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 |
| 1 | lower blood pressure | felt clammy and unable to sleep at night to drowsy in daytime - afraid to drive pains in arms, calves, and especially back of neck could hardly pick my head up it hurt so much cannot stand any longer than 10 - 15 minutes without feeling faint I took it for 2 years from another doctor and it did not help lower the BP (100mg). Now a new doctor is giving me 200 mg with other medication and I have all these side effects and am afraid to use my car. I do not wish to be an invalid and that is what this medication does. | I have cut back on taking the 200 mg and so far feel a little better except for my neck. | F | 69 | 5 days | 8/26/2005 | 1 | HPB | WEIGHT GAIN!!! I started exercising more and eating healthier and next thing you know...5 pounds here and there. Added 15 pounds without trying. Water retention | I was put on this because of trying to get pregnant. I made them switch me off because I am now at the weight I would be a nine months. I now can't try pregnancy til the weight comes off and from what I have read about this drug, it will take for ever. Even if you go off it!!! | F | 44 | 1 years | 8/18/2005 | 1 | hypertension | headache, anxiety (extreme), chest pains, loss of visual, mental clarity, couldn't focus- amazed I didn't cause a car accident- as a teacher there was no way I could do my job effectively. I felt like crying all the time and lost all interest in doing things that I normally love. I also had joint and internal pains, could feel my heat beating way too strongly | I was on atenolol, but my doctor tried Toporol XL because it is longer lasting, what a mistake! Be very careful with this medication- until I found this website, I just thought there was something very wrong with me. I was on 50 mg and after realizing what was happening, while waiting for my atenolol to arrive, I cut my pills in half and most of the worst symptoms disappeared within 24 hours. Am now back on atenolol and felling much better! | F | 52 | 60 days | 8/14/2005 | 1 | High Bllod Pressure | This medicine sucks!!! It made me totally wacko, I am depressed,feel like I'm in the twilight zone, I am losing things, I lost my cell phone today, I have not been able to work for 2 weeks! DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG!!! | F | 54 | 14 days | 8/3/2005 | 1 | my dr changed it dilitazCD i was on | I started out with .25 mg. as she thinks this is a great drug!! and she upped it to 50 mg then on to 100 mg. which although i had it i never opened the bottle. I did not feel well and one evening i looked down as my feet felt tight. they were bluish in color and all swollen up. I had had shortness of breath (which i told her about). she was in Wyoming for a month so pulled the paperwork out of my medicine drawer and read it. There I found all the symptons that I have been having. I read yo could not go off except gradually. and I began reducing my dosage and now 2 months later am off of it. My feet still swell up, but my shortness of breath is almost gone. I was exhausted and while taking it could not continue my daily walks. when she came back she wanted me to go back to the original dosage 50mg i had been taking I said not only no but | F | 77 | 7 months | 7/26/2005 | 1 | Angina, Palpitations | Severe Insomnia, Low Grade Fever, Pressure and Burning sensation in the head, Moodiness/irritability, sensation of drowning, amplified anxiety | At 10mg the drug was completely intolerable, amplifying chest pain/drowning sensation 10-fold, leading to increased anxiety. Side effects disappeared at 5mg or less in dosage, but failed to attenuate more serious palpitations. Several withdrawal-like effects noticed when next dose became due (24 hour dosing schedule). Similar side-effects occured with 5mg dosage twice daily (12 hour dosing schedule) | M | 21 | 6 months | 7/18/2005 | 1 | High Blood Pressure | Very severe muscle soreness. So much so it hurt to lift my arms. Thought it was something else but it went away after I was off Toprol. It also increased each time the doctor increased dosage. Another side effect was weight gain and hair loss. Couldn't sleep at night. Didn't feel like doing anything (very much unlike me!) | When I was first put on Toprol XL the following week I had to go to the hospital by ambulence. My pulse was so bad the parametics had to shock my heart. Was in the hospital for a week (also had pnuemonia and oxygen count was low). Switched doctors but was still on Toprol. He increased med till I was eventually taking 125 mg. I was miserable. Fortunetly 125 mg is not a valid strength (he had me taking samples of 100mg and 25mg) so when I went to get perscription filled the pharmacy wouldn't do it. The doctor eventually switched me to another med and now I feel 100% better. I would also like to add that while on Toprol my BP went to 200/104 and that was at a high dose. I have not experienced that on my new med and my heart rate seems fine. I also feel happy again! | F | 48 | 1 years | 6/20/2005 | 1 | blood pressure | weight gain, erectile disfunction, small decrease in blood pressure only, tingling in hands, sensitivity to cold. also fatigued a lot, difficult to start up exercising. | doc kept increasing dosage up to 100 mg, with only small effect on bp. doing way better now that cut down to 50 