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> Laura  lit@xxxxxxxxxx
> I am asking for a close friend.
>
> Does anybody ride using beta blockers?  The doctor told him  endurance and
> ctr riding is too strenuous of a sport to use be using a beta blocker.  He
> is on a beta blocker for his heart, and he is 41 years old.  Which is the
> approxitmate median age for endurance riders.
>
> Please post to the ridecamp list.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Laura

The original blood pressure med my doctor prescribed was a beta 
blocker, but after I fainted off my horse a couple times in the 
summer heat at a walk (my heart rate couldn't get up enough to pump 
the blood at an adequate rate for cooling),  I went back to the 
doctor for a change in meds!  I am now taking an ACE inhibitor and a 
calcium channel blocker and neither drug, singly or together, seems 
to inhibit my ability to do aerobic activity.  If, however,  the only 
drug that will work for him is a beta blocker -- well, he's hosed: 
he'll likely have to give up his sport (nothing is worth a heart 
attack or a stroke -- been there done that!).  But that's for him and 
his doctor to determine.


--
Lynn Kinsky     Santa Ynez, CA
http://www.silcom.com/~lkinsky


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