Violently symptoms and conditions

I'm writing for my mother. She was on 20mg of Lisinopril and her doctor insisted her violent coughs was from her asthma. Being an asthma sufferer her whole life and knowing the difference, she insisted it was not. He told her that this drug does not cause violent coughing as she described (but later admitted otherwise). I saw her in October and then in November for Thanksgiving and it looked as though she aged ten years! She was coughing badly, throwing up from coughing so violently and was white as a ghost and was extremely tired from not getting enough rest (from coughing). Everyone in the family told her to STOP taking the medication. She stopped taking it the day after Thanksgiving. It's been about five days and she is still coughing, although it's not nearly so bad, but she's taking pain medication (Hydrocodone) and I believe this narcotic has helped to subside the coughing, plus allow her to sleep, but masked the effects of the Lisinopril. Please, anyone, that has discontinued this medication, can you tell me how long to expect this drug to be out of her body? This has been an absolute nightmare and I'm so worried about her! Please email at ******

I had taken one chewable tablet, within two minutes I became
violently sick and continued to feel very strange.
The next day I still feel groggy and a little ill.
I suspect such a prompt reaction is extremely rare and was unexpected.
I would not use it again.

Uh, I have read a number of postings where people are PROUD they stopped taking this last-line of defense antibiotic. Read up and be prepared before you take it. Stopping short only breeds drug resistant bacteria. If people didn't do this, we wouldn't need these horrible medicines.

You, and all the others that do the same, are RESPONSIBLE for this medication's existence. Had you kept taking that Amoxicillin back, when you were a spry 18 year old, instead of stopping when you "felt better", there wouldn't be a constant bacterial arms race.

Stopping these medications mid-treatment is a disservice to HUMANITY.

Keep it up, and next time you get a staph infection, you might find there are no antibiotics that work anymore.

I take 10mg Lipitor every day, I broke out with dark red itchyskin eruptions on ankle,stomach, and hip thin skin over eruption when it peels off there a large open ulcer like sore, takes many weeks to completely heal! Been to a dermatologist wanted to do biopsy on sores to see what it is, I have been taking lipitor for about 3 years. Never had out breaks like this before going on lipitor. Went off lipitor for about a month outbreaks stopped! Went back on lipitor outbreaks started again, anyone else had similar eruptions?

Anyone experience problems with drinking beer, wine, alcohol? Beer is undesirable since it tastes flat. Last night drank it anyway celebrating my son's baseball win with the team. Did't even finish the beer because it just tasted so bad. Felt awful all day today as a migraine ensued. Few weeks ago drank Wine. It tasted okay, yet I woke up during the night violently ill, diarrhea and vomiting (great - huh?)- So now I am afraid to drink alcoholic beverages. Am I alone here? has any one else had this problem?

2 weeks on Topamax and really ill with the fact beer tasted like liking metal. So I drank a few liquor drinks for the fourth of July- I only drink probably once every three to four weeks when we get together with friends. Got violently sick after four drinks- throwing up. Never done that before- so I guess soda, alcohol and food are out of my life- Wonder if I can tell my husband NO SEX is a side-effect because it will cause violent bouts of vomitting. Smile- what a trade off- migraines daily or side effects?????? Damned if you do- damned if you don't- but on a brighter note- these are things I can live with unlike cancer, parkinson disease etc. Just wondering if anyone else having marked side effect from drinking alcohol while taking the topamax?

I have been taking 10 mg for about 1 1/2 months now. My blood pressure went down, but about 2 weeks ago I developed an irritating "tickle in the throat" cough. It has become worse every day since to where I am not able to sleep soundly at night. I am in school full-time and have to excuse myself from class because I cannot stop coughing.

I did go to the doctor on Friday and she suggested I take cough medicine every 4 hours and ibuprofin to reduce the irritation. Additionally, she suggested carrying a damp cloth with me and breathing through it when a cough spell comes on and when I am at home take "steamy" showers. These were suggestions to relieve the symptoms and after trying all of these ideas (which is a pain in the ?!@#) I still have no relief. If fact, the cough is getting worse daily and I actually threw up on Saturday because I was coughing so violently.

