Am Weening of ToprolXL, How Long Do the Symptoms of “weening” Last?
Question by kiwi8: Am Weening Of ToprolXL, How long do the symptoms of “weening” last?
Started at 50mg, then 25mg, than 12.5mg, then 12.5 one day off and then the last day on. I have heard that the typical symptoms of weening are excellerated heart rate and higher blood pressure.
I was put on Toprol for palpitations and irregular heart rate from the Birth control patch, Stopped using the patch 3 months ago and weening off Toprol since symptoms stopped with removal of the BC patch. Please don’t say “see doctor” I was healthy and normal before all this and I know my body and that these problems were caused by these meds. Thanks for the input
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Answer by c_sakal
Well, I hate to say it, but you should see your doctor, and the reason is that although I am a doctor and I have some experience with toprol, the way it acts is, to some extent, different from person to person. I have not found it to have too much in the way of a rebound effect, which is what you’re talking about, and it sounds like your doctor gave you a pretty long, slow taper, so hopefully everything should be fine. If you do find that you’ve having problems after, then you should consider seeing your doctor, but anything that happens should be very short-lived if it wasn’t there before – mostly what happens when people stop taking their beta blocker (which is the class of drugs to which toprol belongs) is that the conditions it was treating come up again, but if everything is fine at your baseline, you should (not a definate, but probably) be just fine.
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