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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR TOPROL-XL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
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| 1 | hypertension | lightheadedness, fatigue, diminished sex drive, blurred visison, depression and anxiety | It took one month for the side effects to show and I thought it was hay fever. When I finally figured out that my issues were caused by Metoprolol it was five months later. It took 10 days for the symptoms to begin to subside and then headaches began. Symptoms got worse before they got better. It took 3 weeks to feel 90 percent better. It stays in your liver so it takes time to be purged. Stay with it. It gets incrementally better each day. Note: Even a little alcohol made me feel worse during recovery. | M | 63 | 5 months 50 1X D | 10/13/2012 | 1 | B p | Depression not wanting to do any thing i use to enjoy ..... An as on | M | 24 | 3 years 50 mg | 2/4/2012 | 1 | blood pressure | every thing every one else has had.i am getting off of it | this drug also has been recallec on july 11 of this year by the fda.go on www.fda.gov/safety/recalls.i dont think our doctors know what they are doing.also my friend is a drug rep for a company.she pushes certain drugs to doctors to get more money for them to push a certain drug,crazy. | M | 58 | 5 years 25mg 1X D | 9/5/2011 | 1 | High Blood Pressure | night sweats, lethargy and difficulty working out due to decreased heart rate, decreased libido | I was on the lowest possible dose, and discontinued this drug because I was concerned about possible permanent effects on my heart and adrenaline response. BP went down on its own because I stopped taking Tylenol, not because of the toprol. Didn't like the lack of energy and felt it was doing more harm than good. | F | 52 | 6 weeks 12.5 mg 1X D | 7/5/2011 | 1 | High Blood Pressure | I am taking a Generic Toprol XL. First I was taking 100 mg twice a day when a doc told me to stop it. Ended up in the hospital with palpitations, speeding heart rate, very high blood pressure and anxiety. Doc says, oh I wouldn't have told you to stop it if I knew you had a heart problem. Hmm, well, I don't have a heart problem, I told him it's the drug. Had to look it up on the internet to find out what was wrong with me and had to go back on it to stop the withdrawal symptoms. I am now on 100 mg. 1 time a day. Not one doc will get me off this drug. I have been to three asking for help. Right after I started taking it I got dizzy all the time and was sent to a neurologist who said I was having migraines without the pain, quack. He put me on another drug. Watch out docs will put on more drugs because of the side effects of the BP med. Then it just gets worse. You can't convince them that it's the drug that's causing all your symptoms. I am dizzy all the time, foggy, insomnia | F | 51 | 4 years 100 mg 1X D | 5/30/2011 History | 1 | High Blood Pressure/Heart Disease | I recently had 3 stents put in 12/2010. I had been on Toprol in varying amounts for 10 years. My BP was perfect or low and my heart rate was about 50 bpm. I have always had a lower than normal heart rate. Although I have had heart stents before, I was not feeling well after this procedure. Real dizzy especially in the afternoon. About 3 weeks after the surgery, I went to the emergency room and my heart rate was 41 and BP was 90/45. The Dr. weined me off Toprol (25MG)over about a 2 week period. First cut back to 12.5 MG for a week then half of that for about a week. Dizziness is still present, not as persistent as before. Heart rate is close to 60 and BP is either at or below normal (120/80) most of the time. Not sure what changed with the stents, but BP seems to have stablized. Still taking Altace however. | M | 65 | 10 years 50-25 MG 1X D | 3/14/2011 | 1 | blood pressure | When I started Toprol at 25 mg I lost my life as I knew it. Over the years it has been increased to 200 per day and I have gained close to 75 lbs. Because I gained weight they increased my Synthroid, declared me type 2 diabetic and gave me more drugs. Every joint aches and I no longer can walk any long distances. Try convincing your doctor that it's the drugs! | I now have palpitations, my memory is shot and I am depressed. I am going to be