Toprol-XL and sex drive

I have been on toprol for sometime now, and what I have found is, I have no sex drive at all which is causing problems in my marriage. I am always tired, can't remember anything short term that is and my shoulders are always hurting as if I have been lifting weights. I am also noticing bruises if any kind of pressure is applied to my skin which is weird. I also get swollen ankles and lots of hair loss. My vision is giving me lots of problems. I now wear glasses that are so thick you would think I borrowed them from the bottom of a Pepsi bottle. I just don't know what to do anymore. I have expressed most of my symptoms to my doctor, but my cries have gone unheard. I am afraid to stop taking the medication in fear of having a heat attack.. I have taken my daughter through a specialized school until she was able to manage herself but today I cannot remember how to do math or just simply write and essay which I think is weird. I am also having a hard time with spelling and reading long passages due to my lack of energy and concentration. Does anyone have advice that is helpful?

Everyone here has such horror stories, so I wanted to post something positive. I have been on Metoprolol for 8 years. Just today I started taking Torpol XL because the ups and downs of the regular tablets was starting to bother me and. I have tachycardia and an arrhythmia that causes extra beats and pauses in my heart. (Upper chambers.)

Before taking metoprolol I thought I was going to die everyday due to my abnormal heart rhythms. But since taking the medication, I feel so much better. It really works to control the extra beats and I feel like I can stop worrying that I am going to have a heart attack and die (which is torturous to feel that way all the time.)

The only side effects I have had are some dizziness (which can be corrected by taking a smaller dosage) and a slight decrease in sex drive. Those ARE negative side effects, yes, but the good outweighs the bad for me. I feel like I can live a full healthy life now that my heart rate is under control.

All this just blows me away-I have been on Toprol XL 100 (currently 51 High blood pressure-hypertension) for maybe 4 or 5 years and have no sex drive, shoulders have begun to ache like they are broken or dislocated(daily), can't sleep at times, ringing in ears has gotten worse over the years, beginning to be tired earlier in the evening. 100 seems to be more than anyone on this blog so I must have it bad. My pharmacist alerted me to this drug not being made anymore so there is a subsitute, not sure what but I will get the call on that shortly. I have a doctor's appointment on 3/31, I think I am going to get something changed. Bad thing is this was the 3rd heart med I took that worked for me.

I'm 48, wm, very healthy>
Thirty five days ago, I went to a doctor
for anxiety. I told him I felt as though I had
an over-active adrenal gland, and too much
adrenaline was surging through my body
causing me to be really nervous, especially
in public places.
I said I took Inderal 20 years ago for two days, and it made me feel weird.
He said the new generation Beta Blockers
are far better, and that most golfers take them so they won't shake during an important putt.
He said he'd put me on the lowest dosage (25mg/day) and said the side effects were minimal. (HA!)
After one week, all went pretty well, except I noticed my previously strong sex drive had diminished. I used to masturbate 3 times per day, and then it was maybe once per week.
I thought the trade off to be calm vs. constant erections due to the adrenaline levels would be fine.
Then the nightmares...
I was in Africa and being shot by Ninja warriors with their AK 47's and feeling the bullets tear into my liver, and abdomen- or falling off cliffs to my impending death, only to wake up at 1am and not being able to go back to sleep for hours.
Then, at the two week mark, I noticed also
I couldn't recall things as quickly as I used to.
At the three week mark, it was becoming clear that the Toprol was making me slow, tired, flacid, fuzzy in my thinking, and giving me constant nightly dreams that were
terrifying.
Finally, I drove to LA from SF, and a song came on the radio. I knew who it was, but just couldn't grasp in my mind who it really was! (Stevie Wonder)
I started to feel really bizarre, kinda like LSD, or mushrooms, and was worried I was going to go insane!
I knew it was the Toprol, but didn't know if I stopped taking it if I would recover.
I just wanted to be like I was before I started this taking this truly awful compound!
Three days ago I stopped (cold turkey) and
flushed my body out with water, and a lot of soup.
Only this morning- after three days without
taking those terrible pills do I feel normal again. I'm not 100% yet, but I know I will be soon.
The lesson here, is I should have read more about this drug before taking it.
I have never taken pharmaceutical drugs before- not even aspirin. This is one more reason to stay clear from quack doctors
who think taking heart drugs/BP drugs are an easy cure for anxiety.
I really feel sorry for all those people out there taking dangerous medications like Toprol.
This drug should have never been approved by the FDA, and the only reason anyone should take this drug, is to understand how it feels to lose your mind, have your sex drive removed, and have dreams every night where all you do is end up dead!
TOPROL should be schedule I, and be banned- or only used by our military on known terrorists...

