Lisinopril and numbness

Well since we are taking snake venom, here are the symptoms for a snake bite:
* bloody wound discharge
* fang marks in the skin and swelling at the site of the bite
* severe localized pain
* diarrhea
* burning
* convulsions
* fainting
* dizziness
* weakness
* blurred vision
* excessive sweating
* fever
* increased thirst
* loss of muscle coordination
* nausea and vomiting
* numbness and tingling
* rapid pulse

I was diagnosed with diabetes last July. I just started to see a new doctor and she put me on Lisinopril. After a week and a half taking Lisinopril, I started to get most of the side effects that everyone had posted plus two more. My left forearm and hand started to go numb, but in a tingly numbness, like it had fallen asleep or rested against something. The second side effect, my blood sugar for the past 4 months was starting to be at its best and the Lisinopril made me spike into the high 300 range. I just decided on myself to quit taking it about 4 days ago and seems everything is coming back to the state before I got put on the pill.

Took Lisinopril for one week, this was the only medication I was on at the time. I experienced light headiness, dizziness, motion sickness, rapid heart beat, chest pain, shortness of breath, numbness in my hands and arms. I suffer from some sort of bowel disorder, I have anywhere from 6 to 12 bowel movements a day normally, Lisinopril disrupted my bowels - they became totally unpredictable - make for the worse week of my life. My mother died the month before and I was already depressed, under enormous stress and most likely suffering from some sort of trauma disorder (PTSD) from watching my mother die in ICU screaming for 42 day. I became suicidal, to the point of sticking the gun in my mouth and cocking it. Guess I just don't have the guts to pull the trigger. I can sincerely say Lisinopril has changed me and it ain't for the better.

I've been on Lisinopril for a couple to three years. I often get tingling and numbness in my arms when I sleep. Also, my sense of smell diminished
greatly. I've now gone off the 5 ml. and am noticing my SENSE OF SMELL is much better!! Has anyone had this problem?? My hands swelled badly too, and that has improved too. Cough all gone. I'm monitoring with a bp monitor, and my pressure is normal. Exercise and good diet seem to be working.
Am so glad to have my sense of smell back after years!!!!

My father stared on lisinopril on Friday, on Monday his tongue swelled so badly that he lost his airway and by Tuesday he was legally brain dead from lack of oxygen secondary to tongue swelling. Thanks lisinopril for taking my dad.

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?

Hi,

My husband is 41 years old, and he has been on Lisinopril 20 mg for about 6 months. He is experiencing dizziness, numbness on his feet due to that he is unable to walk at times. He also has chest pain in the morning, which wakes him up and lack of sleep at times and memory loss. Since he has been taking this medication he is experiences extreme tiredness. The worst of all is the palpitations. The doctors are unable to find anything wrong with him. He had Cardiac Catheterization, and stress test and all come back normal. We do not know what do at this time.

Regards,

Approximately 3 months ago, I was prescribed a daily 10 mg dosage of Lisinopril which I've been taking before bed. Last night was the last straw... I anxiously took another baby Aspirin and lay there wondering if I needed to wake my husband. I really thought that maybe I was preventing or reducing a heart attack as my chest pains had become un-nerving. This has been going on for weeks on and off.

To name a few, various other symptoms combined with last night’s symptom-related anxiety are telling..... Coughing, chest pains, nausea, vomiting, light headedness, headaches (including Ice-Pick headaches), numbness in my toes, nasty stomach aches, and the very tangible anxiety and stress caused by some of the symptoms, particularly the chest pains. I’m so appreciative to have found this site and I truly thank God. To read the postings and matched other’s experiences with my own... It’s a real wake-up call! Last night, I vowed to start exercising daily & eating better. I’m going back to see the Doctor to evaluate and get off this med. I am relatively young but overweight and inactive with only recent elevated BP, which is believed to be transitory and stress related. Regardless, I just read...“if you're overweight, losing weight usually helps lower blood pressure. Regular exercise is a good way to lose weight. It also seems to lower high blood pressure by itself” (http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/common/heartdisease/risk/092.html). As the saying goes, “The “cure” can be worse than the cause”.... might well be true with me and Lisinopril. I hope this post will help as so many others did for me. Now I’m off for my walk.... Blessings and health to you all.

