Metoprolol Withdrawal (Page 46)

i've been taking metoprolol for several years as partial treatment for high blood pressure. through diet and exercise, i've lowered my BP to the point my doctor says drop the metoprolol.

i did, 3 days ago, and i'm soooo tired, dizzy, irritable, and my vision is blurred.

is this withdrawal? how long will it last?

i remember starting this medication was terrible to get used to. it appears that stopping it is just as bad.

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Keep posting guys. Been having an awful time, one day clear as a bell, next day a mess. I am convinced this drug has messed with my thyroid, all these symptoms are identical to flares of hyperthyroid. My blood work is normal, I think because it comes and goes. Every single hour is a crap shoot. Sigh. Eat protein every 2-3 Hours and drink spring water constantly. As I sit here, suddenly I am clear as a bell, after having a bad day so far. I often feel better by late afternoon, early evening. I'll keep plugging along. Feb 9th will be 2 mos off of this garbage. Every time I am in despair I look at this support group and gather the courage to keep hoping. Thank you all.

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Lauren, what symptoms are you feeling? I am a few days over a month off. Head still killing me and so dizzy and just feel blah.

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So amazing to see all these posts! I can't believe how much better I sleep and other things! It will get better I promise! We are all different so it's gonna take us different amounts of time and also somebody mentioned the fat burning causing the drug release again!? Wow! Also mentioned the hyperthyroid....I remember when I would wake up and my eyeballs would feel like they were gonna pop out of my head. The only reason I know it was the metoprolol is it doesn't happen anymore. Also I would get cracks on the sides of my mouth that would feel like paper cuts and I don't get them anymore. I am convinced that this stuff is toxic and I would have never found out except for the process of elimination and a couple of doctors that questioned why my az doc put me on it to begin with. Hang in there everybody. I'm not getting any of those aches in my knees,wrists and fingers anymore that was really weird. The stiff neck will also go away. When I go for a massage it releases some toxins and I feel like krap for a few days later but I try and drink lots of water. I assume this to will pass. God I'm just so thankful to have my level head back again. I will keep posting and as I remember things I will post. The anxiety is sooooo much better! Thanks guys for listening and sharing

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It will get better Lauren it really will just hang in there even if they go away and come back or switch to some new symptoms it will get better. Good luck and hang in there it's so worth it. Be kind and understanding with your body cause as far as I'm concerned we are getting over our bodies being poisoned. Weather it's due to an allergy to this stuff or it's actually poisonous we may never know but be thankful we are off it. Hang in there I'm routing for us all for sure!

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Well glad to see that everyone is trying to pull thru . Spoke to my doctor today and she believes i have anxiety and that i should have no more beta blockers withdrawal by now because its more than a month . I was like really .!! The other terrible part of her is that the hydralazine she gave me made feel worse . Aparently that drug almost makes yoy feel like you have lupus !!! Glad that i am switching doctors in 2 weeks

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You should tell your doc....uh yeah I have anxiety from this poison you put me on and seeing I didn't have anxiety before you put me on it and now I do tells me it's not out of my system yet! Good God in heaven if we believed everything this docs say we might be in nut houses by now! I guess I'm starting to feel a little anger from being misguided for so long. Never again!

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Justme......glad to hear you're feeling better! I literally get goose bumps with a big smile when I hear of someone that has successfully passed through the twilight zone. That's when we truly know with absolute certainty that this drug does horrible things to some of us.

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My 24 year old daughter was put on this meroprolol while in the hospital for pneumonia. Her heart rate went up after a breathing treatment so they put her on this. She was taking 25mg 2x a day. She wants to stop taking it but is afraid of the withdrawals. Any advice would be great.

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Please tell your daughter as far as I'm concerned staying on this stuff has worse problems in the long run than withdrawals from it. Just ride the storm out and know it will end. I really don't feel it's as bad withdrawing from it as it was for me to stay on it but that's just me we are all different. If she doesn't like the way it makes her feel now then she won't like it later. Tell her to hang strong and know this to shall pass.

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Amen Jimbo amen soooo happy to feel normal again! Thanks! Hang in there everyone it does get better for sure!

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Carolyn weird that your daughter was put on it. The inhaler med can cause increased hertcrate. I would think it is a temporary thing. Would query the doctor to find out why and how long she needs the Metoprolol! ! Short stretch shouldn't cause the issues like longer time I would guess.

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We were floored when we found out what it was. Her heart rate did go up pretty high but just the one time. They gave it to her after 11pm while she was very sleepy, I think she may have been asleep even. I told her today that I felt that it was very irresponsible of the doctor to put her on that.

