TOPROL XL Reviews (METOPROLOL SUCCINATE)Average Rating: 2.5 (823 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare TOPROL XL with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR TOPROL XL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | high blood pressure | ToprolXL worked great at lowering my diastolic pressure and heart rate but didnot help lower the systolic rate.Diastolic is in the lower 60s heart rate as well.The systolic still 150 or so. | At first I was more tired than usual but after a few weeks I didn't notice that side effect as much. I have been sleeping better but notice I have been waking up with headaches.Not having the palpitatiobs I was experiencing prior to taking ToprolXL and the racing heart has calmed now as well. | F | 63 | 5 weeks 25mg.daily | 12/21/2015 | 1 | high blood pressure | Fatigue weakness depression no energy | Nasty drug couldn't wait to get off it | F | 66 | 2 months 100 | 12/4/2015 | 5 | migraine prevention | 46 yr old male with highly stressful job (PI Trial Attorney). Excellent medication. Downside: strange dreams at night and at 60 mins after taking, you are sleeping. However, it works! No migraines for 60 days. Weigh risks vs. benefits and for me, the benefits clearly outweigh the downsides. Definately try it and use Amerge only for "acute" migraines. Also, this medication has steadied and reduced my blood pressure. Definately will stay on this drug. Tried others for migraines but they had huge side effects. | M | 46 | 60 days 50 MG 1X day | 11/14/2015 | 3 | Rapid heart beat | Horrible. Heartburn | It was helping me but i couldn't. Handle the pain.now i don't. How to get off it safely. | F | 74 | 10 days 1/2 of 250 | 10/27/2015 | 1 | After catching artery 95% blocked | Short term memory loss No motivation to do simple tasks Blurred Vision Sensitivity to light Joint Pain No interest in sex Lethargic Seeing things out of the corner of eyes Lack of reaction time Depression | Reading about how Europe DOES NOT encourage Beta Blockers as a first line defense against high blood pressure and newer studies showing that Beta Blockers don't improve your chances of not having another heart attack I would recommend that anybody try to stay away from these drugs. I have slowly started weaning off of them. I have went with reducing dosage by a quarter every two weeks. Do not try and quit cold turkey or you could end up in ER like I did with racing heart and feeling like I was going to have another heart attack. For me this is one of the worst drugs I have ever experienced. Never felt so awful and the cardiologist had the nerve to say it was all in my head. Dismissed the side effects and said maybe I needed an antidepressant. Needed an antidepressant for being on the damn Metoprolol. God awful drug. How they don't see a pattern with people's side effects is beyond me. Stay away from this stuff if you want to be happy. That is my two cents. Hope you all can recognize your side effects. Is slow but eventually you will be in a fog and not even realize it. Be careful with this drug in higher dosages. | M | 46 | 2 years 50mg a day | 10/2/2015 | 2 | For High Blood Pressure | I have taken Toprol XL 100 and Hydrochlorothiazide for 12 or 14 years. My blood pressure has always been 117 or 120/76 Suddenly, my blood pressure jumped up in the 165-70/93, 95.the dr. Dropped hydrochlorothizide and put me on Valsartan 40 with the Toprol 100 blood pressure still high. | Don't know if it still works. | F | 67 | 10 years XL100 | 9/29/2015 | 1 | sinus arrhythmia with pvcs benign | Brain fog, light-headed, dizziness, extreme exhaustion, no energy. I felt like a walking zombie | Was talking 1/2 pill at night. | F | 34 | 8 days 25 1X day | 9/2/2015 | 1 | Mitral valve regurgitation | Brain fog, light-headed, dizziness, extreme exhaustion, no energy, neuropathy, hair loss | I was diagnosed with mitral valve regurgitation at age 38 after going to my doctor complaining of increased fatigue and light headedness. Within 8 months of diagnosis, I had open-heart surgery to repair the valve. My cardiologist put me on this drug (generic version) so that my heart would not have to work as hard. It did reduce my pulse rate and blood pressure, but my blood pressure is already rather low. The surgery fixed my heart, but this medicine caused some of the same symptoms that I had before the surgery. I felt almost constantly tired and fatigued. Sometimes around bedtime, I often felt that if I did not lie down and sleep immediately that I was going to die. Periodically, I would get dizzy and light headed. I had brain fog and could not mentally focus. In addition, I began to experience new issues. My hair began to fall out, I gained about 10 pounds, and I had localized nerve pain/sensitivity in one area from about the 12th through 24th month of being on the drug (one full year of this neuropathy). My cardiologist said that metoprolol was not known to cause this, but after carefully weaning myself off of it by gradually reducing the dosage, the nerve pain went away after a few weeks and has not returned. I feel like my old self again now that I am off of metoprolol. The fatigue, brain fog, light headedness, dizzy spells, and nerve pain are all gone. I am back to my normal weight. I hope my lost hair comes