I was put on metoprolol 25mg 2x's a day in January for some stray episodes of afib. When I went for a checkup in May, I told my doc about some side effects I was having (mainly fatigue) and he said I could try cutting the dose in half. I evetually did and was doing fine for quite awhile. I NEVER had any episodes, but starting to be aware of my heart beat again and got back into that bad habit of taking my pulse. I decided to bump my meds back up (doc said this was okay if I wanted to). But, the side effects are back with a vengeance. I am so tired I can't think, and have been sleeping horribly. I think I want to go back DOWN to half the dose, because this is much worse than having palps every now and then.
Question is: is it going to make my heart go crazy with all these ups and downs with my meds? should I go down to 3/4 for awhile, then eventually down to 1/2?
Hmmm - I guess I'm different - I take 25 mg toprol daily in the late evening about 1/2 hour before bedtime. I also take my lipitor then. I sleep like a baby, athough do wake up a little groggier than before. I take a menopause supplement with a vitamin and herbal blend in the morning which gets my engine running during the day, and that helps a lot with the fatigue. I hope you get it all straightened out soon.
Atenolol can most definitely cause severe insomnia, even 20 hours later. I tried 50 mg,/day and I went nearly a month without any sleep except perhaps 3 hours per night.
It was an awful esperience.
You wouldn't think that a drug that caused fatigue could also cause insomnia (and tortured dreams) but it does.
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