I didn't notice bad dreams, just trouble sleeping. I now take it only once a day, in the mornings, and I no longer notice any effects on my sleep. Tell your doctor, but don't continue taking it the same way if it bothers you. And certainly don't take another drug to cover the side effects of the first drug.

I am sensitive to a lot of medications, and I have no trouble stopping and contacting the doctor.

You don't say which metoprolol you're taking. However, valium (diazepam) will interact with someone who has hypotension (even in medicinally introduced). Read the below warning about that.

Weird dreams. When I take Valerian Root, I get the weirdest dreams ever and I just would rather forget about them completely as I don't think it's MY subconscious working anything out. If, instead, I take the Herbal Sleep Aid from my purveyor, I sleep fine. Just my take on it. Same person, different dreams with different sleeping aid ingredients.

Here is a link that might be useful: NIH's warning against mixing them

The Metoprolol I am taking is 50 mg and is a beta blocker - that's all I know about it for now. I do not ever plan on taking Valium unless I am going to have eye surgery, and I have no plans for that.

I have a six week appointment for my doctor to check on the new medication, and I will probably wait until them to describe any of the effects I am having, unless they get worse, in which case I can email him. They charge for emails (if there is a respons) in some cases, but it would be worth it rather than having to go to the office in Pacific Palisades, which is about a 30 minute drive from my house. It was 15 minutes from Venice, and I generally drive past my old house to get to the doctor's office from my new house.

Thanks for the info!

Lars

This drug is known to cause vivid and/or bad dreams or hallucination. You need to come off it.

Last night I slept okay, and so I am going to give it another chance - at least for a week. There are other drugs that give me worse side effects, such as Erythromycin and Claritin, both of which cause me to have panic attacks and have paranoid delusions after taking them for five days or more. Basically, they turn me into a paranoic schizophrenic, and this is not listed as one of their side effects. Those effects go away fairly soon after stopping taking them. I told my doctor that if he prescribed either of those to me that I would need to take Librium with them, but he told me to take other medications instead. I take Benadryl for my allergies now. I like Allegra better, but it is much more expensive.

The good news about my health is that my calcium levels have stabilized.

Lars

Tylenol PM does that to me. I have crazy weird dreams, actually nightmares. It always feels good to wake up and realize it's not for real. Sheesh. After a night of fighting off all my demons, I am NOT rested.

My drug of choice for sleep is Ambien. I love that stuff and have to be firm with my self not to use it every night, only when I really need it. Zzzzzzzzzz.

Does Costco carry Allegra (fexofenadine)? We get their generic Zyrtec, much cheaper than Target.

I don't shop at Costco (traffic issues, and I don't buy large quantities), but I'll look around for fexofenadine.

I had a relapse of my virus yesterday, and I'm even sicker today and can barely stand up. I hope I'm okay by tomorrow, but I don't think the metoprolol is causing my fever. My dreams remain somewhat strange but have not been disturbing for the past two nights.

Lars

Oh poor Lars. I'm sorry that you not feeling well.

Ive gotten many nightmares since Ive been on this medicine. I now have an idea why its almost 1 year of 2-4 hr sleep pattern. The bible helped me.

Ok, I'm going to make some guesses here and forgive me if I'm wrong.

My guess is that you benefit more from a beta blocker vs a calcium channel blocker for some kind of cardiac rhythm problem.

Metoprolol comes in a time release tablet that may be helpful to you. The lowest dose, I think, is 25 mg daily. You might want to see if you can go down to 25 mg as an extended release Rx.

Aside: Paxil, now there's a drug that can cause vivid dreams! Often, one will be hard pressed to know if something (something normal, not something like your organic oranges started chatting with you) really happened or if you dreamed it.

*IF* the atenolol and the metoprolol is for an arrhythmia like PVCs or a-fib, you might want to explore with your physician or cardiologist, at your next appointment, about using a "pill-in-pocket" option, which would be taken only when your heart beat is out of normal sinus rhythm.

Please keep us posted!

Metoprolol can cause not just bad dreams but actual hallucinations. You have just started taking it, so the effects may wear off. For my husband, they did go away fairly quickly. But please do call your doctor right away. Don't wait for your 6-week check-up. He may lower the dose.

Oh, I missed that. It is odd, Annie. I can sort of understand bringing up a cooking thread, but why an old question about medications?

Yes, I did get the situation worked out years ago, probably within a month of posting this. Sorry for not following up with what happened, and now even I do not remember how it got resolved. My blood pressure is under control now, and the cardiologist that I saw switched some of my medications, but with regular exercise and weight loss, I am now taking fewer medications.

I guess Luz Jaime wanted to encourage me to read the bible, but that would give me worse nightmares. I did buy some new Pogo books, and I read those in bed before going to sleep, and that does help.

Thanks annie1992, I didn't notice and was going to comment that I have been taking that dose of drug without noting anything more unusual than normal.

And since its the season and Pogo

Oh gosh! I had no idea this was a necro-post resurrected, until I read Annie1992's post! ...probably resurrected accidentally by Luz Jaime who wanted to offer a helpful suggestion. Lars, glad things are resolved!

chas, it was worth bringing up, just for that "song". (grin) Thanks!

Lars, I thought I remembered that you'd gotten your blood pressure under control, and I remembered that you were taking atenolol, which is what I take. I have few side effects, other than my feet being cold all the time!

Christine and Sooz, I don't know how people even find threads this old, I sure can't find more recent ones that I'm looking for...

Annie