Comments on: Health, hearts and Coreg http://www.jasonbarham.com/2009/08/12/health-hearts-and-coreg/ The bloggified life of JB Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:05:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: JB http://www.jasonbarham.com/2009/08/12/health-hearts-and-coreg/comment-page-1/#comment-200 JB Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:05:11 +0000 http://www.jasonbarham.com/?p=69#comment-200 Hi Kyle. I also had a low EF, which is why my electrophysiologist put me on Coreg. I think I was down around 21% when I first recognized my problem, but Coreg, Lisinopril and an eventual catheter ablation have combined to get my EF up over 50%. I'm still on Coreg, but when my doc initially prescribed it to me I was around 270 pounds. He had me taking the maximum dosage of 75mg. I was OK on this dosage until I really started to train for triathlons. Under sustained effort on the bike, especially, I would start having mild chest pains. The pains would usually not start until over an hour into a ride. I asked my doc's nurse practitioner if we could try to lower the dosage to 50mg per day to see if it would make a difference and it did. No more chest pain. It didn't appear to have had an impact on my EF, either, as a stress test showed about a week later than it was still around 50%. Hope that helps! Feel free to send me mail at jason@barhamnet.net or by replying to comments here. :) Hi Kyle. I also had a low EF, which is why my electrophysiologist put me on Coreg. I think I was down around 21% when I first recognized my problem, but Coreg, Lisinopril and an eventual catheter ablation have combined to get my EF up over 50%.

I’m still on Coreg, but when my doc initially prescribed it to me I was around 270 pounds. He had me taking the maximum dosage of 75mg. I was OK on this dosage until I really started to train for triathlons. Under sustained effort on the bike, especially, I would start having mild chest pains. The pains would usually not start until over an hour into a ride. I asked my doc’s nurse practitioner if we could try to lower the dosage to 50mg per day to see if it would make a difference and it did. No more chest pain. It didn’t appear to have had an impact on my EF, either, as a stress test showed about a week later than it was still around 50%.

Hope that helps! Feel free to send me mail at jason@barhamnet.net or by replying to comments here. :)

]]> By: Kyle http://www.jasonbarham.com/2009/08/12/health-hearts-and-coreg/comment-page-1/#comment-199 Kyle Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:24:36 +0000 http://www.jasonbarham.com/?p=69#comment-199 I just ran across your blog while doing a search on cycling and Coreg. Due to a low ef of my heart, my cardio guy is putting me on a low dosage of Coreg. I am a avid cyclist (riding and racing over 25 years) and am concerned about the medications effects mixed with hard riding. Just scanning your blog, it evident that you are more than just a weekend warrior. Any information you can pass on through your experiences with Coreg would be great. I noticed you where mention chest pain. Was that happening before the Coreg or after? Thanks Kyle If you decided to pass on any information, you can use emial I was required to leave to reply or if you don't have access to it, here is one of my other less used emails. khclinton@gmail.com I just ran across your blog while doing a search on cycling and Coreg. Due to a low ef of my heart, my cardio guy is putting me on a low dosage of Coreg. I am a avid cyclist (riding and racing over 25 years) and am concerned about the medications effects mixed with hard riding. Just scanning your blog, it evident that you are more than just a weekend warrior. Any information you can pass on through your experiences with Coreg would be great. I noticed you where mention chest pain. Was that happening before the Coreg or after?
Thanks Kyle
If you decided to pass on any information, you can use emial I was required to leave to reply or if you don’t have access to it, here is one of my other less used emails. khclinton@gmail.com

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