Metoprolol withdrawal January 03, 2024 09:40PM |
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Re: Metoprolol withdrawal January 03, 2024 10:20PM |
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gloaming
I was on the drug, even to the point of 150 mg/diem at one point, for a total of just over five years. I was told to stop immediately when I was placed on amiodarone. I experienced nothing except the bliss of NSR once again within 10 hrs of taking the first 400 mg of amiodarone. :About seven months later, I stopped taking metoprolol on the advice of my outreach nurse about six weeks after my second ablation. She agreed that I should taper for a couple of weeks down to 12.5 mg, but I stopped after a week and have not had any problems, no unpleasant aftershocks.
We're all different, so I can appreciate that you're not having a great time. Did you taper for at least seven or eight days? Maybe your anxiety stems from not being on the drug, as in the cognitive dissonance of having nothing like its help in your system...that you might really need it.
Everybody's heart should initially rise as a sympathetic response when we stand. Mine does. It would fall again if that's all I did....to stand. If I begin to move around, it might even continue to climb to 115 BPM...again, at first, but it normally subsides to around 105-107. What is yours doing?
Re: Metoprolol withdrawal January 04, 2024 12:51AM |
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Rucan
Doctor said it should pass within 3 days since I was on it such a short period and told me I was alergic to this medicine.
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Daisy
Doctor said it should pass within 3 days since I was on it such a short period and told me I was alergic to this medicine.
Or, perhaps more likely, would be a genetic incompatibility. Metoprolol is contraindicated for those with CYP2D6, which is a fairly common genetic variation. I know because my EP did genetic testing, I have this variation and was told never to take metoprolol. I took propranolol instead.
Re: Metoprolol withdrawal January 04, 2024 01:49AM |
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Rucan
I am not smart enough to understand what that is. I just know I was on Metoprolol for not much more than a week and abrutly had to stop and I have been a mess for 2 days. Anxiety and feeling like a zombie. I have never felt like this and it is awful not feeling who I really am.
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Daisy
I am not smart enough to understand what that is. I just know I was on Metoprolol for not much more than a week and abrutly had to stop and I have been a mess for 2 days. Anxiety and feeling like a zombie. I have never felt like this and it is awful not feeling who I really am.
More simply, because of genetics, some people can’t process metoprolol normally. With the fairly common genetic variation I mentioned, the body would respond to (for instance) a dose of 25 mg as if you had taken 100 mg giving you the side-effects of an overdose. So when you stopped it would be like you were withdrawing from an overdose. Hence the genetic testing lab supplied me with a wallet card listing metoprolol as a drug that I should never take. This could be what you are experiencing.
Re: Metoprolol withdrawal January 04, 2024 05:29AM |
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I am really sensitive to coming off the beta blockers. It is really a problem of inappropriate sinus tachycardia. It does pass. Mine usually lasted 2-3 days. Hopefully you are through the worst of it.
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susan.d
I was on atenolol, another BB, for 25 years from 1987 onwards. After my first afib, the three -day - new attending insisted I stop it cold turkey. Husband was a pharmacist at the time but she insisted. I was frequently fainting, they gave me a tilt table test and it was positive and I had withdrawn symptoms (ortho static hypertension) for 6 months until I said enough is enough and I resumed taking the drug.
I’m not taking it now and the second time I gradually weaned off.
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susan.d
Recant- perhaps wean off slower. I remember Jackie had weaned off flecainide using a razor blade and she shaved off the pill very slightly until she was weaned off. I had a flecainide overdose so I went off cold turkey. Everyone is different but if you are getting withdrawal symptoms perhaps wean slower.
I remember when I was getting an ablation, I was asked to split my evening BB dose (full dose morning, half evening) and then two days later split the morning dose, wait two days on the reduced dosage and then stop the evening dose and after another two days only taking the morning dose to stop all. It took 10 days to be completely off so. Started the weaning 10 days before the ablation. Then right after the ablation I was back in regular strength.
Re: Metoprolol withdrawal January 07, 2024 10:50PM |
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Rucan
It has been 6 days cold turkey for me. I was on it for less than 2 weeks. My side effects were so bad I needed to come off. My Doctor did not tell me I could not come off cold turkey.
Re: Metoprolol withdrawal January 08, 2024 01:02AM |
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Carey
It has been 6 days cold turkey for me. I was on it for less than 2 weeks. My side effects were so bad I needed to come off. My Doctor did not tell me I could not come off cold turkey.
That's probably because 99% of the people who've only been on it for a short time have any withdrawal symptoms at all. I've stopped metoprolol cold turkey several times after being on it for months (and in one case over a year) and I never experienced any problems.
I'd say beta blockers just aren't for you and you should probably never take anything ending in "lol" because that indicates it's a beta blocker (metoprolol, propranolol, atenolol, and many others).
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Re: Metoprolol withdrawal January 08, 2024 01:39AM |
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Carey
Don't be scared. Your body will adapt.