My cardio. says the atenolol has the opposite affect on me, making me less tired, because of my conditions.
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?
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.
I would guess that it would be due to the decreased IST and NCS resulting is better sleep.