Today I decided that I am not taking Lisinopril anymore. I was si...

Today I decided that I am not taking Lisinopril anymore. I was sick with flu like symptoms about 2 months ago. I went to my doctor and and was treated for a bronchial infection. I was prescribed and antibiotic and also a blood pressure medicine. My blood pressure was high and had been for some time. The illness did leave but now I have new problems. For some reason the first bottle was a white pill, then changed pharmacy, and now a small peach colored pill. The side effects were worse on the white pill, less but still life altering on the peach pill. Since taking the medicine here are some of the things I have experienced. - severe coughing, so bad that my neck back and head where killing me; - loss of bladder (not sure if from coughing or additional side effect); - hair falling out; - tightness in my chest; - difficulty breathing (using inhaler multiply times a day vs. when sick or 2 or 3 times a year); - muscle pain; - memory loss (small black out periods with no recovery of the memory for that time); - feelings of dread; some intermittent periods of severe, some mild confusion; - sleeping so soundly did not hear people in my home all night, loud music, doors opening and closing, in my room standing next to me talking (normally a very light sleeper); - confusion for 15 to 20 minutes upon waking, did not know what time it was, where I was, what day; - falling asleep at desk of if parked in my car; - digestive issues, severe gas, intermittent watery stool and constipation; - short tempered, inability to cope with my normal ability to function in high stress level on job (I actually left my job of 8 years on a week ago); - strange feeling in the middle of forehead and intensifying to almost a muscle kind of pain just in the center. - the worst was the yesterday, I felt like I did not want to live...just like quitting, thank GOD my children love me so much that they kept trying to keep me engaged in conversation and stayed with me all afternoon until it finally passed. I did not take the medicine yesterday or today. I called my Dr. to have my chart updated today that I will NOT be taking this medicine anymore. I will walk everyday and get on a diet that is fat and salt restrictive, I want to live and do it sanely.