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How did you wean off Metoprolol?
Heart Rhythm Conditions | Last Active: Feb 21 1:08pm | Replies (543)Comment receiving replies
It sounds like you have been through the mill, Always hope. And it all started with a fall. Terrible!
As we see on TV ads, drugs come with an alarming list of side effects. Resorting to drugs for one's health problems should be a last resort. Lifestyle changes are still best in dealing with health issues but doctors will reach for the prescription pad...which covers their &%$#@ if anything were to happen to the 'unmedicated' patient. So many health issues including high blood pressure, tachycardia, diabetes etc...can be CURED with dietary and physical activity changes that have as an added bonus; weight loss. There is no magic pill. We have to do the work ourselves...and I am one who admits that I am in the same boat.
As for how to manage weaning off any medication, I would ask the pharmacist. They are your go-to drug specialists. They know how drugs interact with each other and how they affect the body.
This is an aside concerning the Dutch approach to good health: I have been on holiday in the Netherlands for the past 2 weeks. I have never seen a healthier population of people. ALL are very healthy looking and slim. You do not see ANY overweight people. None! The children have rosy cheeks and are also ALL slim; not normal weight but slim. All teenagers are what we would consider skinny and very lanky. I can see why. ALL the Dutch ride bikes everywhere. The streets are crowded with bikes. Even mothers with 2 babies just put them in carriers on the bikes and off they go. The elderly ride everywhere as well. The Dutch eat much less than we do. In grocery stores, packages and jars of food are small. There are no fast food places anywhere although I did see a few McDonalds on the edge of a couple of cities but there are no other fast food chains here. If you get off at a town, there may be one proper, sit down, white table cloth restaurant. If we followed the Dutch model of eating less and exercising more, I am sure most of us would be slim, drug free and healthy.
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Yep! AFRobin, I wish I had taken a more proactive position regarding my heath during that time and researched the valium before taking it. I was (I felt) a healthy 125lbs, and very active before the fall and even after when the vertigo would allow. I'm now aprox 95 lbs weak and frail. Benzos are a life destroying evil that doctors should prescribe with the most extreme caution, if ever, and no past even ten days. I found out tolerance for the Valium was building in my system after 14 days because it had already compromised the GABA in my brain and nervous system and I took it for 3 1/2 years!
There are soooo many people, especially ages 65 to 80 hooked on benzos and dying from it. The numbers for emergency room visits for people in this age group taking Benzos is heart breaking!! There is so much info on Benzos and anti-anxiety meds if you research it. Maybe big pharma increased the percentages a physician can earn for prescribing these types of addictive meds?
I wish the doctors would think of a family member when they are prescribing these meds and give their patients a stern and heartfelt warning because my doctors said nothing. They just kept writing out those prescriptions with a smile. I'm sure they wouldn't want a loved one to experience this kind of Hell. My son says:" I'm so sorry you are going through this Mom" and I'm sorry he has to see me this way.
Benzos are no joke and because Metoprolol has an anti-anxiety agent it's also addictive and causes some people like me all kinds of health problems that like me, they don't attribute to the medication.
The medical community needs to look at other options for treating heart patients. (And they're out there) Especially when the patient comes to them with their health already compromised. Makes no sense.
With the grace of God and his guidance, when my tolerance withdrawl is complete from these meds, my life, my health and lost time with my family will be restored to being as healthy as I was before the fall. In Jesus' precious name!
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Yes, I agree with you. We pay the price of poor health for our wealth of owning everything we possibly can. When last visiting family in LA, I was bemused by the number of autos everywhere. Few visible people, but autos.