Yep, This stuff isn't a joke or something you just want to try to see if it will help your game. It can mess you up.
Taking Beta blockers and competing?!?
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Yep, This stuff isn't a joke or something you just want to try to see if it will help your game. It can mess you up.
That's not the only con. When you say flat line that can show up on the heart monitor to. I can't believe your promoting BB's for people playing pool. OK i just reread your post and you did say for you pearsonally.
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The topic of taking beta blockers has been a quiet issue for a long time. I'm a medical doctor and at the same time a pool enthusiast for the past 12 years. I regularly prescribe beta blockers to my patients and I am very familiar with its usefulness and side effects. I don't agree in taking any drugs to enhance performance in pool. If a player can't control his nerves then I believe he has to deal with it without use of any drug, otherwise if a drug enhances his performance then that player is simply cheating himself. What are beta blockers? These are drugs that block the sympathetic nervous system particularly affecting the heart rate and force of contractility. It slows down the heart and reduces cardiac output, thus lowering blood pressure. It also has a sedating effect making a person less excitable and active. For patients with specific heart conditions these drugs are integral in their management, however, just like any other drug if its used improperly and abused it can be detrimental to one's health, and in the case of pool it may be disastrous to your game.
I take coffee 2 hours before a game. Makes me AWAKE and ALERT. Makes my heart go a little faster too, but I find that more helpful to my game.:thumbupis caffeine a drug? I don't care, I love my coffee)
I have read where proponol is addictive if you take them every day. Can you confirm that please?
I guess that makes me stupid Joe :grin-square:
I have been taking proponal every pool night (once a week). - My doctor prescribes this little amount for me. Even when I practice I will get uncontrollable twitches periodically. Old age will do that to you I get, like some golphers getting the yips. So I need this stuff to get by and enjoy pool without having to drink a sh!tload to calm down.
WORKS LIKE A CHARM.
And these whimps on here who say they can't get up for a game need some psyhcological counsiling. Kinda of like someone bugging you all night to gamble when you don't like to - then watch our Joe kick butt
That's what I am talking about. You just need to talk youself up - in my opinion anyone who can't do this should QUIT playing competive pool, unless you just like a night out etc.When you gonna get those cataracts removed? Then you might be able to shoot great like you used to. I play on Thursday nights now Masters division. Drop in sometime. Regards, Ray
that is exactly what my doctors had told me!
Hmm, lots of good replies. The health issues sure sound scary, I'd assume my buddy's doctor gave him those pills for a good reason though, the side effect he's bragging about though, might actually be true. How wierd. Well, maybe next time i see him, i'll see if he'll gamble for the first time ever, and with those magic beans, he should really give me a spot! :thumbup:
My father had that shock procedure done to him twice and both times within one week his heart went back to skipping. Then they did a cardiac ablation procedure which actually did get rid of his arrhythmia. Scary stuff when they're messing with your heart.
I guess that makes me stupid Joe :grin-square:
I have been taking proponal every pool night (once a week). - My doctor prescribes this little amount for me. Even when I practice I will get uncontrollable twitches periodically. Old age will do that to you I get, like some golphers getting the yips. So I need this stuff to get by and enjoy pool without having to drink a sh!tload to calm down.
WORKS LIKE A CHARM.
And these whimps on here who say they can't get up for a game need some psyhcological counsiling. Kinda of like someone bugging you all night to gamble when you don't like to - then watch our Joe kick butt
When you gonna get those cataracts removed? Then you might be able to shoot great like you used to. I play on Thursday nights now Masters division. Drop in sometime. Regards, Ray
Ray,
You aren't old, man...if the doc says it is OK for you, then go for it. I am concerned about people taking these heart meds when they don't even know if they have an underlying heart condition.
I need to get my eyes fixed and my back fixed just to be anywhere close to what I used to be....this getting old crap really sux, but I guess it beats the alternative.
I need to stop by and visit with you guys. I miss all of your smiling faces.
Joe
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Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson both had a doctor prescribing them pills.
I would recommend exercise before resorting to medication.
I have a-feb. been on bb. for three years. Like the doctor on Fox news says there is a little poison in every pill. I feel tired all the time so what I'm 66 years old with high blood pressure and heart problems. An been shooting pool for over 30 years. I play like crap before all these problems an after I got on the meds. Just saying to take any pill to play pool better is for dopes.
So are you in permanent AFIB or does it come and go?
Glad to hear it. My heart skips a few beats a day but not as bad as it did before i started taking an amio acid called Taurine.
The topic of taking beta blockers has been a quiet issue for a long time. I'm a medical doctor and at the same time a pool enthusiast for the past 12 years. I regularly prescribe beta blockers to my patients and I am very familiar with its usefulness and side effects. I don't agree in taking any drugs to enhance performance in pool. If a player can't control his nerves then I believe he has to deal with it without use of any drug, otherwise if a drug enhances his performance then that player is simply cheating himself. What are beta blockers? These are drugs that block the sympathetic nervous system particularly affecting the heart rate and force of contractility. It slows down the heart and reduces cardiac output, thus lowering blood pressure. It also has a sedating effect making a person less excitable and active. For patients with specific heart conditions these drugs are integral in their management, however, just like any other drug if its used improperly and abused it can be detrimental to one's health, and in the case of pool it may be disastrous to your game.
I take coffee 2 hours before a game. Makes me AWAKE and ALERT. Makes my heart go a little faster too, but I find that more helpful to my game.:thumbup
Hey Doc .... Help! LOL, I'm taking Bisoprolol, 5mg, Diovan (cant remember mgs) Cartizem 300, plavix 75, zetia 10, Crestor 40mgs, nexium, aspirin 160,
I have to check my wallet every half hour to remember who I am and if I walk more than two rooms away in the house to get something, I will have forgotten what it is I wanted.
Being sure to regulate your breathing; taking a few deep breaths periodically can be very helpful for lowering your heart rate and relaxing your muscles. On a regular basis, I can't recommend highly enough engaging in an enterprise that helps to build this into your muscle memory: meditation, hypnosis or yoga, e,g.
Tiger musta been out oh beta-blockers this week!
Hu
That - and about $500 million.
I'm a firm believer that any accomplishment under the influence of something tarnishes the accomplishment (with the exception being alcohol
). Besides, if you want to settle nerves, nothing beats good old-fashioned alcohol. It has the same effects as beta-blockers. It deadens your nerves - and too much will certainly put you in "I don't care" mode. I have to admit that I bowled my very first 300 game under the total infulence of alcohol - so much that my teammates literally had to point me at the pins in the 10th frame. But you know what, I threw those 3 strikes in the 10th frame without a care in the world. So, unless it's for a prescribed medical condition, who needs beta blockers?
Beta blockers can kill you. No runout is worth dying for.