Toprol-XL and lower back pain

I was on 2 heart medications for over a year. In April I started taking toprol alone. I have been gaining weight rapidly like 6 or 7 lbs. in 2 months. I also have tingling in hands, a numbness, and burning which wakes me up at night. Is this from the toprol? I was happy to hear others had the same side effects. I have lower back pain and my legs hurt. I couldn't figure out why I was gaining all this weight. Maybe it is the toprol taken alone.

Taking 25mg of TROPOL.
Lower back pain; all tests negative; MD feels it's pinched nerve. Numbness in both legs with tingling and needle like feeling in toes of both feet. Both legs feel like someone is squeezing front and back of legs. Legs are not swollen

i have bad lower back pain, since i ve been taking toprol. Linda

after I started taking the medication......I noticed that I was always itchy in the chest area.....then started to feel achey.....lower back pain, joint pain, couldn't sleep, depressed and even started dreaming.......which I rarely do. I was taking Toprol for a little over a month and the back pain today is so severe....that I finally contacted my doctor and said I think we should try something else....I even didn't take the medication for 2 days to get rid of the back pain.

I'm a 40 year old male, diagnosed with high BP (148/110) and was placed on Cozaar (25). One month later placed on Toprol XL (25). Since then the side effects have been -
Sleepy (yawn, stretch, scratch, snore)
Loss of Mental Focus (I'm male, it was small enough before and now it's even smaller. The mental focus people...)
MUSCLE PAIN! Pecs, both sides but mostly the left. From deep muscle throbbing to pin-prick ouches. Left arm, follows the large bones (deep pain.) Lower back pain but hey, that may not be from the Toprol.
Oddly, sexual function has been helped. Sexual *drive* has gone down though. (Hey, my wife is 10 years older than me so she's ok) ;)

I hate this lethargic, crampy feeling. All my reading has shown to not quit Toprol cold-turkey but do a weekly dosage reduction down to 12.5 for two weeks before stopping. I'll see my doc in a couple of days to discuss this further.

Sidebar: EKG, Stress test show that my BP is reduced but not while exercising. So there's a fine line between side effects and prevention of High BP. Best of luck ladies and gents,
D

I am a 24 year old male. I started taking 25 mg toprol because I was rushed to the hospitol with left face, back left of my head and left arm going numb. At arrival my blood pressure reading was 202/120 and they couldn't get it down right away and I don't think they had any idea what was wrong. They did a million test and the only thing they fpund out they thought was that my (I think my white blood cells being at 56) so they said I had polysithemia( not sure of the spelling) so they sent me home with 25 mg of toprol and every other week drawing a pint of blood from me. Which sort of helped but then I started getting these terrible headeaches in the back left of my head that are the worst pain, it shuts me right down its hard to function. and at this time blood pressure was still pretty high 165-170/95-105 on average. so they upped my dose to 50 mg and for a couple of months I just dealt with the pain that I was still having cause I gave up on my doctors they were realy starting to piss me off. then I had another check up and my blood pressure I told them was still high 145-155/95-100 so they upped my dose again to 100 mg. but know I have terrible lower back pain which I thought it was my kidneys but got check and it isn't same damn head aches tingling in my left part of my face, deep muscle pain, leg cramps all the time specially my left calf for some reason, my eyes are swelled shut 3 out of 7 days a week and through out the day my eyes are almost always blood shot red, like there bleeding. and like all this isn't enough I have had mono, tharyngitis lyarangitis, scarlet fever, pneumonea, and broncittis all in the last 6 to 7 months. Fun!!! any feed back would be greatly appreciated

thanks
don cross