sarah
08-19-2006, 05:10 AM
Read the following with interest and wondered if anyone was on beta blockers or ACEs?
from article about cardiac problems with Herceptin:
"The women had tumors that were sensitive to the drug Herceptin, which can help 20 percent to 25 percent of patients but is known to cause heart problems in some. The patients took the drug for at least a year; in 49 women, or 28 percent, the heart lost some of its pumping ability, usually while they were still taking the drug. More than half had no symptoms, but some felt short of breath. But the problem could usually be reversed with medicines like beta blockers and ACE inhibitors."
Personally my Mugas and echocardigrams have been good but I do suffer from shortness of breath when walking up even slight inclines or simple exercises so I'd be curious to hear if anyone's taken this treatments.
sarah
from article about cardiac problems with Herceptin:
"The women had tumors that were sensitive to the drug Herceptin, which can help 20 percent to 25 percent of patients but is known to cause heart problems in some. The patients took the drug for at least a year; in 49 women, or 28 percent, the heart lost some of its pumping ability, usually while they were still taking the drug. More than half had no symptoms, but some felt short of breath. But the problem could usually be reversed with medicines like beta blockers and ACE inhibitors."
Personally my Mugas and echocardigrams have been good but I do suffer from shortness of breath when walking up even slight inclines or simple exercises so I'd be curious to hear if anyone's taken this treatments.
sarah