Well, the Holter results came back and the PA called me to discuss them. They counted about 6-7% pvcs which they thought was high and not good--but they didn't really say what level would be intolerable. They prescribed a beta blocker called Metoprolol. I began it about 3 days ago, amid the usual warnings--don't operate heavy machinery, may make you dizzy, etc.--and am tolerating it reasonably well. It may make me a little zooey when I first take it with breakfast but each day the effect is a little less noticeable. They said it would make me a bit more comfortable. I am not sure what that means. But, so help me, I do feel a teensy bit comforted.
I was on an old-standby beta blocker--attenolol (Tenormin)-- for 27 years preceding my heart's failure. It did a fine job suppressing most of my A fib and keeping my hr under control. It was only when, for other reasons, they pulled me off the attenlol after that time that my heart went fully into the whole heart failure boogie. Interestingly, one of the warnings with this med is to not stop it abruptly. Fair warning.
The prescription information states that the drug is for: high blood pressure; chest pain or pressure; or heart failure (weak heart). So I'm in there somewhere. I have mild hypertension and the obvious weak heart (really?) but no chest pain or discomfort. This morning's bp was 120/75 which is fabulous. The result however is conflated with a torsemide yesterday which dropped me 5 lbs of water weight overnight and is usually accompanied by a lower bp the next day.
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