This has been talked about for a while.
Scott Adams took beta blockers for a short time and said they made him feel terrible and depressed.
Had a chest cramp at 51 a few years ago. Any exertion, fast walking , etc. would bring it on. After 4 weeks, doc says yep something wrong and 2 stents and 30 minutes I’m good to go, get the usual drugs. After 3 months I’m just weird, not depressed, but just didn’t care about anything. Scared to say anything to wife. Couldn’t figure it out, had new lease on life. Love my life and family. Happiest guy I know. Kept reading thinking it was statins until I read the beta blocker suppresses your fight or flight. I literally felt if someone robbed me, I wouldn’t care enough to fight back or bother running. I didn’t want to die but for the first time I didn’t care much either. Cut my beta blocker in half and right back to normal. I was not depressed but just could not care less about everything. Told doctor, she changed to time release with same dosage and it’s been great for 3 years. Just tossing that out there if any fellow freepers are dealing with the same thing.
I had a mild heart attack on. 16 Nov. Echocardiogram did not show any problems. Angiogram showed minor deposits on arteries entering the heart, but not enough to slow down blood flow. No other problems found.
They sent me home with a new prescription for plavix. Plavix is a blood thinner that is prescribed to help keep artery stents clean of deposits.
I think the hospital cardiologist saw heart attack and angiogram, and put them together to read stent, and did not read the angiogram report.
I called my personal cardiologist to let him know about the attack and the Prescriptions. The triage team called back an hour later, thanked me for letting them know about the attack, and said I should take the Plavix to help with the stent. “But I don’t have a stent”, I replied. The nurse who had called was astounded at that, and only then looked up the angiogram report.
I got a call an hour later from my cardiologist’s nurse saying that I SHOULD NOT take the Plavix.
There were way too many assumptions made about my after-attack treatment. People need to be aware of their treatments, research them, question them when something seems wrong, and take charge of their own selves.
I’ve been taking a beta blocker for almost twenty years, and my psychological health is outstanding.
My blood pressure and heart murmur require it.
Depression inducing medicine after a heart attack... What could go wrong.
Unnecessarily depressed?!?
So what drugs are considered beta blockers? I’d really like to know because I take medications for high blood pressure.