PROPRANOLOL HCL Reviews (PROPRANOLOL HYDROCHLORIDE)

Average Rating: 3.1 (38 Ratings)

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PROPRANOLOL HCL  (PROPRANOLOL HYDROCHLORIDE):  This medication is a beta blocker used to treat high blood pressure, irregular heartbeats, shaking (tremors), and other conditions. It is used after a heart attack to improve the chance of survival. It is also used to prevent migraine headaches and chest pain (angina). Lowering high blood pressure helps prevent strokes, heart attacks, and kidney problems. Preventing chest pain can help improve your ability to exercise. This drug works by blocking the action of certain natural chemicals in your body (such as epinephrine) that affect the heart and blood vessels. This effect reduces heart rate, blood pressure, and strain on the heart.   FDA Approval Date: 1985-07-30 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)

  

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RATING  REASONSIDE EFFECTS FOR PROPRANOLOL HCLCOMMENTSSEXAGEDURATION/
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 4  Anxiety Shortness of breath at first but this disappeared after a while, cold hands and feet, tiredness Absolutely amazing for controlling panic attacks, went from several a week to a few a month with much less severity, allows me to do all the things my panic attacks stopped me from doing for years! F 18 5 months
80mg/day
12/29/2018
 5  Palpitations/anxiety Cold hands/fingers Minor hallucinations I was experiencing severe palpitations every single day from the afternoon up until I'd fall asleep at night. They would distract me from work (I'm a medical assistant) and affect my relationship with my significant other. The palpitations were so severe that they would cause anxiety, which in turn would my my palpitations worse. Propranolol HCL has helped tremendously. I took approx 3 weeks to take effect, but it was so worth it. In the past 2 weeks, I've experienced my episodes only twice. From every day to twice in 14 days? DEFINITELY worth it. F 23 1.5 months
10mg 3X day
3/21/2017
 5  Anxiety I was recently prescribed 40MG once a day to help treat my panic attacks before I wasn't taking anything for my anxiety I would experience a fear where I would think I'm going to die and become really paranoid of going out in case someone will harm me I would get a racing heart beat and start to sweat and shake it was a scary feeling I thought I was going to have a heart attack and every time I was in social situations I would start to feel my anxiety attacks coming on it is a scary experience having anxiety since being on this medication I feel more spaced out and relaxed and can control my anxiety very well I experience some common side effects these are slight dizziness when I stand up tiredness and mild nausea but apart from that I am having a good experience on this medication F 24 2 years
40MG 1X day
9/27/2020
 5  Tachycardia Dizziness in the morning It totally controls my heart-rate, but if I miss a pill, it goes back up. F 26 1 years
6/5/2007
 4  Anxiety Confusion. Works great for anxiety, but it does make it hard for me to gather my thoughts. I use this as an alternative of Klonopin which I have become physically addicted to. M 26 4 months
40 MG 1X day
1/1/2017
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 5  High Blood Pressure, Migraines Difficulty breathing and shortness of breath if I accidentally take 2 per day. Severe migraine if I miss a dose. This drug has NORMALIZED my life. I suffer from crippling migraines and I have had none since I started on this. F 30 2 years
120 MG 1X day
3/10/2012
 1  Anxiety Hypoglycemia.. It almost killed me. I abruptly stopped taking it. I know that I wasn't suppose to do that but I take my diabetes very seriously and would rather deal with my anxiety in a more natural way. If you're taking it for anxiety, please find a better solution. F 30 4 days
20mg 1X day
7/5/2020
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 1  Adrenaline Extremely tired, dizzy spells worse. Sick and feeling sick very slow breathing which caused me anxiety. Really bad pressure feeling in head like a silent headache. Rather deal with the adrenaline than the side effects F 31 7 days
80mg 1X day
7/2/2023
 3  Anxiety, high blood pressure Numb feeling feeling off and little trouble breathing.cold hands and feet It seems to work ok the first couple hours then it's like nothing F 32 6 days
20mg 2X day
11/30/2020
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 2  Panic attacks I have had dizziness feeling drunk like I'm gonna faint out of breath the first 2 days. feelings of more anxiety. I'm gonna phone my doctor to take me off them. They relax the heart slow it down but I still felt shaken and sweaty they made me more anxious I'm gonna choose a more natural way of combating the anxiety. I used to have asthma and it says you shouldn't have it if you have asthma so that's at the back of my mind I don't know why my doctor prescribed me these. M 32 4 days
40MG twice 2X day
4/2/2023
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 4  Anxiety Dizziness, and extreme tiredness This drug absolutely helps with anxiety I was taking 40mg 3times a day, but I think with this method you get a big hit of it within an hour the dizziness was quite bad , and I was beyond tired like I really had to lie down and sleep almost zombie like, but this does ease the longer you take it, but I switched to 120mg slow release taken once a day at bedtime this had a much better effect on how much I felt the side effects I found I wasn't so tired or dizzy during the day , overall I'm happy taking it , and happy not to be controlled by anxiety anymore, I noticed some reviews on here are bad but the people leaving some of those reviews have only taken it a few days some only 1 day that's totally ridiculous to leave a bad review after such a small amount of time you must give your body chance to adjust to a new med , look for reviews where people have been on it at least 2 months for an accurate account of how propranolol affects them any less is just plain stupid and misleading for those looking for helpful reviews M 35 6 months
