Metoprolol
This is a beta
blocker blood
pressure medication that slows down the heart's need for oxygen
and decreases pressure and pulse rate. It gives my
atrium time to fully fill so my heart is working more
efficiently to oxygenate the blood, and helps keep the
rhythm steady.
It makes me
sleepy, short of breath, and gives me chest pain, so hopefully
when things calm down a bit I can go to a lower dose or even get
off this medication altogether.
I started out
on 25mg twice per day and then increased it a couple of weeks
later to 37.5mg twice per day. After about a month or two
I increased it to 50mg twice per day, but I didn't feel very
good at that dose. I felt very sleepy and I had chest
pain. So I'm back down to 37.5mg twice per day now.
After everything calms down sometime this Summer I hope to get
back down to 25mg twice per day if that'll do the job because I
need my energy and this chest pain will keep me from doing much.
NOTE: This drug restricted
blood flow to my extremities too much (slowly turned my feet
from pink to red, red to purple, and finally purple to black) so
I had to quit using it.