Even though my bp is down, I cannot live with this cough. I am going to stop taking it and look for alternative ways to lower my bp - because the doctor does not seem to realize how severe this side effect is. If anyone has any good alternate bp treatments - please email me! Thank you.
annebranson@comcast.net

Guest 28108.....I believe I may have had that reaction...however the dr. told me I might have the flu...no indication that I might have reacted to the medication. Or that I might have had a gastro infection. I was violently ill and if you read my previous post ....many other things happened to me...horrible joint pain and much more. We need more info.

I took Lisinopril for one month. Within two days of taking the med, I began to cough violently all day. The children has colds and the pollen here was flying so I didn't think of it being the medicine. There was much mucous produced. I often vomited because of the coughing. I saw my doc's partner after 7 days of coughing and was diagnosed with bronchitis and given an inhaler and a z-pack. I had to have a cough drop in my mouth at all times even while sleeping to get somewhat of a break. I just thought I was going to start coughing one day and choke to death. Currently my right hip joint is so stiff and painful. My finger joints were mildly affected but are now fine. I have been off Lisinopril for 10 days now. The cough is not all day but still present and can be quite violent. The joint pain and stiffness are still present. I aches when at rest. My mobility is quite impacted. I am afraid that I am going to fall. Getting up from sitting is painful and often feels impossible. I'm a 44 year old woman with a 9 and 11 year old. I have plenty to do!!! This drug was toxic for me. I don't feel as if I'll ever be the same. I have got to get my hip back.

My best-friend room-mate is downstairs now sleeping. He was perscribed this for an absess/possible staff infection, and have been having violent seizure like anxiety attacks. Two ER visits and still they don't know what it is. He shakes violently, and the only thing that will stop these attacks in xanax. I am positive these affects are being caused by this anti-biotic.

When I took the recommended dosage 3oz.,within under an hour I became violently ill:vomiting for five minutes at a time twice with a five minute break in between Feeling nauseas for 30 minutes.I cut it down to half a dose and only felt a twinge of nausea

Been going to doctors for extreme muscle weakness and pain, but no diagnosis was made. Some days I can barely function. Two weeks ago I was so weak I could not get out of bed (very abnormal for me) and when I tried to call the doctor, I began to vomit violently and they called an ambulance to rush me to the hospital. Tests there did not show anything significant, so I was sent home with antibiotics for a "slight bladder infection". I hurt worse than with the worst kind of flu, but no sign of fever. Off and on during the past weeks the pain gets so bad I can barely function. I decided to investigate side affects to various meds I am taking and have now found all these warnings for Lipitor, which I have been taking for about a year. The blood tests were all fine, but I suppose those are to determine kidney damage. Can I stop taking this immediately?!?? I cannot bear these symptoms another day......

I am 14 years old and have been on singulair for 4 months at first i though it was helping but it was actully making it harder for me to do sports i have in the past 4 months had the flu, sinus infection, numbness in my arms and legs,throat and respitory infection and trouble sleeping at night. it doesn't help my swimming. I have competitions every 3 weeks and it is brining my mood down and most of the competitions I end up being sick. It is getting so bad that I cant go for more than 2 mineuts without coughing violently and I am constantly throwing up because it is so bad.

i also have a weird side effect. I lost my huge appetite. i'm not overweight by any means, but i feel slightly ill after eating tiny portions of anything after taking the pill. a few nights ago i got violently ill after eating CELERY! everyone else who had it felt fine, but i also feel sorenes in my breasts sometimes......anyone else?

My wife has been taking this "devil's drug" Lisinopril for about 3 months. It did lower her blood pressure, but at a price.

A cough begun to materialize so badly that she has to sleep sitting up in the bed with a couch cushion for support. She sleeps a little longer while sitting up but still got enormous coughing fits in the middle of the night, landing her at the toilet, violently throwing up which caused severe nose bleeding. She can't sleep more than an hour at a time. Her energy and stamina is no where near what it was before this drug. She cries and begs for the cough to stop. This drug is taking my wife's sanity and I can't believe they would let this crap find it's way into people's medicine cabinets. She's irritable, tired, and doesn't want to do much because she can't sleep at night. She needs to nap all the time and it's affecting her work and our life. They need to pull this crap off the market.

