13 October 2025

For the last month I have been back on the Bisoprolol Fumarate at it's lowest dose, and as anticipated it's effects are hitting my daily activities. The paperwork specifically says 'do not take if your pulse rate is below 60BPM, which mine is, but the consultant 'thought it was worth trying to reduce the messy pulses'. As last time I was on it, my light-headedness has returned, and I'm struggling to get the raised heart rate exercise anything near the recommended 150 minutes for the week. Today's physio and exercise have not managed to clock up ANY activity over 99BPM which is not a good start to the week? Trying to put in a little more strenuous activity is just annoying my knee with little result. Added to this, the lack of 'fat burning activity' has seen my weight creep up. I've dropped back down to 1500kcal a day and have stabilised it, but need to loose another couple of kilograms again to get back where I was 4 weeks ago.

So I've been given the OK to stop the Bisoprolol Fumarate again, and it will take a few days to get out of my system, so lets see how I'm feeling over the weekend. At least I've got the distraction of the Midland's Model Engineering Exhibition to attend, even if there is no money in the kitty to buy anything to add to the projects. Some more parts have already turned up so I don't really need anything else, but it would be nice to work out what holes I need to plug in relation to the projects already 'in stock'.

I would like to start cutting back on a few of the rest of the cocktail of drugs, such as the statin and some of the blood pressure/diabetes ones since I'm no longer classified as diabetic and my blood pressure has been well under control since loosing all the weight. The Samsung Watch8 has been struggling monitor many of the things it was bought to track and blood pressure is one of the things it fails with along with tracking my sleeping heart rate to monitor sleep patterns ... which it also fails on when my pulse drops below its 30BPM lower limit! So while it was not much better before the drug change it will hopefully at least know that I AM sleep which it has failed to do several days in recent weeks. So much for 'Artificial Intelligence', when it can't spot simple patterns and keeps push for things that I don't think *I* have any control over. At least I have a spreadsheet against which to compare the next 4 weeks observations ...