TENORMIN Reviews (ATENOLOL)Average Rating: 2.9 (179 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare TENORMIN with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR TENORMIN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 2 | PVC's | dizziness,pounding heart.Upon waking feeling shaky and my mental clarity unfocused.Disrupted sleep.I am still having trouble focusing...I took 25mg at 9:30 pm and it is now 8 am | I personally had one of the worst nights of my life.I would much prefer to deal the PVC's than what I feel like now and last night.It may work for other but be forewarned. | F | 45 | 1 months | 9/25/2008 | 1 | hypertension | Depression, tiredness, felt like brakes were on when trying aerobic exercise, confusion, lethargy, aggitation, inability to react appropriately during negotiations, inability to control anger at times. | I firmly believe that this medicine destroyed my life. I spent my life very successfully negotiating multi-million dollar deals until taking this stuff. It seems that my response to any disagreement was either extreme apathy or extreme anger. When someone provided a reason not to make a deal I would simply accept it even if I knew it was wrong and the deal was great for both parties. I just did not seem to be alert enough to overcome resistance. At other times, I was very angry and could not calm down. Frequently, I felt that I was just tense and ready to overreact to any minor criticism. I was also more confused about things when I was on this in my 30s than I am now in my 60s. It is a horrible drug. I also believe that I was midiagnosed with hypertension because of the use of a small cuff originally, although I did develop it. I am 6'5 and have a 16" inch (muscular) forearm. I firmly believe that my inability to be sharp during negotiations lost millions of dollars for me. I am | M | 64 | 20 years | 9/14/2008 | 5 | hypertension | None | No complaints | F | 57 | 7 years | 7/30/2008 | 1 | doctor insisted | I didn't have high blood pressure to begin with, and when I took the medication, I was dizzy, woke up with head spinning. Took myself off of it. | It may help some people, but I didn't need it. | F | 76 | 30 days | 7/23/2008 | 1 | Hypertension | Dizziness, shortness of breath, tachycardia | F | 66 | 2 days | 7/18/2008 | 2 | hypertension and anxiety (OCD) | Difficult to exercise vigorously. Used to be a sub-six minute miler, now rarely run and have gained 25 lbs. Ringing in ears and impotency. | 50 mg. is too high a dose. Norvasc is better in decreasing BP variability. Mean BP is 116/69. Can't get my heart rate above 70, and can drop to low 40s. | M | 63 | 12 years | 7/10/2008 | 2 | Rapid pulse, insomnia | Worsening insomnia, itchy skin, cold hands and feet, nightmares, dry mouth, "staticky" sound in ears, no libido/inability to orgasm. | Although this is usually for HBP, it is also supposed to lower your pulse. My resting pulse has never been slow. My doctor thought that after trying other meds (Prozac, Celexa, Ativan)that did not work, the Atenolol would lower my pulse which in turn would lower my anxiety and help me sleep better. I stopped after 9 days because of the side effects. The noise in my ears might not have been related to the medicine, since it started 4 days after I started the med. Since it did lower my pulse, I got a lot more winded from exercising than I usually do. I've never had HBP, but my pulse has always been high. Except for this experiment of seeing if lowering my pulse would help me sleep, the rate has never been a concern with my doctor. My insomnia seemed to get worse with this. | F | 46 | 9 days | 6/5/2008 | 5 | PVCs | Always feel tired and able to take a nap at any time. No problem driving or maintaining concentration. Have had balance and hearing problems for years but not sure when began or if the result of drug. | Has been a great help with the PVCs and BP 125/65 with pulse 52 at rest. Love this stuff. No problems with generics and no side effects that I am aware of other than those listed. | M | 80 | 16 years | 5/21/2008 | 3 | High Blood Pressure | Experienced minor chest pain, irritability, dizziness and loss of focus. Dosage 100mg | Worked fairly well at first, my doctor has combined it with Avalide which I have have been taking for a week. | M | 54 | 6 years | 4/12/2008 | 2 | to lower bp | Was put on it 3 months ago because 40 mg of Prinivil was not bringing down my bp. I am glad I found this page. I have been very concerned re being VERY tired all the time - dosage 50mg per day. First I took at night, and it made me too tired in the morning to even leave the house, plus feel/felt cold all the time, wake up with rapid heartbeat, and wake every 2 hours to go to bathroom. I switched to taking in morning - after eating breakfast/lunch, fall right to sleep and stay home all day. I have to FORCE myself to do anything. I even quit my job due to my extreme tiredness. I am calling the doctor tomorrow and tell him I am taking myself off the