I stopped taking lisinopril for a week now. It was my own decision. I've had it for only three weeks. I thought this was a miracle drug for me coz it really worked for me the very first day I took it and it was really easy on the pocket considering I don't have an insurance. My reading was in the 90+/70+. I was really happy w/ my BP for a while.

Currently, I am trying to observe my body if some of the symptoms I've had (which others have also mentioned here) are just my imagination/due to my paranoia or are really side effects of this drug. I've had mild dry cough especially at night (well I thought it was because of the dry air here in Vegas), nausea, loss of appetite, weight loss, dizziness (especially if i stand up from a sitting or lying position which at one point almost made me faint), weakness/fatigue, pain in the shoulder, numbness in the left toes at first then on the day before i last took it, the numbness started creeping up into my left foot and calf. That last symptom really worried me the most coz I thought I was gonna have a stroke or something. When I checked my bp it was way too low 88/64! I thought my monitor was broke or something coz at first it's always making an error. I guess my BP was too abnormal for it.

Tomorrow, I'm planning on calling my doctor to report my symptoms, observations and probably share what I've read on this forum. I was on avapro before my doctor switched me to this one coz after my pregnancy, it doesn't seem to be working on me for a while. I guess I would suggest to him to put me back on avapro and will try to have a better/healthier lifestyle i.e., regular exercise, more fruits and vegetables, less sodium, more fluid intake, good sleeping pattern and better outlook in life for better stress management.

Btw, many thanks to this site and to all who posted their side effects. This somehow gave me some reassurance that I'm not going' crazy about what I've been feeling while taking this drug. Felt like I'm taking a 'killing me softly drug' after all.

I was prescribed 5 mg. Lisinopril at the end of September. It took a couple of months for the cough to develop but it came on very suddenly and uncontrollably. I would have to bring bottled water and cough drops with me everywhere because it would come on so quickly. The doctor said it was bronchitis and prescribed zithromax. Still no relief from the cough. I was also having lightheadedness, joint pain and numbness in my fingers. I went back to the doctor after another month of coughing and was prescribed more zithromax and tussionex cough medicine ($50 a bottle) and was diagnosed with a winter cold even though I told the doctor I had no cold symptoms. I called the doctor after finishing the antibiotics and told her the cough was still the same. She wanted to give me yet another dose of zithromax which I said I didn't want because I did not feel sick and did not want to keep taking antibiotics so she told me she would give me an RX for allergy medicine which I never picked up. At this point I was so upset I went for a second opinion and was immediately taken off the Lisinopril. It took a little more than 2 weeks but the cough and all the other symptoms have now completely disappeared. I trusted this doctor but my body was telling me that something was not right and I'm glad I finally found out it was the lisinopril.

I developed hbp during pregnancy with my first child, after delivery the bp continued to stay up for about four months and then it went back down to a safe level. Six yrs later I became pregnant with my second child and my bp spiked again. Once again, after delivery, my bp went even higher. I tried a calcium channel blocker which gave me SEVERE headaches and then was put on a beta blocker. The beta blocker had no side effects but my bp was still out of control. My GP tried me on Lisinopril 10 mg in November 07. Since then I have had abdominal pain, loss of concentration, fatigue, leg and arm pain and numbness that is slowly worsening, dry, hacking cough, loss of sleep, strange thoughts of losing family members, etc....When I spoke to my GP about these new symptoms, I was told I have reflux, even though I never get heartburn and get this...POST PARTUM DEPRESSION! Oh, I am so sick of the "D" word. I never have thoughts of hurting myself or my kids, not to mention, I'm the happiest person I know. I'm really convinced now that these symptoms are all due to the Lisinopril b/c it all started around that time. The cough can be so embarrassing. I work in health care and will start hacking in the middle of an exam with a patient. It comes off as really unprofessional and it bothers me a lot. I see him next week and will discuss this with him. I am kind of discouraged b/c my bp is totally out of control w/o meds and this is the second one that has caused major side effects that has actually helped my b/p.

