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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR TOPROL XL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | for bad prednisone side effects | Out of body, extremely dizzy to near passing out; exhaustion, fatigue, muscle weakness to point that it is difficult to just sit up or talk. Difficulty breathing (like eating with a stuffed nose from a cold). Could not catch my breath at all. Chest pressure. Wanting to cough due to heart palpatations and not being able to catch my breath. Nausea and absolutely no appetite. Difficult reading. | Wouldn't take this again. | F | 37 | 6 days | 5/4/2007 | 1 | hypertension | Dizziness, feeling faint, feeling like I'm loosing it completely, cold hands and feet, tingling in the hands, aniexty, panic attacks, sweating, weakenss, shakiness, my head is buzzy, ringing in the ears, feeling bad all day. | I absolutely feel horrible, feel like I am going crazy because no one believes Iam having these symptoms. They keep telling me I have aniexty disorder. Guess I do now after taking this medication. I stopped taking it abrubtly how long does these symptoms last? Off of it for 5 days. | F | 45 | 1.5 months | 4/23/2007 | 1 | Benign Essential Tremor | Beta Blockers are often used to treat Essential Tremor. It was the 1st med i tried, now am off to a neurologist for alternative treatment. Side effects on 50 mg per day of Toprol XL were: Severe gruesomely violent nightmares for 5 days straight ( i never have nightmares, never mind this sort), dizziness, confusion, autistic like symptoms in that i found myself rocking a few times when i was alone, upset stomach to extremes. Basically it screwed up my wiring as i put it to the doc. Depression was another one. Due to severe drop in heart rate , which i was unaware of until my follow up visit, i could not exert myself physically without feeling dizzy or even faint. Was only on the med 2 weeks. Doc put me on 25 mg for one week and now i am stopped altogether. I still have MILD depressive episodes for no reason at all until i recall (oh yes, its the med). Been only a couple days since discontinueing, feel MUCH better but some effects persist though on a milder level. Until seeing a neurolo | F | 42 | 3 days | 4/22/2007 | 1 | High Blood Pressure | Blurry vision at times, major fatigue (don't have the energy I did before taking this), forgetfulness, headaches/dizziness and sadly weight gain. 100 MG | Check with your doctor if you experience similar side effects and have him give you something else as you shouldn't feel this way. Also, it doesn't seem to be that effective in lowering my blood pressure. Also took with Benicar but have stopped taking Toprol-XL today per my doctor. | M | 42 | 8 months | 4/19/2007 | 1 | hypertension | severe neuropathy in feet!!! cold, pain, numbnes in forefoot, low libido, forgetfullness, not motivated, nightmares. I had a vist to the ER last years after trying to take myself off of this. Heart Spasms. | have gone all the way to a neurologists for the neuropathy after reading the entries here I almost positive it is due to this drug. | M | 50 | 2 years | 4/18/2007 | 1 | High blood pressure | Shortness of breath, depression, cold hands and feet. I think it also made my blood pressure go up. | I was put on this drug after by-pass surgery. After a week I began having SOB and coughing. I had fluid in my chest that had to be drawn off and the doctor thought this was what was causing my symptoms. I continued to have the SOB and coughing. After two weeks fluid was again drawn off my chest. After the next two weeks x-rays were made that showed the fluid had cleared up but the SOB and coughing continued. I did research and found that the Toprol was probably causing my SOB and coughing. Also my hands and feet were always cold, which was very unusual for me. My blood-pressure was higher than normal. I am now phasing off the Toprol and can already see the difference in the way I feel. The SOB and coughing is much better. My depression and feeling of anxiety is much better already. I will never, ever take this drug again. | F | 72 | 2 months | 4/18/2007 | 1 | its not my fault ! | im not young anymore,and Iv had a bunch of side effects from this dog gone drug!from waight gain 8pounds to 12pounds that wont go away!it hardly lowered my h.b.p!I get massive back pains on this, and belly hurts me 24/7!! im dizzy most times,fell faint sometimes and I get a big weakness in my legs and back and want to sleep! toprol xl should not be taken! belive its not good to take ! my doctor as well as others reported here insisted I take it and lied about the drug, saying it has no side effects at all ! its good for you! like as if it were candy! you can bet those evil bastard doctors are getting somekind of kick back from the pill makers pushing this no good! drug to us all. | my doctor like others here, refused to take me off the toprol xl at 100mg per day! im in a Hmo and I dont like the way im treated ! I found out the reason why, after talking to Doctor outside of the hmo company, Toprol xl is addictive to the body,after just 6 to 8 times taking it! when you withdraw on the dose slowly cutting it down,it has to be in very small amounts for a time in order not have any side effects or Withdrawal