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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR TOPROL XL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Arrhythmia, elevated BP | Horrible depression, shortness of breath, chest pain, unable to work out. | It worked for my arrhythmia but I couldn't tolerate the side effects. | M | 48 | 3 days 50 1X day | 8/7/2021 | 1 | Hypertension and borderline MVP | Dizziness, blurred vision, weakness, lethargy, nausea, diarrhea, heartburn, bloating, anxiety, depression, panic attacks, body tremors, cold hands and feet, headache..etc | I hate this drug! I wish I had never taken any of it! | F | 27 | 3 days 25mg 1X day | 8/10/2020 | 3 | Arrhythmia, Afib, High BP | Initially a good drug, helped with focus and anxiety as well as symptoms. Now have problems with insomnia, depression, lethargy, severe bloating, swollen ankles and 5 lb water weight gain. Nothing fits and now my liver enzymes are elevated. | This drug works, but has some significant and annoying side effects. | F | 66 | 2 years .25 mg BID | 4/2/2018 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 1 | hypertension | lightheadedness, fatigue, diminished sex drive, blurred visison, depression and anxiety | It took one month for the side effects to show and I thought it was hay fever. When I finally figured out that my issues were caused by Metoprolol it was five months later. It took 10 days for the symptoms to begin to subside and then headaches began. Symptoms got worse before they got better. It took 3 weeks to feel 90 percent better. It stays in your liver so it takes time to be purged. Stay with it. It gets incrementally better each day. Note: Even a little alcohol made me feel worse during recovery. | M | 63 | 5 months 50 1X day | 10/13/2012 | 4 | heart mumur | I'm tired all the time. Can't sleep. mood swings. slight depression. weight gain. cold all the time. my heart still flutters sometimes. | I was born with a heart murmur. I had cardiomyopathy in my last trimester of pregnancy. My doctors put me on the Toprol xl because of the rapid heartbeat. I am always fatigued. I can never feel rested. I just wished I was not on this medication. I had rather have the procedure done that would take care of the fast heartbeat than take the toprol, but the doctor seems to think the medication is best. Can't exercise cause I'm too tired to. So what are you to do. | F | 50 | 9 years 200 mg 1X day | 9/8/2012 | 2 | Anxiety, menopause, elevated bp | weight gain, feeling slow & tired all the time, dizzy, mixed up & confused, depression, strange dreams, fluttery heart, anxiety worsened, anxiety attacks | after initial dr visit & BP monitoring at home for several months found out I have white coat hypertension. Doc wanted to keep me on Toprol 25 MG anyway even after I insisted I didn't want to take it due to side effects. I cannot lose weight on this drug. I am STARVING myself. I eat less than 1000 calories a day, I jog for 40 minutes, use an eliptical for 45-60 mins, bike for 60 minutes, and even lift weights and I still stress myself out becasue I know weight loss will help with the elevated blood pressure but I CANNOT lose weight on this medication no matter what I do. I am going to cycle off and keep checking my BP with my own cuff. It has been calibrated by my physician, but he just won't budge on the meds. I think there are other ways for me to achieve my goal than with this awful medication. | F | 50 | 1 years 25 MG 1X day | 4/5/2012 | 1 | B p | Depression not wanting to do any thing i use to enjoy ..... An as on | M | 24 | 3 years 50 mg | 2/4/2012 | 2 | Anxiety - chest pains | I have been taking this drug for 3 years. I started out with the NAME BRAND Toprol XL - no problems at FIRST. However, my pharmacist eventually insisted on the generic Toprol XL Metoprolol Succinate. Over time worsening symptoms developed. Depression, lack of motivation, easily stressed/depressed/overly emotional, dizziness, fatigue, etc. I suffered from Panic Attacks before taking this med., but it seemed to cause SO many adverse reactions with other medications, including SSRI anti-depressants. I became not wanting to do anything and I am constantly in a fog. If I miss a dose or change the time of day I take my dose I start experiencing my chest pains/anxiety all over again... which is what I am going through right now. This is just not worth it TBO... I may just stick with my lorazepam and ask my doc to taper me off this shtiz. Did wonderful at the beginning but I think prolongued use is screwing me up... | F | 27 | 3 years 50 MG 1X day | 6/14/2011 | 1 | high blood pressure | foggy thinking with lack of ability to focus and organize, depression, heart palpitations, poor balance, intestinal problems, and I'm sure I'm forgetting some symptoms. | I'm SO glad I found this site! I was diagnosed with hypo-thyroid about the same time a doctor prescribed Toprol for high blood pressure. I took it for maybe 5 years. When I read the comments at this site, I realized that people taking