bisoprolol & Citalopram

[Wishcld]

hello

I need to start taking my antidepressants, but I’ve read a few times that people have had an increase in ectopic beats when taking them together?

[Happyrosie]

bearing in mind that anything you swallow, whether it’s a glass of water, Christmas pudding, or medication, is going to have an effect on you one way or another other.

We here aren’t medics and there won’t be many people of your age and family history taking exactly the same medication as you, who are reading your post.

Presumably the pack insert doesn’t say this effect happens? Happens rarely? A discussion with the pharmacist employed by your doctors group of surgeries might set your mind at rest.

[Wishcld in reply to Happyrosie]

I’ve spoke with the pharmacist and health teams around here they are not helping me at all. I’ve had terrible migraines for weeks and no call backs from cardiology or anything. That’s why I’m having to ask these questions all the time 😓

[Happyrosie in reply to Wishcld]

Oh I’m so sorry your medical teams are letting you down. My own dispensing pharmacist has, for the last twenty years, always been helpful when I have a query. But now that my doctor’s group of surgeries employs two pharmacists , I can speak to either of them - and I do! - and they’ve always been knowledgeable, thoughtful and helpful. I find them easier to get hold of for a chat than my doctor , and if she needs to speak with to him before a decision is made she does so quickly and efficiently.

Obviously I’m lucky!

What about your dispensing pharmacist?

[Wishcld in reply to Happyrosie]

They always have agency staff on. We did have one decent pharmacist before I had a heart condition but she’s gone 😓

[pete1010 in reply to Happyrosie]

very hard reply,

[PadThaiNoodles]

FWIW, I take bisoprolol and escitalopram. If anything I'd say my ectopics are down (or at least less noticeable). I also take warfarin, aspirin, lamotrigine, and famotidine; all dispensed from the same pharmacist (and all are on my last hospital discharge notes).

[Wishcld in reply to PadThaiNoodles]

Im going to try it. Got to can’t cope with the anxiety anymore.

[Ewloe]

I started with anxiety after my heart event. I saw my electrophysiologist and we discussed how anxiety/depression can aggravate cardiac arrhythmias of which I have PAF, NSVT, SVT bits of each. He went and looked at which medication was safest for me and came back with sertraline.

[Wishcld]

what is NSVT x they were going to put me on sertraline but changed their mind x

[Arty56]

Hi there, I take citalopram and bisoprolol as well as other meds for angina and cad. I don't know what dose you are on I take 40mg and seriously I have to take it, been on it for a long time. They know I'm taking it together with the others as they prescribe them. You could talk with the bhf nurses, IV noticed other people talk things over with them, as long as your consult or doc know you are taking them together and prescribe them for you, it's abit fighting in the dark sometimes, I just keep taking them, you have side effects course you do,but, we hope for the best... Btw I have heart palpitations sometimes without much exertion but not many ectopic beats so I don't tbh think much of it, not now anyway.... Try not to worry you must need both, suppose you could ask for a phone appointment with the doc, they will probably say see how it goes, then get back to them if worried.... Good luck

[Wishcld]

thanks x