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How did you wean off Metoprolol?

Heart Rhythm Conditions | Last Active: Sep 19 7:56am | Replies (551)

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I'm a diabetic with left ventricular heart failure. I was put on metoprolol succinate 200 MG. I told my cardiologist that it causes my hair to come out. Also, I informed the doctors that my heart has been like this ever since I was a little girl and I made it into the military. One doctor had me on hydrochlorothiazide for fluid , then said it was discontinued and my body swelled up that brought on the HF, of course he retired. Found out that it was not discontinued, then comes the HF. The 200MG of metoprolol makes me feel weak, sleepy but can't sleep, itch and make my hair come out. Have asked for a different heart med, but instead, a form of Diovan was added and Lisinopril taken out. Before all these different meds. I had a normal low/medium low BP. Now it shoots through the roof along with my glucose level. Have anyone else have these issues? I feel like some of these doctors are just pushing meds. on me. I stopped the meds. for 3 days and added ubiquinol, beet juice and hawthorn berries, and started doing better with those than I did on the drug therapy. I think someone needs to talk with the AMA because there's alternatives out there without side effects that works better than the drugs. Anyways, I've always have had heart palpitations that would go away by itself. My glucose levels would always go high and come down by itself. My swelling ankles and fingers would swell if I ate too much salt and I didn't swell at all, if salt was mostly out of my system. I need to know some honest answers from the AMA. It's not One Size Fits All , when it comes to health issues.

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Yes, that is true, and good for you for both enduring and taking initiative in your own care, as well as for reporting here of your experience and desire to manage your own condition. Every person with a potentially life-threatening condition ought to be encouraged to learn all they can, to trial different regimens if drugs don't work or bring on even worse problems for them, and to help others to learn of their success. The learning is a double-edged sword, so to speak, because a physician who gets questioned or challenged might be offended and ask you to leave and to find another doctor. You should be glad he/she spoke like that because you then know you just dodged a bad one. And do get that second opinion. A third wouldn't hurt to see if they jive. But your pointed questions might encourage the practitioner to deal with your case more closely and thoroughly, and they might be happy to help a person who shows a keen interest in the field and its recent developments and research.

Thanks for chiming in, trmy085.

My hair is falling out by fistfull for last few months esp-in addition my thyroid meds were increased at same time--any suggestions?