Metoprolol Withdrawal (Page 81) (Top voted first)

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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Thanks for the encouragement, CJ.

How long were you on M?

I am reading that it varies by length of time on the drug, amount of the drug you were taking and how well you metabolize drugs.

It is just so difficult seeing all this time pass, the weaning, the withdrawal period,etc.

Did you see improvement in stages or was it a little better every day.

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Anyone still have a little chest tightness or shortness of breath after 7 months off? Tried to make an appointment with the doc today but they say if I have shortness of breath to go to the ER. But I've had this since I got on the beta well over 2 years ago so I'm not going to the ER. Doc won't even see me!

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Hello Cj when u do have the bad days what are some of the things if you don't mind me asking that you are experiencing ?

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Sandra the shortness of breath and tightness were awful for me, I thought I was going to die. How long were you on the M? I think that plays a big roll! How you have relief soon

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Norma, I was on it for 1 1/2 years at the smallest dose. We're still having shortness of breath long after being off?

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Oh ok yes same here Cj just got my results back from the endocroglist and was told my cortisol am levels tested high now I have to do the pm test,I'm sure that's something the beta blockers did and sides effects anxiety things like that are part of it so maybe you guys can have yours checked out also

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CJ stomach upset is what?

Nausea or pain or acid reflux???

Is headache one of your symptoms and a warm flushed feeling at the top of your head, from the forehead up? Exactly where your brain is.

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My cardiologist just suggested I take cardevilol....I am worried about having the same overwhelming anxiety I had on metoprolol....should I start this or just wait out the withdrawal....please help...I was going insane on the metoprolol and I fear the same with any beta blocker....I am on Day 44 off M. They said that cardevilol is a selective beta blocker where metoprolol is a complete beta blocker. But if you go crazy overly anxious on one why wouldn't you go crazy on another?

Help!!!!!

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Hello Matt and yes I don't blame you for being cautious of beginning something new,Why does he want to start you on another heart pill anyway if you have no heart issues,and if you have blood pressure issues there are other pills that' aren't in the beta blocker family

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My EKGs have been good, just high BP and HR with some nausea and headache....and a general feeling of being tired...with spurts of anxiety.

They put me on a calcium channel blocker Cardizem. I started sleeping poorly, had anxiety and depression and when I could not sleep last night, I am off after 10 days of 120mg ER, so they felt I needed something else. I am on losartan 100 mg.

The Cardizem dropped the HR but my BP actually rose as I added weight, probably fluid retention. But I had insanely high anxiety on M towards the end of my twenty years and I had to get off.....and I do not want to risk another beta blocker now that the adrenalin has been unleashed. I need to get off as many meds as I can.

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Yes that's what's raising the HR the adreline, I bet because you were on it so long If you have your cortisol levels checked they will see that and that alone causes random anxiety attacks,stomach issues,just check it out I pray u get better soon,my heart rate tends to be higher now in the am but 75-90 during daying sitting at my desk,are u over 100bpm on an average in a day?

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No, it starts out at 110 upon waking and drops to the 80's and 90's..the Cardizem was dropping it into the 70's.... But that will stop and there could be rebound from stopping that.

It seems that when the HR is up, the BP is lower and vice versa?

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Monique
Are you saying that waking up with a HR of 115 is normal for withdrawal? Or normal altogether?

Because I do not think waking up with a HR of 115 is normal.

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A little over 7 months off...had a crappy last few weeks. Chest is tight, lightheaded, tired, muscle twitches and just generally feeling yucky. I want my life back. I hope it happens soon but hard to keep hope!

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No I'm sorry Matt I thought u meant standing when first out of bed sometimes our heart rates are higher but upon resting lying down that is a little high,that has happen to me upon having nightmares and i jump up fairly fast

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And yes it when I first got off now that I remember the same happened to me for about 3 weeks straight

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Hi Sandra yes I still get twitches too from time to time,my legs,arms,buttocks it's really Wierd,I'm mainly just fatigued now and bad back pains,but that could be from the high cortisol issues I'm having too..??

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Thanks, Bob....I had decided I was not going back to beta blockers, but your input has reassured me.

I tried Cardizem for a while and there were too many mental side effects with it as well and it was only helping the heart rate.

So I am on losartan right now to protect my horseshoe kidney.

It was funny looking back that during the craziness with M, I passed two kidney stones, the first time I ever encountered that. One was so large they had to laser it and so they lasered both of them. The relief of that was so great, I actually felt good for a couple of days, but then the beta blocker effects all came back.

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Bob,
I am off M now for 46 days and I weaned off quickly in about two weeks because the anxiety had turned on me while on the beta blocker. I had little problem with M for nearly twenty years, just some lightheadedness, but then switched to atenolol, because it does not cross the blood brain barrier as does M, and it unleashed all hell for three weeks, unbelievable sweating, anxiety, then I tried to go back to Toprol but it was too late as I was feeling the overwhelming anxiety on Toprol, too....so I got off M.

I will likely need something, because I have lots of chronic sciatic pain and that certainly raises anxiety and BP, but am fearful of all BP medicines now since the overwhelming anxiety at the end of my beta blocker "career."

Beta blockers never calmed me down as they do for most people, according to the doctors. They have little clue.

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Have you been tested for hyperparathyroidism. Please check your calcium levels. This condition makes you feel unwell and high calcium will cause you to have high heartrate

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