Palpitations

After being advised to wean of bisoprolol I have now been off it for 10 weeks but the rebound has left me with constant palpitations day and night. I take magnesium citrate and have tried all the natural methods to try and stop these palpitation with no luck. I have an ILR fitted which has shown thousands a day, have been sent to A&E by my doctor where tests were done sent home and doctor urged appt with cardiologist one month ago and still nothing as yet.

Has anyone who has stopped bisoprolol had rebound palpitations for this long and can anyone advise me of any further natural methods I can try to alleviate them I would be grateful to hear of anything as they are so debilitating.

[Cliff_G]

It would seem the bisoprolol was helping. It certainly will reduce the force of ectopics and palpitations. Why were you advised to come off the bisoprolol?

Unfortunate.y I don't know anything other than bisoprolol or other anti-arrhythmics to deal witj these problems, which do need a Cardiologist to say.

[Hidden in reply to Cliff_G]

I was advised to come off because I was having very severe side effects along with orthostatic hypotension and the bisoprolol even mimicked a stroke which the hospital ruled out and put down to the bisoprolol. It also caused me to have more severe palpitations than what I was being treated for.

[Cliff_G in reply to Hidden]

Thanks, so you were having palps before, too, but they're niw worse while weaning off bisop? It could be the balance between the two halves of the autonomic system, sympathetic which speeds the heart up and the parasympathetic which slows it down. Ectopics, palps and AF etc are often associated with imbalance between them.

Before Bisoprolol did you correlate your palpitations with anything? Time of day/night, after food, with coffee, exercise?

[Hidden in reply to Cliff_G]

No they came out of nowhere. Saw a cardio privately and he just bang me on bisoprolol, no warning of side effects etc. After tolerating them for a month palpitations were a lot worse, I emailed him and he just said up it a further 1.25mg that literally knocked me off my feet so went back down to 2.5mg and ended up in hospital. Nothing more from the private cardio that I saw and not even one in hospital. The only consultant I saw was a stroke consultant who told me to come off them straight away which I refused and said I would wean off them slowly because I had heard of so many horror stories with people just stopping.

[Cliff_G in reply to Hidden]

If you're in reach of York, you could ask to be referred to Dr Sanjay Gupta there, he's a very good Cardiologist. Check his Youtube channel (the UK one not the US one of the same name)

[Hidden in reply to Cliff_G]

Thank you . I have listened to several utube talks by him and they are very down to earth and in words that we can understand.

[Caitlyn6]

How long was the weaning process and how long were u on bisoprolol?

[Hidden in reply to Caitlyn6]

I was only on bisoprolol 3 months and it took 8 months to wean off.

[Caitlyn6 in reply to Hidden]

Wow, sounds like it was done right then