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> > 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.
> 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.
OTOH, I've been on a beta blocker for years (propanolol), and have never had
a lick of trouble with it.  Although I've only ridden sporadically the past
few years, just looking back at the years I've been taking it, I've done 750
miles, 3 100's, a couple of 75's, managed one win, and half a dozen or so
Top Tens.  And as I recall, the one win (on a 75, where we also earned BC)
was on an extraordinarily hot day.  And one of the 100's was a grueling day
where only three of us finished, all at the same time, with a riding time
close to 20 hours.  And I wasn't truly "fit" for most of those miles,
either.   So no, I wouldn't say he's automatically not going to be able to
endurance ride--just depends on dosage and how his particular body handles
it.

Heidi


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