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@susanejw
Thanks for your reply. I can understand with having tachycardia it being beneficial for
medication to help slow down your heart rate a bit. How does your blood pressure run??? Is that high too???
I have a seemingly normal heart rate and blood pressure that can fluctuate beteen a hypertensive 140/82 at a doctors office to a low of 92/50 at home but mostly within a more normal range.
My understanding is fatigue affects many heart
patients but not all. From your postings it sounds like you have a positive attitude and are coping well at this time.
My concern with the beta blocker is not so much fatigue but being that my heart and pressure rates are not routinely high but dropping too low. When my blood pressure is low I feel completely awful and cannot function in the slightest way.
The video you mentioned sounds interesting and I will search for it. Thank you.
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@dougajoi I have labile high blood pressure, which means it comes & goes. My diastolic (bottom number) is usually low, so I often have a “widened pulse pressure,” meaning there is a great difference between the top & bottom numbers, more than 60. I thought it was because of moderately leaking valves, but I just had a them do a better test, which showed the valves only have minor leakage. So now I don’t know if that could still be causing the widened pulse pressure.
Yes, I feel awful sometimes from occasional low blood pressure, but it only lasts about half an hour. I’m used to just needing to lie down for a while.
Also, I find I need to sit down often, can’t stand in one place long, and am really bothered by bending over. Makes me feel faint.