I am 60 years old and have been on Lisinopril for about a year. I have experienced the nagging cough (day and night), numbness in my arms and hands and occasional unexplained hives. I was suspicious of meds causing the cough, and now I can say it's likely the Lisinopril. I also have poor quality of sleep, due to coughing and numbness in upper extremities waking me up.
On the plus side, my blood pressure is under control. :-)
Linda, Oshkosh WI

I was wondering if any of you are experiencing tingling in your hands and feet, which increases during sleep. I have been on this medication for two months and have just started noticing this sensation.

I have been taking Lisinopril 40mg.for about 4 months now for high BP. It works very well for the BP issue. Since I have started taking it I have had the dry cough, but its not so bad that I would have change anything because of the fact that it IS helping my BP. I have also noticed that I have been getting the numbness in my arms mostly my left. My Nephrologist mentioned that its Steal Syndrom caused from my Fistula Creation (dialysis access). After reading these posted side affects I think its from Lisinopril. ALSO, in the past 2 months I have been getting acne. First thought it was from my diet, but I have not changed anything in my diet. Its almost like my body is trying to get rid of something in my system. This is not the ordinary acne problem, this is on my face, back of my neck(hairline), on my shoulders and back. The "acne" gets very bad and when I get something out of the sores it has a very strong metallic type smell. Also, I am experiencing the itching, which has been getting worse the past few days. As of today I will NOT be taking any more Lisinopril. I am certain Lisinopril is the cause of all of my problems. Has anyone experienced acne from this product??

Thanks,
Shawn
36yo, Minnesota

My 82 year old brother was put on 40 mg of Lisinopril to lower his blood pressure. He was already taking Atenolol (50 mg) and also taking Simvastatin (40 mg) for cholesterol. With in two (2) days his fingers started going numb and hurting. It took us about 5 weeks to realize the systems started right after he started on Lisinopril. By that time all his fingers were numb and tingling, with lots of pain. He also had, nausea, shortness of breath, & upset stomach with diarrhea. After reading the same side effects on the website, he immediately stopped the Lisinopril. Most of the systems stopped fairly soon after stopping the Lisinopril except the numbness, pain & tingling in the hands. It has been over 2 months and with some alternative treatments he is finally seeing some relief from the hand problems.

This was my husband's experience, not mine. He started Lisinopril in October of 2007. After one month he started having anxiety/panic attacks, started having trouble concentrating on reading (which he loved), his memory was shot, he didn't sleep well, he lost his sense of humor. After two months, in one week's time, he spiraled into such a deep depression that he ended up taking his own life. I'm convinced it was because of the combination of Lisinopril, diuretic and Statin he was taking. He was a different person after adding Lisinopril and Simvastatin to his diuretic medication.

I haave been on lisinopril for 3.5 yrs. I have mostly OK with it. But I do have the dry cough-I haven't slept the whole night in all that time. I also have the numbness in my pinky--but a Orthopeadic Dr said I have Cubital tunnel syndrome which is why it does that. I am dizzy once in a while.
Bur lately I have vibrating "floaters" in my eyes if I do anything strenous.

Not being able to get a full night's rest is the worst effect for me. Have recently noticed stronger numbness in the pinky finger and lower arm. Doctor thinks that is an irritated Ulnar nerve. Random chest pains have caused me enough concern to go to the emergency room twice. Second time led to a heart catheterization. No blockage, so the cardilogist said "now you can have all the chest pain you want". Gee, great.

I checked the website http://www.lisinopril.com/lisinopril_pictures/ and see there are 5 or 6 manufacturers of this generic. I'm sure they'd say all generics are alike, but maybe I should try a different pharmacy with a different generic brand. Six people can use the same recipe for chocolate chip cookies and end up with 6 different tasting cookies.

I may ask my doctor about prescribing the real deal instead of the generic. I see very few side effects listed on this site for those. Of course, that could be because most health insurance plans want to pay for the generics.

