So last week my doctor raised my 25mg metoprolol er to 50mg and I noticed when I wake up my pulse is staying in the 50s and low 60s. What freaked me out was this morning my pulse oximeter dipped to 47 and then brought back into the 50s. Is this bad? This is the first time I've seen anything in the 40s. And I don't see my doctor for another 3 weeks.
So I've been on a raised dose of metoprolol for one week now. Was on 25mg er now on 50mg er. Woke up this morning feeling alright. Have to go to work so I made myself breakfast and ate. After eating I just got hit with this wave of lightheaded dizziness. My stomach and my chest felt weird. This lasted for about 40mins. I'm slowly starting to feel better now but that was scary. Checked my BP before and after and it remained the same. I was thinking something with my blood sugar. Anyone have any insight of what could have caused this? Last week when I started the increased dose I was on vacation so I did not eat for hours after waking up. Now that I'm back to work I have to.
I take 95mg at night before bed and 47.5mg in the morning and I feel like I'm out of it all of the time like my eyes can't properly focus or I'm in a dream.
Hoping to get off it, I've been on it for over a year now.
Also taking Candesartan 32mg, Hydralazine 50mg morning and night.
Tried a bunch of others but got terrible side effects.
Took metoprolol for hypertension for about two months with ALL of the most negative side effects. Finally made it clear to my docs that I needed to STOP. Tapered slowly for a few weeks: 50 mg to 25 mg to 12.5 mg to skipping every other day and now it's been one week metoprolol -free.
Some anxiety, intermittent lightheadedness, little bit of occasional heartburn, and occasional fatigue but MUCH LESS than I had before. I'm told that it may take another couple of weeks to be free of these withdrawal symptoms.
I just want to thank you guys for being there! I'm so SICK of doctors telling me I'm imagining things when I KNOW I'm not!
My doctor put me on metoprolol for blood pressure and it wasn’t seem to working so I’ve cut back. When I get back from 50 mg tartrate to 25 mg succinate didn’t bother me and headache got better and BP actually went down slightly.
To date I went from 25 mg succinate to 12.5 and BP is fluctuating from 116/67 to 135/80 and pulse from 75 to 160. If this a normal withdrawal?
Anyone have any positive experiences stopping a low dose after about three weekend?
I took 12.5 for a week , 6.25 for 5 days then 6.25 every other day for the last 9'days .
I'm feeling anxious and adrenaline but I deal with anxiety in general. Any positive experiences ?
after getting diagnosed with pots about a year ago, i’ve been on two different beta blockers, but i don’t know if the results are worth it…
i don’t think my day-to-day life has gotten easier (though my bp does look better when i get it checked). i feel like ive completely lost my hunger urge 9/10 days (yet somehow, with this and eating 1000 calories a day, i have gained ~15lbs in a year, sweat every single second of every single day no matter the weather or activity, and have a permanent sense of nausea / acid reflux.
i’ve finally decided im going to quit my 25mg of metoprolol a day dosage after foolishly taking it for ~8 months with the idea that my body just needed more time ! luckily, im not relying on this for any psychiatric stuff (i have other meds for that), so the only withdrawal i’m looking at is physical seemingly.
i would love if folks could let me know how their quitting / withdrawal experience was, if they lost weight / how that looked for them, and if things get better :)