BYSTOLIC Reviews (NEBIVOLOL HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 2.2 (462 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare BYSTOLIC with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR BYSTOLIC | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 2 | Tachycardia | Weight gain of 15 lbs., gastrointestinal problems, bloating, nervousness | I have been taking Corgard for 16 years, but I have asthma, so the lung doctor wanted me to try a different beta blocker that does not affect the lungs. I tried Bystolic for 5 weeks and then had to change back to Corgard. | F | 47 | 5 weeks 5 mg 1X day | 7/26/2011 | 2 | H B P / Irregular heart beats | Anxiety and depression, lack of energy, very low pulse, shortness of breath, ringing in the ears,( very loud ), impaired judgement, blurred vision, joint pain in both hands and shoulders | I am 64 years old, most of my life (since I was 18) I had high hbp, it was always in control with medications. Two years ago I was taken to the ER with irregular heart beat and chest pain. Some test were done and I went to see my cardiologist to follow up. He prescribed Bystolic 5mg, mainly for the irregular heart beats, a year later he had to reduse it to 2.5mg because I still have the irregular heart beats. Last month he took me off Bystolic because my pulse went down to 37 bpm and just left me with hydrochlorothiazide 25mg and norvasc 5mg to control my hbp. After a month I still have all the side affect listed above and my blood pressure is higher but within limits, my pulse is between 50 and 70 | M | 64 | 2 years 5 mg 1X day | 7/7/2011 | 2 | high blood pressure | Decreased energy and tired all of the time, headaches in the back and side of my head, a 7# weight gain and shortness of breath with simple activity. | I have tried several other anti-hypertensive medications and all have had side effects so far. Bystolic has worked the best in lowering my BP... it is excellent; however, the fatigue is overwhelming... I fall asleep watching tv, at my computer while at work (!!!) and just walking or taking a stairs leaves me short of breath.(I was never like this until I started Bystolic. I am a nurse and know...this is just not right! I will continue on to find something without the side effects. I am finding side effects with anti-hypertensives are very common...it is just finding one where you can live with those side effects and figure out which is worse....the high BP or the side effects. | F | 58 | 6 weeks 10 mg 1X day | 6/21/2011 | 2 | HBP | Anxiety and a little jittery were my most occuring side effects, but the worst is the weight gain. (30lbs and counting) Am weaning myself off this drug. | M | 52 | 5 months 5mg 1X day | 5/21/2011 | 2 | High Blood Pressure | Shortness of breath, tingling, sensitive fingertips, hair loss, weight gain, lack of energy. | This is the 4th drug I have tried and they all seem to have negative side effects that are hard to live with. My doctor seems to think that I am his hardest to treat patient and the only one that has side effects from these drugs. I have told him that I already have a 50 percent reduction in lung capacity from another conition and yet he sees nothing wrong with my complaints that I can't breath well. Bystolic is now not working well and I have to go back to him and try yet another drug which I don't look forward to. Is the choice to live with these side effects or die? | F | 64 | 4 months 2.5mg 1X day | 5/19/2011 | 2 | High blood pressure | Worked at first, now BP is erratic. Tired in morning - fall asleep in afternoon. Gained 8 lbs. not motivated to do anything. Am weening myself off this drug. | Also have dizziness, blurring in right eye and sense of doom. From the first day I took this drug I could tell the difference way my heart felt. Strange feeling. Also have had 4 months of nasal drip in back of throat. Since I cut meds in half, the symptoms are abating. | F | 64 | 6 months 5 mg 1X day | 5/2/2011 | 2 | Hypertension | I'm 18 and am a sort of medical anomaly. I'm always tired even after the rare occasion I can fall asleep and stay asleep. I once had Mono and this feels just like being "run down". I toss and turn most of the night. I've experienced headaches and dizzyness on occasion and my doctor has had to up my dosage twice because my BP