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How did you wean off Metoprolol?
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Hi everyone. Over the past 9 months I’ve tapered from 50mg to 12.5mg Toprol XL. I went from 50 to 25 and stayed for 3 months, then went to 12.5 after a month on 25. My doctor said 12.5 was so low I could stop after a week. I had heard of problems and decided to wait a month. Day 3 of stopping the 12.5 I had massive rebound and Kim the ER thinking I was having a heart attack. After stress test and CT doctor finally admits rebound. He now recommends going to every other day for a month and then continue to space out. Has anyone tried this approach?
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Many years ago, I was on prozac. After retiring from teaching, I decided to ween myself from the med. I went to every other day, then once every 3 days. From there, I stopped. There was a withdrawal of muscle pain. But I managed to get through it and never returned to such meds. I prefer vitamins, low stress. When one is retired, it's so much easier to eliminate the stress factors that brings on the med for depression meds. etc. I still have a low grade chronic depression but just live with it.