i am a 43 yr old male.........i was put on 100mg a day of metoprolol and it did the job of lowering my blood pressure and heart rate. however after about a year of taking the meto my orgasms would take anywhere from 1.5 to 2.5 hours to achieve. at first it was nice to go longer tham usual, but it has became a problem for myself and my wife. i sometimes think i will have a heart attack trying to release, we go thru bottles of lube to keep her from hurting, and my mood became very bad, i was looking for things to complain about, threatening people at work and so on. i started weening myself off meto 2 weeks ago my dividing the pills in half, and went to see my doctor this week. he prescribed lisinopril 10mg and had me divide my metoprolol in half again for another week. already my moods are 100% better, but i still have trouble achieving climax with sex in timely fashion. i hope that problem goes away soon. i am curious, am i the only male here having problems climaxing?

I was given Metoprolol, a generic for Toprol-XL several months ago, for high blood pressure. It was prescribed after I was determined to be allergic to Lisinopril. ( It caused a cough that lasted 3 months; I sounded like a TB patient.) Anyway, I have been taking Effexor for years, for anxiety attacks. Now that I take Metoprolol along with the Effexor, I am so tired and drained all the time, that I am contemplating quiting work. I go to the grocery, come home and lie down. I can't seem to have energy to breath correctly. My Dr. won't believe that this has anything to do with meds. I have now developed blood and mucous in my stools, diarrhea, and very urgent BMs. This all started after taking these two meds in combination for about 4 months.

I have been on Toprol for a month now and I don't know what to do. My hair is falling out slowly, I get nausea every day with diarhea. My appetite is gone. I get very tired and weak. I cant sleep at all. I am very irritable. I have no sex drive. My asthma is worse taking it. I get awful leg cramps. I bruise a lot easier. I have migraines every day. I have blurred vision. I just feel tense all the time

Hmmm-confused and worried!! I am taking 300 mg of Toprol 2x a day!! 37 yo male-what is this doing to me??? I have felt tired but thought it was just me.....no sex drive or ability-is this common?

I have been on Tp xl 50 mg for 6 years. I have had several issues through the years that I never thought the Tp was affecting. My throat has been sore for a year, I am tired alllll the time, moody and even worse at that time of the month, my left shouder has hurt for years and I never associated it with my meds, until now. I have NO SEX drive at all, poor hubby. My BP is good however when working out, Cardio my heart rate stays at 95. I have gained a 100 lbs in the 6 years I have been on TP and I am very moody. I never can finish sentence because I am always trying to come up with words to fill my sentences. Still I never thought this was cause of Tp. The only thing I blamed my TP on was weight gain, mood swings. Know I can associate alot more with my meds. Thanks for the reading material.
Cathy

I have been taking Toprol for 2 1/2 years following bypass surgery. Some weakness has occurred, but I have bicycled 5,500 miles and even finished in the top five in a couple of amateur races during that time. I often have leg cramps, but have noticed taking a potassium supplement (or eating more bananas) and drinking more water seems to alleviate that problem. Other side effects include reduced sex drive and a need for more sleep and rest. When I don't get enough rest, I get so tired I can barely function. I am also taking Crestor and Avapro (the combination of which has caused even more side effects -- weakness, BP drops, dizziness, sharp muscle pains, sleeplessness, etc.)

