Monopril symptoms and conditions

I am a 47 year old female recently diagnosed with high blood pressure. I started it 10 days ago and after 3 days I started had a tickle in my throat which made me have coughing, hacking and gagging to the point of vomiting. I can't sleep at night and during my work day which is constantly talking to people I have to excuse my self to have my "coughing fit". My head of course is pounding from coughing constantly. I saw the Dr. last week and she thinks I have a virus of some sort. After reading all of these side effects of everyone who has experienced similar symptoms I am 100% sure it is the Lisinopril. If I were truly sick the cough would have gotten better or worse at this point but it has stayed the same. I am so upset all the time about this that my blood pressure has probably increased! The cough has gotten so annoying that I stayed home from work today and I decided to stop the medication. I would almost rather die(drastic!) than deal with this horrible cough!

I am 63 and taking 10 mg of Monopril for mild high blood pressure / under complete control. Just put on Lipitor 20 two weeks ago and for two night straight I had muscle cramps. Hamstrings (both legs), and upper legs the next night. Cramps lasted about 5 minutes. No other noted side effects. The fact that both legs were involved tends to indicated it was not just a fluke... Watching very carefully.

Dr. 1st put me on 5 mg Monopril. Seemed to lower BP slightly. Increased to 10 mg. The next refill the pills were different shape and color. Started getting irregular heart beat. Dr. swithed me to Verapomil. That really messed me up. So, we swithed to 10 mg Lisinopril. Have been on it for 3 months and now experiemce irregular heart beat, nearly blacked out 3 times with very rapid heartbeat. BP is all over the scale, short of breath and memory not so good. And, to top it off, I have developed a rash in the groin area. He told me to increase to 20 mg. I have for 3 days and feel really crappy. I am going to go off for a few days and mon itor my BP and see how I feel. This is scary. He has me scheduled for a chest x-ray and ultrasound on my corodid, (however you spell it). Afer reading all these I am convinced its the med.