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What Causes Tightness In Chest And Headaches While On Beta Blockers?
60 year old male, very active, physically fit.....symptoms include feeling like a bad hang over, tightness in check and pressure in stomach, headache, feeling like going to pass out. Taking a beta blocker for PVC s and calcium channel blocker for HBP. All blood work has been normal except sugar is just out of the high end. Current EKG and Echo is normal. I m thinking tic bite although I ve been tested five times in last two years including the last which was PCR came back negative.
Tue, 22 Dec 2015
Hi friend,
beta-blocker/6535?iL=true" >Beta blocker can cause symptom of chest pain and headaches, particularly in patient with history of asthma or other pulmonary disease. Similar to beta-receptor activating drugs (ie. albuterol) is used to treat asthma, beta-blocker cause worsen asthmatic symptoms and cause chest tightness.
beta-blocker/6535?iL=true" >Beta blocker can cause symptom of chest pain and headaches, particularly in patient with history of asthma or other pulmonary disease. Similar to beta-receptor activating drugs (ie. albuterol) is used to treat asthma, beta-blocker cause worsen asthmatic symptoms and cause chest tightness.
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