Hello,
I am a 37 yr old male and have been on Lisinopril 20/25 for about 6 months now. I was asked to switch because the medication I was on before was not approved by my insurance carrier and this medicine is one tenth the cost.
I have never really put all of this together until I found this site. I have become increasingly confused and find normal tasks more difficult. I have always struggled with slight depression and anxiety but it has become much worse. (One of the side effects I knew nothing about before this site.) I constantly have the feeling I am going to dye or that something terrible is going to happen to me or my family.
My wife asked me yesterday if I felt that I was more confused lately and she said I was not acting myself for the last few months. Now I may know the validity of that question.
My other bothersome side affects are the feeling of a lump in my throat that I can not cough out; irregular heart beat and occasional high BP with pounding heart beat; Numbness in one or both hands; Mood swings and loss of patience.
I have just attributed these symptoms to getting older but now I know I am not going crazy!!!! Thank God for this site.
Good luck to everyone else...

I have read a ton of the posts in this category. I have been taking Lisinopril as an addition to my regular blood pressure medication for approximately 3 years, with absolutely no problems. My 10mg was increased to 20mg a week ago. Still no problems. It has only helped me. If there are any changes, I will definitely post it. I believe that symptoms can arise from reading an article. I actually know a couple people who read things, and suddenly they are convinced they have the problem or disease referenced. I call it an Epidemic of Diagnoses. Always seek a doctors advice before stopping medications. Stopping suddenly on certain drugs, can be more dangerous than taking them.

I have had numbness in my face. I sleep a lot. Total nightmares, suicidal thoughts. Feeling of dread something really bad is about to happen. Anxiety, Crying spells, which I'm sure come from the bottomless pit of depression it has caused in me. My 5 year old asked me where her other Mommy is. Yes.. My daughter can even tell.

My hair is falling out. I have lost most of my eyebrows.

I'm calling my doctor Monday, getting switched and I'm going to do a lot of investigating about this crap. I am really wondering about suicidal risk of this stuff. Maybe another little drug cover up. I really believe that depression and suicidal thoughts should be clearly stated to potential consumers.

And now I am really mad about this.

Kim Age 47 taking for 2 months now and my side effects seem to just mount.

Hello. I started taking lisinopril 20 mg about 1.5 months ago because of hbp and I also started taking toprol for rapid heart beat 1/2 a month before that. Although it did lower my hbp it made me feel lousy. I started getting anxiety all the time, aches in my body (stomach etc), nausea, dizziness, spaced out, and numbness in my hands. My father passed away about 2.5 months ago and so I figured that the anxiety was something normal given the circumstances. I thought that the other side effects were part of the anxiety. I felt as thought I was going to go crazy or die. I also started to become a hypocondriac thinking that if I had a pain in my stomach it might be stomach cancer etc. It was not until I found this site that I see that lisinopril and/or the toprol might be the thing that is causing me to feel lousy. I was always healthy and I never had anxiety. I understand that I shoud feel a little anxiety and sadness because of my father, but I don't feel a little anxiety, I get intense panic attacks. I feel as thought I can't get back to normal, I just feel as though I'm not myself. I want to stop this meds as soon as possible before I, too, get worse side effects. Please let me know if you all think that it is the medications or is this just part of the griving process. All I know is that I started taking this pills and all this started to happen.

Here it is almost 1 in the morning and my fiance and I are worried sick thinking that my soon to be mother in law was either having a stroke or heart attack...this site may very well be a life saver!!for us all. After going to varoius websites trying to narrow down my mohter in laws symptoms and her refusal to go to the ER .....we went to the medicine cabinet and began to look up side effects of her prescriptions...and wouln't you know it there is the bottle of Lisinopril....I am scheduled to go the Dr. with my mother in law tomorrow and I will be sure to take all this information and the bottle with me. Although, we are not 100% relieved I have some piece of mind knowing that she may not be suffering a stroke or heart attack!!!. The past three days she has been suffering from the chills. night sweats, numbness/pins nad needles in her arms, sever headache and nausea.....and she has been sleeping more than I have ever seen her sleep in my life!! and not to mention the coughing!!!After reading all the side effects that everyone else has posted the pieces of the puzzle are starting to fit! Thank you so much to everyone for sharing your information it has been most helpful and somewhat comforting....it just goes to show that as always prescriptions are a money making racket and drs will prescribe anything to anyone to make a buck!!!!
I am so happy to have found this site and all your postings!!!

