Weaning off atenolol

Visited GP on Wed.  He does not think BB stay in your system so long.  Maybe not, but the effects they have do.

Studies have shown that hormones such as cortisol are raised for 21 days plus after ceasing and the density of adrenaline receptors increases while on BBs.  Studies which only measure pulse and BP do  not give a true picture of what is happening in the body.  The hypersensitivity to adrenaline which seems to make withdrawal so unpleasant is hard to quantify - such an individual matter.  

Starting to feel a bit more myself, still got a bit to go but can see the light at the end of the tunnel at last. It will be 3 weeks next Monday that I took my last 50mg Atenolol.  Never again!

I am pleased to report that the breathlessness and low oxygen levels that the similar beta blocker Bisoprolol gave me, have finally resolved themselves 13 months after coming off. 

Its just the drunk zombie feeling that persists, 16 months after coming of beta blockers.

I kept having panic attacks and was given atenolol by my doctor. Yes i helped stop the 100 bp and helped me focus at work but still can not get any sleep. I thought this drug wasn't the best for me in the long run since every test came back negative or normal, from 3 EKGs to cardio enzyme tests. Use to take 50mg a day for a week but now i split it in two and take half a day. Now am lost what to do either to take half every one interval day or completely stop now. Last night was my first night without it and i felt awful all night, couldnt sleep but am okay this morning with heavy eyes from like of sleep

If your concerned maybe go back and tell your gp? Have you tried Meditation?

30 years on low dose atenolol and let me tell you weaning off is making me sick. My doctor thought I should go off because my blood pressure was too low and I had been starting to have lightheadedness. Well, weaning off even a low dose us very hard. I do have lightheadedness and after my blood pressure got better she decided I must get a CT scan. Now, I'm not at all sure this is a good idea as I just finished dealing with skin cancer on my face. I don't want a CT scan anywhere near it. I think that the pills caused the lightheadedness and I think going off the pills is also causing lightheadedness. Her idea was to eliminate the possibility of mini strokes which is silly. I have LOW BLOOD PRESSURE and low heart rate, no heart disease except a Mitral Valve Prolapse which, by the way, can also cause lightheadedness. I do feel as if I'm battling a doctor now who tends to jump to the big stuff way before it's indicated. Also, I have a history of anxiety (also can cause lightheadedness) and her jumps are causing me to feel anxious. Is the a simply case of doctors protecting their butts (malpractice) by ordering uncalled for tests? What do these tests do to the patient? They cause untold amounts of stress and false indicators of problems that may not be a problem. Why not start with the obvious culprits plus perhaps my low iron which is hard to fix, ear, eyes all can cause some of this too. Why the big CT scan?

I am have a same problem as everyone of you. For a few times of the doctor visits, my blood pressure was a bit high and my pulse sometimes shot up to little over 100. My primary doctor then prescribed me antenolol 50mg. I did not know anything about it or any side effects. So I took it for about 3 weeks and little more. Sometimes during this period I felt a bit dizzy for like a couple hours and that dizziness went away. But for certain days, the dizziness lasted about a whole day for several days straight and that really affected me and like everybody said I walked like a zombie. However, one day my hands and feet were cold and sweating and I felt really weird and was finally made another appointment to see him. I did the ECG, took blood pressure and pulse measurement and everything was normal and OK. But during this time, I was still taking antenolol he prescribed me. I told him I had side effects of the med and he told me to take 25mg, which split the 50mg he prescribed. He told me to take it for 3 months and came back to see him. But because of the dizziness and the weird feeling I have, I said if there was a way for me to stop it but he refused and thought that I am having anxiety disorder because other people are fine with this medication.

Another feeling I have with this medication is that after I take it, I feel like my heart beats like really slow and sometimes really hard and fast. So I stopped taking for two days due to the dizziness and frog brain feeling but then I felt my heartbeat was irregular or heart palpation so I retook it for about a week and this time split it into 25mg. The feeling is still weird and nervousness and anxiety kicks in. I took it about a week and then stopped. The first day I felt ok and not as dizzy. But the second day, whenever I went to bed I felt like the heart beat really hard and I could feel the pulse everywhere in my body even like beneath the diaphram and through the abdomen. Then whenever I was about to fall into sleep - deep sleep, there was a a pulse of andrenline rush and woke me up. In other word, every time I felt asleep, I got waken up and felt scared and there was a heart racing and the heart pounded really hard and fast. This has happened 5 or 6 times (whenever I was about to be asleep) I am just wondering if any of you have this feeling or have had such a experience? I am trying to wean it off myself so I am just wondering if there is any strategy or better plan to do that.

Should I do it 12.5mg for a week, and then every other day for a week and every other other day for another week and then stop?