Atenolol
Common brands: Tenormin
I take the above and had an interesting and not happy several weeks with this drug last fall right after Thanksgiving.
For years I took the drug in the morning.
Three separate events changed that.
1.The articles about how cardiac drugs protected us better when taken at night. So I started taking the drug at night instead of the morning.
2. We had fairly chilly nights and basically kept our windows at night opened a few inches in our master BR.
3. So I changed to taking it at night and my PPO changed the generic manufacturer and used its package insert more on this later.
4. I started having chills in my feet and hands shortly after being in bed. Then, about mid night to 3 am, I had severe hot spells with hands/feet at first and then my whole body. If my wife and I were lucky we got some fairly good sleep from 3:30 am to 6 am ish, then we woke up and got out of bed.
I read the new package insert and there was basically zero warning about hot or cold flashes. So I didn’t equate the flashes to the new form of Atenolol.
During this time, my short term memory was going to hell.
Again nothing in the package inserts of any drug I was taking.
About 3 months ago, I got a heads up from a relative with a medical background to do a google search on each of my drugs and not depend on their package insert.
There was basically nothing about the flashes on every drug I was taking with the exception of Atenolol.
Hot and cold flashes were at the top of every Google search as common/severe side effects re Atenolol.
So I switched back from taking Atenolol at bedtime to early morning. Within a few days, the hot/cold flashes went away.
If I still have them in the daytime, I take off a layer of clothes if I’m having hot flashes or add a vest like now if I’m having cold flashes.
Back to good sleep and my short term memory lapses are basically gone.
Good to hear. Thanks for the input.