I have found since taking this drug that my bowel movements are very difficult. I am not actually constipated, but feel almost impacted. I have never experience this problem before, and attribute it directly to this drug. I am curious if I am alone in this problem.

Thanks

how lucky am i , to have found this site...... started taking lisinopril about 5 years ago......... developed tinnitus.......... dizzy to the point, that i had to give up my garden. could not bend, and get up without almost passing out......... developed acid reflux. ( my cardiologist said it was from my hbp meds ) my reg dr. said " bull.".... he's nuts ) (sure on the staff at mass general, and he 's nuts ........)that was 6 mos. or so after starting lisinopril.......... now i have numbness from my elbow to my hands.. from my knee to my feet..........hands and feet warm...... cough........ cough has been worked up, as i am a smoker......... negative......has worsened in past year......... skin rash.. localized on back, but that all over feeling of itching........ new in past 6 months...... the big symptom.............. leg cramps......... so severe, i wake up crying at night., 3 to 4 times. so tired from no sleep..... cramps in back, hands....... after reading the comments on this site, i will call the pharmacist, and see if i can stop, or have to be weaned off........... i am 64, in excellent health . size 8....... used to run up the stairs in my home...... since starting all of the c--p, i feel as tho my health has gone downhill.......... thanks for all of the info from people like you.. this is a nasty drug.............. sue s
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I started taking Lisinopril for my bp about 2 1/2 months ago and even though it did lower my bp, I started having strange side-effects. It started out with drowsiness throughout the day, no matter how much sleep I got. And, waking up feeling drowsy even after 8-10 hours of sleep. Then, I started getting strange aches and pains throughout my body, like I was getting over a stomach flu. My asthma also flared up and I started having to use my inhaler for the first time in almost 15 years (usually I just need it after exercise.) The side-effects continued to get worse over the next months with increased fatigue, drowsiness, coughing, anxiety, muscle aches, poor concentration, feeling like my nerves were "shot," headache, weakness, tightness in my lungs, numbness in my hands and feet, and just plain feeling bad.
I made an appointment to see my doctor because I thought there was something seriously wrong with me. It crossed my mind that I might be feeling this way because of the Lisinopril. I stumbled across this website and after reading everyone's testimonials, I decided to stop the Lisinopril. I haven't taken it in 3 1/2 days, and I am already feeling much better. I would rather try a more holistic approach to lowering my bp then taking Lisinopril.
I hope this helps someone else out there who might be going through the same thing.

I have been taking lisinopril for about four months and my doctor increased my meds to 20mg from 10mg. Everything was fine except the tiredness so I take it at night before bed or I could not stay awake during the day. Then I wole up with numb feet one morning and just thought it was nothing as i get swelling when the weather gets warm. well the numbness is still there two weeks later. It is very uncomfortable and is moving up my legs and my arms and legs feel very tired and weak. Last night I counted the pills remaining from the last prescription refill and sure enough the amount left coinsides with the last refill, which by the way is a different manufacturer because the pills are a different color, shape and size. I went to the doctor this week and am waiting for the blood test results. I should know today. I am active and walk five days a week and work out at the Y three times a week. Has anyone else had funny feet problems?

I am a 39 yr old man who is physically active. I was put on lisinopril 10mg, 2 months ago. Ive been coughing bad ever since. living on cough drops and cough medicine at night. NO HELP! Found this web site because lack of sex drive since I started using this drug, I was also on flexeril for an old back injury that came back around do to physical life style and hard work. I checked side effects on both meds and found out both had an influence on lack of sex drive and ED. After reading many comments about lisinopril, I also have back cramps, numbness in stomach and weakness in legs. Also realized I've been gaining weight like crazy. Also due to cough I alot of trouble sleeping. THIS DRUG IS A NIGHTMARE

I've been taking 10 mg lisinopril for about 4 years and never noticed anything except hoarseness and that tickly cough which never goes away until you get rid of that tiny bit of phlegm. Lately, however, I have been a little dizzy and somwtimes really dizzy -- the dizziness seems to come from the back of my head where it meets the neck. Is this where most of you guys are getting it? I'd like to know because I get my meds from the VA and they are pretty resistant to changing medications. The probably would never give in unless I had some solid ammo to give them.

