Heart Rhythm Conditions – Welcome to the group

I had A fib and an ablation . After 6 months, and issues with blood thinners, and no afib, I am off blood thinners and have a link implanted in my chest to monitor the a fib. Working well!

Maybe you should ask your doctors about supplements like Hawthorne. It is known world wide as one of the things heart patients are in need of.

Your doctors aren't wrong about a heart rate in the 40s. Again, in other countries 40 is thought to be good. The Chinese have a philosophy...we only have a certain number of beats, and after that we die. So...if you are only beating 40 times a minute your body will last far longer than those like Jim Fixx who died at age 52 and was a runner getting his heart rate up every day of his life after his dad died at age 43. BTW...Jim needed some cardiologist intervention for his blocked arteries he had not had checked out.
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/07/22/obituaries/james-f-fixx-dies-jogging-author-on-running-was-52.html.

I take 150 and have been at 200. The Cardiologist said that it takes large doses sometimes to do what it needs to do. It depends on how your body metabolizes it. Even at my dose I have no side effects and my heart rate is in the 40s. They don't want it to go higher as I also have 2 aneurysms. They said that as long as I do not get light headed from the dose 40s is fine.

You are taking 50mg twice a day? That's a very high dose? No wonder your heart rate is in the 40s.. How come your doctor is giving you such a high dose. I would question him about it. Is he a cardiologist? Does he know that it makes your heart rate in the 40s? You should ask him about this.. I always speak up with the my doctors. They are only human beings. They are not God.

Me also. No problems
With it.
I'm working on holding
My own.
Succeds101

I take 50 mg metoprolol (generic for Troprol) twice a day. Doesn't make me tired at all. Heart rate varies from high 40s to low 80s.

I take .25 Extended release but my heart rate still upper 40’s,

I take metoprolol 50mg twice a day. Makes me very tired . Slows heart rate but not to 40, s.

How much metoprolol were you taking to slow your heart down to the 40s???? I take half of a 25mg pill which is 12.5mg. That's a low dose and my heart is between 62 and 68 beats. Maybe you were taking a higher dosage??

grandmar,
Have you looked up the bad stuff Metropol does? I was on that one for a short while, but my heart rate kept dropping to the 40s, so moved on. Carvedilol was equally bad, but suppressed the migraines. Took 2 years of trying to get off carvedilol, but finally got off that one. Still have relatively low heart rate, but don't believe it is from the meds. I can recall when I was around 40 and went to give blood, I was a bicyclist then and rode daily, and was almost refused the donation due to the low heart rate. I'm almost 30 years past that almost refusal, stopped all beta blockers, take a few supplements, a statin, some Potassium, levothyroxine and losartan potassium. I'd have to say my Quad bypass was a great decision as it really did take care of most of my problems I had at the time of the surgery.