Re: Which BP Med Has the Least Side Effects

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Jim Chinnis wrote:

Thanks, Roland. I'm nowhere in the vicinity of "sedentary," though. I doubt
that I could find it with a map. While doing the digging and stone work,
though, I've stopped going to the gym every day.

I put on an exercise heart rate monitor while working today. Digging in this
heavy clay soil keeps me around 100-110. Pushing the heavy loaded
wheelbarrow up the hill that is my backyard can bump it all the way to 145.
Trying to keep the barrow from tipping over in the wrong place on the hill
sent me very briefly to 162 (and I failed)... If I push myself and keep at
it without breaks, my heart rate stays elevated 10-15 bps or so for quite a
while (an hour or so) after I stop.

None of that sort of thing happens with 25 mg/d of atenolol. Now that I've
cut the dose to 6.5 mg, it does, and it feels strange after having my pulse
kept steady with 50 mg/d of atenolol.

But at least those numbers are something like what you'd want during aerobic exercise, if not the slow return to resting rate.

Tom always worked in a squat, never on his knees as a mason; unbelievably strong legs, back, arms...

I have to stop thinking about this now and go take a shower... ;-D

Susan
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