going to a new physician and hopefully I can get my life back as I once knew it. The worst is not being able to feel those adrenalin highs anymore. Like when your grand children visit, or your birthday. | F | 65 | 9 years 100 MG 2X D | 2/15/2011 | 1 | high blood pressure | foggy thinking with lack of ability to focus and organize, depression, heart palpitations, poor balance, intestinal problems, and I'm sure I'm forgetting some symptoms. | I'm SO glad I found this site! I was diagnosed with hypo-thyroid about the same time a doctor prescribed Toprol for high blood pressure. I took it for maybe 5 years. When I read the comments at this site, I realized that people taking Toprol had all the same symptoms I was blaming on the hypo-thyroid. I went to my NEW doctor, not the one who prescribed the Toprol, and asked her to wean me off Toprol. We did, and as fast as just a few days after I stopped taking it, I started noticing changes. I looked around, and everything was suddenly more organized. I could think straight again. Heart palipitations went away... my balance came back... and the best of all, I was a whole lot happier. AND, it wasn't hard to stop. My doctor gave me a combination of Losartan-HCTZ and a different beta blocker. After I ran out of the beta blocker, I continued just with the Losartan-HCTZ, with no big withdrawal problems. May have to play with the dosage, but did get off the Toprol without many problems. If you're taking Toprol - STOP! I'm 100% sure it's been responsible for ruining my life these last 5 years. | F | 64 | 4 years 1X D | 1/30/2011 | 1 | High Blood Pressure | Extreme fatigued, difficulty breathing, heart palpitations, weight gain | This pill was horrible for me. My doctor prescribed it for high blood pressure. I took his advice and took the pill once a day. I began experiencing bad side effects right away, but thought the doctor knew best and continued with the medication. During the second week I was having such difficulty breathing. I was tired all of the time and would fall asleep in the middle of the afternoon for hours at length and would wake up with cold sweats. (I'm not a napper.) I gained 5 pounds which I've been the same weight for ten years and eat healthy. The scariest part was the day that I YAWNED over 100 times uncontrollablly -- as if it was my bodies only way to get oxygen in my lungs. I have been off it now for two days and the side effects are slowly going away. I'd NEVER take this pill again. Horrible, horrible side effects. | F | 41 | 3 weeks 50 mg 1X D | 10/15/2010 | 1 | PVC's High Blood Pressure | WOW! First nite could not sleep, tingling in my arms and legs felt like fleas biteinf me all over or something, shortness of breath, next day major head ach, uneasy irratable all day, did not like the way I felt, dizzyness to. | I am taking crestor to control cholesterol, 10 mg of Lexipro, 80 mg a day of Micardis and 100mg x 2 of Flecainide am & pm. Was experiencing alot of PVC's previous month so doctor perscribed - hated it! | M | 52 | 1 days 25mg 1X D | 9/21/2010 | 1 | Hypertension | Numbness in legs and arms, cold hands, occasional rapid heartbeat. | I was prescribed Metoprolol Succinate, the generic of Toporol XL which I took for a total of 6 weeks. It took 10 days, at least to wean myself off this med. Decreasing the dosage to 12 1/2 mg. daily, then skipping a day, etc.. Had rapid heartbeats of up to 100 beats each minute, weakness, etc. Still have numbness in arms and legs and occasional cold hands. Have been off the meds for 6 weeks and wonder if I have permanant damage or if it will just take more time for all the side effects to go away. BP is staying within a good range of 116/74 for the most part. Trying to do things as naturally as possible. Not sure if there is a BP med I can tolorate. | F | 62 | 6 weeks 25mg 1X D | 7/28/2010 | 1 | Hypertension | Panic attacks, tension stiffness when walking, wheezing, SOB | F | 55 | 25 1X D | 7/8/2010 | 1 | ordered after I had a 3 way bypass | depression,muscle pain,cold feet & hands, tingling of feet and hands,very tired-sleep 12-16 hours a day, muscle cramps of back,shoulders and legs,blurred vision,dry eyes, short of breath, poor memory to loss of memory for 12 hours, cough helped with a bronchodilator inhaler | Thank God I found your web site. My depression was so bad