I was prescribed 25mg of metoprolol, splitting the pill. Apparently I’m supposed to take it with food which means my first dose is around dinner time. The problem is I don’t eat after that so I have no idea when to take second half of the pill.
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Sometimes we have to adjust our food timetable to accommodate our medicine timetable ! Could you not leave a bit of your dinner food allowance to take with your last tablet? Would a plain biscuit be sufficient?
If it's supposed to cover you through the day and night I would expect you to take half at breakfast and half a dinner. Metoprolol is supposed to last for about 12 hours. However for me at least, it tapers down after 9 or 10 hours.
I don't want to worry you but the bigger concern with metoprolol is, can you stand the way it makes you feel.
How did it make you feel I have heard so many different stores I don't know whether to start taking mine or not. Lol
At the dosage I was given (25 mg twice a day) it made me feel like a zombie or a robot, in other words, no emotion. However, we're all different. It may not do anything like that to you.
I take Metoprolol, 95mg in total. Half the dose after breakfast and the second after lunch. I believe it's recommended to be taken after meals to allow the controlled release (CR) to work properly. In my case I need the second table not too late in the day as it slows my heart too much when asleep at night.
I need to read the leaflet - I didn't know this had to be taken with food!
I take 50 mg 8 and 8. I just have a couple of crackers, slice of cheese, or yogurt. I have also taken it on empty stomach, no problems with it other than kind of draggy.