Snoring symptoms and conditions

I have been on Diovan for 11 years. Most of those years, I believe the dosage was 80 mg. About 2 years ago my doctor increased my dosage to 160 and again up to 320. I am also on medication for Diabetes and High Cholesterol. I believe my doctor was over medicating me because I started to experience many different side effects. As a result, I never ended up taking the full dosage of Diovan until October 2008. He also had me on two other medications for High Blood Pressure. Within two days, I felt like I was so fatigued I couldn't move. And my blood pressure wasn't all that low either. My wife and I looked at the side effects accompanying the medications and we concluded I should stop taking one of the medications. A few months later, my doctor added another med to the list. I didn't mind this one and the dosage was low.

In any case, between the 320 mg of Diovan and 80 mg of Atenol I was feeling constantly tired. Getting up in the morning, I felt like someone had given me a heavy tranquilizer. Now I have complained about that feeling for a few years now but never thought it was medicine related until the effects worsened. Then, once I was up, I used to feel good all day long but now I was feeling drugged all day long. Driving the car, I felt tired and questioned if I should even be driving a car. But I had to drive to work. At work, I had trouble concentrating, I was so tired.

My memory was gone. It was like I had a full blown case of Autheimers which came on in a period of about 3 months. I couldn't think straight or remember anything.

Finally, the effects got really scary. My wife and I both have a tendency to snore at times. Since we are getting older, we are developing allergies which makes us snore at night. For my wife, her problems are when she wakes up in the middle of the night and I am snoring so bad she can not fall back to sleep. For me, her snoring is a problem when I first go to bed. In the past, I would try shaking the bed hoping she would stir just enough to move and stop snoring. I really didn't want to wake her up fully to get her to stop. This routine of shaking the bed would go on for about 20 minutes or so. Well, on this one particular night, after about 2 minutes, I got this urge or desire to put both of my hands on her back push with Superman strength so she would fly out of the bed and on to the floor. This bothered me because I do not normally think this way or get this violent.

The next day, I was in a meeting at work. I am not sure what happened but I could tell my mind was going some where scary. I was convinced that I was becoming psychotic! That night, I layed in bed deciding that I was going to stop the medications since I believed they were causing these psychotic thoughts. But I also made up my mind, if the thoughts continued, I was going to have myself committed rather than wait until I hurt someone. Stopping the medication meant gradually cutting back on the dosage that I was taking. I cut the Atenol in half and only took half and it worked. The next day I felt better. But gradually the fatigue would come back, just not the psychotic thoughts. To make a long story short, I kept reducing my meds until I was only taking about 80 mg of the Diovan.

There has been concern that I am heading for Kidney failure so I was sent to a Urologist. He is concerned over my high blood pressure and decided to put me on Diovan HCT 320/45 mg. I figured he didn't grasp my concern about that being too much medication. Oh, the HCT I was on then taken off and now put on because I have been experiencing significant swelling of the ankles, feet and legs.

My doctor visit was June 2, 2009 and today is July17, 2009. I have been experiencing many moments of extreme dizziness. My wife and I were in a store when I bent over to pick something up and near fell. I stood up and a few minutes later, I was conscious of myself staggering from dizziness. Last weekend, we went to a store and I didn't feel right as we head inside. We got in and the store got very bright, colors seemed to lighten and it felt like I was passing out. It was like I was standing on a cliff waiting to fall off. The brightness did not go away but I also never passed out. Also, I had been having lots of headaches since going back to this heavy amount of Diovan. Currently, the last couple of days, I am having trouble focusing. It is as if my eyes are good but my head is somehow effecting my eyesight. Yesterday, I kept having these moments where it was like I was being hit in the head. I kept seeing stars. Oh, did I mention I am only 52 years old? Too young in my opinion to be chalking this up to old age.

My next appointment is August 24th. I am hoping I can make it to that appointment. I think this is too much medication and I am afraid if I don't get it cut back soon, it will kill me.

I am not against Diovan but I do think there is a point where one can be prescribed too high a dosage. And I am at that point. Oh and my blood pressure in my opinion isn't that great for all of this medication. I am concerned that something is causing the high blood pressure and rather than OD'ing me on medications, the doctors should be helping me determine why my blood pressure is so high. Also, I am now on this kick to see whether I can lower my blood pressure through certain foods and diet. Where is doctor Oz when you need him?

My daughter was given Nasacort AQ to be used 2x a day at the age of 10. About 2 weeks after starting she started to have severe panic and anxiety attacks. (never had one before). I called the ENT who told me it had nothing to do with Nasacort and suggested I take her to talk to a therapist. GREAT ADVISE. The therapist suggested that we immediately stop the spray that there are many reports of this causing anxiety attacks in children. The therapist also advised that I get a new ENT.

The anxiety attacks stopped after about a week however it took her a long time to get over the fear that she may have one. So now her anxiety is gone and the worst thing we have to deal with is that she snores at night. I'LL TAKE THE SNORING.

