Hi there. I was prescribed Bisoprolol 1.25mg for blood pressure but now among other things it has lowered my heart rate to the 50s. I cut it in half for more than a week but still no change in my heart rate. I am Planning to go see my GP this week. I am also planning to miss today half dose has anyone missed a dose or do you think I should take the medication until I see my Gp. I am new to this group forgive my long text
It is normal with lower heart rate when you take Bisoprolol, but never stop taking beta blockers until you have seen your GP.
Hi, You don't say how long you have been on it, as with most drugs of this kind it isn't wise to just stop however I have on occasion forgotten to take it (I am on 2.5mg) and haven't come to any harm, my heart rate is about the same as yours, I'm happy just so long as it doesn't go any lower.
Thank you for your reply
Hi, been on it for just over two weeks ad reduced to half a tablet a week ago.
Thank you for your response. Do u have any symptoms when your heart rate is low. I worry of how low mine is while am sleeping.
Yes I get very very tired, i also worried about heartrate when asleep but my GP actually said it was ok to take bisoprolol at night, I don't by the way, I take mine first thing in the morning, my heart rate has been as low as 46, I was in hospital at the time, the poor nursing staff were checking on me every 15 minutes, while I just carried on as normal, it was quite amusing, I think it was because I had just had a GA which in itself probably slows things down, but 3 years down the kline and I'm still here :0)
Line not kline...............perhaps I affected more than I thought LOL!
😂 oh that’s really good that u can still find humour in this situation. You really made me smile after a longtime of feeling like a Zombie.
😂😂 when u missed your doses did u feel anything
I was put on bisoprolol start of January 17. Right away made me feel like a drunk zombie, I could no longer feel my lungs work and seemed to have to "remember" to breathe, turned me into an old man overnight.
So, just like you, I right away cut my 1.25 tablets in half as this was enough to stave off the Ventricular Tachycardia I had been prescribed them for.
March 8th 17 at work, a colleague finds me learnt against the way in a state of confusion, takes me to the nurse, she cannot detect a pulse so calls an ambulance and puts me on oxygen. the oxygen brought me around and made me feel fine, but even after the oxygen, the paramedics found my pulse to be 42bpm, so I wonder what my pulse was before the oxygen?
I wonder what my pulse was like when I was on the full dose?, when I was asleep so not doing the remembering to breathe part?
Is this why I right away felt as if I was drunk, oxygen starvation caused by a too slow heartbeat?
The ambulance took me to St Thomas' hospital were they declared I had anaphylactic shock from beta blockers so have not been on one since last March.
The symptoms have remained however and it has resulted in my losing my job.
No it didn't cause any problems.
Glad I made you smile.
Phoebe 
Sorry to hear that Peter. When you stopped taking them dd u have withdrawals symptoms. How dd u stop dd you have to wean off
I stopped them cold turkey four times. One time was I was told to stop taking them as you have to be clear for an EP study and ablation, trouble is stopping them cold turkey sent me in Ventricular Tachycardia and on one occasion, the hospital pumped me full of bisoprolol so I had to go cold turkey again.
The cardiologist claims there is no danger in this, but I think they just try and protect themselves from giving you dangerous advice. Read the boards here and you will find quite a few ill people from coming off these dangerous drugs. If you are coming off them, I would advise to take a long time so you can do it very gradualy or else it is a shock to your ANS to have a load of adrenaline receptors suddenly snap back online.
It is hard for me to differentiate between my remaining symptoms from going on them in the first place, to withdrawal symptoms. The much higher heart rate I ended up with is probably a coming off symptom. I now have Autonomic Instability, that could be as a result of swinging the Autonomic Nervous System first one way, then back the other way when I came off.
1.25 is a very low dosage. My heart rate has lowered to 51 but I had a low heart rate to start with (65ish) after 30+ years of sport.
I'd always advise someone to see their GP before chopping or stopping medication and to be honest a resting heart rate of 50 isn't dreadful, especially if you have been prescribed the bisoprolol for BP.
Thank you for your response. I have followed advice and taken my dose for today. But soon after taking it started feeling the same horrible side effects now don’t know if it’s more now psychological as I was not feeling it b4 I took it. I pray I will successfully be weaned off this.
I have to honest and say I have not had any side effects from this medication at all apart from the lowered heart rate. Like all medication, perhaps you need to persevere for several weeks till your system adjusts. Just a thought.
You are one of the very few who are lucky enough not to experience nasty side effects with this medication, my husband was also one of the lucky ones, I have been on it almost 5 years now (2.5mg) and still feel like a zombie most of the time but I have learned to live with it as it controls my Atrial Fibrilation (190 beats per minute when diagnosed) so it is the lesser of the 2 evils where I am concerned.
You are absolutely right Phoebe.....sometimes we have to look at the big picture .....the lesser of 2 evils.
good luck
I have been on them 3 days only for ventricular ectopic beats I had 9000 in 24 hours with Holter on , haven’t felt any side effects yet heart beat about 50 went up to 80 after some exercise . I had heart surgery to repair mitral valve and they say my heart has got lazy it not emptying strongly enough, but would think betas make it weaker ! I don’t know . Yours problems different . I think they don’t really know what these drugs are doing , I’m only taking 2.5 so may justcut in half. Like someone suggested. But to feel tired all the time isn’t great for you! I felt tired when my heart kept doing extra beats! I think stress has bought it on for me as fine after surgery