TOPROL XL Reviews (METOPROLOL SUCCINATE)Average Rating: 2.5 (823 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare TOPROL XL with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR TOPROL XL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | palpitations (benign) | Dramatically improved my palpitations but decreased heart rate so exercise was difficult since my heart rate could only go so high; improved anxiety and calmed me down (big plus); limbs fall asleep often during nighttime if sleeping in awkward position; concerned about possible effects on pregnancy (may increase risk of miscarriage) so I've decided to go off using a 7-week step-down protocol | Earlier in 2009 there was a problem with the generic manufacturer that resulted in it being pulled from pharmacy shelves since the dosage was not accurate as formulated | F | 34 | 5 years | 8/17/2009 | 1 | reduce heart rate | isomnia and shortness of breath were unacceptable | M | 85 | | 8/10/2009 | 1 | 50mg | weight gain, worsening anxiety, fatigue, joint pain, significant insomnia | I started taking this for Atrial Fibrillation, this year my doc wanted to increase it because of a slight elevation in BP at the office 130/80. I said no way and finally decided to seek another opinion. I have only one episode a year and occasional flutters which I now know may be a side effect as well. My new doc suggests coming off , so I am starting the taper. I can't wait to feel better. | F | 53 | 5 years | 8/6/2009 | 4 | Migraines & BP | Heartburn, chest tightness | Was on this medication for 18 yrs. but was switched to Inderal LA when it was pulled off the market for a few months. Took a long time to adjust to the Inderal, but 3 months into the new meds I started to lose my hair & had to go off it. The Inderal was working wonders for the migraines, but the Dr. suggested I go back on metoprolol ER. It's been 3 weeks & a lot of adjusting from 100 mg a day (what I was on for years) now to 50 mg. a day. My pulse runs higher than before, but the blood pressure is stablizing. Had 3 days of migraines the 2nd week I was taking the meds, so I'm afraid this isn't going to be as effective and my hair has not stopped falling out yet. The only true answer would be if I didn't have to take any meds! | F | 41 | 3 weeks | 8/1/2009 | 3 | Pre hypertensive | Early days...vivid dreams/extremely low bp and heart rate...fatigue. Now 1 year later just a little fatigue in the morning. I take it at night. | I have been on Toprol XL 25 mg 1x nightly for 1 year. It was a nightmare in the early days due to side effects. I had tinnitus before taking it so can't say it caused that. I am wondering if it is making the tinnitus worse now as it seems louder. A cardiologist put me on it because of anxiety and panic attacks associated with getting really bad tinnitus. I think he was aggressive putting me on it and never told me about the side effects. I would like to wean myself off it and would appreciate anyone who has had success doing it let me know what to expect. My bp is on the average 115/70. [email protected] | M | 56 | 1 years | 7/30/2009 | 1 | Mild heart attack | chest pain, depression, muscle aches, nightmares, no sex drive, erection problems, cold hands and feet, dizziness, short term memory loss, you name it! | This drug is systemic poison! It may control BP in some people but it eventually makes more damage than good. I was taking this junk for 4 months 50mG twice daily. These were worst months in my life! Beware – this drug can take your life away! I would not recommend this crap to my worst enemy! | M | 48 | 4 months | 7/26/2009 | 1 | BP | Chest pain, anxiety, some depression, shortness of breath, HIGHER BLOOD PRESSURE THAN WITH TARTRATE | My doctor put me on this so I would have to take one pill a day, versus two 25mg of metoprolol tartrate (one pill 2x daily). Bad news/horrible drug matching many of the other reports and complaints on this website. I went back to the tartrate, which I had been taking for 3.5 years, and all is well. How what is supposed to be the same drug can have such negative effects is beyond me, but this board attests to them. | M | 67 | 1 weeks | 7/22/2009 | 1 | Dr. put me on Coumadin and 25mg of toprol XL I havent't been the same since memory problems neck pain dizziness on and on. I first though it was the coumadin I Stopped taking it three days ago. I will see. | | 7/14/2009 | 1 | Chest Pain and High BP | All of a sudden i started to have pain ,--very severe---in my ear and my eye watered so much, it swelled almost closed. I went to the dr. who ran many scans, and they show one of my jaws is out of line , so he called it tmj., But--I am going to get off Toprol, because I believe that Toprol is the culprit ! ! ! I have NEVER had any trouble with tmj before , so since the pain in my ear is soooo bad, I read that Toprol can cause gland and ear problems, and tinnitus. I am going to wean off. I only take 12 and 1/2 mg. , but I still think Toprol is the problem . I feel bad, and can't seem to function problem. Has anyone had ear pain on this stuff? PLEASE let me know. [email protected] | F | 75 | 2 weeks | 7/12/2009 | 4 | Atrial Flutter/Fib | Tiresome, Low sex drive | I was prescribed Metoprolol by my cardiologist because of palpitation/atrial flutters. The drug seemed to help greatly. Before, I was having palpitations every day, sometimes all day. While taking the drug for three months (25 MG, twice/day) I had only about seven days of flutters which lasted a very short period of time. I heard the drug blocks testosterone, which is probably the cause of the lower sex drive. My flutters seemed to get worse when my doc was trying other heart rhythm medications, in addition to Metoprolol. I'm trying to schedule the ablation surgery so I can stop taking Metoprolol and completely rid myself of the flutters. | M | 36 | 3 months | 7/7/2009 | 4 | Hypertension | Over 50MG this drug can interfere with sleep (severely) and can make your otherwise healthy heart work too hard, but under that dose it