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What Are The Side Effects Of Atenolol?
Hi; my blood pressure reads today 163/93 and I took my blood pressure medicine in the morning as usual but is no going down, the medicine I m taking is Atenolol 50 mg. one a day and my pulse is 60. so if I take the medicine twice a day my pulse will go to low and scares me, What shuld I do?
Mon, 15 Sep 2014
Hello,
If your blood pressure is constantly above 140/90, your blood pressure medicine is not enough. If you increase the dose of Atenolol, your pulse rate would decrease. But there are medicines that are not beta blocker like a diuretic or Angiotensin Receptor Blocker ( ARB) which would bring your BP down without affecting your heart/pulse rate. These could be added to your present medicine or used instead depending on your BP response.
Wish you good health.
Dr. Noble Zachariah.
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If your blood pressure is constantly above 140/90, your blood pressure medicine is not enough. If you increase the dose of Atenolol, your pulse rate would decrease. But there are medicines that are not beta blocker like a diuretic or Angiotensin Receptor Blocker ( ARB) which would bring your BP down without affecting your heart/pulse rate. These could be added to your present medicine or used instead depending on your BP response.
Wish you good health.
Dr. Noble Zachariah.
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