I got off Diovan because of diminished energy, drowsiness, and al...

My boyfriend has been on this medication for 2 mos now, and he coughs so much he can hardly talk. And it keeps us both up at night with his coughing spells. He stopped taking it for 2 weeks and it didn't go away so he thought it wasn't the med. I told him I thought it was, but he won't listen. I want him to go back to the doctor and get something else but he won't. He is a smoker and thinks it's that, but he didn't cough like this until he started taking the Lisinopril. How long does it take for the coughing spells to stop, so I can tell him he didn't give it long enough? thanks. It also makes him very tired, and on his days off he sleeps all day, which is not like him at all.

I had the same problem with lisinopril for nearly 6 months. I found a handy little treatment by accident. I had some dental work done and had taken a vicodin and that seemed to suppress the cough. So I asked my doctor about it. She said that the cough is a side effect of lisinopril and the vicodin is a cough suppressant. She prescribed one vicodin at bedtime and my bp is down and I don't cough!