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Can Taking Metoprolol Tartrate Be The Cause Of Weight Gain And Increased Heart Rate?

i am 38 yrs old and weigh 232. I have been losing weight due to watching what I eat and working out 5 time a week and taking Metoprolol Tartate 50mg twice a day. My blood pressure seems to be under control but now the past couple of days late at night my heart rate has been in the high 50s. I'm getting worried that the hbp medicne is causing my heart rate to get too low but I don't really have any symptoms of an abnormally low heart rate. My doctor recently retired and he had mentioned that if my blood presure was dropping too low then I could cutback to 50mg. So now that my heart rate seems to be dropping low I would like to do this but I am afraid of reducing the medicine too fast and so I am considering just reducing it to 75mg first and see how I do. What do you recommend? Thanks.
Mon, 24 Nov 2014
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Hello
Metoprolol is a beta blockers and it inhibits beta receptors & causes reduced heart rate & decreases blood pressure.Cardiac out is reduced.
Since your rate some times decreases up to 50 / minute , that is not a good sign , although you don't have any problem ( mentioned by you in query ).
But a special precaution should be taken when doses of this drug , have to reduce .Sudden withdrawal is not allowed at all.
So ,according to you , your blood pressure is well maintained ( under control ) ,so gradually reduced the evening dose to 25 mg , while morning dose 50 mg . After 10 days period skip evening dose and take morning dose of 50 mg ( early in the morning for few days ).
In this way your doses will adjust without any untoward effect.
But be careful and remain in contact with a physician for regular check up of blood pressure and heart rate till all things become normal.
Good luck.
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Can Taking Metoprolol Tartrate Be The Cause Of Weight Gain And Increased Heart Rate?

Hello Metoprolol is a beta blockers and it inhibits beta receptors & causes reduced heart rate & decreases blood pressure.Cardiac out is reduced. Since your rate some times decreases up to 50 / minute , that is not a good sign , although you don t have any problem ( mentioned by you in query ). But a special precaution should be taken when doses of this drug , have to reduce .Sudden withdrawal is not allowed at all. So ,according to you , your blood pressure is well maintained ( under control ) ,so gradually reduced the evening dose to 25 mg , while morning dose 50 mg . After 10 days period skip evening dose and take morning dose of 50 mg ( early in the morning for few days ). In this way your doses will adjust without any untoward effect. But be careful and remain in contact with a physician for regular check up of blood pressure and heart rate till all things become normal. Good luck.