nebivilol

[Contact1]

Hi I’m on Nebivilol beta blocker and I’m wondering if this is the cause of my breathlessness, anyone else have any problems with Nebivilol please.

[BobD Volunteer]

Unlikely as this drug is cardiac specific and often used in place of bisoprolol where this has caused problems.

[BenHall1]

My advice is to read the paper in the packet and focus on the various categories of side effects. A quick search of NHS website suggests this breathlessness can be attributed to this drug. I don't experience this but do experience immense tiredness and nightmares. However I am also on Edoxaban and it may also be this. Just travelling this road with my surgery pharmacist at the moment.

[Singwell]

Contact1 here's your original post with Bob's first reply. But I'd stick with the later post if I were you - more responses.

[Crystalbowl]

I am on 5mg Nebivolol daily at the moment. I have been on various different doses at different times. Mine was recently increased from 2.5 to 3.75 and now 5 and I think I am more breathless than I was before the most recent increase although it is not as bad as it has been in the past.

[Auriculaire]

Some people are just more sensitive to beta blockers than others. On the whole Nebivolol is better than Bisoprolol for breathlessness and a lower dose will be better than a higher dose but you cannot rule out that the Nebivolol is causing or exacerbating the breathlessness.

[Vonnegut]

It sounds as if the drug is bringing your heart rate down too much as the lowest dose of Bisoprolol did with mine!

[Contact1 in reply to Vonnegut]

I take a quarter of a 5mg tablet twice a day. When I took the half of tablet as I was told I nearly fell over into the wall. The Drs give you the meds then seem to leave you to it. I feel like a moany mini at the moment, feed up with the way I feel.

[Vonnegut in reply to Contact1]

Well, a quarter of 5mg is 1.25 so if the stuff you are taking is to lower heart rate as Bisoprolol does then, like with me, the lowest dose seems too much for you to take! Take your pulse or get someone else to do that. The pharmacist who gave them to me, knowing I’d never been on anything like it before, took my phone number so he could check how I got on but told me to pop in if I felt anything was wrong and when I did after three days, he took my pulse and told me to stop taking it. The doctor agreed but as he didn’t come up with anything else we saw an EP privately and he introduced me to a Kardia (and smart phone which I didn’t have before) and prescribed Flecainide after I’d sent him a reading of my heart in AF. I first took it as a PIP but now regularly and I haven’t had an episode for well over a year now. It might add to the fatigue I acquired at the same time but it works at keeping my heart in order. Hope you find what works for you.