August 31th
2005
12:53 AM
Ok, I have read EVERY ONE of these! and I am beyond angry for EVERY person that I have read up on. My Husband was put on Lisinopril from his VA Doctor about two months ago. I have watched him like a hawk on this medicine and I have cried myself to sleep because of the pain from the caughing. He has had sweats like you would'nt believe!!. We took a weekend get away down to the Beach, IT WAS 69 DEGREES with a GOOD BREEZE on the PIER!! and I watched my husband sweat to the point where it was dripping off of his nose!!. In our hotel room (on the BEACH) the windows were OPEN, the FANs were ON, and he was sitting in a chair DOING NOTHING!!!! BUT, SWEATING!!! and complaining how his back was hurting. (MY HUSBAND DOES NOT COMPLAIN ABOUT ANYTHING!!!) (when it comes to pain). I am a licensed CNA and have worked in State Hospitals so I've seen ALOT!! & dealt with ALOT! I do not over react, I'm trained not to!. But these SO CALLED DOCTORS ARE A JOKE! I can't get ANY of them to take this SERIOUSLY!!. I took hin back to the URGENT CARE at the VA and they said I was "FISHING"!. I have been with my HUSBAND for 12yrs. I think I would have a CLUE or NOT if something was wrong with him. His eyes are "blood shot" says the Dr. @ VA, (I say YELLOW), his mid back (kidney area) hurts, has head aches, no engery (hes a truck driver) who workes out, sex life is basically -0-, (not my husband), and the caughing is BEYOND WORDS!!!!!, heavyness in his chest, tingeling down his right arm into his fingers( I manipulate the nerve in between his elbow to get the feeling back). Again please understand my husband is not a complainer!!(jokingly to apease me he says"don't worrie I'm an ex-Marine). The other night while we were on our weekend get away(HONEYMOON after two years) he ased me if I had thought about what I would do if anything were to happen to him "where would I go/live/do? Thats how BAD he felt. He wasn't trying to scare me he just wanted to talk through what was in his head cause of hoe he was feeling from all of these things that were happening to him and his body(seriously WORRIED) he had never felt these things before. I took him OFF OF this HORRIBLE STUFF that night!!!!. He has been off this stuff now for a week and two days! The sweats have stopped, the head aches have lessened, the back pain is still some what there, I haven't manipulated the nerve in his elbow, in time we'll work on the fun stuff (intamacy), AND~~~~THE CAUGHING HAS become WAY WAY WAY LESS!!!, he sleeps a little better now too. My husband is a type 2 Diabetic (within the last year), has high blood pressure(not bad though), and a Prostrate problem(up every 1/2-1hr. urinating) DRIVES HIM NUTS!!! not real good when you have to be up at 3;30 every morning to go to work. His Med's are: Metformin (diabetes), Lisinopril (high blood pressure), Finasteride (prostate), Naproxen (pain). He WAS on Atenolol before changing to Lisinopril. That is also another DANGEROUSE Medication!!!! Bad sied effects: swelling!!.
I want to thank ALL who shared there stories here!!!you ALL have helped me in showing my husband that this is NOT a temporary situation. He can be STUBBORN when it comes to things of this matter!!. Now he's starting to listen to what i'm trying to tell him & show him. Now he believes me when i tell him "this is not a joke"!! and Doctors are not GOD!! God is God!
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February 5th
2008
2:21 PM
I'm 41 and had a Mirena for about two and half years. First six to eight months or so were OK. But then I started getting lumps in my breasts (Dr said it was blocked ducts/cysts, which SHE said was due to the Mirena - damn painful I can tell you so loads of antibiotics for that) Then raised blood pressure - something I've never, ever suffered from - after they put me on a BP monitor they said: Oh, it's within normal ranges - BUT every time I had a check they'd say - oh your blood pressure is up. Then the last straw for me has been (no not the weight gain - though I have that too - oh and the headaches as well) the dizziness - god, god, just so damn awful, dizzy, dizziness, spinning the lot along with tiredness & just feel crap - Dr (again!) says - no, it's not your BP (& it can't possibly be the Mirena - can it?) it's an inner ear thing, he says - yeah right!!! It's the damn Mirena - the whole lot! So, today I had the monster taken out. Thank god.
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