is still too high. It's apparently working now. | M | 18 | 5 weeks 20MG 1X day | 4/6/2011 | 2 | Joint pain in elbows, ankles and vertebrae, ED, tiredness at dosages of more than 5 mg | 5mg lowers the blood pressure a little but higher doses cause nasty side effects. Doctor added 12.5 mg hydrochlorot 3 days ago and the blood pressure came down to almost normal, but now I have extreme joint pain in my knees, | M | 53 | 5 months 5 mg 1X day | 4/6/2011 | 2 | High blood pressure | Stabbing pains upper right back, under right arm and breast, feels like in rib areas. Reflux, which my doctor says is not a side effect of Bystolic but it started when I started taking the medication. Doctor wants to double my dosage. Blood pressure took several weeks to lower. Top number still high, lower number is better and pulse is very low. Vivid dreams. | I've started breaking the med in half and am going to gradually wean myself off of it. My doctor said this med is prescribed to people who are under a lot of stress, which I am, but I don't like the "don't care" attitude. Also my insurance does NOT cover it - it costs me $55 a month. | F | 58 | 2 months 5 mg 1X day | 3/14/2011 | 2 | High Blood Pressure | At first, Bystolic lower my blood pressure. I rarely had any asthma attacks - maybe a couple of times a year. But as time went on, my asthma was getting worse. I thought it may be because I had a new puppy and thought my alergies were making my asthma worse. Then Bystolic wasn't working on my BP, so the doctor double my dose to 5 mg. At that time, I was having to take an inhaler for my asthma multiple times a day. Then, when the higher dose didn't work, the doctor switch me to Avapro, and now all of my asthma has subsided! After researching Bystolic, I found that it is a beta blocker that blocks beta receptors. The problem is a lot of beta receptors are in the lungs and “airway structures” and when the beta blocker blocks them, they become more tense and constricted, which is dangerous for people with asthma. Go figure! I have been off of Bystolic for a week, and I haven't had an asthma attack since! I would NOT take this if you are asthmatic!!! | F | 45 | 1 years 2.5 MG 1X day | 2/4/2011 | 2 | AFib heart palpitations | fatigue, easily winded when performing mild work activities. Blurry vision. Headaches. | I am taking tikosyn for atrial fibrillation and it hasn't been work that well so my cardiologist prescribed bystolic. I am also taking diovan and lipitor. Less AFib but the fatigue from a slower heart rate is too much. I will no longer take this med starting tomorrow. | M | 56 | 6 days 5 mg 1X day | 1/16/2011 | 2 | High Blood Pressure | Low sex drive, erectile dysfunction | I have a dissected descending aorta with HBP. Within months of starting on Bystolic I noticed (actually my Wife did first) an erectile irregularity (I'll not go into detail) that effects performance. I've gained weight but I can't blame the drug. I am weaning myself off Bystolic by cutting the 5mg tabs into 3rds and will stop taking it totally in a week or two. I am going to advise my cardiologist and see if he has suggestions for an alternative. Anyone ever try a natural beta blocker replacement like passion flower? | M | 66 | 12 months 5mg 1X day | 12/13/2010 | 2 | High Blood Pressure | Shortness of breath, tingling in arms, difficulty exercising, skipped heart beats | This did nothing for my BP infact it went higher while I was on it. I have recently lost 30lbs and work hard to keep it off. While on this I could not keep up my normal exercise routine and in the one month I was on it gained over 2 lbs. The one experience that really shook me up was when the MD discontinued it (weaned me off like you are suppose to) I started getting even more skipped beats for over two weeks once I was totally off of it. Sometime several in one minute. This gradually went away but took about a month once I was off of it to totally get me back to normal. I went on my "old" BP meds and now my BP is back to high normal. Forget trying to get it lower. At least I don't have side effects from the ones I am on. | F | 56 | 4 weeks 10mg 1X day | 12/5/2010 | 2 | HBP | First week ok. Then more and more tired. Till I had to quit it | M | 48 | 20 days 2,5 1X day | 9/27/2010 | 2 | blood pressure | Worked great to lower BP but