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I am a 34 y/o male who started taking 10mg/day of lisinopril on M...

Posted at 9: 8 PM on Jun 07, 2008 by phils97gt, #31186
I am a 34 y/o male who started taking 10mg/day of lisinopril on May 15th. My blood pressure at the time was 140/118, pretty high I guess! I was feeling it too in the form of headaches. The doc wrote the script for me and I filled it that night. I should also mention that this is not the first time I have taken Lisinopril. I stopped taking it back in March because the script ran out. I don't seem to recall any kind of side-effects the first time, but I could be wrong. Anyway, I also take Levoxyl for my hypothyroidism, and it is a pretty hefty dose, 225mcg a day. So, for the first week, I was doing pretty good on it. No coughing, or any of the listed side effects listed for the med. Then, about a week into it, I started having numbness in the right three toes on my right foot. When I say numb, I don't mean I could not feel anything, it was like touching your skin with a t-shirt over it. I could feel it, just kind of topically numb. I had a 'patch' of this numb skin right behind those same three toes and several other areas up the front and back of my right calve. I delt with this for a few days, thinking it was my shoes I was wearing at work. They were pretty worn out on the outer edges. I got new shoes on Monday, June 2nd. I wore them to work on the next day. At the end of the day, my calves felt kind of tired. The next day, they felt kind of tired still. I found this sort of weird. From that point on, my high anxiety really kicked in. I don't want to mention the thoughts I am having about what it could be that is causing this. I forgot to mention that I have not been sleeping well lately either since I started taking the Lisinppril again. I guess overall, I feel exhausted and weak. More so in my legs. To add to it, my lower back hurts like mad. I have two herniated discs and mild arthritis in it from damage from years ago. Also, for the past week, a pain has been developing in my left shoulder blade in my back. It is worse in the morning, and had gradually been getting worse for about a week. Today, it was awful. I have ready a lot of the messages about the side effects different people are having. My question is, has anyone ever been on the lisinopril, gone off of it for whatever reason, having had no bad side effects, then gone back on it only to start having these bad side effects that you did not have before? I have stopped taking the lisinopril on the 5th and have a doctor's appointment on the 9th to find out what is going on. I don't feel good at all. Can anyone relate?
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Reply 5 months ago on Jun 08, 2008 by mikkosgirl, #9017

I have people call into the pharmacy all the time complaining of similar issues. Are you taking any other medications? It sounds more like its the levoxyl than the lisinopril, but the two together can sometimes aggrevate the blood pressue. Hyperthyroidism is something you want to look for too. Try to talk to your doc about alt. meds to take. Synthroid (brand l-thyroxine) can be hard on the system. Good luck, I hope you feel better.

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Reply 5 months ago on Jun 20, 2008 by solitaire42001, #9346

Please see my posting on Jun 20, 2008 by solitaire42001. I didn't have side effects the first time around with Lisinopril. I switched to another BPM about one and a half years ago for cost reasons. About 10 days ago I switched back to Lisinopril and feel like crap all the time (see my posting). I'm switching back to Atacand ASAP. Hopefully, the Atacand side effects won't materialize like they did with Lisinopril.

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