Blood presure symptoms and conditions

I'm 54, started taking lisinopril in jan 09. I took for about 3 months and noticed a decrease in libido. My pressure was pretty much in control, so I stopped taking it. I started again around 1st of Aug 09. Approx 3-4 weeks later, I began to experience severe pain in my left shoulder and arm. It began to move into my neck and back. I went in for an EKG to ensure I wasn't having a stroke. It was normal. I experience dizziness and headaches. I wake in the night and my 2 left fingers on the left hand are completely numb. The pain in my neck is now moving to the right side and some shoulder pain seems to be apparent. I noticed pain in other joints as well. I'm unable to work out at the gym as I usually do due to the pain my my left arm. I highly suspect these symptoms to be caused by lisinopril. I've been taking 20mg and was just switched to 20 mgm Hct. a week ago. X-Rays were taken of my neck and shoulder last week. Haven't' heard from the doctor as of yet. I was on Diovan before I lost my job and health benefits. As a vet, the VA put me on the Lisinopril. The Diovan worked fine for me, too expensive for us vets I guess. I am discontinuing the Lisinopril as of today 10/24/09. I feel like I imagine a ninety year old would feel with these aches and all. I havent' admitted it, but I believe I'm feeling mildly depressed as well. Let's see what a week of purging this from my system does. f. D.

I got all those problems but the higher the dosage the more attacks i had.Another neurologist think that i just have pseudoseizures-paranoia attacks.Anyways the doctor screwed me up,he gave me 5 years ago something different and my seizures started daily than switched me to lamictal.I must say that sometimes i have or HAD electricity in my left hand all the time and once a women touched me and got stunned lol.anyways lamictal is bad,i didn't have any side effects like loosing hair but i did have A LOT of head hecks.I must share something with you,when i read epilepsy.com it seems that my seizures called myclonics in the end they are not but they similar in effects.Myclonics its seizures that happens only in the morning.Heres the catch for me,i figured out that if i won't close my eyes the first hour after i got up and went to the sun outside than i didn't have seizures.Its not a real solution so i decided to raise the lamictal from 175 which was ok for me to 200-250 like the good doctor said,just made me worse.Now i started dropping it by 25 mill each week and i must say i feel better only a little tired after 5 years that my body got used to it.Anyway if any of you have myclonics than don't close your eyes.BTW i have AURA-feeling before the seizure but luckily for me after a second if i open my eyes nothing will happen although i don't always take notice of it.In midway it would happen if i seat in front of computer and will lose attention if someone will call me or whatever but its a mill-sec seizure,barely noticible if at all and i never get "disconnected" from reality!!!
the ONLY thing which is bad for me is that except that im sick now my blood pressure is huge-140/82 and pulse 106 which is being like that for couple of days but i will get trough that.Since i lowered my dosage my midway seizures stopped,now im on 100.

P.S=Check yourself with the neurologist with a different one preheps.IF you can describe the whole seizure it means you don't dispatch from earth which mean it might be psydo seizures which are psychotic and not epileptic,the most important thing is that if someone takes lamictal or any anti apileptic drug even tho he doesn't have real seizures the medicine can do this.I got screwed and now i try to get over it,the doctor trowed me on woods with tablets after having a first seizure WHICH IS WRONG because you sepused to get tablets only after 3 attacks and after describing seizures and doing eeg tests to make sure that you DO have the problem.

Anyways remember what i said about the closing eyes in the morning part,if you close your eyes and feel weird keep them open at least those that have them after they wake up,that was a solution for me and it can help you to...MY doctor said everyone like me but i think he is laying,the other neurologist said my doctor was wrong probably about the seizures,i think i have both but i do know that believing and saying that you don't have anything WILL help you and lower your seizures,after speaking with the doctor i actually started to believe i don't have anything and walla i have almost NADA,today i had zero!!!! :D

OF course don't lower dosage without first consulting with someone expert,but since i know i can control basically every seizure i have and i know what to do to avoid it i let my self start dropping dozes!!!

