I recently had my blood pressure medicine changed, strengthened I am sorry to say. I was told by my physician that I now am taking a beta blocker, the most noticiable side effect he warned me about is during my workout, he said my heart would not be as fast....that I havent noticed....but I have noticed that my arms feel fatigued, dont know if it is a by product of my spottty training recently due to a broken pool pump, 2 funerals, and a kidney stone, or the new medicine....anyone here have any experience with this? thanks in advance.
I have a teammate who is on beta blockers, and he has the same problem--they limit his maximum heart rate, which affects how much effort he can give.
In an earlier thread on treatment for hypertension, lisinopril seemed to emerge as the favorite of the swimmers who responded to my question about which drug least impacts swimming negatively.
Perhaps your doctor already tried this one, but if not, you might want to see if it works for you. It's an ACE inhibitor as opposed to a beta blocker. The latter work, I am pretty sure, by limiting the impact of adrenline (keeping you from getting too excited.)
I am not sure exactly what mechanism ACE inhibitors use, but they don't, apparently, slow you down. Interestingly, lisinopril like other ACE inhibitors, is derived from the venom of the jararaca, a Brazilian pit viper (from Wikipedia).
If you are wondering who your heart's best buddy is, it is this fellow:
biology.uta.edu/.../DSC02784op.JPG
Here's an interesting article on snake venom and blood pressure meds:
www.fasebj.org/.../421e
Excerpt:
Workers in the banana plantations of southwestern Brazil were known to collapse suddenly after being bitten by a pit viper due to a drastic drop in blood pressure. Curious about what exactly this venom does to the body, biochemist Mauricio Rocha e Silva of a Brazilian research institute made extracts of the venom and began to study their effects in dogs and guinea pigs. In the mid 1960s, one of Silva's postdoctoral students, Sergio Ferreira, traveled to London to work in the lab of pharmacologist...
I have a teammate who is on beta blockers, and he has the same problem--they limit his maximum heart rate, which affects how much effort he can give.
In an earlier thread on treatment for hypertension, lisinopril seemed to emerge as the favorite of the swimmers who responded to my question about which drug least impacts swimming negatively.
Perhaps your doctor already tried this one, but if not, you might want to see if it works for you. It's an ACE inhibitor as opposed to a beta blocker. The latter work, I am pretty sure, by limiting the impact of adrenline (keeping you from getting too excited.)
I am not sure exactly what mechanism ACE inhibitors use, but they don't, apparently, slow you down. Interestingly, lisinopril like other ACE inhibitors, is derived from the venom of the jararaca, a Brazilian pit viper (from Wikipedia).
If you are wondering who your heart's best buddy is, it is this fellow:
biology.uta.edu/.../DSC02784op.JPG
Here's an interesting article on snake venom and blood pressure meds:
www.fasebj.org/.../421e
Excerpt:
Workers in the banana plantations of southwestern Brazil were known to collapse suddenly after being bitten by a pit viper due to a drastic drop in blood pressure. Curious about what exactly this venom does to the body, biochemist Mauricio Rocha e Silva of a Brazilian research institute made extracts of the venom and began to study their effects in dogs and guinea pigs. In the mid 1960s, one of Silva's postdoctoral students, Sergio Ferreira, traveled to London to work in the lab of pharmacologist...
