Connect
← Return to Metoprolol Withdrawl
Discussion
Comment receiving replies
Hello, I wanted to check in and see how you are doing now with the withdrawal symptoms you had after stopping metoprolol. My husband was told by his dr. to just stop taking his 12.5 mg dose daily (1/2 of a 25 mg tablet) that he was taking for 2.5 years. The first month he felt nothing but then now over the last few days he's been having heart palpitations daily. He said they only last a couple of seconds but that it happens several times a day. He said it feels like a flutter and then a quick surge of adrenaline similar to how you feel when you are on a roller coaster or come over a hill and down it driving fast in a car. Currently his cardiologist has him on a two week zio heart monitor. I can't understand why his cardiologist didn't ween him off metoprolol slowly. I wondered if you still have symptoms or did you get better over time? How long does withdrawal period last? If it ever goes away or do you have to get back on the drug to keep it away now? Thanks for your response. Wishing you good health.
Replies to "Hello, I wanted to check in and see how you are doing now with the withdrawal..."
I have AFIB. I tried tapering before an ablation and it wouldn't work. Big spikes AND AFIBBING. 50 mg per day. Now, six months after an ablation, with a perfectly controlled heart rate, I'm in my third week of tapering. at 12.5 per day this Friday. I plan on tapering till end of month. NO spikes but I've read you can get rebounding weeks later. He should get the Apple watch which will track his heart 24/7 so he can see the heart rate. Sometimes the flutter isn't a concern if the priorty is getting off the BB and there's no spike. People live with flutters all the time rather than take the poison meds like I took - Amiodarone which is also magic! I'm sure it takes time for the heart to learn to be normal again. The watch is a lifeline for me and alerted me to AFIB I didn't even know what that was. Also my rate was super low overnight and gradually creeping up I can see it every morning.
Connect
Thank you. I have new been off the toporol since October. I had a bad reaction to some eggs over Christmas and I didn't go back on them i just dealt with the symptoms of the egg allergy for a few weeks but my pulse is now staying normal with no headaches as long as I make sure I am not eating egg.