Congested symptoms and conditions

You are all completely 100 % right
I have a book here called the high blood pressure hoax
the lady that wrote it is 100 % right in her findings we are all living it !!!!
the list of side effects is overwhelming too many too list
I quit all hypertensive meds yes my blood pressure shot up rebound etc

but I can actually sleep and don't feel depressed and tired anymore

it may not be a good thing but id rather live with no side effects my skin is actually clearing up in 2 days from the itching, the nausea is still coming and going brain fog is clearing up as well as a ton of other horrible side effects for the first time i actually feel good .....in 2 years of taking these horrible drugs ,,,,,yes they are keeping us alive but in the long run they will kill us just as fast as the hypertension !!!!!!!!!! good luck with diet and exercise everyone I am starting it myself this weekend

My 3-year old daughter has had recurrent bronchitis and allergies for over a year now. She's been on antibiotics constantly, and we're looking at having her tonsils removed. Her ped suggested that maybe she has asthma and her infections are secondary to that, so maybe try Singulair. We filled the prescription, but I didn't give it to her based on what I read here.

During the next few months, we repeated bronchial infections and antibiotics. Finally we had to try prophylatic antibiotics. She got all gunky and wheezy again...but no fever so at least no infection but she was obviously wheezing and congested, so we decided it probably was asthma and decided to try Singulair (this was earlier this week). Not only has she recovered from her latest congestion problem quickly, her behavior has actually improved (?) as in only 1 tantrum in the last two days, her appetite is way up, and she actually slept through the night last night (first time in 3 years). I think she feels so much better, and it has so far been wonderful for her.

I'm a 36 year old triathlete. I started taking Advair 3-4 years ago. I noticed immedialty that my wheezing stopped. For this reason, I thought the medicane worked well. I also noticed that heavy excersion activities became a little harder. Initially I thought it was allergies. I had less wind. I kept taking Advair because it stolpped the wheezing. 3 months ago I changed my dose from 100 to 250. My lungs started feeling heavier and it was harder for me to breath. I decided to stop taking Advair 3 days ago. I'd have headaches once in a while with Advair but I never noticed any other problems. I've stopped taking Advair for 3 days now. I feel like I can take deep breaths again. I also feel like I'm going through a withdrawal. I've had an intense headache. I'm sure it will go away. The big test will be over the next week. I'll see how I feel when I'm training. I'm not sure if my Asthma is bad enough to take medicane but I'll see. I'll keep Albueteral close by just in case. I'll post again in 1-2 weeks.

I have been taking lisinopril for years (10 mg/daily) without any noticable problems. About 2 months ago, my doctor doubled the dose and changed me to the version with HTCZ (a diuretic) included. A few weeks later, I started having this tickling sensation in my throat making me have a slight cough. The cough kept getting worse as the days went by and I also started having this congested feeling in my chest. I would cough my head off and it wasn't productive. I would cough until I would get dizzy and almost pass out.

I finally went to the doctor think I had some lung infection or TB. I was given a TB skin test, antiobiotics, and a chest x-ray. The TB test was negative, the chest x-ray was normal, and the antiobiotics don't seem to have changed anything.

I was back at the doctor yesterday and she said she think it's the lisinopril and switched me to Diovan. I started taking the Diovan this morning. Only time will tell if it is indeed the lisinopril that was the culprit.

The day after I put in my nuvaring, I got a sore throat which felt like strep, then a fever of 102.6, chills and flu-like pains. I could barely get out of bed to take care of my two month old. The next day I was severely moody, excessively hungry, the sore throat went away, but I got a runny nose, chest congestion, and head congestion as well. I couldn't be up and moving for more than 15 minutes before I fell back into bed again. The next day I felt like I had a head/chest cold and same with yesterday. My fever went down to about 100.5, but my nose would not stop running, my ears were hurting, my head was pounding, and I had stuff in my lungs that I couldn't cough up. I looked up side effects and saw that 5-14% of women get an upper respiratory tract infection, sore throat, fever and chills. I took the ring out and by the time I woke up, my head was not congested anymore and whatever is in my chest I'm having an easier time coughing up. My fever has finally gone down and I feel a lot better then I have for a majority of the week.

