Coming Off Propranolol (Page 6) (Top voted first)

i have stopped taking propranolol 80mg 3days ago and would like to know if there is any side effects coming off them

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I used to take 1 pill of 10mg only when we were eating out due to benign essential tremor which affected my palms when I ate. As we were going on holiday to Vienna on May 14, I had started taking 1 10mg pill every morning 1 week before departing and continued for 4 more days while in Vienna. I noticed that I was sweating after about 10 minutes of walking. And felt somewhat tired after climbing a flight of stairs. I used to drink wine, more than I used to at home. I stopped taking propranolol as I thought that they may have been the cause of some tiredness.

After returning home on 21 May (last Tuesday) I have stayed at home, but yesterday evening (May 24) I decided to go for a walk, but felt a bit short of breath and decided to return back home after about 7 minutes of normal walking. I checked my BP after resting and it was 113 / 75 / and 75 pulse rate. but noticed that I had an irregular heart beat, which shows up in my BP monitor.

I had a similar Irregular Heart Beat in March 2010 which lasted for a couple of months, but it cleared up and never had it since. I had it checked then by a 24 hour test (Holtor test, I believe it is called ) and the doctor said that I had nothing to worry about.

Could the present irregular heartbeat be the effect of propranolol and the more than usual wine drinking ( Vienna is renowned for its wine !) ?

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I was told to one 40mg Tablet a day whether I was anxious or not, and up to 3 on days where I had to do something out of my comfort zone.
I soon noticed that I was taking 2 or 3 most days, and as a result I became very lazy and ill motivated, tired and even 'zombie like' to my friends. I couldn't sleep and one night during the early hours I went to the bathroom and saw myself in the mirror, I looked as white as a ghost and couldn't feel my lips and fingers.
I'm due a review, where I intend to tell my doctor I want off of these tablets as soon as possible.
But don't, like me, try to stop them suddenly. I tried 3 times to stop suddenly and I only ever made it to day 2 each time. Sweating, cold, weak, feeling my worst. My uncle even said I looked like he did when he had a heart attack.

Garry, 27yrs old - 40MG a day for Anxiety

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I have been on 80mg of propranalol for about 25yrs.I just stopped taking them about 4 wks ago.I am having horrendous headaches,sweating,feeling cold,but my worst thing is my blood pressure has shot up to 182 over 112.last week.This week it is 152 over 100.I am SO FED UP as I have lots of health issues and am virtually bedbound.(also am diabetic) Please help if you can!!

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Dear Nana.Thanks for replying to my problems with my cold turkey after 25 yrs of taking 80 mg of propranolol.I also came off enalapril ( blood pressure tablets) 9weeks ago as my BP was 99 over 61.I do not know what to do now.I am so disheartened as I felt happy about coming off 9 tablets a day(it felt really good) until all the side affects kicked in.What to do now???

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What are your side effects coming off the Bp pills. I find that stopping any prescription medicine usually makes everything worse enforce it in finally gets better. my specialist keeps increasing my thyroid meds cuZ my pituitary gland is sleeping(I think it's in a coma lol) so my goiter won't budge. I recently went to a bio resonance treatment and feel a thousand times better. A lot if people think its bologna but it seriously has saved my life. It woke up my pituitary gland and I am not taking any meds the past two days and feel so much better. The lady I go to gas helped with diabetes too. If your sick enough u are willing I try anything and that's where I was at.

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Dear Nana.What is bio resonance treatment?? I had been on my BP tablets for 20 yrs and cold turkey with these also.I am in an horrendous state.My feet and fingers are all dead(but SO PAINFUL)due to Diabetes.I have severe Arthritis,severe Fybromyalgia,an Hiatus Hernia and stomach ulcers.Also my teeth are all rotten and dropping out and my hair is also falling out.I also have breathing difficulties.I am at my wits end and do not know which way to turn.Oh and I might have Glaucoma!!! I will try ANYTHING!! Any alternative methods?? xx

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You have got to be kidding me. you poor soul. Could the meds have caused the aide effects of hair and teeth falling out? i know ive read those are some side effects from thyroid meds and propranolol. I can't explain it as well as if you google bioresonance and they explain it much better then I can. It's sound waves and it aligns your problem areas with those sound waves. It takes about three hours and you sit holding two steel rods that are hooked up to a machine and the person doing the treatments tests your organs and problem areas and then uses the machine to align your problem areas. Like I say google can explain it way better.

