Who are HU
Health Unlocked - the umbrella forum.
Thanks
Thanks for your replies I opened it within 2 hours of receiving the email, so there wasn't a long elapsed time. Sounds like its just system generated stuff then so resolved.
Personally, personal opinion only, I doubt that HU would contact a member soliticiting comments since they have a staff of experienced people. To assist members they refer the member to the articles on the website.
Emails received like that may be false and a "hack" of the system.
Perhaps BobD may comment.
No Idea. never seen it before but blearyeyed seems plausible. Personally I would never respond to anything I didn't aready know about.
I've checked , although you should check any emails you get personally if you receive them for safety , including any emails that are not from HU as sometimes bogus groups replicate the styles of emails with virtually identical email addresses such as fake bank emails.HU do obviously have their own staff but these emails , using your profile information about your conditions or medications are basically ways to remind or persuade HU members to go to the site in order to increase traffic / use of the site.
You often get more of them if you haven't visited the site for some time.
Most professional website or community online forums have them but they usually have more common titles like " We've Missed You" or "We Haven't seen you lately" " Would you like to see this".
I've been on this site since 2018 and was approached to be an Admin on a different forum at one point so I have a good working knowledge of how Health Unlocked works.
maybe just that Mal - below is screen shot which clearly shows HU branding, which of course can be replicated. Anyway, nuff said, thanks all.
That message appears to be from Arrhythmia Alliance forum not this forum which is AF Association. There is a member with that handle on there and you can see their posts on this link.
healthunlocked.com/user/Wes...
Hope this helps
thank you for taking the time Buzby, will leave it there for now.
I sometimes get messages like this about bisoprolol. If I have time, I look at the message, and I reply to it if I feel my experience of the drug is relevant to the post.
For some reason, by the time you looked, the post you were asked to respond to must have been deleted.
It's probably an automatic computer response to particular words, to keep discussion going on the site.
and finally just to draw a line under this, I checked the email sender and it was notifications@email.healthunlocked.com, which is the same email sender that I receive from HealthUnlocked every day (many of them), with links to the daily posts on the AF Forum.
So I dont think it was bogus, perhaps as people have indicated, it was merely to generate me to go post more.
Anyway, nuff said, people have far more important things to do than respond more on this topic.
Many thanks.
I would check with your GP or Cardiac specialist . Don't change heart medication u til something is confirmed.
Sorry Gulmarrad, I have no clue what your post refers to, it doesn't seem to be replying to my original post - think you must have mis-posted.
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