RalphVa
Super Member
- Joined
- Dec 19, 2003
- Messages
- 7,873
- Location
- Charlottesville, VA, USA
- Tractor
- JD 2025R, previously Gravely 5650 & JD 4010 & JD 1025R
I FEEL GREAT!
Got my heart doctor to take me off metoprolol. Feel great for first time in 3 1/2 years ago when I was diagnosed with afib and put on it.
From the start, the **** stuff made me weaker and fatigued. My wife noticed the difference right away when put on carvedilol (at MUCH lower dose) a week ago Friday night. I'm back getting up at 4 o'clockish like I did for 31 years while working, after going to bed @ 10.
What got me to ask to be off it was the worsening numbness in my feet. It got to where I was having back firing of nerve, commonly called "diabetic nerve pain". I was using capsaicin cream to combat that after the nerve doctor wanted to put me on gabbapentil (no siree after reading side effects for that).
Now, I can actually close my eyes while standing and not start to fall. Feeling is back in my feet and getting better every day.
I've had mucho troubles with meds. No lisinipril, makes me cough. No Lasix, makes my abdomen bloat. And a bunch of others.
I think the metoprolol actually made my afib worse. I went from only getting afib after caffeinated coffee to having it most of the time. I just thought the afib had progressed and made me feel worse. None. Think it was the metroprolol.
You're supposed to cause no harm, docs. It's the oath you take.
Ralph
Got my heart doctor to take me off metoprolol. Feel great for first time in 3 1/2 years ago when I was diagnosed with afib and put on it.
From the start, the **** stuff made me weaker and fatigued. My wife noticed the difference right away when put on carvedilol (at MUCH lower dose) a week ago Friday night. I'm back getting up at 4 o'clockish like I did for 31 years while working, after going to bed @ 10.
What got me to ask to be off it was the worsening numbness in my feet. It got to where I was having back firing of nerve, commonly called "diabetic nerve pain". I was using capsaicin cream to combat that after the nerve doctor wanted to put me on gabbapentil (no siree after reading side effects for that).
Now, I can actually close my eyes while standing and not start to fall. Feeling is back in my feet and getting better every day.
I've had mucho troubles with meds. No lisinipril, makes me cough. No Lasix, makes my abdomen bloat. And a bunch of others.
I think the metoprolol actually made my afib worse. I went from only getting afib after caffeinated coffee to having it most of the time. I just thought the afib had progressed and made me feel worse. None. Think it was the metroprolol.
You're supposed to cause no harm, docs. It's the oath you take.
Ralph