We did go back to the doc and discovered another drug called Losartan that drops blood pressure with minimal side effects (that we've noticed) and NO COUGH!.
She's been on this new drug for about 2 weeks now and her Lisinopril cough is weakening. It's not as powerful as it once was. The Doc said it would take 2 to 4 weeks for the Lisinopril cough to completely go away! My God what madness! God Please give us something to reduce blood pressure with little to no side effects!

I was given Biaxin along with Fluzone 3 years ago for what seemed like just a nasty case of the flu. After a few days I felt 200% worse and wasn't sure if it was the Biaxin or the Fluzone, so just stopped them both and began recovering completly within 24 hrs. However, it was while I was taking the meds that I had my fist panic attack, and I continued to have them intermittently for over a year. I found out later that Biaxin is an erythromycin, which I've never tolerated well. If I had known that to begin with I would not have taken it. My husband tried Biaxin this last winter for a sinus infection. After his first dose, he vomited violently and felt like he was getting the flu. He skipped the 2nd dose and began feeling better. The next day, he took another dose and the same thing happened. He threw up within an hour and felt lousy for the rest of the day. Forget this stuff!

I am a 30 year old female,I have Lupus,Fibromyalgia and most recently HBP. I have been taking 10mg Lisinopril for about a month.It has brought my pressure down to a safe level, but I have been experiencing many of the miserable side effects listed in these posts. I have had a mild cough since I began the med, but a few days ago it became so severe I have been unable to rest or sleep. I cough so violently that I become fatigued. My eyes water at night, my head and neck sweat uncontrollably, my skin itches randomly all over during the night, and I am more tired than usual. I can not go another night like this and have decided after reading many posts, to call my doctor and asked to be taken off the Lisinopril. I am hoping there is something else that can be given to me to control the blood pressure without the horrible side effects. I feel much compassion for those of you that are experiencing the problems with this drug and thank you for your input.

i had been taking prednisone for a couple months for migraines before i told my doctor i didnt want to take it anymore. i had terrible mood swings, from depression to extreme joy. i would take it out on even my closest loved ones. my sexdrive also started to swing violently. i also had a swolen face and i bruised a lot easier. my blood was also a lot thinner. even when i cut myself shaving it would bleed for a half hour. i also became very tired and i couldnt concentrate. it helped my headaches though

Hi, My wife and I have been precribed Omnicef.. For my wife, she lost her voice and became violently ill throwing up for 2 hours.

For myself, it made my voice week and also gave me the chills.

just thought you may want to know.

I was perscribed 500 mg. Levaquin after Amoxoxillin didn't end an ear infection. I only took one pill. Within a couple hours I had diarhea that stopped after two hours only to return the next morning after eating breakfast. The diarhea persisted throughout the day while I only drank clear pops and water. I had terrible cramping as well. I called my clinic and was told these are normal side effects and to take some Immodium for diarhea and Tums to calm my stomach. Then 24 hours after taking one dose of Levaquin, I began vomiting violently. After several hours of this, I began to have bloody stool and my husband called the on-call doctor. He perscribed Phenergan for nausea and vomiting and lots of liquid. I dosed on an off all night interupted by trips to the bathroom. The vomiting finally stopped the next evening and the diarhea the next morning.
I was not warned of the side effects or given alternative treatments. This was three days of living hell!!!
AJ

I took this drug for three days and on the third day I was so sick that I could not ingest the slighest ammount of room temp water without vomiting violently for an exteded ammount of time. Upon informing my doctor of this he imediately changed my meds and told me that he had several other patients report the same problem but upon relaying the information to the drug rep that had given him the samples he was informed that it was not possible for this medication alone to cause such side effects unless they were mixed with other perscription drugs. I, however, beg to differ as I was not taking any other perscription or non perscription drugs in combination. The pain relief was very comperable to Loratab but the side effects make it not worth taking. Judging from the way I felt I feel like it is the caffiene in the drug that is causing the problems but that is only my opinion.

Thank You
Richard Norton
Oklahoma City Oklahoma

Please feel free to contact me if you have any suggestions as I still have several of the pills left and due to cost really don't want to have to flush them.

Thanks Again.

After 1 1/2 pills I became excessively hot and vomited violently for more than an hour. After vomiting stopped I bcame cold. I felt blotted and gasy. It has left me feeling very weak. It also affected my appitite. BAD STUFF!