Lopressor to Dig

[farewelltoarms]

Trying to wean off Lopressor and Dig introduced about a week ago When weaning off Lopressor do not feel great. Anyone experienced this? Persistent permanent afib. Yes my Doctor is involved.

[CDreamer]

What is Dig?

[Buffafly in reply to CDreamer]

Digoxin

[Buffafly]

As Lopressor is metoprolol which is a beta blocker I believe you have to wean off very very slowly if not to feel c***. Others will advise I hope.

[farewelltoarms in reply to Buffafly]

Thank you.

[kliving]

Metoprolol is best to ween off of kind of slow. The last time I did it properly took about 7–10 days. If you are taking it twice a day, cut one of the doses in half for about three days and then cut the other for a couple of days. Do that until you get to a really low dose, either 25 or 12.5mg, and then just start once a day for a couple of days and then stop. Or the painful way is to just stop and hope the dose of the medication is high enough to overcome the side effects.

I have done it both ways and prefer the first method as I didn't like the feeling of getting shocked every few minutes with my HR and BP jumping all over the place.

[farewelltoarms in reply to kliving]

Thank you very much that is the experience I am having. Unpleasant. I am ready to just stop Digoxin.

[kliving in reply to farewelltoarms]

You may need to add a little metoprolol back into your medication regime and then slowly lower it again. If you just, plain stopped the metoprolol, I would suggest adding some (half) back and then work to decrease the rest slowly to get over the withdrawal symptoms. Most doctors know to slowly decrease metoprolol but seem to forget that it really does a number on people's systems in other ways as well.