Toprol-XL and 33 years

Haven't been taking this medication very long started March 1st or so with 50mg once a day. But felt didn't need it so took it kind of sporadically the first week, every other day, then I tried just half the second week 25mg. Then I had to go back to full 50mg this past week, so basically 50 to 25mg for three weeks or so now, and I feel AWFUL. Now that I have dropped back to the 25mg the side effects have lessened but the anxiety is unbearable! My arms and hands go cold and numb. When taking it at 50mg felt very sluggish, cloudy mind, doomed feeling. It just doesn't feel right. I am only 33 years old they did a stress test on me this past Friday and 2-D echocardiogram. Tomorrow they are going to do some blood tests and a get a holter monitor put on me for 48 hours. To see if I "need" to be on this med. I dont' think I do, if it truly was something I needed or helped my body, it would help it not bother more. I truly think I may have some other underlying reason for the high heart rate, my BP has always been normal except when I was hospitalized and then once they had me hydrated and my sugars back to normal (I'm hypoglycemic) my BP went normal I just had the tachycardia off and on. So that's why the doctor in the hospital said to begin the Toprol Xl b/c it's SO SAFE I GIVE IT TO PREGNANT WOMEN!! His words. I pray for those women. After just the one week straight of 50mg when I dropped to 25mg a couple days ago it felt AWFUL to do that as well, today is much better Thank God. But can you have such strong withdrawals after such short period of time? And if so, that is scary in and of itself.

I've been taking topral for about 4 or 5 months.
It was prescribed to me in order to slow down my heartbeat.
SInce I've been taking Topral, I seem to itch a lot.
A couple of times, I purposely skipped taking it and seemed the itching stopped.
I called my doctor and they said the itching is not from the drug.
I check my blood pressure everyday and sometimes it drops to 100/55 and 115/60 and the dr. office told me not to be alarmed.

I am 33 years old and was just put on toprol 3 months ago for palpitations of the heart. I have noticed extreme weight gain, but something else i have lost my taste. has anyone else experienced taste loss.

My husband has been on Toprol for almost one year--they have been enlarging and decreasing his dossage almost every week! It's frustrating. At one point while taking 50mg his heart rate slipped down to 48 which is dangerous for him. And, Toprol seemed to be linked to his potassium loss. So they decreased the dossage to 25mg, but his heart rate still went to low. He was also very moody, which is very unlike him and he got very depressed and lacked interest in normal family activietes. He is only 33 years old. He stopped taking Toprol as of Sunday and I have already seen a difference in personality--he seems happy now all the time. His rate is about 66 in the morning and around 70-80 at rest during the afternoon. I will keep you posted.