exercise and and statin

[oldie]

do statins 'neutralize the benefits of exercise' unless you take CoQ10?

[oldie]

i'm beginning to think exercise tolerance is misleading me. I can do hard exercise 20 or 30 mins with a slight rise in pulse,non on BP and no other symtpoms. But I get a heavy heart beat, sick, pre-syncope and thoroughly  miserable in the middle of the night or at b'fast for no reason i can discover,
The cardios say, yes, well, take this medicine and come back in three months. Quality of life? a few hours a day. And i thought that is why stents are placed.  My poor, dismayed family thought it was a CURE

[oldie]

thank you very mu ch. Let me study it and come back to you

[Jerry_NJ]

The only feeling I have from AFib is a high heart rate, and if I carefully listen with a stereoscope I can detect an uneven beat.  I take both a beta blocker and a calcium channel blocker to keep my heart rate in limits and I respond well in that regard.  I manage a HR below 60 sometimes during my sleep period (I have a oximeter on my night stand and it can give me a quick oxygen sat level and HR if I wake up an clip it on a finger), and my HR is usually in the 70s when awake but not doing much.  If I engage in physical work around the house and yard I get a HR over 100 quickly.. but that is mostly due to the lower efficiency of my heart due to the non-functional atrium chambers.  

As for fatigue and tired, beta blockers to that to me, that's one reason I also take a calcium channel blocker, that allows me to take 25 mg of Atenelol BB twice a day instead of 50 or 100 twice a day.  

I have taken Rythol at a higher level than you, 425 mg is what I remember, but that was when the doctor was trying to convert me to norman sinus rhythm.. it didn't work nor did it hold be when I was converted with electric shock.  I am in permanent AFib and again to your specific question I am basically unaware of it, sitting here typing I have no heart beating sensessions.  But I know it is beating or I'd be dead on the floor.

[oldie]

Atrial  fib? A holter two months ago showed paroxysmal supraventricular taquicardia. I have a pounding, not fast, heat beat mostly at night but I cannot feel anything that seems related to the tachy. Do you feel your fibs? Are we in the same boat? I was put on Rythmol 150mg/day and doubling to 12.5  the Coreg I was already taking. My cocktail of five meds makes me sick, fatigued, good for nothing and then suddenly ready for aerobics. But I cannot idenify any single one as the real villain and suppose, reluctantly, that it is the mix or that it is the post trauma GAD I've had for 30 years  which i used to stifle with two double rums until I was 70 and  switched to Zanax

and thank you ed34. good to  hear from you again.

[Jerry_NJ]

I see from your profile you are 85, so I assume not a marathon runner, if I'm wrong on that assumption, good for you!!  

I have been on a statin drug for about 15 years and ran for exercise until about 5 years ago and all I can conclude from my history is I have benefited from the statin drug via low cholesterol and not blockages and weight control and general high physical quality of life from the exercise.  I'm 11 years younger than you, and I no longer run, but that is because of atrial fibrillation, not because of muscle damage due to anything other than age.

[ed34]

Studies have shown that mice can't run as far if on statins, and marathon runners develop more muscle damage markers in the blood than those not on statins. However, I'm not sure if just taking CoQ10 would reverse this effect.