From BetaBlockers.. changing......

After being on BetaBlockers (mainly Atenolol) for about 25 years... Doc.
is weaning me off them. Home call and BP test showed mine was very high...
Going on to Amlodipine, but doing gradually,i.e 'marrying low-dose Amlod
with a cut-off half of the Atenolol. Latter difficult to do accurately. Was

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warned there might be some unpleasant side effects for few days. Certainly
were..couldn't see properly first day, face puffed up, frontal headache, &
so on. Says they are all part of the change, and plod on, because will feel
so much better once used to them and side-effects wont go on long. Is
anyone else put on the switchover.?And how was it for you ?

Aries...

sounds awful for you ((((((((((Marg)))))))))) Thankfully I do not need to
take anything for BP but OH does - he was taken off Beta Blockers and put
on to an ACE inhibitor - no gradually weaning off and on tho. He is fine,
no unpleasant side effects at all :)

Old Grizzly...

i am on them (Pindolol) but as they are for Angina as well as BP it
seems i shall be kept on them and thank goodness too if weaning off them
is not nice

MCC...

Likewise - I'm on Inderal LA for angina. I take other tablets for high
blood pressure, cholesterol lowering etc.
On the rare occasion when I have forgotten to take my beta-blocker in the
morning by lunchtime I'm in a right state, so goodness knows what state I
would be in if I was to be taken off them altogether.
Thankfully that's not going to happen.