have been on Lisinopril/HCTZ for over a year with no side effect...

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Posted at 7:39 PM on Nov 29, 2008 by mdw3, #36959

have been on Lisinopril/HCTZ for over a year with no side effects. Last week I switched to Cartia XL because I am 29 and wanted to try to have a baby. The Cartia made me severely depressed so after four days I switched back to my Lisinopril/HCTZ until my follow-up appt. in three weeks. I took the Lisinopril/ HCTZ for two days. The first day I had a weezy cough. The second day I broke out in a rash that was unaffected by benadryl. I looked in OVID medical journal database and found that the symptoms of Lisinopril rash are rashes confined to the trunk, neck, and proximal limbs (closest to body) and are unaffected by Benadryl (because the rash is caused by luekotriene and not histamine reaction). I went to urgent care today and they gave me a benadryl shot and three prednisone pills with no effect. Then they gave me a IV drip with Zantac (the heartburn medicine but also can help with rashes). It helped some but I am back at home and the rash looks worse and still itches. This is horrible.

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Reply 10 months ago on Jan 07, 2009 by djg315, #15780

Please, please, please, I am not doctor, but you probably already know about not conceiving while on Lisinopril/HCTZ, but please also read up on Prednisone before allowing them to get you on it. I just happened along a forum today about this steroid and the side effects are more awful than Lisinopril/HCTZ and if you're on it too long, a lot of people are stuck for life because their adrenal glands which are put to 'sleep' don't ever wake up again. Just a warning since I read about it. You may not even be on it, I just caught the word in your post.

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Reply 10 months ago on Jan 07, 2009 by jamie77, #15806

Lisinopril stays in your system a long time and it will take weeks, if not MONTHS for you to recover from taking it. Side effects may come and go. For goodness sake....DO NOT try to conceive a baby till you are several months detoxed from Lisinopril!!! This is a highly dangerous drug.

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Reply 6 months ago on Apr 25, 2009 by melani731, #19195

I am reading about this medicine because my doctor gave it to me for high blood pressure and the paper that the pharmacy gave me with the medicine says it has sulfa in it which causes rashes if your allergic to it. I have been allergic to sulfa all my life I got a rash when I was a child and two of my children are allergic to it. I gave my son an antibiotic once that had sulfa in it and he broke out in a bad rash and itching. So maybe that could be why you had a rash.

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Reply 12 days ago on Oct 27, 2009 by ladyrich007, #23898

How do you make a post here?

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