Metoprolol Treatment Report
Most Popular Brands: Lopressor, Metoprolol Tartrate, Selo-Zok
What is Metoprolol?
Metoprolol is a beta-blocker used to treat high blood pressure and angina pectoris (chest pain). It is also used after a heart attack to improve survival. Off label it is used to treat ventricular and atrial arrhythmias; for the prevention of migraine, essential tremor and aggressive behavior.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| Other | 56 |
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5 | ||
| High blood pressure (Hypertension) | 50 |
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6 | |||
| General health | 10 | 0 | |||||
| Heart Arrhythmia | 5 | 0 | |||||
| blood pressure high | 5 |
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2 | ||||
| Blood pressure too high | 5 | 0 |
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Metoprolol. See all 16 dosages ►
Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Other
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6 | 46% |
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Doctor's advice
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4 | 31% |
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Side effects too severe
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3 | 23% |
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Did not seem to work
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1 | 8% |
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Patient Evaluations
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- sukey2u2
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Severe
- Overall: Moderate
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: moderate
- Swallowing: moderate
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
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- sukey2u2
- 100 mg daily
- since Aug 24, 2008
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Efficacy
Major
for Other
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips If I don't want my heart beating 180 beats a min. I take this med. See full evaluation
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- booboo1
- Sex: F
- Flare-up: Severe
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Mild
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: mild
- Speech: mild
- Swallowing: mild
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
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- booboo1
- 50 mg daily
- since Mar 20, 2009
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Efficacy
Major
for High blood pressure (Hypertension)
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips it seems to help regulate my bp take as needed See full evaluation
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- too moody
- Sex: M
- Depression: 3
- Emotional: 3
- Compulsion: 3
- Anxiety: 3
- Mania: 3
- Physical: 3
- External Stress: Severe
- 60 M
- Function: Low
- Distress: High
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- too moody
- 100 mg daily
- since Mar 23, 2009
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Efficacy
Major
for blood pressure high
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Side Effects
Mild
- Advice/Tips it works See full evaluation
See all 17 patient evaluations
Report created on November 22, 2009.