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Hi everyone, I THINK IM GOING CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZZZZYYY!!!! I know everyone has been having wonderful effects with bystolic, and it does help your BP, and lowers your pulse rate which to SOME degree helps with my anxiety. Here's the problems: I no longer sleep straight through the night, i usually wake up atleast 4-5 times a night, im constantly waking up thirsty. My arms, legs, feet, whatever, keeps falling asleep and waking me up, once my whole body felt like it was numb. I am always out of breath, and have problems standing for too long. I'm 27 5'10 210, I have problems exercising now because im always out of breath and dizzy. So starting last night i started cutting my 5mg of bystolic in half since my phsyciatrist believes the Bystolic is having adverse affects with my anxiety (I take 5mg of paxil for it) and he pulled out some big book and looked up everything I have been telling him i felt and wouldn't you know they are all potential side effects with this drug. I felt like crap on norvasc as well, but I didn't have this problem with my arms, legs, hands BODY, falling asleep, very strange. This morning I woke up feeling anxious and short of breath, but my heart rate was at 57 bpm, and my bp was a pretty normal 124/74. Whats driving me nuts is that at 27 i would love to be LIVING life, traveling, going out to dance with my girlfriend, and being able to play basketball and lift weights. I feel like my life has been robbed from me with these damn BP meds or has it? I try to keep faith in my GP but how do i when im getting so many other people thinking i dont need it. When I took myself off norvasc, and came into the doctors office a week or two later, my bp was at 150/90, however when i took my pressure at home it was about 130-140/80. At that time i went from 5mg to nothing and was wondering if it could have caused rebound hypertension. This time i decided to cut the pill in half. My doctor seems so adamant at keeping me on a bp med, but my phsyciatrist thinks i might not even need it. I've gotten to the breaking point with this crap since it seems like each med im taking causes something that the other med needs to treat. I take a bp med that has caused acid reflux and a need for an inhaler as well as omeoprazole for acid reflux. Then, I take 5mg of paxil for anxiety but it causes you to have sensitivity to heat, and cold (as does the bp med) so i have problems going out during the summer which causes me to feel upset, which just plays back to the damn meds. Talk about a crappy crappy cycle. Anyone else try to get off bystolic? Anyone have any opinion as to where i should go from here? I also see a nutritionist just to possibly help even thought im not obese.