Danger zone symptoms and conditions

I have been taking 20mg Lisinopril for six days for 140/100 BP reduction. Muscle cramps, muscle pain, dizziness, ringing in the ears (which I already had, but this medication has made it MUCH worse),some heart palpitations...generally scary and, on balance, I am going to find some other solution. Frankly, this is like taking a slow acting poison.

Thanks to everyone's posts, I've realized I'm not going crazy after all. I recently opened up to my husband that I was considering doing something I thought I'd never do..and that was get prescription meds to help my depression and uncontrollable anger. This was almost a last resort for me. I have always been very strong headed but I came to a point when I admitted to myself that I was almost in a danger zone, mentally. I was constantly Dr. ***** with my 3 beautiful children and the poor dog wasn't safe either! I had about 10 different excuses for why I had changed but never considered Mirena to be a contributing factor until my husband brought it up. He said he realized I was different when he came back from deployment and that is when I had it put in! His comments led me to this website and I'm surprised to see how many others are dealing with the same thing I was. I now have an appointment to get it out and I'm looking forward to not having severe mood swings, depression, anxiety, terrible fatigue (after reading others comments about fatigue: I realized my desire, energy, and discipline to run/exercise went to "Zero" shortly after I had it inserted around May 2008) migraines, occ. heart palpitations, etc.

My husband entered the hospital in Nov of 2005 for a surgery. He almost died in the recovery room and from there things went from bad to worse. They put him on a massive dosage of Prednisone. 95 days later we were able to come home. About 2 weeks later he started vomiting and lost all energy. We returned to the hospital and the diagnosis came down as acute adrenal insufficiency. He was pumped full of Prednisone again. From there he went to a very slow wean and he got completely off the drug. No problems. This year he suffered a fall resulting in extreme trauma and blood loss. Back to the hospital where it was determined that his adrenals were again in crisis. Got him all mended and on the way out the door when a nurse decided that he should have a pneumovax. Within 24 hours we were back in the hospital with my husband in critical condition with three life threatening situations. His kidneys were shutting down, his blood pressure was beyond the danger zone (low) and he had cellulitis. Back home again to another slow wean. We are down to 5mg now and are hopeful at the next appointment to be able to start weaning further and back to zero. We were given Dexamethasone Sodium Phosphate for injection in case of any trauma in the future. In addition, my husband now wears a MediAlert bracelet which notes his condition and that in case of accident/trauma Dexamethasone Sodium Phosphate is to be given. Anyone on steroids should register with MediAlert at ******

What everyone needs to know is that the adrenals are responsible for a person's feeling of well being. When you are on a steroid, you need to wean very, very slowly to let your adrenals start doing the job on their own. The reason Prednisone is often prescribed is that it comes in as low of a dosage as 1mg and can be split 4 ways for 1/4th mg per dosage. For those that cannot tolerate Prednisone, Hydrocortisone is available. 10 mg of Hydrocortisone is the same as 2.5 mg of Prednisone. Hydrocortisone can also be split.

Glad to find your site. I have been on Lisiopril for 2 years (ever since my Insurance stopped paying for my Aceon and I had to have a substitute drug for blood pressure control). I have had increasing cough and horseness for the past 12 months to the point that I now have 24 hour symptoms! I also have been having leg cramps at night the past few months.
I will stop Lisinopril TODAY. Plan to monitor my blood pressure and see what happens. Does anyone see any problem with doing this?????

I have been on Diovan, 80 mg. for almost 3 weeks now. I was taken off of lisinopril due to a terrible cough which was getting worse by the day. My cough is almost gone now, but I have been having a real problem with flatulence since I started the Diovan. I also take Lipitor, and I think the combination of the two drugs may be the issue. Back to the doctor, I guess. I would like to be able to go out in public. I've tried Beano to no avail. But on the positive side, my blood pressure is fine now!

My 2 1/2 year old son started taking Singular 2 weeks ago. We have noticed a change in his attitude. He hits and pushes his 5 year old sister. He cries ALL the time. His nose continuelous is runny. Last week, he woke up and was vomiting but had no temperature. He also cried and said his chest hurt.

We took him to the DR, and they said that it was just a tummy bug and that he was fine.

Yesterday, (week 2) I picked him up from the nanny's house and he had red hives (welts) that were on his neck, behind the ears, his tummy and on his side. Some were very large. He was wheezing and I checked his Oxygen level and it had dropped to 91/92. The danger zone for him is 89. So we gave him albuterol treatment and his Oxygen shoot up to 97, whcih was fine.

He has had a chronic coughing, and he won't eat very much (before he would eat everything and want more). He cries alot at night. One night he woke up 2X screeming. Like he was in pain. Got him calmed down and he said his tummy hurt.
After his bath, I was rubbing lotion on his leg and he pulled his legs away crying and said they hurt.

After reading everything here, I KNOW IT IS THE SINGULAR. I am going to print of this web page and take it back to my son "Specialist" DR that I paid $120 to see my son, and tell the DR to put this in my son's file!

Thank you to everyone who has made their private lives public so the rest of us may learn in time.

God Bless Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:19:31 -0600 by mylittleangel, #9151 for sharing her sad, heartfelt story, and stoping other children from the same fate. My heart goes out to her and her family.

I have been on Seroquel for years now I have lost a lot of weight since I have been on it. I have been in the danger zone from all the weight loss..so it will go ither way of gaining or losing..