Toprol had all the same symptoms I was blaming on the hypo-thyroid. I went to my NEW doctor, not the one who prescribed the Toprol, and asked her to wean me off Toprol. We did, and as fast as just a few days after I stopped taking it, I started noticing changes. I looked around, and everything was suddenly more organized. I could think straight again. Heart palipitations went away... my balance came back... and the best of all, I was a whole lot happier. AND, it wasn't hard to stop. My doctor gave me a combination of Losartan-HCTZ and a different beta blocker. After I ran out of the beta blocker, I continued just with the Losartan-HCTZ, with no big withdrawal problems. May have to play with the dosage, but did get off the Toprol without many problems. If you're taking Toprol - STOP! I'm 100% sure it's been responsible for ruining my life these last 5 years. | F | 64 | 4 years 1X day | 1/30/2011 | 2 | sinus tachycardia | extreme sleepiness, dizziness, depression, foggy feelin | This drug was not good for me at all.. The first 2 weeks wher the worse extremely tired felt like I could sleep standing up. then after 2 weeks started feeling depressed. After about a month I got use to the medication but never really felt right. Switched family doctor who took me off of it completly and after about a month i am back to my old self. With all fairness this didnt work for me. My parents and a few other people I know take it and it works fine for them, it just didnt for me. This is just my side effects and I will never take it again | M | 36 | 90 days 50 1X day | 8/23/2010 | 1 | ordered after I had a 3 way bypass | depression,muscle pain,cold feet & hands, tingling of feet and hands,very tired-sleep 12-16 hours a day, muscle cramps of back,shoulders and legs,blurred vision,dry eyes, short of breath, poor memory to loss of memory for 12 hours, cough helped with a bronchodilator inhaler | Thank God I found your web site. My depression was so bad I contemplated suicide. I went to my primary doctor for antidepressants and had side effects of those. I went to my eye doctor for my blurrd vision, I had eye drops everywhere I might need them. Recouperating from By Pass surgery, I finally realized I have to be feeling better, not worse. I nver had high blood pressure. I tapered toprol XL for 2 weeks and went off it totally 3 days ago. I feel wonderful with lots of energy and all my side effects are gone. My BP and pulse are within normal limits. | F | 73 | 14 months 25mg 1X day | 6/26/2010 | 1 | chest pain | depression,flu like symptoms,headache | M | 62 | 30 days | 1/26/2010 | 1 | pvcs and pacs | headache shortness of breath anxiety got worse stop sleeping I didn't have energy to do anything depression got worse i didn't know what was going until i started to read the side effects of toprol and it fitted all the symtoms i was having so i am coming off of it a little at a time it also make my blood pressure go up | please please be carefully before you let the drs put you on it | F | 62 | 3 years | 10/30/2009 | 2 | slightly elevated heart rate | fatigue, feelings of depression, some flu-like symptoms, heart rate would not go past 110 when i exercised. | I was only taking a tiny 12.5 mg dose and was surprised by how it affected me. My mother takes it in higher doses with no problems, so I am not sure why I reacted that way. I just don't think it is the right drug for me. The only positive thing i did notice is that my feelings of anxiety were improved taking this medication. | F | 37 | 14 days | 8/29/2009 | 1 | Mild heart attack | chest pain, depression, muscle aches, nightmares, no sex drive, erection problems, cold hands and feet, dizziness, short term memory loss, you name it! | This drug is systemic poison! It may control BP in some people but it eventually makes more damage than good. I was taking this junk for 4 months 50mG twice daily. These were worst months in my life! Beware – this drug can take your life away! I would not recommend this crap to my worst enemy! | M | 48 | 4 months | 7/26/2009 | 1 | BP | Chest pain, anxiety, some depression, shortness of breath, HIGHER BLOOD PRESSURE THAN WITH TARTRATE | My doctor put me on this so I would have to take one pill a day, versus two 25mg of metoprolol tartrate (one pill 2x daily). Bad news/horrible drug matching many of the other reports and complaints on this website. I went back to the tartrate, which I had been taking for 3.5 years, and all is well. How what is supposed to be the same drug can have such negative effects is beyond me, but this board attests to them. | M | 67 | 1 weeks | 7/22/2009 |
TOPROL XL (METOPROLOL SUCCINATE): This medication is a beta-blocker used to treat chest pain (angina), heart failure, and high blood pressure. Lowering high blood pressure helps prevent strokes, heart attacks, and kidney problems. 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 lowers heart rate, blood pressure, and strain on the heart. FDA Approval Date: 1992-01-10 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)