ATENOLOL Reviews (ATENOLOL)Average Rating: 2.7 (204 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare ATENOLOL with similar:
Type: Rx Drug
|
Results are sorted by Date added. Key to Ratings: 1=LOW (I would not recommend taking this medicine.) |
More on ATENOLOL: Reviews Summary | Drug Safety Information
| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ATENOLOL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 2 | Hy100pertension | Extreme tingling sensation and burning feet and lower legs | Was ok on low dose | F | 73 | 1 months 100 | 11/21/2015 | 1 | High blood pressure | Numbness and tingling to extremities,extreme lightheadedness, eye pain and dryness,passed out a few times with ER visits,drumming headaches and dry mouth. | After my Dr increased my dose from 25 to 50mg, i became very ill.I was unable to walk for more than ten feet or so,felt as if i was going to faint.Unable to go to work for two months.visited ER on several occasions after i passed out.The tingling and numbness is still present three weeks after i was taken off this killer medication.I have never felt so sick.The pain in my head and eyes was so severe that i ended up in the Er twice in the past 4 months.i have sleepless nights fron the burning pain and sensation of pins and needles to my arms and legs. | F | 59 | 1 years 50mg | 11/21/2015 | 2 | sinoid Ventricular Tachycardia | Weight gain I stopped talking it and was on it a year when I was 26.. I thought I had a heart attack ended up in ER on a business trip, wore a holter for a month- they found abnormal P waves on the EKG.. Did a tilt table tested positive after 5 min from syncope. | I heard it works well for chest pain and anxiety. Can you take it short term I fear weight gain | F | 1 days 50 mg | 11/10/2015 | 4 | Tachycardia | None | I had been feeling tired for a while and had started to be unable to do everyday activities like walking up the stairs without stopping to catch my breath. Initially I believed it was down to a condition I have called pernicious anemia however turns out it wasn't. At the gym I had noticed that I would be on the treadmill walking and easily have a heart rate of 190 which is odd as I am only young and quite fit. I thought nothing really of it until I went the doctors and was put on a heart monitor the doctor was terrified as my resting heart rate was 150 so he called an ambulance which made me worse. After many tests turns out I have a sinus tachycardia most probably due to a faulty sinus in the heart it can start to show in women in there 20s. When the doctor put me in atenol my main concern was weight gain I was not happy at all that everyone was saying it makes you gain weight. What a load of rubbish that is there obviously older people who are not as active if anything I have lost weight. Since starting atenolol my heart no longer races and I can walk up the stairs without stopping for breath I have had no symptoms so far. If any young women or men have been prescribed this for tachycardia please ignore the negative comments about weight gain if your quite active I cannot see how this medication would effect your weight, it would only slow down your heart rate to a normal rate which others have. | F | 24 | 1 days 25 | 11/1/2015 | 3 | gout | Muscle pain chest pain tired overwhelming terrible thoughts depression loss of libido changed personality don't want to go out etc | I haven't had a reacurrence of my gout since using but I hope it's worth continuing with this medication | M | 50 | 2 years 300mg | 10/26/2015 | 3 | BP | Six yrs on this drug, Then my primary advised getting the shingles vaccine. Within two weeks got psoriasis and the arthritis that goes with it. | Look up about beta blockers before getting a live vaccine injection. There is a connection between women over 60, taking a beta blocker like ATENOLOL and getting psoriasis, which you do NOT want. Deep cracking and fissures on palms, fingers swollen up like sausages, joint pain | F | 66 | 6 years 25mg 1X day | 10/7/2015 | 4 | Mitral Valve Prolapse, Tachycardia | The first two weeks: feel like fainted, very low bp, blurred vision, skiped heartbeats, dizziness, extreme fatigue. After nine months: Ocasionally fatigue, ocasionally chest tightness, low libido, cold feet (not always), leg pain (not always), change in vision, light dizziness | Mostly all of the side effects mention above dissappeared with continued use. After 9 months of a 25 mg dose what bothers me is the feeling of fatigue, the low libido, the chest tightness. This medication do the work. My tachycardia was driving me crazy and raises my bp. I wish I can't depend on any med to get through this but stop taking the med it makes my heart rate symptoms worse. | F | 39 | 9 months 25 mg | 9/21/2015 | 2 | high bp | Bloating, depression, low libido, chest pain, oedema, cold hands and feet, type2 diabetes. | I am trying to wean myself off it and trying natural rem's. | F | 52 | 5 years 1x50mg dai | 9/6/2015 | 5 | Taking it for hypertension 2 | None | Love it!!! I had BP 200/115 at drs 2 wks ago, happy to say just one pill a day for two wks has given me at the lowest a bp of 128/79!! With a pulse of 63!! My grandma and mom have both taken it too and loved it!! | F | 40 | 2 weeks 25 | 8/29/2015 | 3 | Anxiety/hypertension | Severe dizziness and fatigue, blurry vision and heaviness in my chest. Unable to perform day to day activities. Feeling crippled 24/7 | Dropped my resting heart rate from 100 to 60. Does it even worth the side effects? | M | 43 | 7 days 25 | 8/27/2015 | 4 | migraine prevention/BP | Worked very well for 2 years, then migraines returned upped dosage to 50 mg. for 2 months.. didn't help .. switched to propanolol for a trial run.. helped