I contemplated suicide. I went to my primary doctor for antidepressants and had side effects of those. I went to my eye doctor for my blurrd vision, I had eye drops everywhere I might need them. Recouperating from By Pass surgery, I finally realized I have to be feeling better, not worse. I nver had high blood pressure. I tapered toprol XL for 2 weeks and went off it totally 3 days ago. I feel wonderful with lots of energy and all my side effects are gone. My BP and pulse are within normal limits. | F | 73 | 14 months 25mg 1X D | 6/26/2010 | 1 | BP | Same side effect,chest pain, rapid heart rate, not as confused as when I was on 50 mg. Went down to 25 mg for 8 days, just went down to 12.5 mg this morning, still feel bad. | Please someone help me with some information. I droped down to 12.5 mg of toprol XL, How long do I stay on this amount and what do I drop down to now. I just started on 20 mg of benicar, my BP runs 124/77 or less all the time the high is 134/88, not often. My puse runs 90 to 72 most of the time around 78. I am sarting an all raw food diet.For the past 4 weeks I've cut out all sugar, salt, white flour all sweets. Only meat is Tuna and salmon. I need to know if this horrible feeling is going to ever stop, could I have done permanant damage. Heart Doc said my heart is find. Please e-mail me back if you had problems but it all worked out thanks, I need HOPE, Im still trusting GOD. | M | 53 | 2.5 years 25 1X D | 6/5/2010 History | 1 | a lot of pain | no sleep angry all the tine and all the rest memory loss is a fun one when you side swipe a car & cant remember doing it in a way bull shit drug might lose my license cant think strait they told me it was a inflammatory drug not a batta blocker its been 8 days since the injection & it still sucks | M | 45 | injction 1X D | 6/5/2010 | 1 | AFib | fatigue, headaches, neckaches, heavy legs, tingling in arms and feet, twitching, dizziness, blurry vision | Stopped taking Metoprolol XL after 5 months. It's been almost 30 days and side effects remain. I am hoping they will go away. Does anyone know how long it takes for this drug to get out of your system? | M | 40 | 5 months 12.5 1X D | 5/22/2010 | 1 | High blood pressure | I experienced dizziness, brain fog and sensitivity to motion which caused me to stop driving. I decided I wanted off this medicine so the doctor had me take a pill every other day for 5 days, and then stop completely. | The fun began on the first day I didn't take a pill. Racing heart rate, serious dizziness, blood pressure bouncing all over the place, loud ringing in my ears, insomnia, no appetite, horrible nervous energy and anxiety. It lasted over the weaning period and the first 4 days of being off the drug. Today is the 5th day of being off the drug and I feel better than I have in months. My bp looks good and I've decided to use stress management techniques, diet and exercise to keep my bp in check. | F | 53 | 5 months 25 Mg 1X D | 3/5/2010 | 1 | Blood Pressure | Started taking @ early 20th, gradually stopped recognizing my own self. Razor sharp clarity was replaced with a dull vail that is seemeingly harder and harder to pierce. Iritability, lethargy, nightmares and nimb limbs became a comon occurance. Nearly complete hair loss by the age of 33. In the moment of clarity realized that WTF!! this is not me: found this website -found more peope like me and got f' off this damn drug. NO MORE BETA BLOCKERS. | M | 35 | 8 years 50 1X D | 2/15/2010 | 1 | foggy brain, feeling completely "out of it", no motivation at all. | I've only been on this drug a few weeks and I'm going to stop. I wish I had found this site BEFORE I started taking this drug. I had been feeling good for a year or so (after medication problems for hypothyroidism) and wham, here I am feeling tired and lethargic again! I'm going to really try to control my boderline high BP with diet and exerciswe. | F | 45 | 14 days | 2/3/2010 | 1 | chest pain | depression,flu like symptoms,headache | M | 62 | 30 days | 1/26/2010 | 1 | BP was okay after heart attack | Cardiologist said it would make my heart work less. About every three months I would end up with bouts of low blood pressure which felt like heart attacks. No blockage was found, but went through numerous cardiac caths which cost a bundle. After awhile, I wouldn't even