My volume of tablets per week has now topped 80 a week I have questioned these but all doctors say these are required so I still continue with them but often wonder the long term effects will be ?
Just came back from another angiogram on Wednesday and although there was moderate narrowing no stents this time horray
But moderate heart disease noted on top of my existing three stents the latest being Jan 2019
Really it is not a question of how many tablets but the type and doseage. Tablet count can also increase if the daily dose is split between morning and evening or two tablets are required to achieve the optimum dose (e.g. a certain drug may be available in 5, 10, 20 and 40mg tablets but your GP feels a 30mg dose is appropriate - so two tablets but less medication than a single 40mg one).
Agree Michael I am on 49 a week but I am on what my Cardiologist described as aggressive medication with 10mg Bisoprolol, Entresto and the other routine meds for Heart Failure etc so it all depends on dose and routine etc.
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10Mg of Bisoprolol sounds absolutely fearsome. I started on 1.25Mg and felt like a zombie, I'd just gotten used to that and it was raised to 2.5Mg where I am today, it's taken a few months on this dose to find the energy to do the recommended amount of exercise. On 10Mg I think I'd be comatose.
It's like the old saying:
"It's not the size of what you have, it's what you do with them that counts"
As Michael has said tablets may be split to get the right dose - I used to have 6 x Furosemide 40mg each day (now reduced) + 3 x Levothhyroxine - you can see from those two alone x7 days gives 63 tablets, add everything else in and we get towards quite a large figure.
Isn’t the real question not what the long term effects might be but would I havea long term without them?
I actually just logged in to make that point. If people stopped their insulin/BP medication/anti-coagulants/etc. their long-term might be quite short-term!
My daily meds are :
Amlodopine 5mg
Isosporide monotrate LA 50mg
Ranexa 375mg ( twice daily )
Pantaprazole 40mg
Atorvastatin 10mg
Ezitembe 10mg
Asprin 75mg
Prasugrel 10mg
Perindopril
Bisopropal fufamate
Nitrolingual spray
Two others I havent put on my phone yet
I am not complaining and realise they are for my benefit, but was only wondering what the long term effects could be . The last two meds given ie perindropril and Bisoprol fumate have slowed me down a bit and made me feel a bit low and not very good at night ie waking up hot and the head spinning on things that have happened in the past and also a little short tempered and less patient and anxious ...these were the things I was thinking about long term
Side Effects
Side effects from medications
Side-effects of medication
After effects of Angioplasty and side effects of drugs
Long Term meds after HA