My daughter is in kindergarten and has been on singulair for about 4-5 weeks. Her allergies are gone, no more snoring and and no more coughing attacks. My husband did ask the other day what was wrong with her because she had cried about 3 times that day. For any little comment regarding her older brother/ saying we loved him more etc. This is just not like her, now that I am reading this... I am putting two and two together. Does anyone out there know if Clariton will help with allergies as well as singulair?
I am seriously thinking of stopping the singulair.

I have two children on singular as of September 07. When my 6 year old was an infant he was always congested, we changed his formula a couple of times until the doctor decided to do a blood test to check for allergies and the results came back as an allergy to milk. He then started to have sinus infections and had to have his tonsils and adenoids removed. The surgeon said the coughing and the snoring would stop after surgery but it didn't. I was having problems with seasonal allergies myself and was put on Allegra and Veramist so I decided to take him to the allergist as well. He was tested and was also found to have seasonal allergies. Within a day or two after taking the Singulair 4mg chewable tablets he started sleeping through the night with no coughing or sneezing in the middle of the night. My friend just recently had a similar problem with her daughter who is around ten years old. She was found to have asthma but the inhalers that she was put on didn't completely work, so the doctor put her on singulair and her mother said the Singulair is the best. My 14 year old son also has food and seasonal allergies and takes Singulair but not on a daily basis only as needed and he doesn't have any problems.

Taken Lisinopril for six weeks, main effects - pressure on rh side of head, increased urination, stomach wind and indigestion. Have also (apparently) stopped snoring and I feel the cold more then before.

Finally -- something works for my anxiety! But I'm clenching my jaw, gaining weight (including a pot belly), and snoring like a chain saw. Does anyone else have problems with snoring?

I had been taking 5mg of Lisinopril for almost 10 years with no noticeable side effects (at least not ones the dr. would consider), I have gained weight and attributed it to age or eating habits, I started snoring and attributed it to weight gain, my stomach feels bloated every night (my wife blames my eating)... In any case, after pharmacy error in Nov. when I took 40 mg instead 5 for one month by mistake, the Dr. brought me down to 20mg instead of the original 5mg since he said 5 might not have been doing anything. After 2 months on 20mg I started with a persistent dry/tickle cough in my throat which I thought was part of the winter flu. I never had any other flu effects, however, now 3 months later there is not a day that goes by without the cough. Finally, a new dr. has taken me off this family of drugs. It has only been a week. Cough persists. When should I expect it to go away, and what can I do to help it along?

my 4 year old daugther was on zyrtec for almost a year,she has inlarged tonsils and allergic to dust,the whole time she was on it she snored so bad you could hear her in the other room,and had bouts where i believed she wasnt breathing, the doctors wanted to remove her tonsils.the whole time she was on it she still had runny nose and the docs told me to take her off zyrtec if i felt it wasnt helping,after i took her off it within a few days her snoring stopped,i totally believed she was allergic to the zyrtec and it bothers me no doctor figured this out and i hope this dosent cause her any long term problems,her tonsils havent been red anymore either.no more snoring and i have chosen to keep her tonsils..

i have been on this medication for about 5 years now. and i have noticed that i have developed heart palpitations on it, but i cant live without it for exercise, viruses etc. i also wake up in the morning with a sore throat, since i take it in the night for shortness of breath, but my husband says my sore throat is from my snoring all night long.

My Doctor gave me Advair 100 on a routine checkup. He sent me to E&T for snoring, this guy gave me Singulair. First dose sent me to hospital emergency room because I could not breathe. I stopped taking Advair, Singulair. My Stomach is bloated after eating. I went to a G.I, he wants to to endoscopy. I didn't have any problems before I went for routine checkup. My blood test, X-ray, Sonogram are all normal. I do not have any problems except bloated stomach. Is there a way to reverse effects of Advair ??

I also want to add that another benefit of Lisinopril vs Toprol is that the ungodly snoring and gasping for breath in my sleep that I experienced over the last 6 months is gone. The water weight I had from the Toprol disrupted my sleep and my husband's as well because I was so swelled up from water retention.

I've taken the kenalog shot for severe hay-fever and allergy-induced asthma three or four times in the last 7 years, always in the Spring when I reach a point that I can't take a single breath without coughing up phlegm from my lungs. Once I received the shot while pregnant. My doctor told me it was safe, and would have the side-effect of helping to develop the baby's lungs a little early. In my case that was a good thing, because I tend to deliver prematurely, and this baby was born 4 weeks early. She is four years old now, and healthy, strong, happy, intelligent and developing completely normally.

I have had no side-effects at all. Instead, I was *less* moody due to not being sick all the time with allergies and finally sleeping. I was finally able to sleep through the night without waking myself up coughing, or because my mouth closed and I couldn't breathe, which happened constantly. I stopped snoring, and could breathe and smell again, go outdoors without fluids immediately pouring from my eyes and nose and filling my lungs, and enjoy sunshine, blue sky and clean air again instead of being imprisoned in my house due to such severe allergies.

The shots clear up my allergy symptoms for 2-3 months, and by then the plants I'm most allergic to have ceased producing pollens for the year.

The severity of my allergy symptoms seem to cycle, so that I have only needed to resort to the kenalog shot every other year or every three years. Tomorrow (Monday morning) I'm seeing the doctor to get a kenalog shot for this year.