Toprol-XL and slow heart rate

This drug has been horrible for me.
Waves of rapid pulse and high blood pressure.
Waves of shakyness and anxiety.
Cold hands/feet, sometimes numb fingers.
Chronic mental fogginess and depression.
Some weight gain, slow heart rate, pulse in the 40s!
Heart missing beats.
This @ 25mg 2x daily.
I was told to not take it for 24 hours before my stress test,...
while in bed, asleep, about 4 hours after I should have taken it, I began to feel a buzzing throughout my body and noticed my heart racing. My bp was 170/105 120bpm. I took my missed dose and my heart started to slow back down in about an hour and a half.
I told my Dr and he said to double my dose. I did not!
I weaned my self very slowly down to half a dose (12.5mg 2x daily) and felt 50% better.
I tried to go off completely, at 1/3 dose, with my new Dr.s consent. I was good for two days then my bp and pulse rebounded. I am back on it, but now down to a quarter dose and mostly feel like myself :)
I was told by a cardiologist that the side effects (rebound bp and rapid pulse) can linger for up to 6 weeks.
Every other test I have taken has come back fine so far.
I am 30yo male and athletic.
I am sure this drug helps many people.
But for me it has been a 3 month nightmare.
If your story sounds like mine, hang in there, find a Dr that will listen to you and work with you.
You are not the only one.
Also, read side effects for other BetaBlockers

I am 16 years old, i have ran long distance sine I was 11. I started my peroid when I was 12. In the beginnng of 2006 i didn't have my period for 3 or 4 months. then in april i got it again. but a week later i got it back for three days. the last day was May 2nd of 2006. and i haven't had it since and it's the end of december of this year. i went to the dr. and she took test, told me i was aniemic and and nothng else was the mater really. i took these pills but they didnot help me get my period back....at all! then i went to a dietition and she told me to eat this and that...i gained weight and i even practically stoppe running except maybe 3 times every 2 weeks. adn i still haven't gotten mt period. so my dietition thinks it has nothing to do with my eating and running....but we still do't know for sure. now i am go to a gynacologists.
some other symptoms i have been getting since about march or april:
i was told i have a slow heart rate because i run.
i get dizzy or more like lightheaded
sometimes breathing is a little difficult but i don't really think of that as a symptom...it just feels a little different then i have before all this.
sinc a bout a year or so i have been feeeling a sharp pain in by middle back by my lung sometimes when i lay down or even sleeping. it has woken me up before, too.
i hope all of this helps you so you can help me....please...i want some other people's experience and advice too!!!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!

I have been on Toprol for about a month now. I started off on 25mg twice a day. After I had severe palpatations and very slow heart rate (which resulted in a trip to the ER) i called my doctor and he cut me back to one 25mg tablet a day. I still have weird palpatations in which i feel as though my heart gets startled and i believe i can feel the blood drain from my head and out my arms. not fun.

I have also recently developed a cough around bed time as well as a weird tingly feeling throughout my body and slight insomnia. I called my doctor today and he told me I could stop taking Toprol. He did not reccommend that I ween off, simply saying I should just stop taking it as of today.