Been on 25 mgs of Toprol XL for anxiety related palpitations for around 5 years. I gained around 20lbs since and always seem to be bloated, also have had siatic nerve trouble in my left leg and hip and buttock. This small dosage effects my sex drive and erections where things don't work like they used to, I'm on other medications that could affect that dept too. The one constant side effect is lazyness and apathy from the toprol.

Thank you.

I began taking Toprol as I left the hospital after a mild heart attack in March ('06). 100 mg at first, then 150. I kept expecting my sex drive to come back as I recovered from the HA, but it never has. Viagra gives me an erection but the problem is, I don't care. Sex has no meaning, I don't care about it. I am tired most of the time and even when well rested, 3 hrs is as long as I can do anything. I never have an appetite anymore. How do they expect me to function?

No obvious side effects. Heart beat is more regular, no problems with excercise or sex drive!

I have been on Toprol XL 25mg daily since last May. I am now 46 years old and other than this stress-induced high blood pressure, have always been healthy and within normal weight range.

Since then I've had the following side effects:

* NO SEX DRIVE (I'm a newlywed, so this really sucks),
* gained like 15 pounds, cannot lose weight for anything, and I've always been able to lose weight with diet and exercise.
* feeling sleepy a lot,
* more depression than usual,
* and just an all-around-less-energy-feeling.

I found a new doctor and he told me to ween myself off of the Toprol XL, but within two days of going to 12.5mg, I started feeling really, really sick, I can't even describe it, like losing my mind, and my body just felt so strange. Well, at this point I freaked out and went back to 25mg a day. I need to get off of this pill so I can get my sex drive back and also lose the weight I've gained. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to deal with the withdrawal symptoms?

Thanks.

I started 50mg a week ago for palpatations.

I've experienced:
lower sex drive, fatigue, moodiness and cloudy thinking. It's affecting both my homelife and work. Calling the Dr. on Monday.

currently taking 50mg toprol daily. No sex drive, cannot lose weight, always very tired. Taking medication for high blood pressure. I would like to decrease dosage. All together I take 8 meds a day. For pressure and heart. Have 5 stents.

I've been on Toprol XL 50 for 6 years after angioplasty/3stents.

I'm tired during the day, sex drive diminished but not gone, and have inability to lose weight.

Are these symptoms related to Toprol?

Hello, I've been on 50mg of Toprol XL for about two months, and have had a lot of hot flashes--I mean I just can't tolerate the heat at all! Also, if I am doing any type of work that takes any exersion, like lifting boxes (I'm preparing to move) I get so hot and sweaty! I am unable to take any other type of blood pressure medication due to having had severe allergic reactions to them, so I am stuck on the beta blockers. I also seem to have a significant decrease in my sex drive (mind wants to, but body doesn't), which is difficult because I just got married. I have also had a significant change in my weight - gained a lot, which is a bit strange for me. I am now trying to increase my exercise and also watch my diet. I am 45 years old and my blood pressure, at it's worst was like 202/120. It's down to like 140/90, so it's better... Acupuncture was helping for a while, but not enough...

I am a 41 yr old female who has been taking 25mg of Toprol for almost 2 months for high BP. I immediately started experiencing chest pains and muscle pain on my left leg. Doctor told me she doubted if it was caused by the Toprol. EKG, ECHO did not show any abnormally with heart. I reduce dosage to pill (12.5 mg) and side effects are almost gone. My BP has never been better 110/70. But I have noticed a reduction on my sex drive these past 2 weeks - could it be the Toprol??

