Verwon Says:
When To Take Medication
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lucyy8 Says:
Took metoprolol tartrate 50mg last night and woke up 4 hours later with bp 145/107 went back to sleep woke up 151/98. What to do?
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Hello, Lucy! How are you?
My first question is how long have you been taking it?
This medication will take about a month to reach its full level of efficacy in your body, so you're not going to see an immediate improvement in your blood pressure.
My second question is why are you checking it when you wake up in the middle of the night?
As I said, these medications don't work immediately, it will take a few weeks to see improvement, if it works for you. Obsessively checking, whenever you have trouble sleeping or what have you is only going to worry you needlessly. You should only check it as often as your doctor has instructed and make sure to take the medication as instructed by your doctor.
Side effects to this drug may include nausea, dizziness, headache, stomach pain and hypotension.
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