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Tenormin | How to Taper off Beta Blocker
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High blood pressures, migraine headaches, chest pain and
glaucoma are some of the illnesses that are really painful for the sufferers. But these can be
treated, if the heart is made to pump blood at a slower rate, which is important when
considering the fact that it understandably reduces the blood pressure in the arteries and hence
helps to come over many disturbances. But how can the heart be made to pump slowly. The agents
used for this purpose are beta-adrenergic blocking agents or simply the beta
blockers. Despite these pleasant effects on the body, their use has some adverse effects as
well. So, the doctor may prescribe this medication but at the same time when he/she feels the
danger of beta blockers rather than benefit, they strictly advice their patients to discourage
from it. But it must be in the minds of the patients to ward off this medication in a safe way
by slowly reducing its dosage, because it is deadly dangerous to stop their use abruptly. So a
way must be known to patients to reduce dosage safely.
Tenormin | How to Taper off Beta
Blocker
Don’t stop this beta blockers’ use, if you are a heart
patient, by yourself, but contact your physician, if you are feeling troubles because of its
use. Your physician will sort out a proper way to reduce the dosage as well as change the
timings for taking medicine, ultimately discontinuing it. Your doctor will formulate a planned
scheduled for this purpose, once you and your doctor feels the need for it. According to a
study, discontinuing the beta blocker medication can cause heart problems and can surge jeopardy
of heart attack.
Present before the pharmacist the complete list of
medicines you are taking and let him know that you want to stop the use of beta blockers. With
his vast knowledge about medicines and the effect they cause when are withdrawn, he will tell
you that whether the withdrawing of beta blockers will cause any effect on the functioning of
the other medicines you are taking.
One may think about the taper off method to be, as taking
medicine after a gap of a day, but this isn’t an efficient method and method of planned
withdrawal schedule is most desirable by the doctors. The doctors may adjust the dose as to
taper off the effect of slow-release beta blockers because these beta blockers are coated in
some special substance and cannot be split.
It is must be cautioned that tapering off the beta
blockers may cause changes in the body that may be the source of concern. This is because many
parts of the body are influenced by the beta blockers as well as heart functions. Spikes in the
blood pressure may also be experienced. So, you must keep a check on your blood pressure and
heart rate at different times throughout the day, while you are in the weaning period.
During the weaning period a person may feel anxiety,
rapidity in heart rate, confusion, dizziness and chest pain caused by reduction of the
respective drug concentration in the blood. So, you must remain in contact with your physician,
who may adjust the schedule of withdrawing the medicine and may reduce or increase the rate of
withdrawal of beta blockers.
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