having been taking toprol for nearly two years. This drug was presecribed to help with blood pressure and cardiomyopothy hypotrophy. Started out with 100mg per day and was advised to increase to 200mg per day/ morining and evening. My morning dose is taken with 180mg Verapamil. Primary physician just added nifedapine. I stopped the toprol regime for about 6 days and ended up in the hospital for about 4 days. My heart started racing and got up to 180bpm. My cardiologist stated that I should have never stopped the toprol. I would like to come off this medication. Does anyone have any suggestions. I don't not want to go through that rapid heart beat situation again. has anyone experienced such a heart rate based on stopping the use of toprol. I am now back on 100mg of it in the a.m. with 180 of verapamil and an aspirin. My evening dose is 100mg of toprol, 10mg of crestor and Niaspin 500mg as a nightime dose. This seems like it is so much medicine. I hate the feelings that come with this. Would love to have some feedback so that I can resume a much better life. Sex drive is low as well and I am only 49 year old black american male.

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I'm a 54 year old woman and have been on 50 mg Toprol for 1 year. It's done great things to drop my blood pressure down to normal range. But I've experienced weight gain, muscle aches, aching feet, tiredness, lack of clarity when thinking, hot flashes, occasional nausea and occasional dizziness/light-headedness. I'm also on a mild dose of xanax which helps with nervousness which I guess is also associated with Toprol. My sex drive still remains strong though.

I am taking 100 mg Toprol for BP. I have experienced excessive itching, joint pain, lack of ambition, hard time driving because of dizziness and focusing of my eyes. I am 69 years old and have no sex drive and no interest in the things I should care about. I am going to my doctor to see if my old BP drug Diazide will be better for me. You can bet I'm going to get off Toprol

I am a 47 year old male. Taking Vasotec 20mg,Norvasc 10mg,was taking toprol 50mg but stopped gradually. Now am totally off toprol and will never go back on it, replaced with hydrochlorothiazide 25mg. Its been about a week since I stoped toprol.
The only real side effect I had was my sex drive and performance. The effect was devastating, really depressed me bigtime. I am slowly geeting function back but its very slow. Does anyone know how long it will take to get back to normal in this area???
Other slight side effects where sleeplessness,tired,stomach problems, bloating.

Have been on Toprol XL 100 mg for four months. Have had weitht gain, sleepyniess, exhaustion, severe itching, swelling of hands, feet and anckles, dizzyness, empared mental sharpness, arm and shoulder pain. Severe leg pain. Deep bone pain. No sex drive at all. I am haveing trouble getting up and down, and even walking. Calling doctor, at this rate I will be disabled soon. Haveing difficulty getting in and out of car.

I take 50 mg of Toprol, and find it necessary to take 20 mg of Cialis to maintain my sex drive. It is absolutely critical to take the Cialis in order to enjoy my normal sex drive. Similarly, I will back off taking Toprol some days in order for the Cialis to have the maximum effect.

No sex drive. I am 45 and my doc doesnt discuss the affects of Toprol XL on my sex drive. What ED drugs can be safely taken with Toprol? What are some of you guys doses of Viagra/Cialis/Levitra?

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No sex drive. My doc really doesnt talk about it. So what drug can be taken safely with Toprol XL? Viagra/Cialis? I need help soon. 45 yr old male and really down...

No sex drive. What ED drug is ok to take with Toprol XL? My doc says it will wear off.....yea right!

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my husband has been on toprol for 2yrs had no problems till about 2 months ago he take 50 mg in morning and 50 at night his bp is around 210/110 without but when he takes it its 160-90 he says he notices short of breath sick to stomach no sex drive tired see the problem is that hes been in the hospital 3 times for low heart rate 25-30 beats a min and bp 60/20 they think its the meds he went in on the 4th of july and was put on life support and a external pace maker for 6 days they not sure what happened but they think its a reaction to the med i am scared for the next time i wish they could figure out whats wrong hes only 41 any one else been through this?

My husband is on Toprol and he is depressed and has pain in back,shoulder and arm. He also has lost all strength in left hand. He can't even take his wallet out of his pocket. Is this from Toporal? He also has no sex drive. I can't get him to believe it is from the drug. The Dr. said it's Arthritis.