I was put on an event monitor last Month and it was on for 22 days. At the same time, I was put on 100mg Zoloft, 2.5 mg bystolic and Xanax to calm me down. Well, My condition went from maybe 15 a day to 14,400 and it was all recorded on the monitor. The doctor called me and said that I'm having lots of PAC/PVC's and its nothing to worry about. Easy for him to say when i'm thinking I'm about to die.
Hey guys, whenever I read about acebutolol in treating pvcs and bystolic, I hear mainly positive things.
Is anyone on here on these blockers !!, if so whats your experience. I aked my cardio Dr. about Acebutolol, he said its something he wouldnt usualy prescribe for pvcs because it doesn't slow down the heart and the common belief is a slower heart induced by a beta blocker is supposed to reduce pvcs,, but people claim that this stuff works.
The last was bystolic and cardizeam. The meds were not working and the side effects from the bystolic were horrible....The cardiologist took me off all meds. My symptoms are worse. I have now started fainting and very light headed. The palpitations are constant. I am always tired. Now I have a squeezing in my chest with pain. The cardiologist wants to do another ablation. He dismisses my pain as heart burn and Im telling you its not Heart Burn!
I tried taking 1 1/2, one half in the morning and the whole one at night for awhile and I am not sure if it helped much. Here is the thing, I got the pvc's the last of Feb. and lasted 3 months and stopped the last of April. During that time I added the half pill. Perhaps I will try again to add the half and see what happenes. The pvc's stopped for one month and have started up again. I have not had any side effects from Toprol.
I have been having PAC's and PVC's for the last year and a half. Have taken Atenolol and Metoprolol SUCC ER. Atenolol did nothing for me, Metoprolol would help for a few days and then would have to increase dose. When I got to 125mg of Metoprolol, I had trouble breathing. Was switched to Bystolic, started at 5mg, then 10mg. At 10mg I could no longer feel the PACs or PVCs, but again was unable to breath.
I started Bystolic about 3 months ago and have been having increasing pain in the right side of my neck, my right shoulder, right shoulder blade area, and upper right arm. I am also getting weakness in my right arm and hand. If I turn my head in given direction the pain goes right to my right shoulger blade area. The doc gave me muscle relaxers but they did nothing. I also had an MRI done but it also showed nothing.
My doctor recently switched me to Bystolic - and I was given "samples" for a month but no instruction sheet or counter-indications as far as drug interaction. Would there be any problem with the above that I am taking and this drug? Also, I just lost (and want to continue to lose weight) 16 pounds on a diet program and don't want to regain that weight! Does Bystolic cause weight gain?
I have a long history of occasional PVC's (25 years), have been seeing a cardiologist every 6 months for the past 10 years. I have a stress echo about every two to three years. I have probably had at least 25 or more EKG's in the past 20 years, at least 6 nuclear and stress echos, have worn Holter Monitors on 4 occasions and have been told that my heart is completely healthy.
Hello there, I am new to this forum and have been reading it for a few days now. Hearing of other stories and problems has helped me relax a bit. My situation is as follows. I am a 30 y/o male 6"4 270 lbs not in horrible shape but not fit by any means. Last November I started getting "funny feelings" in my chest and after having my pulse checked by my wife and hearing the words "heart skips", I ended up in th ER.
After several different trials, I am now taking 5 mg bystolic and no lisinopril and my body seems to have adjusted. While I am overweight, I did not gain any additional weight as others have mentioned. I am also not exhausted. I recently had blood work so we will see if it had some kind of effect on my cholesterol as others have had. I hope not. It was interesting to hear that someone else had the heavy legs because my doc seemed surprised that I had that as a side effect.
Sorry i beg to differ w. no_fate. You need to follow your doctors orders to a T because he/she is the one that has done the testing for you and knows your body and non of us have seen your test results and i doubt few have a license hanging on their wall. If you have benign PVC's millions of people have them w. no issues and don't even know when they are happening. Of course a normal rhythm will return. Most people don't go thru these 24/7 they are kind of sporatic.
probably depends on who you ask about the risk/benefit but if you read the expert forum here the dr's usually recommend ablation for >15% of total 24 hr hb...so if you're like most yours would be about 16,000 pvc's since the average heart beats 100,000 in a 24 hour period...
I should have explained about the Cardizem ... He said I am taking it for my uncontrollable high blood pressure.
The PVC's ARE torture for me as well. When it happens it does startle me and put me into a panic. I've had a few heavy duty ones too that sometimes makes me wonder if I'm going to make it or not. I am talking ones that have almost made me faint or black out.
That's what what happened to me...1st dose of Toprol; even at 12.5mg I ended up in the ER with such a low hr/bp...
I had an ablation; given Zebeta and no pvc's for about 3 months; then they returned full force, and I tried something else but my bp/hr stayed really low and I felt miserable - tired all the time, my dizziness & fainting increased and dr's didn't know why.
This works well to control my tachy....but, has bad side effects of anxiety, restlessness and agitation. I lookd up Bystolic..and it has none of these type side effects listed. I was going to ask my doctor to change to Bystolic. Has anyone here had any success in changing over to Bystolic from Metoprolol ?
I take Bystolic too and I have also noticed a weight gain. I too haven't changed my eating habits. I am beginning to think it's the Bystolic because I usually can lose weight very easily, but I can't lose it now at all no matter what I do.
You mentioned your systolic readings, mine do the same thing in the afternoons.
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