Metoprolol Tartrate and Tiredness: What Users Say

• Mar...
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• June 13, 2022

For High Blood Pressure "Heart rate goes to the 30s. Gives me shortness of breath, feel sick. I have no energy. Taking 50 mg Metoprolol Tartrate three times a day per doctors' orders, but I feel like I'm overdosing. I believe this medication is poison. Slowly cutting back and getting off this medication. Have to go to doctors, and they just tell me to ignore side effects. I will not ignore them, and I'm getting to where I don’t trust doctors."

• Rob...
• July 28, 2014

For Heart Attack "I'm a 52-year-old male in fairly good shape. I started taking Metoprolol, 50mg twice a day after suffering a cardiac arrest earlier this year, in April. It has been very effective in controlling my blood pressure and keeping my heart rate low. The side effects are becoming unbearable now, though. I'm tired and have a lot of trouble focusing on my work during the day. I have a lot of restless nights of tossing and turning, and have now developed a rash under my arms. I think it also contributes to erectile dysfunction. I spoke to my cardiologist about all this today, and he's cutting my dose in half. I'm hoping some of these side effects will diminish when I cut down to 25mg twice a day."

• gar...
• Taken for 5 to 10 years
• July 2, 2016

For High Blood Pressure "I can only take 1/4 of a 25 mg tablet a day, and I still get extremely tired. Any more and it makes my blood pressure go up. 1/4 tablet keeps my blood pressure pretty normal on systolic, but heart rate and diastolic are too low. I have trouble breathing."

• Ram...
• Taken for 10 years or more
• December 2, 2020

For High Blood Pressure "I have been taking Metoprolol Tartrate 50 mg BID for 10 years. Experiences are: heart does not always rest long enough between beats, lack of sleep, memory loss, headaches, white pimple in mouth (just started a month ago), runny nose, tiredness, low energy, constipation, shortness of breath while resting, hypertension, and aching feet. I will be 77 a few days from now. Found an OTC that can replace this drug, but must go off very slowly. All in all, this drug is now too strong for me as I will be talking with my heart doctor very soon."

• Sus...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• August 2, 2024

"I am a 69-year-old female. I started having my first bouts of SVT in my early 20s. (I didn't know at that time that I had SVT.) In my late 30s or early 40s, I discovered that I cannot tolerate caffeine - in any amount - and that's what was causing the episodes of SVT. So I just stopped consuming anything with caffeine in it. Was fine for years. Fast forward to my early 60s and being post-menopausal. Started experiencing mild anxiety and intermittent episodes of SVT for the last 5 to 7 years. In March of this year (2024), I wound up in the ER with SVT and a really high heart rate (185). Was prescribed Metoprolol Tartrate, 25 mg twice a day. But that dose made me so tired I couldn't function, and I had vertigo. I experimented with the dosing on my own. Currently, I take 12.5 mg PER DAY. I cut a 25 mg pill into quarters and take 1/4 pill twice a day. Works great. No more SVT."

• Nak...
• Taken for 5 to 10 years
• January 20, 2022

For High Blood Pressure "I started on a different BP medicine, and one day I was yelling at my son, and my heart began racing. I thought I was having a heart attack. I got really dizzy, so my mom took me to the hospital. They ran tests, and I was fine. A while later, I began waking up with a racing heart, in the 140s. For a few days, I believe it was just stress, but my doc changed my meds to Metoprolol. I've been on it for 10 years. At one point, I lost 30 lbs, and it made my BP too low, so I was taken off it for a year, then got into a stressful situation, and my vitals backed up, so they put me back on. I never had any issues with this pill, it keeps my BP normal and sometimes low, and my heart rate is always low/normal. Some days it gets too low, in the low 60s, and I'll get up and jump around. Lol, I know that's not bad, but for me, I don't like it that low. When I first began the pill, I was tired, nauseous, and dizzy, but my body is used to it now. I never had a heart attack or heart problems, and I took many tests, even wore a monitor for a month."