@shawn2018
Thanks for sharing your situation.
I was on a very low dose (3.125 X2/day) carvedilol from July 2015 until finally I weaned off by November 2017. I had migraines each time I tried to wean off. So, someone here made the suggestion, and I can't recall who it was, that weaning off very slowly might be what I needed to do. So, over 14 weeks I decreased the carvedilol by one more dose each week. I had to use a calendar to keep track, but I omitted one dose on Sunday evening the first week. The next week I omitted the Sunday & Monday Evening doses. And continued to omit an additional dose each week.

On the 8th week, I took none in the evenings, and omitted the Sunday Morning dose, then the 9th week I omitted the Sunday and Monday morning doses until I was completely off the entire drug.

Metoprolol was bad for me. It seemed to drop my heart rate severely. Though Carvedilol also did I kept taking it due to the migraines. When I was completely off the stuff I found my heart rate had risen from a low of 36 at night to a low of 38 at night. I no longer have the migraines, but I had to increase my Losartin from 25 Mg to 50 Mg as I noticed a rise from 131 to 140 in my top number of my blood pressure readings.

I do hope sharing my experience will help you to decide what is the best method for you. Be sure to check you blood pressure readings everyday at about the same time as the beta blockers can help keep your blood pressure lowered.

Eileena

Thanks, @eileena, for this piece of your diary. I'm sure @shawn2018 will appreciate it. As a long-time user of Carvedilol, permit me to add some advice from the Food and Drug Administration label for Carvedilol: "WARNING: Do not stop taking this medication without consulting your doctor. Some conditions may become worse . . .

"If your doctor decides you should no longer use this drug, he or she may direct you to gradually decrease your dose over 1 to 2 weeks . . . (and) temporarily limit physical activity."

My point is the importance of tightly coordinating this with your doctor.

I hope all is ok

I have been taken coreg for about 8 months and at first I thought it was bad but my pressure goes down when I take it but I'm having some soDE effects my Johnson won't stay up !!! I'm a young guy and can't have that is anyone having this problem and also I finally got my adrenal glands tested cat skan and found a benign tumor on my left adrenal this may be why my pressure has been out of wack I looked it up and your adrenal glands control mostly everything in your body from hair growth to blood pressure I am going to the ecronoligist today and talk about getting it removed anyone had this problem or should I say these problems ....I'm also on clonidine, hydrolazine, and a water pill and sparalactone ......

When I got off Coreg my BP readings went up a slight bit. Coreg is a Beta Blocker and it is complicated. My Losartin was increaased in place of the beta blocker. As for your "Johnson", lowering you BP is what causes that drooping of your guy. We need our BP lower, but maybe an adjustment in dosage? My son was found to have one of those incidentalomas on his left adrenal gland and they took the gland and tumor out and due to other health problems was kept in hospital for an overnight. It was benign as we can hope yours is. They are called incidentalomas due to being incidentally found. Don't know what your other meds are for, but have a good discussion with you doc or look up the meds.

@krj1213, glad to hear that you're going to see an endocrinologist today, and I hope you will consider a longer list of questions than whether to have a benign tumor removed from your adrenal gland. Do I understand that your current medication load includes five different medications for treating high blood pressure -- Coreg (Carvedilol), Clonidine, Hydralazine, Spironolactone, and an unnamed "water pill?" You and I have a lot in common (with this exception): My medical team never suggested that I take more than three antihypertensive medications at one time.

I also have a tumor on one adrenal gland, and the key question for my nephrologist and my endocrinologist was whether the tumor was, in fact, acting as a rogue gland-in-the-wild, producing excess hormones that inflate blood pressure. Lab tests showed that it probably was NOT a rogue gland, but simply a cyst, discovered by accident by an MRI a few years ago. Since then, we check it for any change in size or composition -- so far, no change.

Of the five medications you listed, I have been on all of them at one time or another. Right now, my daily meds include Coreg (25mg x 2), Amiloride (10mg x 2, potassium-sparing water pill), and Lisinopril (40mg x 1, a vasodilator relaxing arteries). In the past, I also took Clonidine (centrally acting with hormones issued from the brain), and Spironolactone, a powerful diuretic (water pill). The fifth med, Hydralazine, is a vasodilator (relaxing arteries) similar in effect to my Lisinopril and, several years ago, to Minoxidil.

Against that background, I know you will understand the importance of a detailed conversation with your medical team about why a half-dozen medications are suitable for treating your personal symptoms. In my case, an endocrinologist was crucial to testing for every conceivable cause of my high blood pressure, but my real angel is the leader of my medical team -- a nephrologist, whose genius and persistence found the source of my problems and eliminated the excess medications I had taken.

Let me know of any questions you have about my experiences or about talking to your own medical team. And remember, one question on your mind when you meet with them might be whom they would recommend to give you a second opinion later this month. Martin