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(Message started by: Brian_Y on Apr 21st, 2003, 9:59am)
Title: Beta Blockers
Post by Brian_Y on Apr 21st, 2003, 9:59am
Doctor is trying beta blockers on me as prophylactic measure.  Anyone else had any success or know any stories?

If there is something the archives about this, do not waste disk space by telling me there are stories about this in the archives.  I am too lazy to look and too full of ennui to care!!!!    ;D

I appreciate your help, folks....I need to find the THING that works...
Title: Re: Beta Blockers
Post by Ueli on Apr 21st, 2003, 10:58am
Let's hope someone has pitty with a lazy bashtard and takes over the footwork for him.

I am too lazy to copy and past my old posts, but i gladly provide this link (http://www.clusterheadaches.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=general;action=search)
Title: Re: Beta Blockers
Post by don on Apr 21st, 2003, 11:10am

Quote:
I am too lazy to look


People who compiled that info were not to lazy to put it there.


GO LOOK!
Title: Re: Beta Blockers
Post by Brian_Y on Apr 21st, 2003, 11:24am
God, I hate wasting all of my sardonic remarks.  I need to use them more effectively.  But I expected this, so I blame myself.

I'll go and look, but excluding the aforementioned posts, does anyone have any other relavant, recent exposure they'd like to share?
Title: Re: Beta Blockers
Post by Brian_Y on Apr 21st, 2003, 11:32am
Due to my being the nice guy I am, I looked for beta-blocker info on this site, so let me let everyone else know to save them some time (more than likely even less time than posting a link to search for pertinent info):

There is nothing.

Not in the past two (2) years that does not have to do with mixing verapamil and verapamil like drugs with beta-blockers and teh ensuing issues therein.  So any info anyone can help me with RE your own experience, I would appreciate it.

B
Title: Re: Beta Blockers
Post by Mr.Happy on Apr 21st, 2003, 12:02pm
Brian,

I too stumble _absolutely_ in the face of the CH.com search laboratory. Never have been able to find squat, while others seem to be able to find peas in a haystack. Perhaps I need to take a refresher course in proper use of Boolivian Operands. Only two places I know of to look for goop:
http://drfeller.com/temp/search1.jpg and the ever popular http://drfeller.com/temp/search2.jpg
Managed to find 12 "Beta Blocker" entries.....5 from 1999, and 7 from 2001........instead of the expected 17,496 results from 128,217 documents searched.
Please feel free to enlighten Brian....while I hide _Over Here_ behind this rock.

Beta Blocked,
RJ
Title: Re: Beta Blockers
Post by cathy on Apr 21st, 2003, 12:12pm


Brian....try asking Svenn he's quite clued up about beta blockers Wes is still learning...

Cathy  :)
Title: Re: Beta Blockers
Post by Brian_Y on Apr 21st, 2003, 12:31pm
RJ and Cathy,

Thanks and thanks for your good manners.  Anything I can research on my "own" I do.  I suspect I'd not even be asking this if I thought my doctor had filled me in as completely as I would have liked and thus would have negated part of the purpose of this board.  That's the whole point of information sharing on this board though, agreed?
Title: Re: Beta Blockers
Post by cathy on Apr 21st, 2003, 1:42pm


Hey Brian......what I meant to say was....I haven't got a fucken clue go and look it up yourself you lazy bastard... ;D
Title: Re: Beta Blockers
Post by Brian_Y on Apr 21st, 2003, 1:56pm
D'Oh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Beta Blockers
Post by Bob P on Apr 21st, 2003, 2:48pm
Tried 'em, didn't do squat for me.
Title: Re: Beta Blockers
Post by Ueli on Apr 21st, 2003, 2:56pm
The link I gave returns 114 posts for 'beta blocker' and 179 for 'Atenolol or Inderal'.

But then, it occured to me a long time ago that to obtain any hits from the search engine I cannot leave the 'Max Age since last post' at 0 hours + 0 days.....
Title: Re: Beta Blockers
Post by catlind on Apr 21st, 2003, 3:06pm
They didn't do anything for me.

Cat
Title: Re: Beta Blockers
Post by Brian_Y on Apr 21st, 2003, 3:13pm
Ueli,

That's what I did (0 hours bit)!!!  Because when I clicked on your link it was just the "blank" search engine w/ no criteria...  Thanks for your knowledge and assistance.  I'll see what I can find.

LBB
Title: Re: Beta Blockers
Post by Charlie on Apr 21st, 2003, 10:47pm
I'm the exception. Inderal worked very well for me and I deliberately stopped taking the stuff when my cycle ended, When they started again, I'd take them again. I could stand a couple days of pain rather than take more zombie producing crap.  Damn stuff was great.

Charlie
Title: Re: Beta Blockers
Post by don on Apr 22nd, 2003, 5:58am

Quote:
Because when I clicked on your link it was just the "blank" search engine w/ no criteria..


Did you want him to fill it out for you?

It is a difficult search engine to use. I can not get any more than 25 hits. Sometimes I get no hits.

Go to yahoo. Type in "cluster headaches" "beta blockers". Got 849 hits.
Title: Re: Beta Blockers
Post by suzy617 on Apr 22nd, 2003, 7:15am
I did the inderal 2 years ago and it worked great but this last cycle, they unfortunetly did nada. I liked them too cause not many side effects.

suzy
Title: Re: Beta Blockers
Post by oringkid on Apr 22nd, 2003, 6:13pm
Inderal was the very first med that did not work for me.

Sherry
Title: Re: Beta Blockers
Post by jonny on Apr 22nd, 2003, 7:05pm
Brian,

Whats with your pic....is that you giving Saddam a noogie? ;D

......................................jonny
Title: Re: Beta Blockers
Post by 2late on Apr 22nd, 2003, 7:10pm
jonny.......LMAO!                                ...............Jack
Title: Re: Beta Blockers
Post by tanner on Apr 22nd, 2003, 10:42pm
inderal was also one of the first drugs i failed on, but i hope it works for you........
                                         tim
Title: Re: Beta Blockers
Post by Drk^Angel on Apr 22nd, 2003, 10:49pm
Inderal was about as worthless as... Well... All the other BS my GP prescribed me...  Thank God I have a decent neuro now...

PFDAN................................. Drk^Angel
Title: Re: Beta Blockers
Post by cluster0557 on Apr 22nd, 2003, 11:58pm

on 04/21/03 at 11:32:20, Brian_Y wrote:
Not in the past two (2) years that does not have to do with mixing verapamil and verapamil like drugs with beta-blockers and teh ensuing issues therein.  So any info anyone can help me with RE your own experience, I would appreciate it.

B


I will be Mr. Nice guy and say don't mix Verapamil with another Beta Blocker. Both can be taken but the risk is sudden and rapid decrease in heart rate and in Blood Pressure.

My Neuro did me a favor and added a Beta Blocker (Nadolol 5mg) initialy to my 240mg SR 3 x daily dose of Verapamil. After 5 days my BP plumeted to 89 over 50 something and my heart rate dropped into 40's. Hell I never got to taper up to the 10mg dose prescribed.
The drop occured in three hours. At 4pm I was running 120 over 85 but by 7 pm that evening my BP and heart rate where in the dumper.

Long and short of it I got to stay a night in Cardiac care due to heart rate that kept fallling. I have a healthy heart but it does not like drugs telling it to work at 50% capacity.

So my reccomendation is do more research. I won't take Verapamil with a Beta blocker again.


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