Your article (I take beta blockers for my anxiety – and many more with my friends. Is that a problem?, 20 May) Promoted the increasing number of use of beta blockers, especially in manageable anxiety in the situation. These drugs are the subject of a Report of Finance Investigation In 2020, Propranolol is in particular in overdose. On October 2024, the total pharmaceutical council published Advice for Pharmacy professionals Also highlight the risk of dizziness.
GPS should be careful when prescribing these drugs for concern, which is not recommended by country-based instructions related to concern and associated with important results.
Christopher Sullivan
Pharmacist, Newton Abbot, Devon
After diagnosed with atrial fibrillation in 2020, beta blockers prescribed me to lower my heart rate. I hate getting it while they make my symptoms – tired and mist with the brain – worse. I stopped getting it and now there’s a Pacemaker.
I was amazed at reading they were always prescribed for anxiety. I understand the need for a speedy recovery, but long term has better copying methods than to drink medicine with “no concrete evidence
Barbara Richardson
London
