I was taking Atenolol for about three years and suffered from diz...

I was taking Atenolol for about three years and suffered from dizziness, anxiety attacks, depression, wheezing and shortness of breath, muscular aches and pains, but some of those symptoms may have been caused by other medication I was, and still am, taking. I stopped taking atenolol but also stopped taking the cholestrol-lowering tablets just before that and got them replaced by the doctor. The aches and pains stopped and the depression almost gone, but still experimenting. Trouble with doctors is they always give you and treat you with tablets that will have no come-back on them - just in case, so we never know where we stand. I had thought of suggesting taking niacin and asking the doctor`s advice but I know what he`d say and advise me not to take them to clear himself; point is, my cholestrol dropped from 7.8 to 3.6!!