sylvia,
wow what an awful experience! i have had problems with my ear since aug 05, same thing,was given pseudoephidrine to clear the "congestion" of course it did not work as my ear is not congested. the only thing that happened,similar to your experience is that the pseudoephidrine gave me palpitations and hightened my anxiety! i later found out this is a common side effect. i now take mucron,it contains ephidrine not pseudoephidrine and does not seem to cause the same reaction. i went to spain this year and took 1 mucron 2 hours before the flight then another as i boarded the plane. i also took a menthol inhaler as menthol will keep sinuses clear on the flight and also i chewed gum and sucked menthol sweets. and drank loads of water and my flight was problem free.i had no problems with my ears or nausea at all. hopefully some of this will be helpful to you. look up blocked Eustachian tube . may be some tips on flying with this problem?

sarah

To Guest # 33389,

Thank you for your post. It looks like there are a lot of people who seem to experience the 'ear congestion' problem.
I was given all sorts of decongesting tablets (pseudoephedrine etc...) and nothing worked at all and these medicine gave me nausea and horrible heart palpitations so I decided to do without them. I was never convinced that it was congestion as I did not have a cold or feel like I had.
Once you have been to your RN, please let me know what his/her comments were regarding this. I am scared of flying because of this, as last year I was so sick during a long haul flight that the plane had to do an emergency landing and an ambulance took me to the ER in the nearest hospital. During the flight I experienced terrible nausea/ low heart rate / horrendous headache / strong convulsions / unable to move my limbs and unable to speak, to cut the story short: at the hospital they did all the tests: blood, urine, heart rate, head scan, They could not find anything. I was a healthy person and they could not find any explanations as to why I felt sick.
I did explain to the doctor there that I felt congested in the ears and he said that I could not be as this would have shown on the scan.
Before Yasmin, I never experienced that kind of problems when flying. I am flying again (4 hours flight) over Xmas and I hope I will feel ok. I am sure that this was due to the Yasmin and its side effects. I hope also that this is not related to a heart problem.

Sulfameth was prescribed to me for UTI. After taking 2, doses i started itching all over specially between my skin folds, too bad i have to work 12 long hours but so far managed to endure the itching. I was a compliant pt so i continued taking the pill, on my 6th dose, i noticed that all of a sudden i started coughing. It seemed that my lungs were congested, now i am thinking there is probably fluid retention in my lungs... i have 7 more days to complete the dose...hmmp... i don't have to be compliant this time!

My 4 year old son has been taking Sigulair for three weeks. He has started showing signs of restlessness. The past two weeks he jhas becime very aggressive at school. I started questioning this medication a few weeks ago. I decided to research the side effects and I am so pleased to have found this sight. He was even restless in his sleep. The is out of character for him. I am stopping this medication immediately.

Last night I took Niaspan for the first time. I took it at 9:30 pm and then went to bed. At 12:30 am I woke up suddenly. My whole body was on fire. My nose was all congested and I felt like I could not breathe well. I got out of bed and looked in the mirror to see if I was red, thinking that I was having a flushing sensation, but saw no redness. I sat up for about 30 minutes and continued to experience the burning sensation. My mouth felt very weird also, like a tingling sensation The burning sensation was not just on my face, it covered my whole body. After this 30 minutes I began to have severe chills. I went back to bed and covered up. I began to shake and my teeth began to chatter. My heart felt like it was going to beat out of my chest. At times I would have to sit up just to breathe. The shaking part went on for another 3o minutes. It stopped just as suddenly as it all started. Through out the remainder of the night I did not sleep well. This was the most horrible experience that I have ever had.

Linda Rouse

Hello, fellow sufferers,

I was given a prescription for lisinopril about six weeks ago. I had gone for an employment physical, and my blood pressure was very elevated. I panicked, and went strait to my doctor, who put me on a trial of lisonopril. Luckily, I only took it for two weeks, but I've experienced, and continue to experience, many (most?) of the symptoms registered here.

