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 | Prescribed by ER | Excruciating abdominal pain after 3 doses. On hydrocodone 10/325 4 x day and 10mg baclofen for severe back/pelvic pain and still was completely incapacitated | Was given ZERO information about med from ER. Was dropped as patient by cardiologist next day. Am in shock. Went online to learn about and was horrified at findings. | F | 60 | 1 days 25mg | 1/25/2015 | 1 | increase of heart rate | Nothing really for 1and half then boom severe hair loss. | I do have cancer, but hair loss is not from that it's combo of met,tegertol for seizures,plus hydroxyurea for the cancer.off the tegertol and hydroxyurea and almost winged off metoprolol hair is coming back. | M | 47 | 2 years 50mg | 1/4/2015 | 1 | atrial fibrillation | Horrible nausea, stomach pains & vomiting along with chills & seats. I've taken 3 doses. The first time, I though it was due to taking it without food. The second time, I took it after eating a sandwich, and had the same issues. The symptoms occurred within 60 minutes of taking it and lasted about an hour. The third time I took it in the middle of my meal. It took 5 hours before the nausea set in. Two hours later the chills, sweats, severe stomach pains & vomiting set in. It lasted for an hour. The pain was excruciating! I will not take it again. Also, I became extremely winded when walking or trying to do anything at all. I won't take another dose! | I take a lot of medications, and this medication has caused the worst side effects I have EVER experienced! Due to my high heart rate, they substituted two of my usual BP meds for this one, which was supposed to help lower my heart rate. | M | 58 | 3 days 50 2X day | 12/7/2014 | 1 | papilations | Tired,depressed,joints ache,times of anxiety and irritated easily. Plan to cut dose in half. | M | 66 | 2 months 25mg ×2 | 7/25/2014 | 1 | Angina | BAD DRUG!!!! | F | 57 | 2 days 50 MG | 5/25/2014 | 1 | High blood pressure | Terrible vivid night mares w/fast pulse rate. Dr told me to stop taking it cold turkey. My pulse rate spiked to 130 bp was't bad. Had 3 EKG' a that was normal. He put me on Diltiazem ,bp is normal, resting pulse rate is 82-90 and have anxiety attacks and trembles and random bouts of fast pulse rates. My pulse rate use to be 66-72 and I was athletic grandma. Now with rate higher I can really tell the difference. I'm going to get a echocardiogram in a couple of weeks. These BP medicines reck havoc on you but you don't find out untill you try to get off of them. God Bless you ! | F | 68 | 8 months 50 mg | 3/28/2014 | 1 | Accute heart failure | Hallucinations in dark: movement/animation of inert objects, as if come to life. Weight gain/edema. Vertigo upon waking, falling over while standing still, worse if I gaze up or down. Heartburn, first few weeks. Gastric chaos. Slow healing, compounds danger from dizziness. Shortness of breath. Panic. Depression: crippling despair. Inability to manage projects; task memory obliterated. Impossible to lead any normal life on this drug, immed risk of homelessness as impending move and complicated medical & disability status & benefits not aided by this Rx, and reliance of dismissive mds on its efficacy prior to prognosis. | F | 43 | 2 months 25mg | 3/11/2014 | 1 | high blood pressure | Started it again because of high blood pressure. Forgot all about bad side effects until they started again. BAD dreams, VERY tired. It did lower my bp 10 points but then at about 7 days started affecting me mentally, caused a kind of nervousness. would easily be in bed 12 hours.also weight gain. Because of general and bad feeling of unease as well as bad nightmares, weight gain, terrible lethargy I decide to stop. 3 days ago. Today bad dizzy spell, thought i was having heart attack. Very tired these past few days and today one of my fingers went numb for about 5 hours. I remembered this happened last time i was on this nightmare drug. I really was thinking I might die and then this evening I remembered some of what I'd read and low and behold all these terrible symptoms are attributed to metoprolol. I read (too late) not to stop cold turkey which is what I did 3 days ago. I was on the 25 dose but don't think I should take any more