GOOD LUCK my friends believe in yourself and if you want some personal info leave your msn i will add you and try to answer you the best i could,i was researching my self trying to figure out the core of the problem for 5 years but after 6 months knocking my head in the pipe when i washed my face i learned what i should avoid to minimize the chance!!!Try that

I am a 49 year old women, who has been taking Lipitor 10mg for about 2 years at first I was told by my Pharmacist to take before going to bed because this is when the cholesterol is released in our body's. I also took synthroid for a thyroid condition,& Blood pressure medicine, but always took these in the morning, so at first I would forget to take the Lipitor on a regular bases. I am being helped with my prescriptions by a program that sends me my medications directly from the Pharmaceutical companies at no charge to me. I was receiving 3months worth at a time and the were piling up so I thought I really should take these regularly since heart disease runs in our family. In these past 2 years I have been experiencing progressive muscle weakness ,restless legs and feet at night so much that I can't sleep I toss a urn so much I most of the time cannot sleep in the same bed as my husband. in this last 8 months things have gotten so bad I know something is not right I have been going to Dr. having x-ray MRI, P.T, I have told my Doctor my pain is gotten to the point that I needed something strong for pain because I have to work to survive and it was getting to the point the every movement I made was very Painful almost like a deep burning pain. I am now getting spasms in almost every major muscle in my body.At night I gett cramps in my legs and feet that seem to move all over my leg muscle with the painful "cramps " I have ever experienced and they are brought on by just the muscle strength it takes to turn in your bed, they always last for 20min. or more. I work as a nursing assistant for an 84 year old women who has Parkinson's Disease I take her to all of her P.T appointment and exercises along side of her she is 84 and I can only lift 10lbs more than her we joke about it to the effect that she is doing great, but in reality I am the one who isn"t doing so well.The past 4months I have been looking for answers myself because I am in pain 24/7and I know that just because I'm turning 50 next month doesn't mean I should have less strength the the 84 year old I care for daily, These past 2 weeks I have started experiencing extreme nausea and stomach and back muscles going into spasms. drinking fluids are what always are coming back up and since I sweat a lot when showering my patients, I have been starting to see signs of dehydration and being very thirsty if I don't sip it it has been coming right back up my appetite is also decreasing because of the nausea. I am so thankful I found this website. Because I do not need any more proof to know that I have a least 90% of the symptoms other have explained I am quiting Lipitor immediately. Good Luck to everyone taking this medication.

After 9 months on Norvasc the symptoms intensified. Very dizzy, weak, nausea from spinning head, insomnia. Num feeling in left hand. Within 24 hours after stopping Norvasc the symptoms started to subside. The heaviness in the chest was there but I thought it was a bad heart. Tests show I have a health heart. I'm diabetic, no meds, and have high blood pressure, I also take Accupril for my blood pressure.

I have been on Lisinipril for 4 weeks, having all kinds of symptoms,
anxiety, heart going slow and fast, dizziness often over all not felling well, not to mention the sweating and loss of balance.I have had my
thyroid check and full work up of my heart, eco,stress, evreything.
Any one else have "ice pick" head pains?

58 years old male with atrial fibrillation. 2 years taking 7mg of warfarin and several months ago began getting an itchy purplish rash on my lower legs. Very annoying and I often scratch my skin until bloody. Seems to be getting worse.... wife says it's better than a stroke.... I guess so, maybe.

When I was in hosiptal,because of heart attack, my blood presure had never higher than 104/60, but my cardi doctor put me on 25mg toprol , plavix ,lipitor and 500mg niacin and 325 Asprin after 1 week, I had rashes, racing
heart beat but pulse at 45-59 in average, BP average 85-46, both of my leg feel heavy, tingly, pain and short of breath on walking, lying down and going up stair, dizziness, sore everywhere in my back, neck , chest ( I thought , I am going to have another heart attacked). I was scared that I am going to be cripple. Now I am off toprol and Lipitor (which hurt me a lot). Be caution, my primary doctor agnor my compliant many times and just prescript me the anti itch cream, and don't care I almost got killed by the side effect, if I din not going to ER myself, I was in very much pain and terrible condition and staying in hosiptal for treatment again.