back, but I'm doubtful. | M | 42 | 2 years 25 mg | 5/23/2015 | 1 | Anxiety attacks. No heart condition | Obsessive thoughts of suicide, 30lb weight gain, lethargy, worsening depression and anxiety, increased panic attacks, insomnia, no sex drive, no interest in hobbies, no drive to exercise, loss of will and energy to do normal day to day things, complete intolerance to exercise, loss of self identity, episodes of sobbing, joint pain, muscle pain and stiffness, severe rhinitis, shortness of breath, very bad heart palpitations. Huge and dangerous mood swings. | This drug has turned my life upside down. I am a vegetarian, strength and endurance athlete, do yoga almost daily and am a relentlessly hard worker. I lost both parents within the last 1.5 years. The losses and ensuing family issues started triggering panic attacks. My doctor put me on Zoloft first, it helped a bit with the depression but did not stop the panic attacks. He then put me on 50mg of T a day. The panic attacks started getting worse, so he upped the T to 100mg a day. My life continued to plummet into a dark abyss. Hateful, obsessive thoughts, constantly toying with killing myself.. I have all but stopped working out, which is something I've never had trouble motivating to do. I just don't have the energy anymore and if I do manage to get in a workout, I'm gasping for breath the whole time, dry coughing and nauseous. Let's not even get into the joint pain afterwards. I can barely mow the lawn now. I feel like I could write a novel about how horrible of an experience Toprol has been and still is. Until yesterday when I found these message boards, I thought I was going insane, literally. Last night was my first skipped dose, I'm going cold turkey because I refuse to put any more of this poison in my body. I'd rather control my thoughts and breathing than feel so horrible. I blame Toprol because I've almost never had most of these issues before taking it. I can not believe a doctor would prescribe such a dangerous drug to someone who has no heart condition when there a | M | 35 | 10 months 100mg | 5/7/2015 | 1 | Blood pressure | This is a bad drug made so sick end up in the hospital faint numb in left arm | Bad drug will never take | M | 10 days 25 | 4/9/2015 | 5 | SVT / BP | Fatigue | Been on Torpol XL, 25mg, for 8-years. The med has been around a very long time which, when my condition was discovered, I requested this med. Symptoms are fairly intense the first month or so. Fatigue mainly, some anxiety. My symptoms subsided after a few months. I am a runner, completing several 10k and half marathons in the past year. Exercise is a bit different while on Toprol XL. My heart rate increases very slowly and will not peak above 130 BPM. Sort of like limiting fuel to an engine. To compensate I simply run slower. | M | 50 | 8 years 25mg 1X day | 4/8/2015 | 1 | arrythmias | Worst medicine I have ever taken..landed me in hospital | F | 46 | 9 days 25 | 4/6/2015 | 2 | Mild Left Ventricular Hypertrophy | Increased palpitations, 10lbs weight gain, dizziness, tiredness (to be fair, I sleep 6 hours averagely), feels lazy, mild anxiety attacks | I have been on generic Metoprolol succinate 25mg for 8 months to control my palpitations (suspected from my left ventricular hypertrophy). I switched to Astra Zeneca (same dose) since last month. On the contrary, the dizziness/palpitations have gotten worse since 4 months ago! (got worse before I switched). My cardiologist has suggested to increase the dosage to 50mg....i said really? I thought she would rather find the root cause of the palpitations. At this point, I just don't know what to do. Any advice? | M | 39 | 9 months 25MG 1X day | 1/17/2015 | 1 | High Blood Presure | absolutely hate this drug... only 3 days and my vision has gotten blurry, anxiety attacks, depression out of nowhere, heart racing, and legs wanting to cramp up. I also feel this feeling of heavyiness in sinus area. Will never take this again and im glad I read the history of this as I can stop early before it gets way out of hand... For all those coming off it I pray and send you good healing energy to restore and balance your body amd mental/emotional side. | M | 38 | 3 days 25 | 1/15/2015 | 2 | rapid heart rate | Was ok for a yr but eventually feet and ankles became swollen and bad neuropathy developed in my feet | M | 54 | 1 years | 10/1/2014 | 5 | Heart Palpatations, High B/P, aryth | 1X day | 8/29/2014 | 2 | high blood pressure | Fatigue, heart burn, excess gas, fullness, swelling of the feet, ankles and abdomen, blurry vision | F | 39 | 1 years 100 mg er | 8/28/2014 | 3 | a-fib | Put on added weight. Reduced heart rate, so couldn't run any longer. Felt like my face/head was going to explode every time I bent over, even just slightly! Turned red face easily. | M | 62 | 3.5 months 50MG 2X day | 8/12/2014 | 2 | HBP | Tired all the time. Dizzyness when standing up suddenly or bending over to pick something up. | Might need dosage adjustment | M | 52 | 4 years 25mg 1X day | 4/26/2014 | 3 | Hypertension | Moderate fatigue, weight gain, heart rate slowed down. | This medication was great for lowering my blood pressure but the tiredness and weight gain was too much for me to function properly. | F | 34 | 4 years 50MG 1X day | 4/4/2014 |