since its been 3 days. Just horrible. | I would advise to avoid this horrible drug. It has so many terrible symptoms that I am amazed it is legal. They make such a big deal about people taking pain meds and the like, but the really bad drugs like this one, no one every says, reports, or bans. It affects your mind and dreams badly (and therefore your Spirit). I suffer from chronic pain but am now determined to deal with a great deal more agony in order to exercise to try and get healthier and will add olive oil and apple cider vinegar. I feel terrible tonight and now I think I know why, because I stopped the metoprolol. Hope I can survive it this time. god bless. | M | 55 | 9 days 25mg 1X day | 2/15/2014 | 1 | Blurred vision. Tiredness. Difficulty in breathing when exercising. | Elevated Gamma GT and insomnia. My doctor told me to stop taking it. | F | 52 | 3 years 100mg 1X day | 2/1/2014 | 1 | palpitations | I have weight gain and cannot lose no matter how hard i work. Sleepless. Vertigo. My cholesterol went way up and i have never had a problem with it before taking it. Sex drive is nothing. I have about 75 % hair loss. Absolutely no energy. I used to work out for hours. Now i can't hardly do any wthout being totally out of breath. I think it is a horrible drug! I wish i had done some research before taking it. My dr doesn't want to change it. I'm going to get a second opinion! | F | 2 years 50mg | 1/24/2014 | 1 | high heart rate | Tired,no erection,shortness of breath,could not walk,weight gain.erraticb/p.no alcohol consumption. Blurred vision. | M | 54 | 4 weeks 25 mg | 7/18/2013 | 1 | high blood pressure ectopic beats | Insomnia, asthma, weak left arm, flare up of osteoarthritis (which I didn't know I had), anxiety and a feeling of doom. This medication is evil and seriously messed me up. | M | 46 | 8 days 50 MG | 6/8/2013 | 1 | I was taking this meddication for 5 months. After about 4 months I started to get some side effects. Insomnia mostly then all at once I was having Anxiety attacks starting at my feet and going as in a circle through my legs and then through my chest and then out my head. I could not walk 10 feet before having trouble breathing. Could not sleep .got about 2 hours a night. Weezing which also kept me from sleeping. My wife said I was walking around in a fog and at times she could not understand what I was talking about. I couldn't take it anymore . It was a Sunday so I left a message for my GP and my Cardiologist. I saw my GP that morning and told her that I stopped taking the medication. 24 hours after I stopped the drug I was fine. I can sleep 8 to 10 hours per night. Most times not getting up at all to go to the bathroom. The shortness of breath STOPPED. I can walk miles and not be out of breath. I have no strange feelings at all. My pressure is 130/75 most of the time. At the doctor | M | 70 | 5 months 50 MG 2X day | 3/24/2013 | 1 | high blood pressure | I have chest pains..... | F | 40 | 2 days 25 | 12/15/2012 | 1 | High Blood Pressure | anxiety attacks,heart palpitations,irregular heart beat, hot flashes,nausea, headaches.. | the doctor prescribed this to me with my blood pressure being high after having an episode of palpitations went to hospital and doubled my dose. i actually thought i was dying with all the problems i was having with this tablet. i got a second opinion and she reduced my dose i actually feel like myself again. it was terrible my bp is still erratic so thinking i need to change to another tablet | F | 27 | 2 months 50mg 1X day | 4/20/2011 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 2 | Elevated bp at doctor's office | I took toprol sporadically for 2-3 years, then regularly. Worked somewhat at first, but bp still elevated in medical settings (and sometimes at home with my own bp machine). Over the year and a half of regular dosing, I slowly became depressed, tired, dull, brain fog, no motivation. | I took myself off of toprol two weeks ago (slowly), and I feel fabulous. BP is very good , even low, except when I sit around for a long time before taking it. Gotta keep moving! I can think clearly again and I have gotten back into hobbies and activities I always loved. So happy to be me again. | F | 71 | 5 years 25mg 1X day | 6/2/2023 |