I have vivid hallucinations in the middle of the night from it. At first I didn’t tell anybody because I knew they would think I was crazy, and so did I. I finally decided to look up the side-effects of my meds. The first one I checked was Metropolol, and that was it. My cardiologist cut my dosage in half and they aren’t nearly as vivid, but I still have bizarre dreams.
I've been on that stuff for hypertension (high BP) for well over a decade. It slows me down, but for most of my life I was always running full-throttle, so I still get a lot done. Dosage for the past 10+ years has been 50mg/day.
About a year ago my doc recommended increasing to 75mg/day. The result was awful. For a couple weeks I was confused and drowsy, had trouble driving, slowed mental processes and speech, and low-level hallucinations. I told him I couldn't be like that, so I went back to 50mg/day and those symptoms went away.
I'm convinced that had I kept at 75mg/day I would have died in a car accident. While that certainly would lower my BP tremendously, death is not a good look.
metoprolol
It is prescibed to lower one's pulserate.
It has been my daily medication for 15 years.