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I was prescribed Propranolol 80mg slow release capsules about 2.5 months ago. I'd entered a hideous triple-whammy phase of anxiety, depression and insomnia following cancer treatment. Zopiclone knocked me out but magnified my low mood; I was so anxious it broke through Temazepam, which then left me hung over all day, and I only slept one day in 3. I had to give up driving for a month, I didn't feel safe. The GP swapped in the Propranolol for a diuretic I was taking for HBP because of its anxiolytic effects. Gradually the anxiety rolls quietened down, although I'm not able to say whether that's the Propranolol or whether things are just gradually improving.

My sleep had improved but is currently going through a bad phase - I get somewhere between 2 and 7 hours sleep a night, though generally just short of 6. Sometimes I can't get to sleep; most times I wake up too early; sometimes both together. I have dreams that are vivid and disturbing, rather than actual nightmares. Sometimes I dream with great clarity that I can't sleep, so when I wake up in the morning I can't tell whether I've slept or not.

When I can find the right incantation that will actually get me an appointment with my GP of choice, I plan to ask her about coming off the Propranolol gradually - I can't wait to sleep properly again but, of course, I don't want the anxiety rolls coming back. I wondered if anyone had a) had sleep issues with Propranolol 80 and b) if they'd resolved by coming off it and c) how gradually did they come off?
Ta.

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Your post sounds like I could have read it myself! If I skip my propranolol for 1-2 days my hands start shaking, then gets worse and spreads with each dose skipped. A neurologist told me that I probably always had a tremor, and never noticed it. I knew that was crap! Im convinced that its a withdrawl of the medication. At one time I stopped taking it for a month to try to get off of it. I had to beg the doctor to put me back on it! I couldn't take the tremor, and it was effecting my job. I guess I will have to be a life time user of propranolol.

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I am on 40mg a day for 3weeks now. Ready to come off. should i too worry about withdrawal symptoms?

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I took pranolol for over a year a year later i found my self frusterated as my girl friend and i where unable to have intercourse because the pranolol decreased my libido. Been off it for almost a month and still a little skeptical about if that was to blam for the malfunction.

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I'm doing the same thing. Ten milligrams at morning and night. I went cold turkey for four days and in the middle of the night my heart is racing. I went back to ten milligrams to keep a lid on things. I am taking it for heart palpitations, of which it does almost nothing for.

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So sorry Clive, I was in a mood that day. You are doing better than I am, I still get hand tremors when I take less than 20mg. Good luck to you.

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So does propanalol make you gain weight? I take it for a tremor.

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Hi I was in the same boat as u I was taking 80mg propranalol the doc told me miss one tab one week the 2nd week miss 2 tabs and the third week miss 3 then stop. I cheated on the second and stopped completly.side effects high blood pressure / stomach cramps chest pains.depending on ur age I'm 27 and I say it gets easier hope this helps.and they can also make u very angry when coming off them

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Everything you said is same thats happened to me..10mg 3x a day and all symptoms you say...im worried and scared i try to come off them and symptoms get worse.

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i am 61 yra old and have been taking propranolol 80 mg for around 25 yes for severe migrains..ive felt fine bur started with high blood pressure around 8 yrs ago..my doc has now reduced them to 40 mg, about a month ago..at first i felt very jittery but found i was able to get to sleep much better..my bp has stayed stable up till noe..one or two headaches but nothing majore..i have how ever developed a rash pretty much all over my body..its itch and drivingf me crazy . the doc has given me a strong steroid cream which heklps a little but more rashes keep appearing.. is this another withdrawall symptom or am i allergic to something else

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I have this medicaction for depression / anxiety, I have been on 40 mg 1x daily for a month. I have now missed 2 days and feel terrible, headache, dizzy, sweats, confusion. I am truly feeling awful. I ran out of tablets but don't think they help, I will see this coming off stage through if I can.

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When I came off of them I got chest pains, shortness of breath, and dizzy spells. I started taking them only at the first signs of the chest pains and then eventually I didn't take them at all. I was only on 10Mg I believe, so be careful and ask your Dr about gradually decreasing your dose.

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Heres an update: I've scaled back from 200mg to bascially zero over three months. Annoying but the last reduction down to zero is a damn difficult one. I am still getting pains in chest and arm only slight but they are there. Body trying to hold onto hope there is another dose coming lol. I must have only taken 1/2 a tab or 20mg in fourteen days. Had a terrible day yesterday what they call the malaise is quite strong. Tension, sweating, elevated temperature and its not viral no way. Weight has started to drop as can exercise a lot harder. I think another week and my beta receptors will be down to a managable level - they way this drug has jerked my central nervous system around is shocker.

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