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Justme, how long have did the aches from knees and body take to stop . I am experiencing the same feeling and of course along with anxiety. Feb 17 will be 2 months for me . Its hard but trying to hold on

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Im still having dizziness and headaches and some light headedness. A little over a month off. Anyone else?

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I am with you on that sandra dizzy everyday and tension headachs and anxiety

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I've been off M for nine months and still have a few side effects on occasion.
For some of us it is a slow process, but it does get better.

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Funny should ask Jr cause I thought it was gone and the knee aches have left but th right wrist and hand have been hurting for 2 days now and some anxiety but at least I can work on the anxiety now when I was taking the metoprolol I could not calm myself down and would just fly with it and get crazy. Now I just sit quietly and breathe in order to get a grip on the anxiety. It's gonna take awhile I'm assuming. Just when I think it's gone bam some residual hits but still not like it was. Hang in there Jr. and everybody else.

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Hi. I am 34 years old.

I would just like to add, I was taking Bisoprolol for 1 year, the lowest dose (something like 25 Mg of Metoprolol) for short episodes of Spvt. (Also I was taking Nebivolol for 3 Months before that).

But Bisoprolol caused me breathing problems, inability to walk longer than 10 minutes, and on some days I couldn't get out of bad due to heavy breathing, strange heart rhytms, low energy and flu-like feeling all the time. I felt as if I have 120 years all the time on that drug.

I weaned off for 2 Months and then stopped taking it.
I am currently at 60 days totally off this drug.
I just wanted to say that I was reading this topic and that it is a huge help/relief. But also, I would like to add, that it is not only "an evil Metropolol". All Beta Blockers are more or less the same. Nebivolol and Bisoprolol caused me the same classical problems as most of you experienced on Metoprolol.

Also, when I stopped taking it, the same withdrawal symptoms started to happen, as all of you had on Metoprolol's withdrawal.
A few week of insane tachychardia (100 HR while resting, and 130-140 on any slight movement, walking etc). After 2-3 weeks, it started to get better, but there were still huge problems with HR going to 130-150 on any movement or walking for more than 2-3 minutes.

Flu-like symptoms stopped after 40-50 days, breathing also got better after 40-50 days. I am still having problems with walking longer than 5-8 minutes.

Plus, now I am battling with huge anxiety. Even though it is getting better with each new day. (I had to take low doses of Benzodiazepines for 4-5 weeks daily, to somehow "survive" till the next day.) Also, I haven't seen this problem in other posts, but in my case, it seems that my Beta Blocker totally messed up my brain and a central nervous system. I am slightly better now, but for long periods, I had huge problems with any type of noises (like listening to a radio or Tv for more than a few minutes). Also, I had huge problems with looking through the window and the sunlight was "killing" me. Also, I had huge problems while looking at moving objects during the first weeks off Beta blockers (like looking at cars in my street, or people walking, or traffic lights and similar). It is slowly getting better, but I am feeling as if the medicine has totally "deleted" everything I knew, and if my body totally forgot to deal with any kind of light, colors, noises and similar from the world around me.
I am feeling as a 2 Months old kid right now, who is looking at the sunlight, cars and traffic for the first time in his life, and my brain is learning how to deal with those "new things" around me...

So, good luck to everyone, I hope you will make it. And trust me, if anyone offers you any other Beta Blocker one day, DON'T TAKE it. Some of us who have problems with Beta Blockers, obviously can't handle it. And it will mess with your brain, heart, lungs, energy and other things, no matter if it is called Metoprolol, Bisoprolol or xx.

Cheers

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Hi Bob. I have been off this drug for 6 months. The anxiety is gone now but it was really bad for at least 4 months. I did not take the benzo drugs just had lots of bad days. This forum also saved me but all in all, metoprolol took a year of my life and made it a living hell. I am so grateful to be free of its grasp and my body is recovering slowly. I am 55 and never had a heart problem until the metoprolol caused me one. I have since been cleared by the cardiologist but what a ridiculous and needless ride. Keep calm... Trust that your body knows what to do, it just needs to get rid of the poison and then retrain . Good luck... You can do it!

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Thanks Anita for your post...I get on here some days and think I have the tiger by the tail and then other days like lately hands hurting anxiety and with the anxiety comes everybody leave me alone! I guess your right that he body knows what to do. I'll just keep posting and watching posts until the end. I still think we have an allergy to this metoprolol stuff because it doesn't do this to everybody. Thanks so much for posting.

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