I have been coughing and coughing for at least 5 months now, I had no idea that it was related to my blood pressure medicine. I learned it from a bank manager who ask me if I had allergies. I explaned to her no, I am not sure what it is. that the doctor thought I had asthma and gave me an inhaler and everything but that did not stop the cough. I am so glad she told me about her experience with some blood presure medicine. I am going to the doctor on Thursday and can't wait to let them know what I found out. I have been coughing so much and its making me so tired. What a great website to find out information.

I started taking 10mg of this drug in October 2005. By December 2005 I had a steady cough that lasted through Christmas. I called my doctor and he said if you don't want to take it don't. I cut the dose to 5mg and the cough slowed down, but was still there.

In January 2006 the cough and runny nose came back and I thought I had a cold for about four weeks until I had to call the paramedics for dissyness. My blood presure was up to about 200 over 90+. In emergency they gave me a drug to lower the blood pressure and dischared me when my blood pressure got under 150.

The ER doc and my GP took me off lisinopril and put me on diovan twice a day which I have now been on for one week. My cough has almost disappeared and I feel better after only one week. I am to see my doc again today. My BP is still much higher than when I went on this drug, but hope it will get back to the 130/70 where I was before this stupid drug.
More later!

I started taking Lisinopril on 10/3/05 and my doctor warned me about coughing as a possible side affect. He was right ever since I started taking this medication I have had this nagging cough that seem to come on at any given time. I feel like have dust on the back of my throat, so I have to keep water with me or something to suck on to keep my throat wet. I'm not sure the benefits out way the side affects as my blood presure hasn't gone down yet. I plan to discuss this with my doctor in two weeks and look for an alternative. I would like to know what is in this medicine that would cause so many people to cough.

I've been taking maxide for about three years due to blood presure and as a diaretic. Within the first month of taking the medication I experienced a loss of libido. I took it for granted that I was just getting older but after I stopped taking maxide for about a week my libido returned. As other people have reported I did suffer from leg cramps, tightness in the fingers, hands and feet.

Hair loss thinning of hair, ringing of ears! lower and upper back pains! throat tighting spazing out! closes while eatting.
caughing excessive dry mouth, vision blurring, nose running,
headaches mild to massive! dehydration problems, leg and arm cramps. pannic attacks! mild to not so mild. sore throat.
palpitations at times! works in lowering blood presure,but the side effects iv got, makes it not worth taking ! seeing a new doctor soon! to change meds once again ! at this rate I will end up, bald headed, fat, and blind in a wheel chair. why cant these doctors, read the side effects and test people before they hand out these bombastic drugs to them !!
I think someone, has to die before they listen to reason.
secound thought, im talking about hmo doctors! they dont care I forgot !!

I wish I would have found this site last year when I started taking lisinopril. The doc persribed 20mgs. My insurance changed in January So I couldn't take it for a while but then started again in April but only off and on. Here's what I experience:
1. Awake three or four times in the night
2. Low sex drive with erectile disfunction
3. slight cough and clearing
4. Low energy at night
5. Heart pounding at night at times
6. Waking up in a cold sweat at times.
After reading this board I've thrown it away and decided to talk to a nutritionist to help my blood presure. Does anyone know if these side effects ever go away? I exercise and watch my diet. Though most of the symtoms with me are minor, the lack of sleep and low sex drive are primary concerns.

I must be some kind of freak........blood pressure and pulse drop to alarming lows and I m just dragging myself around! I do not take the capsules because of a kind of allergy to them; so dump beads into a spoonful of water followed by a glass of same.
Anybody.........?

Cough at night and tightness of lungs otherwise OK. Blood presure still not under control yet.