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What helps you wean off beta blockers with minimal discomfort?
I'm currently in a wean-off period (week 2) of carvedilol that I've been taking for nearly 2 years following Bentall procedure for a TAA. Dosage has always been 3.125 mg twice daily. My wean-off period is now 3.125 mg once a day until my current supply runs out. I'll probably gradually go down to 6 days a week, then 5 days a week, etc.
I'm curious if there are any steps you can do for your overall health to get the best possible outcomes, such as eating low inflammatory diet, etc, that can limit effects of any side effects. So far, I've been side effect free but I know that may change as the weekly dosage decreases.
Recently had good blood work done. I'm also taking a statin Rousvastatin and Lisiniproil+HCTZ 20 mg. My cardiologist is going to double the dose of the lisinopril since the Coreg is being eliminated. My resting HR in the doctor's office of 42 bpm was the reason for his decision to take me off the Coreg.
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Calcium Channel Blocker like Diltiazem worth a look. AI gives you great information on cell phone.
@9yellowbox I feel the same way you do however I do know that a lot of doctors don’t know the in and out of the pharmaceuticals they prescribe. They only know what they’re told by the representatives and how it’s presented to them they’re not told the nasty side effects that could come with it and it just seems that when it comes to rare side effects I’m a candidate. It was never like that until about 15 years ago. I see other people complaining about what a nasty pill this is and how they wake up every day feeling like they have the flu. I just feel exhausted. I have been able to go up to 51 hours without and then things start to get a little scary. Thank you for responding to the post
@gloaming I have the Doctor Who put me on the medication. And my cardiologist and the electrophysiologist. Cardiologist told me to stop at cold Turkey. I told him I could not because I tried to and had a Tachycardia episode. So now I am spacing it out. I have been able to get as high as 68 hours but that was accidental. I had forgotten to take the pill with no side effects. I got there at 68 hours. I started to get some chest pains so I took it right away. I am being extremely careful and I am only taking advice from the Mayo Clinic in the Cleveland clinic at this point, and only from people who had similar experiences. I want to thank you for taking the time to read my post and offering any suggestions that’s what I’m looking for. I will be calling the Mayo Clinic to see if I can arrange a second opinion through them on how to proceed. I was given a date to do an ablation, but they had not seen most of what had been done and what I have been through since April and I think that it’s better for them to have the information to proceed properly .
@snop Yes, I always err on the side of 'hose-piping' my care givers with details. I try not to be an annoyance, and don't argue incessantly, but I do question and ask for rationale when something new is prescribed. If nothing else it lets them know you're not just being passive and submissive, and are not all that interested in your own welfare. I want them to see I have been reading and ready to ask somewhat intelligent and educated questions.
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Ablation is crazy. I dont understand why anyone bothers with it when its effectiveness is so short. Why keep repeating same procedure and be put under?
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I personally anymore feel Drs are just unhelpful. We are guinea pigs.
@9yellowbox Its effectiveness, for those who are symptomatic, is priceless, and they'd tell you that even if an ablation only lasted a year it would be worth that year for the day's bother involved in ablation surgery. I'm in my fourth year, touch wood, and I know people who have been AF-free for six years or longer. I had to have two to get the four years, but that was because the first didn't completely ablate the full circle around my pulmonary veins. Second go, he found the small space he'd missed. I was highly symptomatic, and I can't begin to tell you how grateful I am to have been free of that menace for almost four years now. I would happily have another ablation, even if it only meant another year in the 'good.'