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My heart doctor had put me on toprol xl for my heart arrhythmia b...

Posted at 12:45 AM on Nov 23, 2008 by tara2, #36834
My heart doctor had put me on toprol xl for my heart arrhythmia but I was also having really bad dizzy spells and feeling like I want to pass out before the toprol.I did pretty good on it for a good while.then out of no where the dizzy speels started back up and feeling like I want to pass out.Had all the other tests and nothing abnormal was found.But I'm still having the same problems.I had done an oxymeter test and found that I was only getting 79% oxygen to my brain.Then was put on an oxygen concentrator.It worked for a short time but the symptoms came back.So I called the doctor Friday to see if I could quit taking the toprol.They you can't quit cold turkey cause you could have a heart attack.That's scary..And I'm a 44 year old female.I'm not quite ready to go just yet.Especially from quitting a medicine.
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Reply about 1 year ago on Nov 23, 2008 by debbie56, #14753

Good luck to you. I was on topralxl for a couple of years. I quit taking 1 am and 1 pm 25mg in Sept. of this year. I have written on twice here for what happened to me. You can read my symtoms. My blood pressure now is 130/80 which makes me happy. Stopping taking topral I really feel was going to give me a heart attack plus all those other symtoms I had-was scarey. With all my tests, except for thyroid, they came back normal so that's when I figured it's got to be something i am taking and it was the topral. Hope this gets to you for it seems that my replies don't go through. Debbie56

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