Peter Charlton

I describe it a quivering throughout my whole body, I don't always get that but I get it really strongly in my feet and lower legs all the time.

I too have many debilitating symptoms that seem to be getting worst, but I put these down to the beta blockers they put me on before the ablation I had in April as I got the symptoms as soon as they put me on Bisoprolol for Ventricular Tachycardia. I described my initial symptoms as being turned into an old man overnight, feeling like a drunk zombie, and no longer being able to feel my lungs work, that I had to remember to breathe.

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.