sleep

[jan]

Dear Dr.,
Thank you for your response. I feel I need to give you more info. I have had a sleeping problem for years! In trying to discover my problem my neuro. stumbled onto the fact that I had heart trouble, which he feels is only part of my problem. Since being on the atenolol though, I have slept better and my daytime sleepiness has been incredibly decreased, that is until recently.  As I said earlier I decreased my dosage of atenolol and for a couple of weeks felt okay and now...  That's why I am wondering if it was just a benefit from the atenolol or if maybe, I actually need more. Would the atenolol help me feel less tired just by helping to sleep better (I still was waking up through the night with it)and thereby decreasing daytime sleepiness or is it the affect it had on my condition(s) (IST and NCS)?

[Cleveland Clinic, MD]

I would guess that it would be due to the decreased IST and NCS resulting is better sleep.

[jan]

I have had 2 sleep studies and I couldn't sleep. I avoid caffeine, except occassionally. I always feel ready for bed. I always wake up through the night and only occassionally have periods where I can't go back to sleep right away. BUT I am always tired, it's just on my old dose of atenolol I felt so much better (the dose was reduced because of side effects). I hope all this info. helps you to understand better and maybe give you some insight.

[janel]

I too have problems with sleeping. I had by-pass 6 years ago. This problem started several years ago. I have even wondered if it could be some kind of chemical imbalance since I have experencied many chemical changes since surgery. I always had a lot of alleries and now I have none, I used to could take any medicine and now a lot of medicine have adverse reactions especially cholestrol meds. I too am on atenolol but my dr. and the information I read says it makes you tired (which it seems to do with me).  I also take melatonin.  At times this helps but most of the time it does not.  I take lorazepam occasionaly for anxiety and have mixed it with the two above meds. and that helps sometimes.  I fall asleep quick and wake up early (about daylight) with a lot of anxiety.  The longer I lay the worse it gets and more awake I get.  
Does this help and can anyone relate to this?

[jan to janel]

My cardio. says the atenolol has the opposite affect on me, making me less tired, because of my conditions.