Tenormin. | Now, I understand why my mother, who lived (and died) with me at the age of 94 was tired ALL THE TIME, was COLD ALL THE TIME (we had haggles about the thermostat), and she also had permanent hair loss - she, who had a thick head of hair all her life, with NO ONE bald in her family...Thank you again for this website. I feel now I have control back in my life. | F | 67 | 3 months | 3/26/2008 | 5 | SVT and palpitations | Tiredness for about 2 weeks but after that ... felt great! Stopped by SVT's and palpatations were very infrequent. Slight weight gain at first but exercise helped control that problem. | Another cardiologist wanted to prescribe another beta blocker for me. Thought changing drugs wouldn't hurt anything. But, after much research found the side effects for that drug would do more harm than good. Staying with my tried and true Tenormin. | F | 57 | 25 years | 3/18/2008 | 5 | pacs and anxiety | Forgetfullness (mild), not as energetic | Pacs and anxiety stopped immediatly! I will take this pill every day if i have to! I have regained my life! Also take klonopin for anxiety (its a bit of a strong tranquilizer so i ut mine in half). | F | 32 | 6 days | 3/4/2008 | 4 | High blood pressure; POTS | lethargic for the first couple weeks; exercise felt harder for first couple weeks... then I started feeling better. | Atenolol 25mg has kept my blood pressure under control. I have varied my doses from 12.5 to 25 to find the perfect dose for me. 12.5 works when I;m not under chronic stress. It does its job and the side-effects wear off after a few weeks. | F | 27 | 4 years | 3/3/2008 | 4 | High blood pressure | heart rate slowed to 40 and I had to stop taking it. | I loved this medication. It did an excellent job of lowering my blood pressure and as a side effect lowered my level of anxiety. I have never felt so good as I did on this drug. Sadly I had to stop taking it because it lowered my heart rate so drastically. | F | 63 | 30 days | 3/2/2008 | 1 | hypertension | leg pain,cold extremities,hair loss,burning sensation head & upper body,erectile dysfunction,insomnia,depression,ringing in ears,nightmares,mood swings. | Several doctors, & many tests(all normal results) couldn't tie-in side effects of atenolol with my multitude of symptoms. I had similar side effects with Lipitor which doctors didn't catch. They came on slowly after 2 yrs. & went away after 1 mo. off. med. | M | 67 | 2 years | 2/21/2008 | 4 | Anxiety | Slower heart rate, calming effect | This works great with anxiety. I also take Klonopin. Was taking Xanax, but these two combinations work. When I feel anxiety coming on and my heart start to beat faster, I take one and 30 minutes later, I feel fine | F | 32 | 4 months | 1/2/2008 | 3 | Tachychardia and palpitations. | Extremely tired, low back pain, and a permanent thirsty feeling. | The 25 mg I take every night before going to bed did work on eliminating the possibility of the scaries tachycardias and arithmias. But as I have been feeling very tired, with a permanent gastritis and with an intense back pain, I decided to research on the web for comments. To my surprise I found a lot of comments on tiredness and some on back pain and gastritis. I try to excercise (aquarobics) every day and it helps me a lot eliminating the back pain and giving me more energies. But I would like to find a drug replacing Tenormin without the side effects. My case is also that I do not have the thyroid gland since 5 years ago and I also have to take Synthroid every morning. I know that not having the thyroid gland might also cause tiredness symptoms. | M | 44 | 14 years | 12/26/2007 | 3 | Blood pressure | I stay tired. I take 50 mg daily. Been on it for years. Losing wt and want to wean off. I have tried atenolol and normally have no prob. with generics, but 3 times now after about 3 days I had "hypertensive crisis"/very dizzy also , so I have taken Name brand. I am going on lisinopril and atenolol(again) and thought if I take the name brand maybe 1/2 tab a few days I wouldn't have those effects. Any suggestions please on how to wean off Tenormin | Again, how do you "wean off"? | F | 55 | 20 years | 12/12/2007 | 3 | migraines | cold hands and feet, fatigue and lethargy, decreased ability to exercise | It has decreased my migraines and their severity, but has also made me feel very sleepy throughout the day, and i have difficulty concentrating. I have very vivid dreams at night, but i sleep well. I have very cold hands and feet all the time and have noticed that i can only exercise for VERY short periods of time since (prior to taking it I ran a half marathon and exercised for at least 4-5 hours a week) - now i can only run for a minute or so at a time :( | F | 28 | 4 months | 12/7/2007 | 3 | High Blood Pressure | Been taking it for 16 years or so. It worked fine all those years. Now my BP is high. They increased it by 25mg for a total of 75mg. I feel lousy. Headache and just plain weird | F | 60 | 16 years | 11/21/2007 |