go into the hospital because I was going broke. The time it reoccurred in the ER, the last thing I remember before passing out is the nurse saying "BP is 50 over 30 and dropping". | The cardiologist told me repeatedly over 4 years that Toprol could not cause these symptoms, but I weaned myself off of it 18 months ago and haven't had a recurrence yet. That was from a 25 mg dosage, so I can't imagine what a stronger one would have done to me. | M | 49 | 4.5 years | 12/18/2009 | 1 | hypertension | When I started the drug it gave me chills and motion sickness. I was on a minimal dose of 25 mg. for blood pressure. After 4 months I started having palpitations (heart pounding but no rapid pulse) about 2 hours before next dose was due. I also had chest tightness and shortness of breath doing very little, and I do NOT have a history of asthma. I had some chest twinges with exertion, such as climbing stairs. Getting off of it was HELL! | Withdrawal from this drug was AWFUL! My doctor cut the dose in half, and on the fourth night I had palpitations, heat and tightness in my chest, shakiness, ice-cold hands and feet, and my hands were white! It felt like all of the adrenalin that had been suppressed burst through. I almost went to the ER, but the symptoms were so vague I didn't know what to do. It almost felt like a heart attack without the chest pain, or like an addict's withdrawal. In the morning I was freezing like I had the flu. My MD put me on Xanax to treat the symptoms until they calmed down. The second drop, which stopped the med, I had chills, cold white hands, and palpitations on the fourth day again, but less severe. I found out that 1 out of 100 people has a withdrawal effect from this drug. No beta blockers for me ever again!!!!!! | F | 53 | 4 months | 11/19/2009 | 1 | High blood pressure, tachycardia | Experienced foggy/lack of memory. Couldn't carry on conversations, at times, for forgetting what I was saying or couldn't express myself. Weight gain of 20+ lbs although eating healthy. Hair loss on top of head (usually thick). Vivid nightmares after days of sleeplessness. Tired during the day. Hard to get started in the mornings... no motivation. Tightness, painful swelling in arms and hands. Blurred/poor vision. Ringing in ears or 'white noise' rushing sound like butterfly wings. | Doctor prescribed AmbienCR for insomnia which meant sleeping through my days offs (did not take all of the time). This led to MORE nightmares when I DID sleep. Diagnosed with IBS and was prescribed Elavil which led to dry mouth and itchy skin. Became more depressed and they added Lexapro to the concoction... to hell with it. I've been off the Toprol and Lexapro for 3 days and feeling better. Having spurts of 'giggly' talking. Slept without taking Ambien, this weekend. Wondering if some of this weight gain and hair loss will improve. Personally... I wouldn't recommend these 'side effects' on anyone... won't take it again. Weaning off WITHOUT doctor's consent... he can bite me! | F | 52 | 19 months | 11/15/2009 | 1 | High Blood Pressure | I would not want anyone that I know to take Toprol XL! I started on this medicine after my mother passed away. I began feeling exhausted, could not sleep, I had dry eyes, joint pain,rapid weight gain, low blood pressure, dizziness, ringing in my ears, swelling in my legs, ice cold feeling in my legs, carpaltunnelsyndrome, pin point red rash, hair loss, short of breath, heart palpitations, excessive gas, confusion, sweating, side pain, hoarsness, sore throat. I discontinued this medicine 3 months ago I have just now been able to sleep 6 hours at a time. My legs still swell and I have not lost any of the weight. | How long does this medicine take to completely get out of your system??? | M | 49 | 12 months | 11/10/2009 | 1 | pvcs and pacs | headache shortness of breath anxiety got worse stop sleeping I didn't have energy to do anything depression got worse i didn't know what was going until i started to read the side effects of toprol and it fitted all the symtoms i was having so i am coming off of it a little at a time it also make my blood pressure go up | please please be carefully before you let the drs put you on it | F | 62 | 3 years | 10/30/2009 | 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 | 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. cbt@centurytel.net | F | 75 | 2 weeks | 7/12/2009 | 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 | 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 | 1 | Borderline h bp 150/84 | ED, bad dreams, hallucinations, shortness of breath,mild chest discomfort, Anxiety bouts, depression | The doctor put me on toprol 25mg for borderline hbp. My wife and I both noticed a complete out of character change in me, waking up in the middle of the night yelling from bad dreams,bouts of anxiety, hallucinations.I stopped taking it after 7 weeks. I still have after effects and it has been 6 weeks since I stopped it. I received more info from this website and all these other toprol users that I will ever receive from any doctor that I would visit for 10 minutes.I have started using aleve which seems to block anxiety feelings. I read this from page one of a recent member of this website. I am in very good shape do daily exercise, low fat diet, no alcohol or smoking I am wondering how long this after effect of toprol will stay with me. My current bp is 120/68. This is poison, not recommended.I never had any of these symtoms before I started using toprol. | M | 66 | 7 weeks | 4/20/2009 | 1 | Hypertension, shortness of breath | Weight gain, hair loss, insomnia, profuse sweating, ringing in ears, inability to concentrate, short term memory loss, nightmares | This drug was added to the current blood pressure med that had controlled my blood pressure for the past 10 years. I was put on Topral XL when my blood pressure started to rise. I truly believe it is (White Coat syndrome) I moved to different city and started seeing a different doctor. (I was with my previous doctor for over 20 years.) My blood pressure only rose when I went to the new doctor. I have very thick hair but since being on the drug, My hair is thinning to the point I'm almost ready to purchase a wig. I have not truly slept through the night since being on Topral XL. The sweating is horrible and embarrassing. I am on Weight Watchers and prior to starting Topral, was doing very well. Now in spite of exercising and eating according to my WW plan, instead of loosing, I'm gaining weekly. I have been on Topral for for 3 months an I have gained 25 poounds. My hands and feet are swollen to the point of I'm not able to wear my wedding rings. My doctor has reduced the dosage and continues to tell me that "my body just needs to adjust. The benefits out weighs the side affects." Ive taken it upon myself and I will not be refilling my prescription. I have been weaned to 12.5 mq once a day and I'm going to take it every other day and eventually discontinue Topral all together. I can not take the insomnia, because it causes me to be cranky and irritable and tired during the day. I'm going to loose my job if I don't discontinue taking Topral. | F | 51 | 3 months | 4/18/2009 | 1 | Blood pressure | Suffered severe upper and lower G.I. illness. | AstraZeneca has way too much MILK SUGARS in Topol's fillers. If someone is lactose intolerant they cannot take this pill! I ended up in ER and overnight for observation as I was so dehydrated from vomiting and diarrhea. Subsequently had a colonscopy and an abdominal angiogram that both proved negative. Doctors didn't know what caused my illness...it came on right after I was on Toprol for about 2 weeks. Prelude was hideous smelly flagellation immediately after I was on it before the diarrhea and vomiting started. I e-mailed AstraZeneca and they basically blew me off. | F | 56 | 3 weeks | 4/8/2009 | 1 | High Blood Pressure | Weight gain of 20 lbs. with no change in lifestyle, puffy all over, waking up in the middle of the night and can't get back to sleep, labored breahing during any physical exertion. | I have been taking this med for approx 4 years. I am DONE with it!! I thought it was just me feeling so crappy. I was happier and healthier before taking this drug. I will find an alternative method for treating my HBP. | F | 41 | 4 years | 4/6/2009 | 1 | High Blood Pressure | Weight gain, swelling, hair loss and shortness of breath. | If a medication does more harm to your body that good. what is the use. these side effects I believe can be dangerous over a long period of time. Take control of you health. eat right and exercise. I have been off this medication now for 2 