120 1X day
6/1/2023
 2  High BP Swollen eyelids and conjunctivitis symptoms. Suffered for 10 months, going to eye doctor after eye doctor and no longer being able to wear contacts. Mentioned to my BP doctor and she immediately identified the above as side effects of porpranolol. She took me off the med and my eyes were finally back to normal. F 35 1 years
60mg 1X day
4/4/2010
 2  Anxiety leading to insomnia Random adrenalin discharges, severe anxiety (sense of dread/impending doom), insomnia with panic attack (jolting), tachycardia, high blood sugar level, hypokalemia, high Blood Pressure. Plz taper it if you stop. Worked wonders when I took it, but had to stop because I couldn't do sports. Messed up my whole system 36 hours after I stopped. Sent to ER with every symptoms described. Took 33 days for random discharge to stop, 12 more for Anxiety and insomnia, 3 more for random blood sugar level spikes. Tachy took almost 2 month to finally normalize. 3 month later still hypokalemia and slightly high BP. Unlucky user with adverse effect after short use. M 36 5 days
40 MG 1X day
9/28/2023
 3  PVC's, SVT Caused breathing problems, pvc's, switched to Atenolol and that works much better. Inexpensive. F 37 1 years
50 or 100? 1X day
4/29/2011
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 3  Migraine, very high blood pressure Extreme weight gain!!! I always have weighed between 115-120 and I have always been In the gym about 5 days a week and eat very healthy. And in these 5 months my weight went up to 163!!!!!! I couldn't walk breathe or even get up from sitting down because of the weight gain! I felt like I was going to die from the weight gain and I couldn't lose the weight it just kept coming on. I found out it's a beta blocker and stopped it immediately and lost 6 pounds in the first week!! My dr thought I had a thyroid issue and I said I knew it wasn't just as my results came back good. It was the medicine. I am very disappointed I loved how it worked for my migraines because when I first took it my migraine disappeared within about an hour and I live with 24/7 headaches or migraines that make you literally get sick for a few days. It helped great with my blood pressure which was always around 160- 184/70 which was normal for me. I had no other side effects besides the untreatable rapid weight gain F 40 5 days
40mg 1X day
4/1/2021
 1  Hypertension Terrible headache. Nothing I take to get rid of headache from this drug works. My eyes hurt bad as well. I was given 40mg taken twice daily but started slow with only 20. Thank God. The other dose would have been deadly. My head is killing me and we feel it's this drug. Going off this today and back to Topral 25mgs x2 per day. I had high hopes for this new drug working better to lower BP but side effects are bad. I'll give Topral a longer chance F 40 7 days
40 Bid
8/3/2016
 3  boarderline hyperthyroid very tired and lethargic, heavy eyes, out of breath eg when cycling, worsening psoriasis, cold hands and feet - even white fingertips in cold weather. this beta blocker effectively controls my tremor, palpitations and irritability F 41 18 months
3/21/2005
 4  Miagraine and Hand Tremors Hairloss Helped the migraines and the hand tremors somewhat. Doctors say it's good for the heart in the long run. When off for a few weeks and started getting head tension, so I started back. F 42 7 years
5/31/2006
 1  Migraine Headaches Severe headaches, memory loss, vivid dreams, chest and jaw pain, lethargic F 42 14 days
8/28/2007
 1  High blood pressure Headaches, dizziness, insomnia, weight gain , constipation,severe pain in the right calve ,non stop itching all over, nausea, stomach pain, overwhelming sudden heat and sweating, depression. Currently tapering off this med it's been so awful , none of the side effects are going away just getting worse every week, I feel so bad I want to sleep constantly these tablets suck the life out of you , I'm depressed getting fat , feel like I'm crawling in flea's because of the constant itchy skin and I'm a hot sweaty mess it's not working or worth it for me , it's not done a great deal for my blood pressure either I wish my doctor had told me if I started this med if I wanted to stop it would be a slow taper to get off it , I've glad once I'm done with it and also not only do you have to taper slowly the withdrawal is horrible, nasty med and won't touch it again M 43 6 months
120 1X day
7/21/2023
  

PROPRANOLOL HCL  (PROPRANOLOL HYDROCHLORIDE):  This medication is a beta blocker used to treat high blood pressure, irregular heartbeats, shaking (tremors), and other conditions. It is used after a heart attack to improve the chance of survival. It is also used to prevent migraine headaches and chest pain (angina). Lowering high blood pressure helps prevent strokes, heart attacks, and kidney problems. Preventing chest pain can help improve your ability to exercise. This drug works by blocking the action of certain natural chemicals in your body (such as epinephrine) that affect the heart and blood vessels. This effect reduces heart rate, blood pressure, and strain on the heart.   FDA Approval Date: 1985-07-30 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)

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