symptoms! but I was told that 80 out of 100 people go threw somekind of withdraw effects when getting off the drug! remember its a drug! so for us older people with these problems, thanks to our doctors in our wonderfull hmo systems! that dont work! and need to be closed down! its best when getting off this drug to see a normal regular M.D. Doctor that is not conected to a Hmo system. then you might and might only get help - getting off this bad evil drug Toprol xl | M | 67 | 2 years | 4/16/2007 | 1 | Hypertension | I'm just going to list them. Weight gain - big time, Short of breath, Lethargy, Extremely tired, I moved like I was in slow motion because my joints ached, Abdominal bloating for no reason which I suppose caused trapped gas, Can't sleep, Hairloss, ABSOLUTELY NO ENERGY. | I go to pilates, sometimes five days a week and I was hands down the slowest person in there. What was so sad about that is that I was one of the youngest. It was so embarrassing. I didn't know what was causing all of this. Everyone just kept saying that I wasn't a spring chicken anymore. I'M 35!!!! I complained to my doctor, who would tell me to try to exercise more. I already did as much as I could muster up the energy for. I told him I wanted off of the Toprol, because I know it's causing my weight gain. I didn't know that it was causeing all of these other things. I was taking 100mg of Toprol. I am now taking 40mg of MICARDIS. I had taken this before, but asked for something different because of a high co-pay. That was one of the dumbest mistakes I ever made. I have been taking it for about a week and a half and I feel like a new woman. Every single one of those side effects are gone. Except the hairloss, which may or may not be related to the Toprol. I can not stres | F | 35 | 1 years | 4/13/2007 | 1 | yes | It has almost killed me!I am getting off no matter what!taken for HPB atrial fib,did not help HBP made me almost cripple,and a zombie.Dr paid so much to push this awful drug they do not care if you die from it.Been to ER Times 4 nothing done for me.Nothing wrong! Legs and ankles like lead.Swallowing difficult.I cannot wake up,my life has become nothing.I had to make DR.reduce dose,now he says take it,if your BP or atrial is a problem,I should get an implant! talk about greedy use of an awful drug. | do not take this awful drug if you want to live | F | 83 | 9 months | 4/7/2007 | 1 | hypertension | Within a few days of taking this med, I was so confused that I couldn't do my work. I stayed on it for 3 months, thinking I was going crazy. Finally I found a web-site like this one and realized it was the medication. Called my doc and changed meds. | I have never really recovered. I am unable to do the work I used to do. THIS MEDICATION IS A NIGHTMARE! Three years later and I am still having difficulty thinking clearly. It ruined my life. | F | 55 | 3 months | 4/1/2007 | 1 | hypertension | I was put on Toprol after I found that Benicar caused tachycardia. Toprol eliminated tachycardia but caused loss of sexual drive and general tiredness. | M | 56 | 30 days | 4/1/2007 | 1 | blood pressure to high | OMG! so meny cant count them ! vision problems, Hair loss,nose stuffed up,throat close, coughing, congestion, eyes dry, no sleep!,dizzyness, fait feeling, tired all the time, memory loss, ears ringing, dry mouth, weak feeling no get up and go! sexual drive gone with the wind ! gas problems in gutt! waight gain big time!! palpitations intermitten happen. theres more but have to stop ! | Toprol xl should be removed along with Diovan both are very nasty drugs! they do more harm than good. they say a beta blocker will lower bp down and stop palpiations not so! this why I was put on diovan to lower b.p down (that worked) however figure on massive side effects from both meds together if you get these meds. to stop palps I have found takeing natural meds like Res Q1250 fish oil pills works wonders, along with vitamin B complex works good, and a drink called instant calm all this together daily stopps palps for me! a warrning about toprol xl this drug robbs your body of almost everything good, blood sugar will drop low ! you have to eat threwout the day to keep in step. as well there are so meny diffrent problems with these fricken drugs I cant count them ! if anyone knows of natural cure.. tell me please! im always interested and would love to get away from these evil bad drugs! | M | 53 | 3 years | 3/26/2007 | 1 | precaution for atrial fibralation | It made me extremely depressed and may have lowered my ability to think clearly. After a year of treatment, I wound up not leaving the house more than once a week and sometimes not for a month. Also, I live alone, so I had to get food. Otherwise I might not have left at all. | Watch for depression and changes in mental abilities, because the doctors won't watch for you. | M | 57 | 3.5 years | 3/25/2007 | 1 | to lower blood pressure | Blood pressure and heart rate incresased significantly | M | 80 | 3 weeks | 3/22/2007 | 1 | precaution | 7 months I was prescribed Toprol XL 50mg by my doctor as a precaution for heart failure, I assume? Never had problems of any sort before all this. 2 weeks after on the medication, I had a severe attack after eating which caused my sugar to drop to 28, I had nausea, a feeling of motion sickness, shaky...It was the worse feeling I have ever experienced!! The EMT at that time told me to stop taking the Toprol , I did notknow and obviously nor did he, that stopping it "cold turkey" was not what you are supposed with this kind of medication. 