weeks and I am feeling so much better | F | 62 | 6 years | 3/25/2009 | 1 | PVC | CANT SLEEP FOGGY SLOWLY FACING DOOM CRYING (REALLY)DETACHED ANXIOUS LIVE WITH PVC JUST BAD MEDICINE IF YOU WANT A LIFE GET OFF THIS MEDICINE!!!!!!!!!! | IVE BEEN ON IT FOR 9 DAYS AND IM DONE IT WILL STEAL YOUR LIFE I HOPE YOU READ THIS BEFORE YOU START TAKING IT ITS NOT A YOUNG 80 OR YOUNGER FIND SOMTHING ELSE. | M | 41 | 9 days | 3/17/2009 | 1 | High Blood Pressure/High Heart Rate | Weight gain, depression, no energy | I have been on this medicine for almost 6 years and have complained countless times to my doctor how unhappy I am with it. He refuses to change my medicine! My blood pressure readings are still high. Maybe he gets a kick-back from the makers of the drug. I am being forced to seek a new doctor. | F | 32 | 6 years | 3/7/2009 | 1 | Migraines | Severe headache & chest pains | Was on the metoprolol extended release for approx. 6 mos. when I was told they no longer could get it. They substituted the Toprol-XL and I spent 2 nights in the hospital with severe chest pains, extremely dangerous blood pressure readings & the worst headache I've ever had. After 3 days of vomitting and going thru withdrawl (I was reducing the dose by 1/2 during that time) I started a new medication. Due to change I'm now facing a number of issues trying to get back on track. | F | 40 | 7 days | 2/23/2009 | 1 | Resting Tachycarida | Boy I tell you what got on 50 mg of Toprol XL and my body adjusted very quickly because heart rate went up and got taken up to 100mg still did ok, it controlled my heart rate and bp (even though I didn't and don't have high bp), accept weight gain about 25lbs. And it was fast also had funny pains in my chest and acid re flux which I never had before. Then I was put on a Hormone called Yaz and it made my heart soar, but the docs didn't want to see it that way and raised me up another 100mg and then my HELL began!! Trouble sleeping, couldn't lose weight no matter what regime I was on, constipated, dizziness, light headedness, major anxiety, and then one night I went blind, it went away but I dropped 50mg immediately. Then still had problems I got off the Yaz but my body had got to adapted to the High dose of meds and since I didn't have high BP it started to soar my bp up and down insane up's and downs'. And my heart rate would go soaring if I started moving around to much. Finally coul | STAY OFF this DRUG | F | 35 | 3 years | 2/22/2009 | 1 | irregular heartbeat | weight gain of 90 pounds over 5 years, numbness in toes, swelling of neck and face. | I want to get off it after reading many similar experiences from other users. | M | 59 | 5 years | 2/6/2009 | 1 | Palpitations | Alot of weight gain (40 pounds in 5 years), joints ached, muscles ached, hands swelled, bloatedness, extreme fatigue, felt like I was dying a slow death | I took Toprol (generic form) for 5 years because of palpitations or SVT. The first 2 years seemed ok but didn't realize I was having night hallucinations until my husband woke up during one of them and realized that my "stories" of what went on during the night were actually hallucinations. Told the doctor and didn't believe me but changed it to Toprol XL. That is when the real problems started. My joints started aching, muscles aching to the point I couldn't walk. My hands swelled up, etc. I gained 40 pounds which I've never had a weight issue before and I was told it was because I was getting older. For my aches and pains, I was told to take 800 mg Motrin because the aches and pains happen with age!! Mind you I was only 35 at the time of my first complaints. I finally came off of it 2 months ago and I've been fine (no palpitations) and getting back to my old self. This drug is toxic!!!!! | F | 39 | 5 years | 2/3/2009 | 1 | heart rate | numbness of toes; weight | weight gain is almost 100 pounds | M | 59 | | 2/2/2009 | 1 | high blood pressure in dr's office | Exhaustion, loss of hair, dry mouth, joint pain, heavy legs, loss of ambition coupled with depression, low libido and other side effects too numerous to mention. | Dr. did not believe my high blood pressure was "white coat" and scared me into this medication. After 3 years of this poison I finally bought a monitor, weaned myself off the Toprol ever so carefully over time and found that it