Coming off of blood pressure meds

[chinaboy]

Are you on metoprolol tartrate or succinate? Tartrate is dosed 2x daily and succinate just 1x daily.

Either way, EOD dosing isn't optimal.

Succinate does have mortality benefits (clinical research evidence) for heart failure patients, FWIW.

What are your reasons for coming off the drug? If it's helping control your BP without sides I see no reason to. Should you decide to come off...you should first up the cardio and control your diet extremely-well beforehand, so you can eliminate any rise in BP due to those variables after.

Good luck...and as others said...go see a cardiologist if you want specific care.

My plan consists of upping the cardio, dropping some weight and staying more on point with nutrition. But I kind of dabbled with lowering the dose prior to getting my cards in order first. Idk why. I'm in the midst of some schedule changes at work and getting some finances in order prior to affording re-upping my gym membership.

I want to get off the drug just for the sake of being completely natural. I don't like the idea of being dependent on a pharmaceutical. In the past I used to like to intermittently fast and can't really do this while taking this drug. I juice a lot of fruits and veggies and things like beets lately have me feeling like my BP drops too low with both the beet product and the BP med.

Maybe I should see a cardiologist. It couldn't hurt. I'm going to start with my new PCP and take it from there and see what he says about the cardiologist.

 

[brownbanana]

The thing is I'm prone to anxiety and coming off this shit makes me feel anxious, somewhat dizzy here and there and makes coffee feel much stronger than normal. Basically periods of feeling like shit.

Could it be psychosomatic? Because anxiety raises BP quite a bit and would exacerbate the sides you experience at a lower dose.

What causes the dizziness? Is it a common side effect of the med?

I am not suggesting this, but what if you tapered down to 0 and rode out the unpleasant sides. Would they subdue with no change in BP?

 

[chinaboy]

Yes, that's the idea with these meds some time. Use them to lower the BP until consistent and then get off them and the BP should remain in target range.

I need to pick the right time to come off and ride out the withdrawal type symptoms. And definitely some psychosomatic sides with me for sure. Yet some sides like the dizziness when coming off are common complaints when reducin dose of BP meds.