User Reviews for Toprol XL oral

My insurance company switched me to this medication. Upon taking it and within 2 weeks of start my blood pressure elevated drastically and my pulse shot up. I started having headaches, shortness of breath and occasional angina, depression and generally felt awful! I will never take

Taking 100mg. Good except pulse low now 31 beats pm.

Heart skipping beats occasionally. No chest pain, no other physical reactions. Rx was for Toprol, but pharmacy dispensed generic Metoprolol. Heartbeat has improved. No negative side effects. Doctor ordered an echocardiogram just in case.

no side effects

Insomnia

Sorry to hear so many are having problems but to me this drug is great. I started having severe panic attacks about 25 years ago when my son was born and I decided to stop drinking and doing drugs cold turkey. After stopping the things that were keeping me sedated the panic attacks came on full force. My Dr back then prescribed me Xanax and it helped some but after about a year it stopped because my body had become used to it so instead of raising the dosage I again just stopped taking it. I decided to battle these panic attacks on my own with no drugs. About a year ago I went for a check up (first one in 20 years)and they got a BP reading of 191 / 99 not once but 4 times. I went to my Dr and he gave me Toprol 25MG and Ativan 1MG. He told me to take 1/2 of a Toprol in the morning and take the Ativan 3 times a day. I can say I have had no side effects at all and after 3 months he dropped the Ativan to .5MG twice a day and the Toprol to 1/2 a pill every other day. My BP for the last 8 months has been 130/84 at its highest and 118/75 at its lowest with a resting heart rate between 59 and 65. I have not had any panic attacks for the last year and actually feel great. I do smoke and drink about a gallon or more of Tea daily but even with the caffeine and nicotine in my system those pills keep my BP down. I also admit I am a junk food lover and have been known to eat pizza. burgers and hot dogs 7 days a week but no weight gain so its all good. I hope you people with side effects find a cure because getting everything under control and back to normal feels great and Toprol + Ativan do the trick for me. I admit my dosage is very small so that may be why I have no side effects. Read More Read Less

Started generic form of Toprol XL, Metoprolol Succ Er, 50 mg a day. No change in BP readings. Doctor increased dose to 100 mg a day. Side affects are horrible, tired all day, sleepless nights. Throat closing up, coughing to breath. Thinking foggy and dizzy, dropping things, forgetting things. Feel like I have the flu. Called Doctor today because of side affects and no change in BP readings. He told me to stop taking immediately. Will see him Monday to get new medication. I see were a lot of people are saying the generic is bad but the name brand is okay. I really do not want to take a chance on the name brand. This experience has me questioning this medication. I have been taking the name brand Norvasc with no side affects. Maybe increasing the dosage of Norvasc can lower my BP readings.Read More Read Less

back in 2005,prescribed this for high b.p.- in a short time( 3 weeks) i was into heart failure,failing heart pumping, fluid in lungs,,mitral valve issue,finally after heart cath put on lasix and off the ToprolXL-took months but gradually improved greatly-almost 9 yrs and was doing well- about 6 weeks ago, took 2 Aleve( new to me)next day, back into heart failure again- fluid in lungs, legs swelled, pain in chest, not coming out of it-now on lasix again, seeing a cardio at Hopkins- anyone else had this reaction from meds prescribed like beta blockers or over the counter? diagnosed w/ congestive heart failure, told i now need surgery- all this now from Aleve/naprozen. anyone else have this happen? allergic reaction?Read More Read Less

it's really hard to measure it because i am taking it with so many other drugs

I have slowly developed moderately high blood pressure but the most irritating thing I had was a 'flutter' in my heart beat. I could feel it but the doc said it wasn't anything serious, just an extra half beat. He put me on minimum dose of Toprol (25mg) and my flutter is gone, BP is perfect. Can't detect any side effects. Been on it for about 3 yrs. Works great for my purposes.

I developed high bp after developing trigeminal neuralgia 13 yrs. ago. I am furious at docs now, because I suffer from depression, that is the first side effect of this drug! That, and i was a gym rat before I got sick. Have tried cardio for the past 5 months and cannot get my heart rate up.... so finally checked more into this drug. No wonder! Am going to doc tomorrow for new rx on something, but honestly, shouldn't someone know about this drug, given my propensity to depression and fatigue due to pain??Read More Read Less

I HAVE USED THIS FOR 8 YEARS WITH FEW SIDE AFFECTS BUT NOW IT HAS BEEN CAUSING SOME ED! I AM 65!

Originally I was on 12.5mg Carvedilol 2X daily. BP then averaged 115/75. BP average with Metoprolol XL (50mg 2X daily) has been 122/83. I'll monitor BP for the next couple months and then decide if it works for me.

I have been on Toprol XL for 10 years now. Since the beginning had weight gain, hair loss, aches/joint pain, chest pains, swelling of ankles/feet, low sex drive and ED as well as saying "that I had to think of having to breathe" no one would believe me of any of these side effects. Now the DR. claims I have COPD (and no COPD meds work to help my breathing - something's wrong with that, could it be the Toprol)? tingling in toes most of the time, now irregular heartbeat and still have low sex drive, ED, swelling and tired all the time!!! Hummm Just switched to Metoprolol for cost purposes this week, first thing I noticed heavy chest was hoping for better breathing!!! We'll see if anything changes?Read More Read Less

Works well for controlling episodes of rapid heartbeat, but has done nothing for migraines. I'm always tired from it, and cognitive function is impaired.

I wish my doctors would have never put me on this med, sex life is gone and they do not care. I hate this drug I hate it.