following my last post I have now stopped Bisoprolol. I have noticed my heart rate increase from around 67 to 74 (normal range).
what I am noticing is that I get palpitations but my heart rate is within the normal range - does anyone have experience of this? It isn’t overly fast but just pounding.
Hi,
I remember your last post and yes, after coming off Bisoprolol you will notice that you could get bouts of pounding heart and it might do things it doesn’t normally do for a few weeks. Try and stay calm, take deep breaths and try and do things to take your mind off what your heart is doing, if you can. Easier said than done, I know. Any blips will hopefully pass.
Your HR sounds good overall. You did the right thing reducing slowly, just try and stay as calm as you can over the coming few weeks and persevere 😊
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I don't have the knowledge to opine, but your symptoms may be the healing process of your recent ablation. Did your doctor approve of stopping the Bisoprolol which may also be a factor ?
when I stopped my metoprolol which is similar to Bisoprolol I decreased dosage over a week. I found that when I stopped immediately as the doctor advised I got some bumps and hops all with normal HR so I tapered it down by halving dosage a couple of times then took just one then stopped and had no problems. I’d only been on it for 2-3 months. I’m sure if I just went cold turkey the bumps would have stopped after a few days
my pharmacist advised me to stop it really slowly as the heart can have a rebound reaction to it as you’ve taken the cosh off. Don’t despair it’ll settle down but I’d suggest really taking it easy so as not to affect it too much and allow It to settle. How quickly did you stop and what was your dosage ?
Pardon me for being pessimistic, but I think there is very little that will change my circumstances, short of that final breath. I was prescribed a regimen of bisoprolol and apixaban in July 2021 because of a high heart rate, around 160 bpm. I would not have known that if it were not for a severe nosebleed that required hospitalization. I had been a caregiver 24/7 for seven years. I’ll never know for certain, but I sense that the intensity of that role stressed my heart sufficiently that it never mended. Since that time, I have had one scheduled cardioversion and one unscheduled one. I succumbed to pressure and went in for a CVI ablation. When the team got in with their electricity, measuring equipment, they determined that the malfunction was not in the isthmus, but rather in the Left atrium. So, since they had me under general anaesthesia anyway, they executed another cardioversion. I was in sinus rhythm for about 10 days. At that time flecainide was prescribed. It didn’t agree with me and I was taken off that toxic poison. What I am finding is making some positive difference is daily exercise: walking, cycling and lifting weights. I am not obese, but I am losing weight as well. I take 7.5 mg of bisoprolol daily and 10 mg of apixaban, 5 mg in the morning and five in the evening. Alcohol is the worst. If I abstain, my heart rate levels out nicely to the low 80s. Otherwise, my norm is over 100. At 75, I could live without alcohol. As Willie Nelson said, “ I have smoked a haystack of marijuana.” In my case I have imbibed enough alcohol to fill a Lake Erie. Not really, but I like hyperbole. Best wishes to all. There is nothing anyone can do about old age other than to do the best you can… Keep moving, abstain from alcohol and be happy.
Yes - just this. I take 1.25mg bisoprolol daily which, since last March, thankfully, seems to have stopped the tachycardia and occasional AF but has done little for the ectopic beats which wax and wane.
Steve
Mine feels like it's missing and fluttering a lot of the time. I am still on Bisoporol 5mg twice a day. It's only been 3 weeks since I had my Cardioversion.
I was on 10mg Bisoprolol pr day taking 5mg morning and night, post my cardioversion the hospital changed to 5mg per day as my normal sinus rhythm was 50bmp. I do have ectopic episodes but I found this is when I get stressed or anxious as I do suffer from health anxiety which never helps this condition. id love to come off medication also taking 20mg of blood thinner per day riveroxaban but I will say 2 years on post cardioversion im still in normal sinus rythem
by way of an update my consultant said that I can expect an increase in heart rate and some ectopic beats
It isn’t too bad but as he suggested I can always send an ecg - it seems to be ok for now so fingers crossed it stays that way
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