30 October 2025

Now this is a little silly. I've normally got at least a weeks worth of tablets in hand so when I start the last sheet of Rivaoxaban I KNOW it is time to pick up the new prescription! SHOULD have done that last week, but even though the sheet was going down I still did not twig until last night that I was late collecting a new script. Just heading out now to pick it up before I forget again. At least checking the NHS app it seems that the Bisoprolol Fumarate has been dropped from the new script but it would perhaps be nice if the app actually FLAGGED that the new script was due for collection, rather than my having to remember to look.

Something else that I have realised is that the problem I had with my breathing while talking had returned while I was taking the Bisoprolol Fumarate again, and since that tablet had been in my cocktail since day one, it probably explains why I was having that problem long before the actual heart condition had been diagnosed. With a cocktail of drugs, just how does one ascertain which side effect is caused by which drug? I am still trying to get a proper meds review and a discussion on the other drugs such as the statin which I think is the source of the elevated liver function results. That is not needed to control my cholesterol so just what is the point of taking it. The doctor who insisted that I needed it admitted THAT fact at least, but never gave an alternate reason other than some government target!

Still having trouble getting my elevated heart rate exercise target back where it was before the month on Bisoprolol Fumarate but it seems if I take my walk later in the day I get better results, so again, is the morning cocktail of drugs wearing off by then? Lets see if I can actually get back to 150 minutes over a full week by walking later.