mg, plus adding a calcium blocker and another vasodialator med. Toprol has kept me from exercising and losing weight like I could before taking it! | M | 36 | 2 years | 5/30/2005 | 1 | Blood Pressure | After 2 weeks got a headache and then brought on temperary right side numbness and amnesia attach...also peripheral vision lost and can't comprehend words... All this has improved since being off the med now for 2 weeks....still have problems with reading ......but that is improving..... | M | 69 | 2.5 weeks | 5/27/2005 | 1 | rapid heart beat | panic attacks, depresion, moody, crying, sad,thoughts of ending it all., weight gain | I took Toprol XL for one year.When my new cardiologist decided I needed a new and | F | 42 | 1 days | 5/20/2005 | 1 | Heart attack aftercare | I have been on Toprol 7 months, and at the 50mg level, I have SEVERE anxiety, become much more aggressive and short tempered, and went to the doctor today and was taken off it. If it works for you, great, but if you notice you are having serious anxiety issue after a few weeks, get the doctor and get on something else. | The side effects I mention don't all arrive on day 1, the build slowly over a period of weeks and you don't realize it's going on, until you start hearing people telling to chill and relax all the time. | M | 42 | 7 months | 5/13/2005 | 1 | Heart attack | Every one listed in the brochures ... confusion, cold extermities, blurred vision, libido inhibition, low blood pressure, etc. My doctor agreed to let me stop taking the medication after 2.5 months. | I would not recommend it to heart attack patients who are taking their other meds, exercising, and eating a low fat diet. | M | 54 | 25 months | 3/6/2005 | 1 | LVH, PVC's | Insomnia, nightmares, ringing in the ears, fatigue, shortness of breath, stronger and more frequent pvc's, cough, rash. | I am hoping to get off this drug ASAP. I have an appointment with a new cardiologist next week. I understand that I should not stop abruptly. Current doctor referred me to an allergist when I complained of side effects (rash, etc.)...but all listed effects began with my start of this drug and I believe they are related to the drug. | F | 58 | 3 months | 2/27/2005 | 1 | hypertension | Didn't lower BP, heart rate down to 40 part of the time, 1 night Dr.wanted me to take 3 of 50 mg.,when my heart rate was only around 50,I decided to just take 2-good thing,read additional comments. | In ER by ambulance 9/11/04-BP at 229/129,they gave me 3 injections liquid TXL in IV,stopped 1/2 way during 3rd inj.Even been to Mayo Clinic-had info.from Internet re: secondary causes hypertension,Drs.refused to viewthem & sleep apnea listed as 1 cause secondary hypertension.On TXL 9/12/04thru 2/2/05 when,it appears,Dr. got edgy-did oximeter test and my night oxy.level was at 81,(90 normal,heart damage & BP up otherwise)sleep lab showed 84,no apnea,BUTdiagnosis (low oxy- | F | 68 | 144 days | 2/26/2005 | 1 | hypertension | Irrational thoughts,irritable,deep sleep daytime,feelings of no hope,became extremely sensitive,defensive and self-centered,when my Dr.did oximeter test,was 81-normal is 90+,warning on Rx | A WARNING!!!-Read below 1st,then as follows:Tenormin (BB)caused awakening-nightmares/re:drowning,couldn't get breath-told Drs.so prescr.TXL caused severe damage.Sleep lab eval.discovered | F | 68 | 144 days | 2/26/2005 | 1 | Heart Failire, Tacky,Arrith | Difficulty breathing,muscle soreness,depression,bad rashes etc. and I'm only on 12.5mg. At 18.75mg I was going nuts and the Cardio thought I was not trying. It's not worth it. I never had high BP until I was loaded with drugs.I also take Altace,Pacerone which is scary, and lasix. Before Toprol was Coreg. which is as bad as Toprol | Does anyone know if Toprol has been proven effective for Heart failure or anything. | M | 69 | 5 days | 2/24/2005 | 1 | Heart Failire, Tacky,Arrith | Difficulty breathing,muscle soreness,depression,bad rashes etc. and I'm only on 12.5mg. At 18.75mg I was going nuts and the Cardio thought I was not trying. It's not worth it. I never had high BP until I was loaded with drugs.I also take Altace,Pacerone which is scary, and lasix. Before Toprol was Coreg. which is as bad as Toprol | Does anyone know if Toprol has been proven effective for Heart failure or anything. | M | 69 | 5 days | 2/24/2005 | 1 | Heart Failire, Tacky,Arrith | Difficulty breathing,muscle soreness,depression,bad rashes etc. and I'm only on 12.5mg. At 18.75mg I was going nuts and the Cardio thought I was not trying. It's not worth it. I never had high BP until I was loaded with drugs.I also take Altace,Pacerone which is scary, and lasix. Before Toprol was Coreg. which is as bad as Toprol | Does anyone know if Toprol has been proven effective for Heart failure or anything. | M | 69 | 5 days | 2/24/2005 | 1 | High blood pressure | Lower leg pain with brisk walking and rash on lower legs. | M | 70 | 40 days | 2/2/2005 | 1 | Angina | Head pressure and mental confusion. Tired during the day but couldn't sleep well at night | I felt like I couldn't think and something was wrong with my brain. After 2 weeks withoout Toprol I am feeling like myself. My Dr. took me off it when I complained about my head and brain. I was dizzy recently too. And I couldn't remember nouns. It was a struggle to carry on a conversation. | F | 82 | 1 years | 1/29/2005 |