METOPROLOL TARTRATE Reviews (METOPROLOL TARTRATE)Average Rating: 2.1 (169 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare METOPROLOL TARTRATE with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR METOPROLOL TART | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | High blood pressure | Massive weight gain, since my new doctor put me on 100mg, twice a day. Hallucinatory nightmares and hallucinations, especially at night. I would wake up yelling that someone was in the room, when nobody was. I would also see someone standing by my bed during the middle of the night, but if i blinked,they were gone. I would "hear" people talking in the hallway at night..I "saw" a woman walk through the closet without opening a door. Of course it wasn't real, just med-induced. I thought I was losing my mind! I would get extremely tired, had no hope for anything anymore. Couldn't concentrate at all. I also had heart palpitations almost all the time. Really bad edema in my ankles and feet. I developed a weird red itchy scaly rash on my shins, and on my left leg in the back too. This started 3 months after taking the pills. It got progressively worse, and I thought i might lose my legs if it keeps spreading..but it is now finally healing since I stopped the medication. | I had the nightly hallucinations for a year or so before I quit taking the recommended dosage the doctor recommended. I also gained 50+ pounds in a year, and I couldn't figure out why for awhile. Until I started researching the medication. I drove my husband crazy with the nightmares, waking him up each time. I started cutting the pills in half, then fourths, weaning myself off of them. Since the doctor refused to switch me, I found a natural alternative (blood pressurex from theherbsplace.com)and am now totally off metoprolol and will never go back. In fact, i will never again take prescribed medications as long as I live. Since I no longer trust doctors in any way, shape or form. For anyone that has ever been told by a doctor that you will have a stroke and die if you quit taking the medicine they prescribe for you, you won't. As long as you ease up on the medicine slowly and find an alternative to help you. Ask any pharmacist how you can wean yourself off of any medication you | F | 50 | 1.6 years | 3/7/2008 | 3 | anxiety | Weight gain!!! Tiredness. Calmness. | Well, it sure helped my anxiety but I packed on the pounds too. Now I'm not sure if I should stop taking it and be thinner and more anxious or stay on it and be fatter, but more calm. | F | 36 | 6 months | 12/19/2007 | 3 | PVC | gained 15 pounds in three months, hair loss | Insurance switch me from Totorol, does not work for PVC, lowered my blood presure, try half of the pill does not work, feel week, shortnes of breath, I have to switch to natural medicine. | M | 49 | 8 months | 12/18/2007 | 4 | Proactive prevention after bypass. | Dry mouth. Occassional sun sensitivity. | The dry mouth is sometimes annoying. Otherwise, no particularly noticeable effects, good or bad. | M | 65 | 16 months | 9/24/2007 | 4 | high blood pressure | some loss of sex drive dizzness | side effects didn't last long | M | 65 | 5 days | 8/23/2007 | 1 | mild hypertension | weight gain / water retention (15 lbs), increased blood pressure, increased glucose levels, shortness of breath, nightmares, fatigue, nausea, cold hands and feet. | Before starting Metroprolol I had undergone a successful thoracic aortic stent and aortic valve replacement operation. My blood pressure was marginally elevated at 135/75 - 145/85. After starting on 25 mg Metoprolol as recommended by my cardiologist, I gained 15 lbs water retention in 6 weeks, causing blood pressure to rise by up to 30 points, both systolic and diastolic; blood glucose levels shot up between 40 and 70 mg/dl above where they were before. Other symptoms got worse: shortness of breath, fatigue, cold hands + feet, general lethargy, nausea and malaise. Have stopped the drug and am gradually getting the poison and excess fluids out of my system. Have since learned that a significant percentage of patients lack the enzyme to metabolize this drug, and that it is not recommended for patients who have diabetes or are over 60 years old. This is a bad drug and I have fired my cardiologist for putting me on it. Avoid Metoprolol if you can. Avoid cardiologists that try to put yo | M | 74 | 50 days | 4/28/2006 | 1 | blood pressure | dizziness,extreme fatigue, unable to exercise, extreme edema, depression, inability to focus, memory problems, weight gain, cholesterol elevated for first time in life probably due to inability to work out, constantly cold, extremely painful constant Raynauds, waking hallucinations, hopelessness, restricted ability to work and drive, difficulty doing the most regular and mundane tasks, was not controlling bp, basically couldn't function, loss of interest in everything, feeling isolated, and stuck with it, according to the DR. | I have just come off of this drug in the last week after being weaned off over a month by new Dr. Was in this nightmare for over two years. Blood pressure was swinging high, and has dropped with each cutback; additionally, have lost 14 pounds of edema over the course of the cutback. Felt better immediately after each cut back, and starting to feel like myself. So thankful to be off of this drug - it was like poison to my system. If you're having problems, get a 2nd or 3rd opinion. It's unbelievable the difference! Now taking Benicar/HCT | F | 51 | 3 years | 4/18/2006 | 2 | irregular heartbeats | more frequent irregular heartbeats especially when sitting watching TV or lying down, palpitations, anxiety/near panic attack, sensation of heart pounding, strong pulse | I know that this drug helps many people with high blood pressure and angina, otherwise I would recommend against taking it. | F | 47 | 7 days | 2/22/2005 | 1 | long qt syndrome | extreme fatigue, constipation, loss of interest in activities, absolute intolerance to exercise, muscle weakness and burning with activity, hallucinatory nightmares, living in a fog, worsening of depression. 15# weight gain in six months. | Has ruined my life and have no hope of getting off of it because of long qt syndrome. Used to be very athletic and mountain biking and trail running were my life. Essentially a cripple on the bike, muscules burn all over, feel heavy and weak, Heart rate tops out at 100. I can't imagine living like this. However, I have had no episodes of cardiac arrhythmia since on it so it is doing it's job | F | 42 | 10 days | 4/21/2004 |