Lynne Posted December 12, 2017 Report Share Posted December 12, 2017 Does anyone have information about how long it takes for Bisoprolol Fumarate to leave your system? Someone I know was taking 2.5 mg/day for a month. I am wondering how long it takes for any symptoms or side effects to resolve once you've weaned off of it. The medicine was stepped down slowly. Please share if you have useful experience. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Charlton Posted December 19, 2017 Report Share Posted December 19, 2017 Hi Lynne, the very reason I happened upon this forum is due to my long search regarding what Bisoprolol has done to me. I was proscribed it end of last December for Ventricular Tachycardia, I described it as turning me into an old man overnight, making me feel like a drunk zombie, and that I could no longer feel my lungs working and had to operate them consciously. The NHS claimed I was allergic when I nearly collapsed from it, even though I was cutting my 1.25 dosage in half as they made me feel so bad. I haven't taken any beta blockers since March. But I still feel as if I am on them, the symptoms for me have become permanent, in fact are worsening. All the cardiologists and GP,s will not entertain the notion that beta blockers are to blame, they say they come out of your system in 12 hours, they claim I suffer anxiety from my neglected and abused childhood. It is only last Tuesday I finally got one of my cardiologists to listen to me and told him I do not have anxiety, I have not had a day off from this supposed anxiety the whole of my long working life until the day I took beta blockers. I then explained that every one of my symptoms is a symptom of Autonomic Neuropathy, that beta blockers disrupt the Autonomic Nervous System, and that I have found a medical equipment company that states Beta Blockers can cause Autonomic Neuropathy. I explained that he himself had found my lungs to be mechanically good with an oxygen level of up to 98%, yet half my sleep time, my oxygen level drops to a dangerous 85%, that sometimes I wake up in a suffocating nightmare because I forgot to breathe in my sleep, that anxiety doesn't cause that, but the ANS is supposed to detect low oxygen levels in your blood, and get your lungs to automatically react accordingly. That is just one of many debilitating symptoms I still have. I finally got him to agree with me and refer me to an Autonomic Specialist. Hope I haven't over answered your question but it has been such a struggle for me to get doctors to even listen to me, and others might benefit from what I have learnt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynne Posted December 23, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2017 Wow! Thank you so much for your reply. I suspect my daughter was allergic to it. She had very strange symptoms and her lymph nodes got swollen for a month with no reason and no other illness. She had severe numbness in the upper half of her body and also a few days of 24-hour confusion. Normally with her pots she only has short episodes of extreme confusion. She would also get extreme swings of hot and cold - I mean extreme. I could even feel her limbs as icy and then a few hours later she would be sweating. Although these are normal symptoms of POTs she never had it that bad and was functioning much better. After being told to double the dose to 5, my husband and I decided to wean her off first to make sure the medicine wasn't the culprit. It took over 2 weeks for her to start to feel better (her lymph nodes have now gone down) but her temperature swings and heart rate seem worse than when we started the medicine. I hope in time this does resolve and I'm sorry to hear about your difficult experience. Anything else you can share would be appreciated. I've been checking this post every few days and no one else has answered so I really appreciate it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Charlton Posted December 23, 2017 Report Share Posted December 23, 2017 Its normal for the heart rate to get worst than it was before taking Bisorolol, the fact she feels better otherwise is a good sign and the heart rate will normailse once the disrupted adrenaline receptors find their equilibrium I would think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynne Posted December 31, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2017 Thanks again for your reply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little_blue_jay Posted January 19 Report Share Posted January 19 On 12/18/2017 at 7:42 PM, Peter Charlton said: I described it as turning me into an old man overnight, making me feel like a drunk zombie, and that I could no longer feel my lungs working and had to operate them consciously. The NHS claimed I was allergic when I nearly collapsed until the day I took beta blockers. I then explained that every one of my symptoms is a symptom of Autonomic Neuropathy, that beta blockers disrupt the Autonomic Nervous System, one of many debilitating symptoms I still have. What an awful experience! I think I am much worse on Bisoprolol than I was before too, I am on a low dose and I get slow heart rates that scare me even though my doctor says I'm nowhere close to a high dose that would do anything bad.. I also am getting insomnia from it, I haven't slept in 2 full days.. You said your effects were getting worse, how are you doing now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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