the side effects were awful. During the day i was fine. In the evening I felt like I was plugged into an electrical socket, very nervous, creepy crawling feelings. The side effects got worse each day. | M | 55 | 7 days 2.5 1X day | 8/10/2010 | 2 | heart palp up to 170 when resting | I cant sleep at all, Im 22 years old and was told by my doctor to take 5 mg of bystolic, but i am only getting 2 hours of sleep at night. I feel out of it, no energy. hard to breathe but did seem to help my heart rate go down. calling my dr in the morning to let her know, and hopefully can stop taking these meds so i can finally sleep again!! : ( | F | 22 | 2 weeks 5 mg 1X day | 8/9/2010 | 2 | BP and Muscle Bridge | Swollen ankles, lightheadedness, violent nightmares, spikes in BP, fatigue, muscle pain. | I was taking 100 mg of Toprol XL for HBP and to "relax" the arteries in my heart. I have a muscle bridge at the LAD. My doctor switched me to 10 mg of Bystolic and at first I thought it was a Godsend. Then, I'd wake up at night with the sweats, high pulse rate and elevated BP. Cardiologist upped meds to 20 mg. Had a severe hypertensive event in the middle of the night. BP was through the roof. Chest pains. Profuse sweating. Shaking all over. Upped meds to 30 mg. Early December 2009, I was drinking a glass of cold vegetable juice and felt my heart flutter. Put my hand to chest, and my heart was going nuts. Went to emergency and was treated for Atrial Fibrillation. Upped Bystolic to 40 mg (maximum dose). Added second med to control A-Fib: 200 mg of Amiodarone. A few weeks ago, I awoke in the middle of the night with another HBP event, but this time I felt chest pain and pressure across my ribcage. Cardiologist did stress test, echo cardiogram, nuclear heart scan and angiogram. Everything normal. I workout at the gym 7 days a week. I am a vegetarian. And I really watch the sodium. Yet my BP is still unstable, and I feel like absolute crap. My cardiologist now wants to blame my BP attacks on stress and anxiety. I've had it! I'm convinced that most of my symptoms are drug related. I'm getting a referral to another cardiologist. If you've experienced anything similar, I urge you to be careful. I think that Bystolic works for some people, but long term, I think it's toxic. | M | 63 | 18 months 20 mg 2X day | 7/4/2010 | 2 | High BP | morning headaches, severe pain in my left temple, added fibromyalgia pain especially in right calf, dizziness & faint feeling when I get up too fast, very blurry eye sight, tired & "flu-like" symptoms | Don't care for it...it especially makes my fibro & fatigue worse! | F | 63 | 25 days 5 MG 1X day | 5/25/2010 | 2 | HBP | I have had dizziness episodes that seem to be getting worst. Yesterday felt like I was fainting, afterwards had a severe headache that lasted for a couple of hours. Woke up this morning from what appeared to be a a bad dream I seen my (ex) in it sorry got off track. This is my third such episode in the last week out of town on business so this is not cool. I have been reading this morning to find this has happen to a sizable amount of people using this drug. | My dosage is considered high in most cases because of the stubbornness of my HBP. Nothing seems to work for me at this point in my life and I thought that the older you get the better controlled the BP becomes. Taken any HBP medication is a calculated risk of sorts. I have taken every precaution know to man an it just does not seem in the cards for me to have a normal BP. I have total stop eating meats except fish. I exercise, have loss almost 30lbs and most people wouldn't have considered me overweight (235), but my body mass index (25) was high I was considered overweight so I took care of that and now new problems. I am going to continue to fight the good fight, I hope this information helps someone out there that needs or wants information concerning this drug. I am currently on (5) meds for my HBP and still have HBP so those of you on (1) that will never happen for me. Take care of yourself naturally first eat better and exercise then stop abusing your body or you will not live to regret it. | M | 49 | 7 weeks 40 MG 2X day | 5/6/2010 | 2 | high bp | Extremely severe uncontrollable gas - it stopped when I changed to another drug. | F | 75 | 80 days 1X day | 5/1/2010 |