Toprol -XL the Good the Bad and the Indifferent

I had a rapid heart which is what took me into the doctors office to begin with. Just the regular job not a very demanding job as far as exercise my heart rate was about 120. I was put on Toprol-xl 50mg
my heart rate dropped down to where it should have been, about 80 per min.when I went back to the doctor in two weeks and told him I had been feeling much better he still increased the dosage to 100mg. I took it like that for a couple years and noticed a weight gain although I never put the two together until reading other posts.
Having been one that never took hardly any meds it was hard for me to get used to the idea that I would have to take anything for the rest of my life. As such I bought a pill splitter and went back to taking only 50mg a day. around that time I also had starting getting into more natural remedies I had heard about hawthorn berries and you can get pills made from them. well it has taken some time but I am now down to 12.5 mg every other day on the off day for the toprol-xl I take 160mg hawthorn berry extract 2 pills on the days I take toprol-xl I take 80 and it seems to be working out well for me.
I just thought I would share this with others, and maybe my experience can help.