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Re: [RC] [Guest] Beta Blockers - Typef

Uh ... I think I need to get some education. I just got put on blood
pressure medicine (Lisinopril) and for the first time in 10 years, I can
actually exercise and hike without running out of breath. I also notice my
legs don't get tired when I'm doing my conditioning rides (haven't made it
to an endurance ride yet since being on it, so don't have that experience
yet.) I also went on a jog-a-dog fundraiser and actually jogged almost two
miles, only stopping once. Now if you knew me, you'd know that exercise is a
4-letter word in my vocabulary, and I don't walk, let along jog. So being
able to do that without any walking or jogging up to that event is totally
unheard of for me. I can't wait to go up to the mountains to camp and see
what happens. Before, I'd wake up in the middle of the night
hyperventilating because my body wasn't getting enough oxygen, I guess. If I
can jog now, I for sure must be able to stand elevation. We pretty much gave
up hiking at elevation because I just couldn't breath.

Now back to this beta blocker thing ... it's in blood pressure medicine,
huh? I guess I gotta do some research. Mine must not be that because I feel
like Superman these days!

:) Jackie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lynn Kinsky" <lkinsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: [RC] [Guest] Beta Blockers


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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