Metoprolol Withdrawal (Page 86) (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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Are you all cured? I hope or at least feeling somewhat better or more like your old selves.

I am approaching 3 months, Day 87, and have found a new symptom, constipation. Has anyone else experienced this?

Since it is apple season, I am feasting on MacIntosh's. The pectin in the skins supposedly provides the laxative effect.

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I've been doing much better but I was only on it for just over a month and then I had the ablation done which helped the main problem and the rebound problem. Have you tried doing something daily like culturelle or miralax? Also prune juice daily. A glass of prune juice with a dose of miralax or culturelle should keep you pretty regular daily.

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My stomach hasnt been the same since I got on and off this stuff. I just got out of the hospital after a hole had blown into my intestine. We assume from constipation. My bowels are not regular. I have had so many problems. I literally feel broken. And it is a new symptom every day it seems. Im 8 mo off.

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I've haven't been right since beta blockers benicar amlodipine etc. I stopped in June '16, had upper and lower endoscopy and colonoscopy done, blood tests over and over, ct scans had upper GI with barium swallow. I've lost 35 lbs since May of '16. They still can't figure out what's wrong. I even changed doctors. At least my new one is sending me for more tests, getting a second opinion from another gastro dr., going to neurologist and rheumolgist. Still have nausea every day. Certain foods make me real ill, trouble sleeping, get weak feeling often, on and off constipation, just in general feel like s*** every day!

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Sorry to hear that, Sandra, but glad you are home and patched up.

Was it your large intestine? And were you taking anything for the constipation?

Could the constipation have been a result of something you started taking, like a supplement, after you stopped the M?

Also, you complained of pain down your right leg. Is it still there? The constipation may have been the cause of that, pressing against a nerve in your back, where you were backed up.

Is the nausea still gone?

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Day 88: I was moved up to three lorazepam a day and am sleeping much better...that helps quite a bit. But I still wake up anxious.

My 97 year old Dad, who had never been a patient in a hospital, slipped at home and is now in one. He is a 100 miles away and I am very anxious that I cannot get up there, because I get nauseous just riding in a car. Difficult to manage from a distance and stress is high dealing with the medical profession.

Nausea comes and goes as I approach three months...last M of 12.5 mg was June 29. 20 years on M. Some people take it forever and feel few side effects. When I was younger, I never felt anything but some lightheadedness, but over the last five-seven years on it, I had bouts of flu symptoms, tiredness, insomnia, nausea and anxiety, that I attributed to other things. Now I believe they were signs of M stating to turn on me.

I watched a few YouTube tapes on Magnesium as a vital mineral for its laxative, anti-anxiety, anti-depression, anti-inflammatory and many other benefits. I started with magnesium citrate but switched to DiMagnesium Malate.

Any thoughts on how to get Magnesium best absorbed?

Tried some L-theanine, but I have to say lorazepam, although very addictive, works much better.

Symptoms at day 88, nausea (especially with dairy products like yogurt and skim milk) anxiety, back pain, knee pain, constipation, High heart rate, still persistent high blood pressure, throat issues like tightness and swallowing difficulty along with bad tastes (maybe reflux) poor appetite, facial/head flushing without turning red and motion sickness.

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Actually yes the leg pain was from the constipation. I am not on any supplements or other medication so we arent sure what caused the constipation. I am on a stool softener now and hopefully will keep it from happening again. The hole was in my small intestine.

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Hello everyone,and yes Sandra sorry to hear about your difficulties you've been having lately,I am now 4 months,I must say I've come a long way,I only take one a day vitamins for women,and fish oil because I had gastro issues and I hear they were good for that,and I'm a very spiritual person,so lots of prayer and talking to God has helped me tremendously!!????

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I hope everything is going great for every one. Dont loose hope sandra !!! I have been off about the same as you . I took lexapro for the anxiety and it has helped me alot. Currently weaning off it . It has been slow but good . Just remeber not everyone is the same but one thing that we can not loose is hope.

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JR-do you still get lightheaded or dizzy when you move around too much?

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I don't . I did at first but slowly started beter . Now feel alot better . The lexapro helped out alot . Now i am weaning off slowly from lexapro due to weight gain and it makes me sleepy . I am cutting down 2.5 mgs every 3 weeks so the tappering is going well.

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I had 2 awesome weeks, being able to walk outside each day, do a lot of normal things without any side effects and without any withdrawal symptoms during those 2 weeks.

Then, as always, a few bad days in a row came for no reason.
This time I had only huge anxiety for no reason, as if I have way too much adrenaline in my body (which is actually true due to a withdrawal).

Luckily, I don't have nausea, dizziness, tiredness, headache, random pain in abdomen anymore, only a long episode of anxiety lasting a few days.

It is getting better, but these hot and cold episodes of good weeks and then bad weeks will probably last for months until they will be finally gone.

Good luck to all other sufferers, I hope that you are slowly getting better.

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Hello guys, will be four months off next week,this last week very very anxious for no reason,I have been taken b supplements and read where the niacin can cause raised anxiety,so I'm cutting back on that,but kinda down this week

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Thanks Bob for all the info and yes u right,an argument a scary movie all of which I had before I've ever taken a BB makes me so jittery and shaky now,my worst times seems to be when I first wake up in the am,and kinda settles down throughout the day,I know the body in a sense can heal itself,it's just how long does it take

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Monique don't worry about a set time. Just keep in mind everyone is different. I know at times it feels like its takes forever . Just look back at when you started you probably felt worse than now. I was overwhelmed at first thinkingit would take 3 months but i was wrong . I have been for 10 months amd now feel better . Anxiety is still there but at a minimum and easy to overcome now

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Yes Tabitha you're right I'm 35,was only on close to two months,been off almost two month,have seen every doctor there is,the last doctor the Endocronologist is the one who told me my cortisol levels which is the adrenaline in the body were slightly high,so that's why I know the anxietiey comes through...

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Bob,

How's your blood pressure? Have you had a catecholamine u/a done?

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Has anybody tried Cannabidiol, CBD oil, for the nausea and anxiety, the part of the hemp plant that does not make you high but relieves some of the symptoms, even reducing blood pressure? I have been told it works much better than any pharmaceutical.

And I am talking about ingesting it, not smoking it and ruining your lungs.

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Let me just add to Bob's excellent analysis that because M crosses the blood brain barrier, it makes one susceptible to depression. That is probably the most dangerous side effect of any of the blood brain barrier crossing beta blockers. I was switched to atenolol from metoprolol to see if that was the cause of my depression.

Instead, all hell broke lose and the side effects from atenolol were so awful, ( and it took some time before I could isolate that because I take other "brain medicine" ) I then tried to return to metoprolol. But that did not work and I continued to have extreme anxiety. I decided to wean off M and noticed a drop in anxiety as I lowered my dosage. So perhaps it was set off by the switch to atenolol, but it lingered even after a month of being on metoprolol. Something had changed and the additive effect of coming of atenolol and going back on metoprolol was causing extreme anxiety, unlike any anxiety I had ever experienced and that included eight major operations.

Over my twenty years of taking M, there were several changes in dosage both up and down from 25 to 100mg. I never put together those changes in dosage with physical and mental changes, except for the loss of stability, falling down feintness when I stood up quickly, once even tearing my MCL in the knee, trying awkwardly to keep from falling down.

I am certain there were many other instances such as muscular aches and flu like symptoms that cam out of nowhere during those times that were directly due to M.

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Well I had been doing good, I'm off almost 5 months and bam I've had 2 weeks of anxiety I thought I was doing so much better!

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