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I have suffered a irregular heart beat for thirty five years. I've been taking Metaprolol for approximately thirty years. 50mg in morning and sometimes 25mg at night. I still have arrhythmias and sometimes my pulse beats between 57 bpm and 65 bpm. I usually start feeling light headed if pulse goes into the 50 bpm yet all my cardiologist throughout the years see nothing wrong with a low pulse rate.
Biggest waste of my money and my insurance company was paying $30,000 for a LOOP recorder implanted in my chest. I could have a horrible irregular heartbeat episode YET this stupid LOOP recorder would report to my doctor "normal heart rhythm" even though my heart is beating irregular. After four years of this LOOP it was removed two months ago and never figured out why I have these irregular heartbeat episodes. Biggest waste of my time and money.
I was wondering if being on Metaprolol for so long could cause more heart irregularities???? None of the cardiologist I have seen throughout these 35 years ever acts concerned etc. BUT the arrythmias are driving me crazy. My current cardiologist said to me last week when I called her she said you had a loop recorder in your chest for almost 4 years and every time you had irregular heartbeat episodes you triggered the device to send those recordings to your doctors and they never ever saw any heart rhythm irregularities and it never ever reported that I had AFib. How in the world can I feel my heart beating irregular yet a loop recorder not throw a red flag regarding those episodes? This makes no sense to me and I feel like throughout the 35 years I have just wasted my time with all these cardiologists
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Hi Joanne,
Here are my two cents: I have mitral valve repair surgery in January 2021 with a Maze procedure (ablation) for afib. I only had one afib attack in my life just before the surgery and never again since.
However, in September of 2021 I started to have irregular heartbeat issues, mostly PVC's. I took Metoprolol in various dozes, twice a day 25 mg; then just once before I went to bed; then increased it, then I decreased it until I got sick and tired of the whole thing and after clearing it with an electrophysiologist, I completely stopped taking it.
The PVC's are almost non-existent now; I may have one here and there. The electrophysiologist could not give an explanation as to why this happened. He said it was coincidence, but who knows.
I am not suggesting to do the same thing but you may ask your doctor about it.
Good luck and stay safe!
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I had a loop put in and a week later an ablation and a pacemaker. The loop is out of course and I still have a bit of afib, a tick of it now and then. This is all new to me and my hopes are not to need medications down the road, a miracle but still hoping. I feel your frustration in every way, our whole family had heart situations, very genetic with us and it is a tough road to hoe....glad the loop is gone for me.