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Hello @mimioto and welcome to Mayo Connect. I'm really sorry to hear of your various heart issues. I understand how frightening it can be as well as exhausting. As you may know, Connect members are not medical professionals and therefore cannot give medical advice. We just share our own experiences. That said, I'd be glad to share my experience with Metoprolol with you.
I have aortic insufficiency (due to a leaky aortic valve), LBBB, and diastolic dysfunction so I understand a little about what you are dealing with. I also have some minor arrhythmia problems and was first prescribed Metoprolol and had uncomfortable side effects. I called my cardiologist and he switched me to a different beta blocker, Atenolol. This worked quite nicely without the side effects.
On Connect there are some other discussions related to side effects of Metopropol. Here is a link to one of those discussions:
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/afib-6/.I would also like to invite Martin, @predictable to this discussion.
Has your doctor suggested an alternative med?
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Hi, Teresa (@hopeful33250). Glad to see you still giving aid to @mimioto and so many others who value your insights and advice. In the case of @mimioto, I don't think my experiences would do much more than confuse the situation. While I am not a fan of beta blockers like Metoprolol, I'm taking one (Coreg) without significant side effects other than suppressed heart beats that make it hard for my blood pressure monitor to give me consistently reliable readings. I have read lots about beta blocker side effects of others, and I sympathize greatly with them. @mimioto has a number of difficulties that deserve our support, but I wonder whether Metoprolol is the lone suspect. For example, fighting hypertension over the last 40 years, I have been prescribed a number of drugs -- including Spironolactone, Losartan, and Furosemide (Lasix) -- but in consultation with my nephrologist, all three of them were dropped in the distant past and replaced with my other medications. Let me emphasize an important point: My HMO diverted me from its fine cardiology division to its nephrologists for my hypertension -- a standard move for them when HTN is the main problem rather than cardiac issues. That may suggest why my situation is not a good one for emulation by @mimioto. Hope this is helpful to her. Martin