WORKS. | At 25MG Toprol my blood pressure is controlled, and my middle of the night insomnia (3AM) is subsiding. Stress induced PVCs and PACs (all benign) are minimal. I've tried Vascor and Benicar, both these drugs scare the heck out of me; Vascor created a symphony in my left ear (horrible) that won't go away (and I was only on 2.5 MG for three weeks!), Benicar I discovered is an immuno suppressant and actively used for this purpose at well over 40MG every six hours with NO additional affect on hypertension so this is NOT an anti-hypertensive drug, it's intended for something else. Do I want to suppress my immune system to lower my BLOOD PRESSURE? I think NOT. Toprol may be an "old" drug, but how many people has it KILLED??? Not as many as some of these new drugs, trust me on this one. | F | 62 | 12 years | 6/14/2009 | 1 | HBP | This medicine is horid! Could not breathe - very short of breath, chest pains all the time, no energy, no sex drive, depressed all the time. No ambition to do anything, gave up doing most everything except work. I would come home from work and crawl right into bed and watch TV - muscle aches, headaches, dizziness, felt like I was in a fog always, couldn't think straight. I am now on Azor and trying to come off of the Toprol....that has been very hard to do. Every time my dose is decreased I get heart paplations, shortness of breath, so dizzy that I can not drive, shakiness feeling inside, and these symptoms last for 3-5 days - just in time to decrease the dose again. Once off, I will never let them put me on a Beta blocker again. | F | 47 | 5 years | 6/11/2009 | 1 | HBP | Horrible ringing in the ears and very low pulse. | Be very, very careful coming off this drug. It can really mess you up if you try to stop it cold turkey. I reduced the dose over a week or so and still had some really horrible side effects the day I stopped entirely. | M | 59 | 6 months | 6/10/2009 | 3 | LEFT VENTRICUCLAR HYPERTROPHY | EXHAUSTION, WEIGHT GAIN IN STOMACH, DON'T CARE ABOUT JOB, CANNOT FUNCTION UNTIL 4 OR 5 P.M. WHILE WORKING 10HR WORK DAYS, CHILLS, PASSED OUT WHILE DRIVING ON FREEWAY, FELL DOWN IN FRONT OF GROCERY STORE, HAIR LOSS, I JUST FEEL 10 YEARS OLDER IN 6 WEEKS! | I TAKE IT WITH LISINOPRIL/HCTZ....I NEED TO WEAN OFF AND WISH THERE WAS SOMETHING NATURAL I COULD TAKE | F | 54 | 6 weeks | 6/8/2009 | 1 | hypertension | headache, dizziness, brain fogginess, inablity to concentrate, insomnia, reflux, muscle aches, fatigue, feet problems, palpatations | Have been on this drug for 9 months and could not figure why I have been feeling like crap and continually getting worse. Feeling as if my life was going to end at a young age. The fatigue and muscle aches were severe. I really started putting pieces together when my RX looked different and thought they sent the wrong drug. I did research on many sites and found common threads in all of my side effects and linking them to this drug. I was even thinking I may have brain cancer or something with the fogginess. Started reading and appauled by the side effects that MANY people experience. These drugs should be outlawed and drug manufactures should be liable for the damage they are doing to lives!!!! I have an extremely ill husband with renal failure and do not need to join him in being unhealthy with this poison they are giving. I was otherwise healthy besides the hypertension. How long before the side effects subside after discontinuing? | M | 46 | 9 months | 5/26/2009 | 1 | Resting Tachycardia | Dont take it no matter what it is old and out dated and it can KILL you and if it doesn't do that the side effects are insane and the WITHDRAWAL is HELL.. Please if you reading this do your research and get on one of the newer drugs and keep it at a very low dose so you don't have to go through what my experience of a true living nightmare has been... also remember you pay the DOCTORS to work for you and they are human not GODS.. listen to your own inner voice.. | F | 35 | 3 years | 5/25/2009 | 5 | tachycardia/chest pain/htn | for the first week some drowsiness then no problems | my heart rate at rest would be 120 even when sleeping. my heart was working so hard and fast that it was not filling up enough to get enough blood flow out causing me to have severe chest pain. this medication has been wonderful. resting heart rate 70's and b/p normal | F | 35 | 5 years | 5/23/2009 | 3 | pvc's and pac's with added lower BP | I have been taking Toprol XL 50mg for 9 months now. ALways sleepy, tired, lethargic. DIZZY. everything makes me dizzy now even riding in the car. Spacey in the head sometimes i feel like i can't get my thought across while i'm talking. weight gain of 11 lbs in 9 months. I have no energy. | As far as my pac's and pvc's it absolutely has helped that. i hardley ever get them now. but the trade off of the sleepy and no energy and wt. gain is driving me crazy. I have to get switched to something else where i have energy again to do normal things. | F | 31 | 9 months | 5/17/2009 | 3 | BLOOD PRESSURE | M | 50 | 5 days | 5/8/2009 | 4 | High BP/blocked rt. renal artery | hair loss, neck stiffness, ringing in ears, visual skin & complextion changes, brain fog, horrendous nightmares | Began taking Toprol-XL August 2008. I take 100 mg. a day Toprol-XL in AM , along with diurectics: HC(Hydro-chlorothiazide)5 mg.1xday (morning)& Demadex (Torsemide)5 mg.1xday (morning). BP down to 130/80 from 160/90. Side effects (though lessened) are still w/me but I decided to wait them out...and I do feel better. Hair loss has slowed and nightmares no longer; brain fog much less/creeps in sometimes and I struggle to 'push it away'by forcing myself to compensate mentally. No weight gain but was doing Weight Watchers before Toprol-XL and have lost 40 pounds since 6/4/08; however, the losses come in a strange cycle-lose 4 pounds in a week; no loss for 2 weeks; gain 1 pound; lose 3 to 4 again..but I will continue to work at this. Dieting is NOT the answer; eating correctly is the answer. | F | 64 | 9 months | 5/7/2009 |