The first to appear were floaters. The morning after I took my first dose, very large, dark floaters appeared in my vision. Most of them slowly "dissolved" over the next hours, but they reappear from time to time, and one in the lower left corner (when I'm looking straight ahead) has remained all this time. It flies into my vision field when I move my eyes when reading, etc.

The next to appear was the cough. Coincidentally, I went out of town to a conference the day after starting the medication. The conference was in Washington, DC, the weather was hot outside, but the meeting rooms were freezing, and so I thought I caught a cold. However, I was not congested, didn't have a sore throat, and the cold didn't progress. Also, I am a healer (Reiki Master) and I'm quite good at fending off colds and such, or at least getting rid of it quickly if a cold does manifest. I couldn't budge this cough, which continued to get worse each day.

The next symptom was extreme fatigue. I could hardly get myself and my small amount of luggage onto the train to get home. I had to have my husband meet me at the train depot even though I had planned to take local public transportation to get the rest of the way home.

In the next days, I stated to experience a "foggy brain." I felt like I was drugged, and couldn't function. I wouldn't dare drive, and I couldn't work. The cough continued to worsen, and it kept me up all night. The last two days I took the drug, I also developed congestion (which continues). I also had a rash, which cleared up quickly in a day or two.

The next thing that manifested was extreme muscle weakness. I work out with a personal trainer, and on my last visit to her I had to give up early because I just couldn't make my muscles work. When I got home, I was so fatigued and foggy I had to lie down and sleep for a couple of hours. I'm normally a high energy person, so this, I think, distressed me more than anything else.

That same night, my friend, Linda, invited my husband and I to her home for dessert, but I told her I just couldn't get myself together to go out. I told her what I had been experiencing, and she asked the big question--"Are you taking any new drugs?" I told her about my high blood pressure and the Lisinopril. She told me that she experienced something similar a year ago, and that it was her blood pressure medication that was to blame. Thank Goddess for Linda!!

The next day I went to the doctor and told him this medication was making me sick. He agreed that the cough could be due to the lisinopril, but said he didn't think any of the other symptoms could be blamed on it. Oh, yeah? He wanted to put my on another drug, but I said "No way. I'm controlling my bp through diet and exercise," and he agreed to let me try. He said not to expect spectacular results.

The next weekend was Linda's wedding--I was the photographer. I did manage to get through the wedding with the help of a lot of cough drops and nose blowing. I got some great shots and didn't ruin key moments with my hacking cough.

The cough continued, with the congestion, but the lethargy and fogginess have abated, but had not entirely disappeared. I tend to get winded climbing the stairs I used to run up. A new twist was added--I seemed to have developed sensitivity to everything: pollen, dust, smoke, mold, my cats.

My husband and I had scheduled our vacation to Maine, and we decided to go, thinking that if I got away from my house and the cats, I might improve. That didn't happen--we were near the ocean, but there are a lot of plantings along the ocean in Maine, expecially goldenrod, which made me miserable. I was extremely congested, and my sinuses got infected and my ears filled with fluid.

When I got back from vacation, back to the doctor. My sinuses were so inflamed, he put me on cortisone and an antibiotic. The corisone got rid of the inflammation of the sinuses, but didn't help the ears. The cough was only occasional, too. However, the cortisone also gave me insomnia, and I began to get leg cramps. The cortisone was given in decreasing dosage--six tablets the first day, five the next, etc. to one on the last day. As the dosage went down, the insomnia disappear, but the cough started to return.

As I finished with the drugs, my doctor was away, and, being an alternative healer, I decided to try another alternative healer. My sister is away, so I decided to take her appointments with her AMMA therapist. AMMA is an Asian message healing modality. The therapist also did cranio-sacral and lymphatic drainage with me. I'd feel better after each treatment, but rebounded worse each time. Last treatment was two days ago, and I decided not to go back, but to take back control of this thing. Since my ears are STILL clogged and I can't hear very well, I also returned to my physician to see what he suggested. His suggest was a 12-day course of prednosone. I that doesn't work, he's going to refer me to an ear, nose and throat doctor to have my ears drained surgically, and perhaps have tubes put in. Today's the third day, and I think the fluid is reduced but not eliminated. The cough is worse. It feels deeper in my chest, and it is unproductive. I worked on myself with Reiki a lot yesterday to clear my lungs. I was pretty good last night, but I'm coughing again today (dry heaves as well). I think I might try Mucinex to make the cough productive. I have to check to see if it's okay to use it with the prednosone.

