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Hi....I am a 48 year old male just starting on Lisinopril 10mg da...

Posted at 10:58 AM on Dec 29, 2008 by myring78, #37564
Hi....I am a 48 year old male just starting on Lisinopril 10mg daily. Have taken it for 7 days now. Blood pressure before was 184/120 in the doctors office. Have seen it spike to 200/129 at the dentist plus 220/149 at the Oral surgents office removing a tooth. First day of taking Lisinopril it knocked down my BP too 123/75 thought that was great. Since has mellowed out now at 140/90. Im sure on my second visit the DR. will up my dosage which I will question. So far reactions have been that scratchy throat right of the bat that everyone discribes. Plus my stomach just groals the first hour as it trys to disolve. Takes about 4 hour before I can see it lowers my pressure any. Have been trying different times of the day best I can to find the best time to take it which I now have settled on right after noon lunch about 1 hour works best. I also have had alot of tiredness from it, which is different from the weakness I also get from a condition they say I have called N.A.S.H. (non alcholic steatohepatitis ) which basically is too much fat in your liver that drains me of energy worse each year. But why I bring that up is the feeling is different a tiredness compared to a weakness feeling I dont seem to like. The weakness I can jack away with some caffine but this tiredness nothing seems to help so far. Have had some dizzyness getting up which is something I can live with til it makes me faint or fall at some point then I surly will cry wolf get me off this. Getting blood work done soon to see how it affects my liver counts will update you on that later.
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Reply 10 months ago on Dec 29, 2008 by famphil, #15570

HI - I posted a while back - but did not hear anything from anyone regarding liver enzymes. I am a 56 yr old female - blood pressure runs without meds about 160/90. My ALT levels started to rise about a year after taking Lisinopril ---- I was taking only 5mg for my blood pressure --- then my pressure started to rise - so was then inreased to 10mg -- after getting a high normal for ALT they had me repeat and right after going on the 10mg the ALT went even higher. I was sent to a gastro after an ultrasound showed everything was normal. I asked my internist if it was coincidental that my ALT went higher when I increased my Lisinopril -- she said she never hear of that - but had me go off for a week and see the gastro specialist -- he never heard that Lisinpril could cause that and refuses to believe that it does ------ and after being off of Lisinopril for 1 week my ALT levels went down. Went back on since my pressure was going up -- and of course the next test showed my ALT was high again. My interest has taken me off of Lisinopril and put me on a calcium channel blocker ----- I had an ALT test done 3 weeks after and my ALT is still not normal but has gone down............... I am to have another one in 4 weeks to see if it continues to go down. The specialist refuses to believe that Lisinopril has anything to do with it -- but yet can't find any other reason after many blood tests as to why my levels are increased. My levels were highest at 81. Please let me know what you find out regarding your levels -- I will be very interested to hear!!

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