I am taking metoprolol tartrate (50 mg 2 x a day) and enalapril maleare 5 mg 1 x a day). I have recently begun to develop numbness in my lower arm and hand, when sleeping at night. Just wondering if this drug might be a cause. Also, I have just begun to occasionally feel a light headedness when getting out of a chair, or getting up after laying down on a couch. Any information would be appreciated. Thanks!
Metoprolol - Can taking this drug cause numbness in the arms and hands?
Question posted by flory1348 on 21 Sep 2009
Last updated on 26 December 2018 by Joann1949
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Joann1949
27 Dec 2018
I also started taking this drug a week ago and I am having numbness and tingling in my left arm and hand. My finger tips feel like there are needles pricking them. I also get dizzy when I sit up, or get up, and even when I turn from side to side in bed. I take 25 mgs twice daily. I don’t like the way it makes me feel at all!!
camrysmom
25 Sep 2009
Yes, it can be contributing to both the numbness and light headedness. I stopped taking Metoprolol (25mg, 2 X a day) almost three weeks ago and the symptoms you mentioned and SEVERAL others (most dramatically, HAIR LOSS) stopped almost immediately. I found another web site, medacine.net, that had a complete list of side effects including: cold feeling and numbness in hands and or feet, and a "feeling of light headedness". I do not take enalapril, so I do not know what side effects are possible with it. If you take Simvastatin for cholesterol, it could also be responsible for your side effects. It is worth talking to your doctor about! Good luck
flory1348
25 Sep 2009
Thank you for your comments. I have refused to take cholesterol meds, but rather have changed my diet to control my cholesterol levels. It has been working thus far. So, far I still have a nice head of hair... a family trait!
crnjc1999
23 April 2011
i just started taking the medication yesterday and i started to feel the numbness on all my left side... will it stay this way until i stop taking the pills? im just so confused and scared that i might be getting a stroke or heart attack, ik that the best bet would b to go to the dr but my dr wont b in his office until monday =(
sestick
18 July 2011
I started Coreg which is also a beta blocker. I take a small dosage but have begun to experience mild numbness in arms, legs and across my nose. It really is frightening. I also am losing hair.
bpguy
24 Jan 2013
I started taking this medicine one month ago. I started experiencing numbness in my fingers and at first thought it was the cold weather. But today two fingers became numb and no matter what i did, holding them in warm water, in front of heater, rubbing vigorously, etc, they remained numb. I think the cold does make the symptoms worse. About 2 hours later the symptoms finally vanished (within about a minutes time). I have super high blood pressure so my NP put me on this as wells as amlodapine and lisinopril. So basically i'm very very tired all the time, as well as feeling like i've been poisened, when I take these meds. I am stopping this medicine.
My average blood pressure has been about 185 over 120 for about 25 years now so maybe that has something to do with its effects on me. I wonder why I'm not dead yet. I would be careful of this medicine
meggieg
6 Aug 2013
I had been taking Amlodipine for a while, which was causing swelling of my hands and ankles.. I asked my doctor for some other medication, and she gave me Metoprolol... I noticed after several weeks that the swelling was not going down, so I called the doctor, and she added a water pill. A few days after this three fingers on my left hand began going numb.. The right hand is merely somewhat stiff... I took myself off the Metoprolol last week and am still hoping for the tingling to go away in my thumb and two fingers.. So far, no luck.. I'm going to give this another week and then call her back.. Still have swelling in my hands and feet as well..
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