The sensitivities do seem to be getting better. The cats, at least, don't seem to bother me, but mold is still a problem. I think my air conditioning might be contributing--there's standing water in the drip pan, so the drip line must be clogged. I'll bet there mold or mildew in the system, but I can't get anyone in to fix it and clean it out until Tuesday. I've turned the AC off, but I'm sure my husband will be switching it back on when he gets home from work since it's in the 90's. (He doesn't get it). I've also eliminated dairy, orange juice and tomato products from my diet since they produce mucus.

I hope to post of my improvement soon. Positive thinking helps! I promise not to be so long next time.

Thanks for reading

I am so glad I found this site....I though I was losing my mind...I am so tired from coughing all the time...at first my bp went down and it was looking promising..now it has shot up with all my coughing and need to take cough syrup constantly. I am so tired from not sleeping at nights and I drag through the day. My energy level is getting lower and lower. I want to throw this so called medicine as far as I can, I have been to the doctor twice now and he tells me it will pass, we did try another med for a week, I dont recall the name, I think it made it all worse. I am so congested all time, I cough and cough and everything thinks I am dying, I wake up in the night with such a tightness in my chest and unable to breathe normally, then I panic and begin to have a major coughing spasam. What are drug companies and doctors doing to us?

HAVE BEEN TAKINGFOR TWO DAYS AND FEEL MORE CONGESTED THEN WHEN I WENT TO THE DOCTOR.

I have been taking Levaquin for 5 days after being diagnosed with a lung infection (likely bronchitis). I had been prescribed Biaxin (Erythromicin) previously, but my lung infection only got worse. The Levaquin has been great and has completely cleaned up my lungs. The only noticeable side effects have been very bad night sweats (have to change clothes 2 or three times a night) and diminished sense of smell. I would highly recommend Levaquin to anyone who has badly congested lungs - it was great.

My 5 year old son was on this and it kept his eyes dilated. Is this normal? He also took his last dose on Sunday night and is still congested and coughing. Should i get a refill or not?

Patricia Williams

At first I felt as though it helped. I was less congested and generated less mucus. Since I stopped taking it, I feel a bit dizzy and produce more mucus. I feel irritable and preasure is starting to build up in my ear which causes light headiness.

I've taken 20mg lisinopril and metoprolol for 3 yrs with good control. 2 wks ago at m,y checkup it was 165/90. dr doubled my dose to 40mg. My bp at 4am the next am was 220/104. Dr added clonidine .1 mg and norvasc 10mg, and furosimide. bp is 140/74 but I feel nauseous, and chest congested w/dry cough, flushed, and depressed. I've had this week, sonograms of kidneys,heart, carotids. renal flow dye test, and bloodwork, all normal. Couild the doubled lisinopril have had a reverse effect on my bp? I'm sure it's the cause of my nausea and cough.

I've been taking Lisinopril 20mg + 12.5mg HCTZ daily for 9 months with no cough or other respiratory symptoms. This is my only medication. About 5 weeks ago I was increased to 1 1/2 tabs a day (30 mg Lisinopril + 18.75 mg) to effectively control my boarderline blood pressure. It was only at this time I did have a respiratory infection and nasal congestion, with cough for 2 weeks, since that time the infection has cleared however, a nonproductive cough has persisted the past 4 weeks. This cough is not tolerable. I will be switching hypertension medication within the next couple weeks if the cough doses not go with the next couple weeks. When I laugh hard with my chest, I start coughing and feel very congested. It's not very pleasant in a social crowd. Meanwhile, yes my blood pressure is under control.