This was my husband's experience, not mine. He started Lisinopri...

I am very sorry for your loss. I am also very sorry that your husband's life was cut short, and can only hope that hope that he is in a better place.

I have been reading this forum for several years ever since my experience with lisinopril, though found it too late to help me. I suffered for years after quitting and still have occasional problems like shortness of breath.

While I was on the med (for only three months), I suddenly developed severe agitation, way above and beyond ordinary worry even about life & death. I started to have panic attacks, especially around mealtime. As I look back on it, there was a plenty of reason for worry as I was developing this weird combination of pain and numbness in my digestive system, and started to have problems with my metabolism (shortness of breath, energy levels, etc...) along with a host of other problems. But still, above and beyond that the agitation was so great it was surely also directly induced by this med.

I also had much worse sleep than before, and, the loss of sense of humor.

After a while, having quit, I was able to control the panic attacks. Even though I was no longer having panic attacks, however, by then I felt generally so awful, achy, pained, wierdly numb yet in pain, all over, like I was hit by a truck, that for about a year, I would have gladly accepted death as an alternative, and said so to my wife several times.

It was an enormous struggle several more years to recover, and for at least a year, I was unsure if it was worth it because though some things had got better immediately after quitting, other side effects continued, and one or two kept getting worse.

Three and a half years later, though I am better, I am still not the same. Sometimes I get shortness of breath out of the blue. Those three months of lisinopril use changed my life forever. I expect I now have a substantially increased risk of other disease like cancer or heart disease. Still even though not all totally gone, all of the side effects have lessened and continue subsiding.

My deepest sympathies, and as always, best of luck to all.

I would suspect the simvastatin more than the lisinopril. I had no problems with the lisinpril. I had been taking it for over a year. However, just recently my doctor added simvastatin. In two weeks time I started suffering severe insomnia, anxiety, and panic attacks. I had never before in my life had anxiety panic attacks, or insomnia. I immediately contacted my doctor and stopped taking the simvastatin and the problems went away within 3-4 days.

SORRY I TOO THINK MY 48YO WIFE JUST DIED 7/01/08 BECAUSE OF THIS A THE THINGS ASSOCIATED PROBLEM WISE IVE READ AND SAW EACH OF THEM! WHAT RECOURSE IF ANY IS THERE TO TAKE?