http://diabetes-type-2.com/diabetes-type-2-causes/type-2-diabetes-caused-by-taking-atenolol-should-i-be-coming-off-this-drug Great Information on Type 2 Diabetes Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:01:06 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://diabetes-type-2.com/diabetes-type-2-causes/type-2-diabetes-caused-by-taking-atenolol-should-i-be-coming-off-this-drug/comment-page-1#comment-1407 The mom Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:54:59 +0000 http://diabetes-type-2.com/diabetes-type-2-causes/type-2-diabetes-caused-by-taking-atenolol-should-i-be-coming-off-this-drug#comment-1407 You really should address this to your cardiologist, if you have questions about your medications. However, there isn't any correlation between your Atenolol and Type 2 diabetes. The Atenolol is a beta blocker, used to control the heart rate, prevent angina and lower blood pressure. Since you already had one MI, you already know you have coronary problems, and high blood pressure will kill you a lot faster than the Type 2 diabetes will. You can control and possibly eliminate the diabetes by watching your diet, eating right, losing weight and exercising. None of which would hurt the situation with your heart either, by the way. I also don't suggest you get a wild hair and just quit taking the Atenolol either, since that can bring on heart attack number 2. Your diabetes is more likely due to some genetic predisposition, compounded by your lifestyle and diet. Change those, and you might be able to control or get rid of the diabetes. Get rid of the Atenolol and they may well be getting rid of you in a pine box. And don't make your medication decisions based on polls taken here at YA, where everybody and anybody - trained and not, can type in an answer. It's a lot smarter to talk to the cardiologist you hired to keep you alive a bit longer. He did go to school a long time to have the expertise, and you are paying him a lot for that opinion.<br><b>References : </b><br>nurse You really should address this to your cardiologist, if you have questions about your medications. However, there isn’t any correlation between your Atenolol and Type 2 diabetes. The Atenolol is a beta blocker, used to control the heart rate, prevent angina and lower blood pressure. Since you already had one MI, you already know you have coronary problems, and high blood pressure will kill you a lot faster than the Type 2 diabetes will. You can control and possibly eliminate the diabetes by watching your diet, eating right, losing weight and exercising. None of which would hurt the situation with your heart either, by the way. I also don’t suggest you get a wild hair and just quit taking the Atenolol either, since that can bring on heart attack number 2. Your diabetes is more likely due to some genetic predisposition, compounded by your lifestyle and diet. Change those, and you might be able to control or get rid of the diabetes. Get rid of the Atenolol and they may well be getting rid of you in a pine box. And don’t make your medication decisions based on polls taken here at YA, where everybody and anybody – trained and not, can type in an answer. It’s a lot smarter to talk to the cardiologist you hired to keep you alive a bit longer. He did go to school a long time to have the expertise, and you are paying him a lot for that opinion.
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]]> http://diabetes-type-2.com/diabetes-type-2-causes/type-2-diabetes-caused-by-taking-atenolol-should-i-be-coming-off-this-drug/comment-page-1#comment-1406 rich b Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:43:59 +0000 http://diabetes-type-2.com/diabetes-type-2-causes/type-2-diabetes-caused-by-taking-atenolol-should-i-be-coming-off-this-drug#comment-1406 My spouse and myself have been taking Atenolol for several years, Me for about 4 years and the spouse for around 8 years and I swear to you not one time have we ever heard , or been told by any physician, about any link to diabetes from Atenolol. I know for a fact that it is a genetic thing, and poor diet and the consumption of a lot of alcohol can contribute. Please check with your doctor about things like this. Sometimes you hear things from sources that tend to stretch it out a little.<br><b>References : </b><br> My spouse and myself have been taking Atenolol for several years, Me for about 4 years and the spouse for around 8 years and I swear to you not one time have we ever heard , or been told by any physician, about any link to diabetes from Atenolol. I know for a fact that it is a genetic thing, and poor diet and the consumption of a lot of alcohol can contribute. Please check with your doctor about things like this. Sometimes you hear things from sources that tend to stretch it out a little.
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