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What Causes Dizziness While On Metoprolol?

I am seeking your opinion. I have experienced on and off skipping heart beats for a number of years. For the last two months, they have been more frequent and lasted longer. My heart skips a beat after every two beats to every 6 or 7 beats. This lasts for a whole day or minutes or hours at a time. The beats skip while I am sitting or standing. If I lie down, they immediately get normal—that is no skipped beat. Skipped beats reappear if I sit up or stand up. While experiencing skipped beats, I feel lightheaded and dizzy, most of the time but not always. I had Holter monitor 3 years ago and one just two weeks ago. Both showed skipped heart beats. My cardiologist’s diagnosis is PVCs and his advice is not to worry about it. He is a good and caring doctor. However, this issue is unnerving and affecting my life style. Lightheadedness and dizziness are aggravating and unnerving. I take medication, including metoprolol for high blood pressure. I request your opinion and possible suggestions. Thank you.
Tue, 3 Oct 2017
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Hello and greetings

As per your description of your events, it seems there is a cardiac pathology which is involved which needs to be diagnosed. Get E.CG, 2D Echo testing done to find the cause of those events.

Since you are already hypertensive, that can aggravate cardiac problems. Metoprolol may cause dizziness/lightheadedness since sometime that can lower the blood pressure below normal limit which can cause dizziness. Dose adjustment of metoprolol might be needed.

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What Causes Dizziness While On Metoprolol?

Hello and greetings As per your description of your events, it seems there is a cardiac pathology which is involved which needs to be diagnosed. Get E.CG, 2D Echo testing done to find the cause of those events. Since you are already hypertensive, that can aggravate cardiac problems. Metoprolol may cause dizziness/lightheadedness since sometime that can lower the blood pressure below normal limit which can cause dizziness. Dose adjustment of metoprolol might be needed. Thanks