Check with your doctor before making any change to your medication. In general, you blood pressure declines at night when you are sleeping. So it makes since to take the tablet in the morning so the drug blood levels are higher during the day. If you are experiencing side effects like dizziness during the morning it might help to spread the dose out. Check with your doctor.
In theory, it would make no difference if you took half the daily dosage at two different times, but the bigger question is WHY? If you are experiencing symptoms of low blood pressure (dizziness or feeling faint on standing) then you might need a different dosage entirely. Atenolol is a beta blocker that not only lowers blood pressure but reduces the workload of the heart. Lower blood pressure means less resistance to the pumping action of the heart. Beta blockers also slow the heart rate, and just as walking slowly is less work than running, this eases the workload of the heart. Atenolol, unlike some other beta blockers that your doctor could prescribe, lasts for 24 hours. It is convenient for many patients to take only one dose per day, and that is probably why your doctor wants you on this particular medication. Before changing your medication, ESPECIALLY one so important to your heart, you must ask your doctor and explain why you wish to do so.
No. Or Yes. Depending on what you believe to begin with. Your condition is psychosomatic. You need no medication. Stop taking your meds.
atenolol is a beta blocker.. a class of anti hypertensive drugs... if the prescrebed dose for a person is 50 mg.. it means that it would take 50 mg for that drug to have an effect on you.. so its, useless if you split the drug in half.. change in bp levels?? hmm.. it might.. but it may not be that potent to lower the bp to the desired range
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