3 days later another attack , again after eating. Since then, I have had these episodes off and on, no pattern, not specific time. It does seems that after I eat it triggers it? I have been to every specialist, all tests come out normal. Anxiety attacks, they say...HA HA They have know clue but something is going on with this medication. There is no way all of us are feeling this. Has anyone found a solution for the after effects of this nig | This might help people with BP, but other than that IT IS A NIGHTMARE DRUG!!! | F | 44 | 15 days | 3/17/2007 | 1 | fast heart rate | Extreme depression, sadness, crying, feelings of worthlessness and hopelessness. In a fog, decreased mental clarity, disconnected. Headache. | I am generally a happy and stable person. But I do get anxious about doctor visits. So while at the doctor, my heart rate soared to 120 and concerned her, she put me on this. The first dose left me foggy and slightly depressed, with a headache. The second dose made me extremely depressed, crying, out of my mind. I felt lost in the fog, and didn't know this crying girl - it was not me at all. Terrible thoughts in the fog, feeling like I was being poisoned, that the spark of life was to be extinguished, that I would become an automaton, no joy or laughter... After those two doses I will never take this medicine again. I was on no other medicine at the time, this was the only thing that could have caused it. | M | 39 | 1 days | 3/16/2007 | 1 | 1yr | tired feeling,no get up and go, powerless feeling, lightheaded, dizzyness, cloudy thinking, short term memory loss, throat closes up when eatting or drinking, belly bloating, stomach upset, gas problems 24/7, excessive pains threwout body, shoulders and back most!, b.p drops but not real good on this drug, vision problems at times pannic attacks! | This med is Bad! once your on it for over 6months, Your hooked! I have tryed twice now to ween off it slowly- get big time withdrawal symptoms from it! so bad I was forced to go back on it! then had even more problems! this junk Bloats your belly big time!! and gives you trapped gas so bad, you may end up in the E.R. for it! Its just Nasty! right now my sides hurt from bloating belly! as you gain waight going off and on the drug! and the bloating makes it worse!! im not a fat person,yet it has formed a overhang belly (beer belly) in just months of taking this crap med ! Im gonna try one more time to see my doctor about this mess! and get off this medication forever! if he wont do it this time.. its cold turkey for me ! people watch out for the side effects! this med is Nasty! | M | 46 | 1 years | 3/13/2007 | 1 | H.B.P. | Headaches-body aches-Big Tired feeling-light headedness- heavy legs-feet itching- ear ringing-Lost my get up and go power! while on this drug! vision problems-Big Hair thinning and loss of hair while on this med-throat closes up when eatting foods-cant run or walk up hills or tracks with slight upgrade get out of breath sometimes. get pannic attacks -nightmares- cant sleep sometimes- got the jitters all over body sometimes- hate this drug !! | Need to know the correct way to ween off this medication as I was told to go down in small cutts per pill like 10 to 15mg per week or every 2 weeks ? tryed it but I get withdrawal symptoms and palpitations hit (that has been a problem for years with me) also tryed natural meds filling in the gaps! but they clash and cause me to get sick ! Seems these chemical type pills do more harm than good to the body, long run case!I somehow feel im addict! thanks to the Hmo systems and Doctors who dont care or read about the drugs they hand out! heck most so called Hmo Doctors are Interns anyways ! learning as they go! Guessing game-your the ginny pig ! looks like I got hit this time around ! | M | 53 | 2 years | 3/1/2007 | 1 | atrial fib | started on 100mg once a day but couldn't walk up two steps without being out of breath. Dr. cut me back to 50 mg. a day and my biggest problem is with wheezing, difficulty breathing with any exertion. I like to exercise but am finding it very difficult. A weight gain of 15 lbs. with no change in diet. | I am weaning myself from 50 mg to 25 mg. and will continue until I get off from it. My Dr. is in NY and I am in Fl. for the winter but will discuss it with him when I go back to NY. | F | 69 | 2 years | 2/10/2007 | 1 | Hypertension. | Dizziness, then syncopal episodes (heart rate went to zero on several occasions). No other cardiac issues prior to this incident. Hospitalized for 1 week and they had to put a pacemaker in to ensure that heart rate would not drop too low. If you or anyone you know has had similar experience please write in or contact me. | Horrible experience with Toprol XL. Would not recommend it to anyone, w/o close monitoring. Coincidence or not? - Symptoms seemed occur while taking the meds from a sample blister pack. Have already contacted drug company to look into possible problem with time release component of medication. | F | 64 | 2 months | 1/13/2007 |