Good news Chichi,

When I had to stop the Inderal LA (due to it no longer being produced), my doc for some reason put me on the regular version of metoprolol (or however it's spelled. Who likes medical names? Raise their hands). I was taking 125 mg in the morning and 125 mg at night. And this was the med that I kept getting the chest pains with. And when I was in bed and laying on my side, I could feel a spot on my side where my heart was beating up against the mattress. I had been on Inderal LA for 2 years, and had almost forgotten what my chest discomfort had been like. I HATED this new med.

Then when I was in the hospital just recently, I found out that this med has a sustained release version. In fact, the brand name for metaprolol is Lopressor, and I take the SR version. I only need 100 mg in the morning and 100 mg at night.....and I haven't felt my chest again. What a relief!!!!!!!!

So the next time you see your doctor, just have him switch you over to the SR version. He may not even know that it's available because my pdoc was floored when the nurse told him that yes....Lopressor DOES come in SR. And then she went into the med room and came back and showed him. Lol. So maybe the SR version is fairly new. But I think it's best to have the med always dropping into your system all day and night, rather than having it all dump at once and then petering out in about 3 hours or so (my chest would start bothering me in about 3 hours after taking the regular version, which meant I still had about another 9 hours of discomfort to go. Ugh).

Good luck and God Bless,
Sandy

PS: You can have angina without heart disease. These are two separate things. Don't worry about it if you've already had all the heart tests done.