BP.. but now I have been diagnosed with renal insufficiency and wonder if the atenolol contributed to my low GFR | I was so happy that atenolol helped so well with migraine prevention .. curious why it stopped working | F | 67 | 2 years 25 mg | 8/15/2015 | 4 | Chest pain, HBP | Initially brain-fogged zombie, fatigue, breathlessness, a different sort of strange and sometimes alarming heart sensation with fullness in neck. It helped with my anxiety (a happy side-effect). Some weight gain, lethargy. The brain fog and new heart weirdness decreased over time, although the feeling of fullness in neck continued, and I still felt very tired and emotionally flat - a functional zombie, and somewhat breathless on exertion. My dreams felt strange and alien, as though they belonged to someone else, but my sleep generally improved because I felt less anxious. | Atenolol lowered my blood pressure and helped with the original chest pains, which may have been caused by my chronic anxiety; it definitely helped with that but wasn't prescribed for anxiety. Am on my second attempt to come off the drug - it's quite tough, even though 25mg/day is a low dose. The side effects seemed tolerable at first, compared to how I'd been feeling before, so overall I think Atenolol has been helpful. Now I'm not sure I still need it and the only way to find out is to get off it! I don't want to be a drug-dependent functional zombie for the rest of my life and had no idea how tricky coming off would be..! | F | 59 | 1 years 25 1X day | 7/28/2015 | 3 | Hypertension | shortness of breath occasionally during the day with little exertion. Loss of taste and smell. Tingling in my hands and feet occasionally and occasional leg pain. | Controls my blood pressure well | M | 65 | 14 months 25mg 1X day | 6/30/2015 | 5 | Mitral Valve Prolapse symptoms | With an even slower heart rate (was slow to begin with), exercise can be a challenge. | This was instant relief for my MVP symptoms. I have insomnia, but I had that before. I'm glad it's a "low" dosage. And if I am suffering any long-term effects, I'm not aware of it. | M | 61 | 15 years 25 MG 1X day | 4/21/2015 | 4 | To lower my blood pressure | At first my dosage was 50 mg of Atenolol twice a day. My pulse dropped to 50 from 70 plus and I was sleeping 14 hours a day. I stopped taking any high blood pressure medication after my eye infected with what looked like a stye, my nose started bleeding and my chest filled with mucus and infected. I ended up in the ER room and then my private physician sent me to see an eye specialist suspecting an infection of shingles in my left eye. My blood pressure was 236/105 with a pulse in the 50's. My cardiologist re-started me on Benicar 40 mg with 12.5 mg of HCT.. and gave me this prescription to replace the Atenolol. I asked a friend who had a different cardiologist or heart specialist and she told me she was taking the exact same dose of Benicar HCT with Atenolol, but with a reduced dosage, 50 mg per day of Atenolol. I took the 50 mg pills and cut them in half and now take my dosage of Levoxyl on an empty stomach with the Benicar - HCT 40 plus 12.5.. Then two hours later, one half o | Critically important to start with the LOWEST dose that effectively controls your blood pressure. This is a powerful, strong effective drug, but an overdose has strong effects as would be expected. As your heart doctor or M.D. to give you the lowest dose possible and go up as needed or warranted if used with a second drug for controlling high blood pressure as is commonly the case. | M | 66 | 45 days 25 mg 2X day | 4/19/2015 | 2 | Bicuspid Valve & expanded Root | My sons personality is changing. Very sensative & cries.. Never been that way. Nightmares that become almost real as he wakes up..doesn't know who we are. In the morning he is a regular kid again just seems to get upset easier. Once laid back. One day his chin went blue, looked like a bruise but it wasn't. We have sent messages to his Dr. Not happy with the side effects. This medication is now Much more distressing then his newly discovered cardiac issues. | Known hallucinations- rare side effects. No studies concluded on Children. I hope they aren't doing a study on my son. I feel like this drug will cause some kind of psychological issues. Syscafrania runs in both our famies. I've read of children suddenly hearing voices on this medication and feeling threaten by others. | M | 9 | 4 weeks | 4/13/2015 | 3 | tachycardia hypertwnsion | lack of energy, depressed, no sex drive, sore muscles , feel between zombie and comatose. | lowers both heart rate and bp , but at a cost | M | 60 | 1 years 100 mg 1X day | 4/12/2015 | 5 | tachycardia and HBP | None of any consequence | My doctor started me out on 50 mg 1x day. However, I was like a walking zombie. Doctor switched me to 25 mg 1x day at night and I have had no problems with the drug. I do take 12.5 mg chlorthalidone with the Atenolol. I have done my own research on this and other drugs and came to the conclusion that Atenolol has less side effects than most other beta blockers I checked on. | F | 75 | 25 years 25 1X day | 4/4/2015 | 1 | Hypertension | DO NOT take this drug! Only took it for a month, still have effects 8 months later. Crippling fatigue, Insomnia, Headfog, Kills libido. Don't go down the beta blocker road, symptoms are FAR to severe. Docs have ZERO clue to the terrible side effects of this drug. They will deny its not the pills and try to keep you on them. Before I took them I was fine, only took them cause doc scared me into them. 8 months later I'm still feeling the effects that's how horrible this drug is! | M | 39 | 1 days .25 mg | 3/9/2015 | 5 | pvcs | F | 81 | 4 weeks | 3/7/2015 |