I've just read back through my first entry after taking Ivabradine and thought it might be worth a very short update on how I'm feeling about the Ivabradine now. Back then when I was first taking it, I comment on the horrible feeling of malaise and heaviness that I got straight after taking it. I am happy to report that this is no longer the case. I fact next time I see my cardiologist, I am going to have to admit to him that the drug he nagged me to try for a year before I did is actually helping! It is definitely bringing down my resting heart rate and controlling it at the higher end which is allowing me to be more active I think. It's making a difference to the standing/sitting/bending down scenarios, so not an instant 20 or 30 heart beat rise on standing from sitting for example. In my yoga class I am able (to some extent) to participate in sun salutation type moves that require lots of bobbing up and down. This is something I could not have done before the Ivabradine. However, just as with the pancreatic enzymes I used to take, as soon as I have any sort of relapse I seem to loose the effects of the drugs and my body just does it's own thing.
Two more things to note this morning. After going 7 months without a period, I've now had two within 30 days of each other??!!!! This has tied in with an extraordinary period of good sleep this week. I have had three or four days in a row where I slept for 6 hours straight without waking, this is most unusual, my normal pattern was to wake at about 1.30 and 4.30am. I'm dreaming lots too.
I haven't made it to physio at the therapy centre this week and I now really notice how the hardness in my thigh muscles gathers gradually if I don't do the cycling exercises. I need to make sure I prioritise this to fit it in every week. I have been letting it go for other things that need doing, but I am now convinced it is helping and definitely makes a difference. I need to try and fit it in, but it's that old story of balancing out what can and should be done with the energy and time available.
Two more things to note this morning. After going 7 months without a period, I've now had two within 30 days of each other??!!!! This has tied in with an extraordinary period of good sleep this week. I have had three or four days in a row where I slept for 6 hours straight without waking, this is most unusual, my normal pattern was to wake at about 1.30 and 4.30am. I'm dreaming lots too.
I haven't made it to physio at the therapy centre this week and I now really notice how the hardness in my thigh muscles gathers gradually if I don't do the cycling exercises. I need to make sure I prioritise this to fit it in every week. I have been letting it go for other things that need doing, but I am now convinced it is helping and definitely makes a difference. I need to try and fit it in, but it's that old story of balancing out what can and should be done with the energy and time available.
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