I am a 56 year old female & have been on toprol for 7 or 8 years....

Lipsey52-
I went through exactly the same thing you did. In addition to what you described, I was having spells where I couldn't sleep at night because my heart was racing. The Docs put me on cardizem, which really slowed me down and made me feel horrible. They switched to Metoprolol and things got better, not enough that I was cured, but better. I spent many a night online looking for answers to my symptoms, thinking there was something the doctors were missing. It took a ski trip to discover that there was nothing but stress that was messing me up. I'm still on the Metoprolol (25 mg twice a day), but since I learned to accept the stress, and accept the fact that it causes your body to react (heart racing, pounding, tiredness), my life is pretty much back to normal. Good luck!

this is a horrible drug.
try half and then quarter and then nothing.
i have terrible muscle and hip pains even after stopping it for 5 days.
this drug is poison

reading this I could have written this myself! you just described how I feel and I have been taking toprol for about 12 yrs! I too wish I had never started! all mine started with my 1st panic attack.

Hi all, well i'm going thought the very same thing you are going thought, I started taking this junk about 4 years ago for hbp, I've been to doctors trips to hospitals, everthing checks out fine.... But no one has the answer to why I can't walk 50 feet without shortness of breath, heart pounding out of my chest, I can't eat I get sick thinging about food, lost 18 pounds in five weeks, My new doc tell me it's a panic attack, well I do suffer from them but this is different, He told me to take more xanox which I did, this compounded everything, I couldn't stay out of bed for more then a few minutes, sleeping 12 hours a day, what kind of life is this??? I stopped taking metoprolol cold turkey two nights ago, which they say you sould not do!! well i'm doing just that. I just read it takes 3 to 4 days to leave you system, I already fell about 10% better, hope you all feel better real soon. God bless. bert

i have the same symptoms of bert. i take 25mg metoprolol succ. im always out of breath and cant walk to the mailbox without huffing and puffing. i just cut it down to 12.5 mg. in the evening when i go to bed. does anyone have a problem with shakiness also. i find it hard to function every day just doing basic stuff. nita