was indeed "white coat" All side effects disappeared. I feel like myself again. | F | 54 | 3 years | 1/16/2009 | 1 | SVT/Palpitations | extreme fatigue, trouble breathing | I had an ablation seven years ago for SVT and have been mostly symptom free since then. I was hospitalized for palpitations and erratic heart beat two weeks ago and after one day on a halter monitor was prescribed metoprolol 25mg. I have been beyond exhausted since taking it. Was initially told to take it in the mornings but could not make the 45 min. drive to work. I switched to taking it at night but no amount of sleep gets rid of my exhaustion. I feel clumsy, sleepy, and am very quick to tears which is very unusual for me. I'm trying to get another rx, but would honestly much rather have another ablation than continue feeling like a zombie. | F | 24 | 2 weeks | 1/15/2009 | 1 | HBP | Ringing in the ears, loss of sexual desire including ED, depression, nervousness, bad dreams at night, sleepyness in the daytime, and weight gain. | Don't take this drug or it's generic Metoprolol. I was taking Toprol-XL for BP but my BP was still high. My Dr. kept adding other drugs trying to get the BP down. I was always tired and sleepy, then they did a glucose test and said I was diabetic all of a sudden. My triglicerides were up two areas I had never had problems with before. I was also getting headaches that I've had before. I stopped taking Toprol-XL and the generic and changed Dr. because that one swore by Toprol. I'm now taking Lisinopril it's cheaper does a better job and no side effects. It took several days for the ringing in the ear and the ED to go away but it did. | M | 63 | 6 years | 1/2/2009 | 1 | Hyper tension | Nightmares every night,totally tired, brain fog, very low heart rate, depression, feeling useless, loss of ambition. | Told my cardio doc to stick this medicine rectally. Went to myGP who put me on Linsonpril. Works good, no cough YET. Have went on D.A.S.H. diet and feel like a million bucks. Will stay on this diet forever. Also quit Lipitor and voltaren under docs care and feel wonderful. Voltaren causes HBP over time. To me I think all drugs except in case of life or death SUCK! I eat right and exercise, BP is avg. 134/74.:)))))) | M | 63 | 7 months | 12/28/2008 | 1 | fast heart rate and high B/P | Get off the Toprol and the generic too. I was on the generic for one year and I have just about all the side effects that others have written about. SO, it is going to be hello Bystolic and good bye Toprol and the Generic Metoprol. Goodbye 100 mg!!! | These drugs are nasty. Might work well for some and some refuse to believe that all the side effects they have could be this medicine. I finally woke up one day and said enough for there are other medicines out there. I gained lots of weight which looks like solid fat. Nothing fits, my fingers, ankles and other parts swell. I ache in the knees, have zero energy. Have nightmares that one would think I was in a bad movie, plus I was sleepy in the day time. I would fall asleep in the chair. Since I have been on Bystolic for four days, not much has changed, except peace of mind, but I think the Bystolic will work if I have to go to 10 mg, from the 5, I will. I WILL NOT take Toprol or the generic Metoprol again-it just did too many bad things to me, just like it did most all the other people who have written in this site. There are too many other medicines out there to continue to take this medicine. I wish I had been brave enough to stopped it long ago and maybe this roll of fat around my | F | 60 | 1 years | 12/21/2008 | 1 | High b/p | Irritability, brain fog, chest tightness, fatique, sadness, coughing, dry throat, sweating, & itchy dry eyes. | Never took meds until stent placement & ended up with high b/p so I know it's the med. On 25mg but I'm starting to take 1/2 & ween off. I felt better before the meds! My time on earth ends with Gods decision & not before! | F | 56 | 30 days | 12/15/2008 | 1 | Heart attack | Toprol made me COLD. So cold that I was wearing a winter coat in the house in May. When my wife and parents decided I needed to go see a shrink and were ready to take me to the funny farm, I stopped taking it and within 2 days I was fine. | M | 45 | 7 months | 12/6/2008 | 1 | SVT's and Lone Atrial Fib | I first noticed insomnia, stomach