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Muscle spasms and Metoprolol

Posted 11-24-2011 at 08:29 AM by Miss Elizabeth

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Has anyone taking Metoprolol experienced muscle spasms? I have been taking the drug for about a year now and about a month ago I started having mild muscle spasms that last for five or more minutes. They are not painful just annoying.

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1. 	I do not take it so I am not sure. But I would be surprised that it would take this long to show side effects? I could be wrong though I hope you had a wonderful thanksgiving! xoxo
   	Posted 11-26-2011 at 09:59 AM by DaniRae

2. I've been taking Nadolol for like 20 years. Recently, because of long runs of NSVT, I was switched to Metoprolol. Ugh. It was the worst experience of my life. The first week I felt like I was so exhausted that I couldn't function in an upright position. Then, oddly enough - I started feeling twitchy. Whenever anything happened that would cause an adrenaline surge, my hands would shake uncontrollably. I was also getting strange, constant muscle twitching!!!! I mentioned it to my husband and even made him hold his hand on a random twitching body part to show him. I haven't been back to my electrophysiologist since I stopped taking it (switched myself back to Nadolol - twitching/shaking disappeared!), but I plan to ask him what in the heck was going on. I had taken it for about 3 weeks so I had to have adjusted to it by that time, but my side effect symptoms were getting worse. ps: the spasms would last for several minutes and just like yours, weren't painful, but were constant. I might have them in my arm, on my ribcage, in my shoulder, my pinky finger, my calf, you name it. No pattern, just very, very unusual.

   Posted 11-27-2011 at 12:47 AM by bypeep

3. Dani, you are so sweet. Thank you for the good thoughts. Bypeep, thanks for letting me know your experience. I suspected that the medication was the culprit. Sometimes the side effects don't kick in until the medication has had a chance to build up. At the moment the twitches aren't troublesome, but I think I will mention them to the doctors. I don't want to switch medications again...it takes me a long time to adjust to the changes and right now I feel really well, twitching aside.

   Posted 11-27-2011 at 08:06 PM by Miss Elizabeth

4. 	I took Metoprolol for about 2 months.. I never had the muscle twitch thing, but my hands and feet were always tingly, like they had fallen asleep... They would even go numb at times.. Haven't had that since I stopped taking them though!
   	Posted 11-28-2011 at 02:17 PM by Nona