23-04-2012, 02:13 AM
Chrishoney
I'm very grateful for your post and good wishes. I'm certainly a believer in trying one thing at a time, particularly when I am trying to retreat from an over-medicated state.
I was very interested in your warning re forskolin since I had noted it as a possible way of controlling BP if stopping the beta-blocker and subsequently possibly the alpha-blocker (terazosin) which is not compatible with Cialis, caused my BP to rise substantially. Having looked into it again, there seem to be a couple of other potential issues, namely increased pulse rate and interaction with warfarin. My personal experience over more than twelve years is that while there are a great many things listed as possibly interacting with warfarin, for me only a minority actually do so to any significant extent - and when my INR does step out of bounds (not often) it is sometimes impossible to tell what did it. Likewise a dangerous increase in pulse rate seems to be an occasional side effect rather than an expected result, My average resting pulse rate at the moment is in the range normally reserved for athletes, which I am not. If I try forskolin I shall be -very- careful.
Bryony
Thank you also. I have already been taking PM for more than a month, and I think that I'll continue at least until I see what happens initially when and if I stop the beta-blocker, since that is unknown territory in various ways both physical and mental. No extra results yet but that may be because I have lost 13lbs during the same period - a lot at first but now much more slowly, and some of it seems to have been from my chest.
I'm very grateful for your post and good wishes. I'm certainly a believer in trying one thing at a time, particularly when I am trying to retreat from an over-medicated state.
I was very interested in your warning re forskolin since I had noted it as a possible way of controlling BP if stopping the beta-blocker and subsequently possibly the alpha-blocker (terazosin) which is not compatible with Cialis, caused my BP to rise substantially. Having looked into it again, there seem to be a couple of other potential issues, namely increased pulse rate and interaction with warfarin. My personal experience over more than twelve years is that while there are a great many things listed as possibly interacting with warfarin, for me only a minority actually do so to any significant extent - and when my INR does step out of bounds (not often) it is sometimes impossible to tell what did it. Likewise a dangerous increase in pulse rate seems to be an occasional side effect rather than an expected result, My average resting pulse rate at the moment is in the range normally reserved for athletes, which I am not. If I try forskolin I shall be -very- careful.
Bryony
Thank you also. I have already been taking PM for more than a month, and I think that I'll continue at least until I see what happens initially when and if I stop the beta-blocker, since that is unknown territory in various ways both physical and mental. No extra results yet but that may be because I have lost 13lbs during the same period - a lot at first but now much more slowly, and some of it seems to have been from my chest.