anyone using metoprolol for tachycardia ---please help

[bluebird94]

Hello,
My doctor as put me on 25 mg metoprolol extened release daily for palpitations. I am reading on the web about weight gain and hair loss. Does hanyone has any experience with this medicine--good or bad? I am 38 years old otherwise healthy, active person and I eat right but  am little nervous about starting the medicine as i have heard once you go on it, you have to take it forever.
Someone please advise---share your experience with the medicine.
Thank you.

[Marg_Raven]

My doc put me on .5 mg metoprolol about a year ago for infrequent episodes of a-fib, she said it was a very well tolerated drug.  It immediately regulated my heartbeat and worked very well for awhile - no weight gain or hair loss (my hair is thin so I would have noticed that!)  We then cut it back a bit to .5 am and .25 pm because my holter showed my heart rate dropped to 40 while sleeping on a day when there was no a-fib event.

The only thing I have noticed since starting this drug is that I now have the thumpity thumping related to indigestion, that I never had before.  I seldom have any a-fib now, but the heart thumping when trying to sleep or waking up is very annoying.

One of my goals is to get off this stuff permanently and safely.  Taking a magnesium supplement seemed to help quite a bit, I still need to find a good solution to my occasional indigestion - that's what used to send me into a-fib.  it's all related.

[bluebird94]

Thanks for your post.
I had similar experince with cardizam and norvasc. I ended up getting severe palpitations and both didn't work for me.
I am not doing so good with metoprolol, I am very anxious and groggy all day long when I take it so much so that I can't think straight.

[coribell]

Weird how metoprolol works great for some people and not for others.I was only on 25mg and it caused my heart to pound, sometimes my hr would go up alot higher than now with the cartizem im on and it caused palpitations,arythmias really bad.Not a good med for me no how, no way.

[Brandie1225]

I have been on metoprolol for a couple of weeks now. I was put on it for tach aswel. My heart rate will just spike up to 160 out of no where. I havent experienced wait gain or any hair loss so far. But it keeps my hr around 22-55. And I feel really tired since I've been taking it. I have had several episodes of tachycardia since I started taking though. And my blood pressure stays really low. I feel tired, kind of week, and sometimes it's like I'm in a daze. To sum it all up the medacine makes me feel yucky but it has helped sum w/ my tach. Problem. I also have a sinus arrythmia too which may be playing a factor in it aswell I don't know.

[banglamom]

I agree.  It does slow you down metabolically some, but it's really not too disastrous of a price to pay for being slowed down from tachydysrhythmias.  It is a fairly safe drug and usually well tolerated.  All the beta blockers have that side effect.  Sitting around not being able to move is certainly not without it problems either.  I think you will find it a reasonable solution.  Good luck.

[Liz4914]

Taking metoprolol 50 mg twice a day for almost three months - don't feel much different being on the drug except that my pulse is much lower - in the forties now.  I did gain maybe three or four pounds but then again was not as active as previously.  No hair loss!  I think it is an excellent drug - much better than having VT, although I have had more palpitations since starting it but that is probably nothing to do with the metoprolol.  I would not be worried to take it.