upset with weight loss, tingling finger tips and then came anxiety with increased palps (connected, I'm sure). The overwhelming feeling of "un" wellness is mostly how I feel with taking this med. | Hate the med with a passion! I also cannot walk my neighborhood without going into tachycardia for the first ten minutes which also affects my anxiety level. I regret the day I took the 12.5 mg's of Metoprolol as well as the 12.5 mg's of Toprol XL I currently take. I am going to wean from this 12.5 but can you cut a XL half in half? My Cardio suggested a washout from the BB and attempt at CCB. Anyone had success with this? | F | 47 | 18 months | 11/30/2008 | 1 | SVT | I was dizzy, couldn't even get out of bed, weak, sick to stomach, threw up, blured vision, dry mouth,very low blood persure, constintly cold,sleepy all the time, whole body was sore, and still had pain and trobel breathing. The symptoms were worst then the actual epsoid itself. | I was taken toprol for bout 2 weeks and just stoped taken it myslef and felt better just like that. I dont like the meds and flet that i did not need to take the med. i was taken 25mgs and it felt like i was going to die. | F | 21 | 2 weeks | 11/26/2008 | 1 | High Blood Pressure | Lousy feeling, you know you are on a drug; dizziness at certain times of the day; weight gain probably from the drug; lack of mental sharpness | Eventually only had lousy feeling and dizziness at times and some weight gain. I had been on 3 BP drugs at once. Was able to wean off one. Was feeling better and getting back in shape. I wanted to wean off Toprol-xl also since my BP was never really that high to begin with. I reduced the Toprol-xl to 12.5mg over a number of weeks and felt better after about 2 months. At last Dr. vist I told him I had reduced the dosage to 12.5 and he had no problem since my pressure was well in control, 120/80. At that visit I needed the Toprol prescription refilled. Dr. asked me if I wanted to go with the Generic version. I said ok as long as It worked the same as what I was taking. BIG MISTAKE! I read many posts from people who had done the same thing and had the same horrible side effects, palps, chest pains, neck and shoulder pain, dreams, reflux, general horrible feeling. I kept taking the Generic thinking I had something else wrong with me. After 3 weeks I realized the Toprol-xl change was the o | M | 64 | 5 years | 11/14/2008 | 1 | High Blood Pressure | Weight gain, major depression, feeling like I didn't want to leave my house, no energy, anxiety | This is the worst medication I have ever taken and I will never take a beta blocker again. I was on 25mg for about 2 and a half months. I made my doctor wean me off of it. I went from 25mg to 12.5mg for a week then half of that for a week. I have been off of them completely for a week and still having extreme anxiety and some depression. Does anyone know how long it takes to completely get out of your system? Thanks, Kim | F | 41 | 2 months | 9/8/2008 | 1 | tachycardia | It has been almost a yr. since I had an ablation done and stopped taking the toprol xl. This is to help all of you who are struggling with the side effects. ie, anxiety! Don't give up or give in. Don't let the Dr. put you on benzos or antianxiety medication, believe me it will make it worse. I know how terrible the withdrawal is, but the other medications will not help in the longrun. Don't believe your Dr. either when they tell you that the Toprol would not cause your symptoms. I wish someone would have believed me about the withdrawal and had just helped me through it mentally. I was put one everything from anti anxiety to benzos, nothing helped until I got myself off of everything. It took almost a yr. I suffered from ringing in the ears, esophageal spasms, palpatations....on and on, all from the drugs I was giving. So this is what I did... I purchased a detox hypnosis cd and listened everynight. I went on the homeopathic pharmacy website and purchased some the the products | F | 69 | 1 months | 9/4/2008 | 1 | PACs/PVCs | Listless, weight gain, depressionl, headaches, bloating | Coming off it is a weird, long process. I had to wean myself off, and am still going through the side effects of the last cut from 12.5 to 0 mg. It has been worth it, though, without a doubt. | F | 37 | 3 years | 8/26/2008 |