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I am in total shock!!! I have been at the hospital with my dad fo...

Posted at 4: 7 PM on Mar 19, 2009 by somuchpain, #40096
I am in total shock!!! I have been at the hospital with my dad for 9 days now and not one person can figure out whats going on. We came in through the ER with extreme pain redness and joint swelling in shoulders, hands, elbows, ankles. Thought it might be gout so they withdrew fluid from ankle that was milk colored, no gout crystals. He started lisinopril 5 weeks ago at 5 mg per day he was on Inderal LA before with no problems. The pain has moved through out his body and he now has generalized pain weakness. He was taking lipitor but has not taken for the last 8 days so I was thinking if it was the lipitor this would have stopped by now. They ruled out any bacterial infection, labs and blood cultures have all been clear. They started checking for off the wall crap viruses like yellow fever, west nile virus, parvo virus and denguey SP? He has not had a fever what so ever and has not been out of the country for 30 years. I am going to make sure he does NOT take this drug starting in the AM does anyone know how long before the side effects take to go away?
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Reply 8 months ago on Mar 19, 2009 by guest0222, #18235

For me, all these 'feeling like I got run over by a truck' feelings began subsiding in about 1 and 1/2 days, with some improvement noticeable on the next day, and getting a lot better day over day. After about a week there the improvement slows done; it slows again after a few weeks. After a while, it gets really slow. Some effects may never disappear. Suggest lots of minerals, especially trace minerals, and everything associated with the immune system and chemical detox support for the immune system, e.g. kelp is helpful as it has lots of trace minerals from the sea. A cal/mag/zinc might be good too.

Best of luck!

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Reply 18 days ago on Nov 19, 2009 by fredb, #24477

How did your father make out after stopped the Lisinopril?

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Reply 16 days ago on Nov 21, 2009 by somuchpain, #24504

We stopped the lisinopril on a Thursday and by Saturday afternnon we were out of the hospital. It took about two weeks for some of the pain that was in his joints to go away. Now he is fine, every once in a while he feels a little joint pain in his hands. When I told the nursing staff they were not to give him that morning dose of the lisinopril they were resistant. I had to become very short with them, but it worked. No wonder medicare is going bankrupt, I can only imagine what all the tests cost. I had to be the one that said "what are we doing different in the last 6 weeks" and with NO infection he had to have been having a reaction to something. should switch profile to no more pain.

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