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Please bear with long post...I had a heart attacks 18 months ago and was put on bisoprolol for angina,this made me wheeze so due to pandemic at the moment I changed to another beta blocker carvedilol12.5 this bought go down really low so doctor said halve tablet which bought on an angina attack,doctor prescribed nicorandil which I have been taking for a couple of days now.my problem is when i was having trouble with nitrate after heart attack they prescibed nikotandil instead but I went back to nitrate.i am still on nitrate but hey have given me nicorandil as well can I take both at the same time? Doctors closed so don’t know what to do.can anyone help

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If your GP practice is closed the advice is to call 111. If they cannot give you an answer straightaway they will get a GP or similar to call you back.

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Thanks I have done that

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