I have been on Lisinopril for 2 months and I'm a diabetic. I was put in the hospital for dizzy spells, they did all types of tests and could not find anything. I had to have help going to the bathroom and my meals prepared for me because I could do nothing. This medicine completely disabled me me!

I also have that irritating dry cough that comes out of nowhere.

Apart from the dizzy spells and almost passing out I have numbness & pain in my face, arm, and chest. I couldn't sit up for very long, I'd start feeling really weird, my stomach would go numb, trembling feeling in there, it would spread upward to my chest and I would get nauseated, then I had to lay down.

All these new problems are beginning to get me depressed.

I suggested the Lisinopril to my doctor if this could be the problem, he said no.

All these problems never started until I started taking this new drug and after reading many other posts on this forum and seeing that we have the same symptoms that this drug is not safe to use - AS OF TODAY NO MORE LISINOPRIL FOR ME!

I have been experiencing somem facial tics and numbness since I started taking the lisinopril. I too have a mild dry cough. Has anyone else had the "tic " issue?

I have been in this rx for nearly 8mos. I have a very nagging cough which I though as allergy related, a bothersome something in the right side of my throath that comes and goes, but causes me to kep a bottle of water near by. I get this strange feeling of numbness, or fullness in my head as well, as if I need to ly down immediately or pass out, this last temporaraily, but comes and goes, in addition I get a tingling in my leg area maybe some 20 minutes or so after taking, and some numbness. The weirdness is I have to sleep within 2 hours of taking even if I awake, It will make me very sleepy, and thats on a half pill. I really need to see my doctor. Until, we must take care of ourselves and one another.

I started taking Lisinopril 7 months ago, sometimes I feel numbness of the arm during the night. Two days ago I notice that my right foot had swollen. Apart from Lisinopril I also take Atenolol and Becotide inhaler for asthma. I am also talking half tablet of moduretic. please help, what could be causing my foot to swell

Reading the experiences of others has a way of telling us we're in the same boat. After having read several of the posts here, I understand SO clearly what has been going on with me. I had an angioplasty and a stent installed almost two years ago, and the doc put me on Lisinopril, Atenolol and a couple of cholesterol-lowering drugs (Niaspan and Lipitor have their issues too).
After several months, I began to experience the most horrific series of "colds" I've ever had. I sing in a band, and I'd begun to wonder if I was losing my voice (and my mind). Constant globs of mucus in the throat, and persistent coughing, especially at night, and I went through a box of facial tissue every few days.
About six months ago, I got a call from the doc saying that I should be taking half the dosage in the AM and half in the PM (he didn't offer any explanation as to why I wasn't told this at first). I don't know how it works, but the sore throat, coughing and overproduction of mucus has passed. I should mention also that I began taking Airborne effervescent health formula every time the symptoms began to return (even slightly) and this has helped tremendously.
Still, the double whammy of Atenolol and Lisinopril has its way with me. I occasionally experience nasty bouts of vertigo, extraordinary tiredness (even after a full night's sleep) and numbness in my arms and hands while sleeping. I suppose that's the price I have to pay for inheriting heart disease from my folks.

I've been taking Lisinopril for about 6 months and have never really feel right since...For the past week though, I have been feeling the worst I have ever felt..I have headaches, abdominal pain, dizziness,numbness or tingling in my arms and some on my head..Stiffness in my neck that makes my head feel really weird...Because of these side effects I have made my doctor change my meds...I just hope that his will fix what is wrong with me..By the way, I also read that Lisinopril was made from a poisonous snake in Brazil..Thats just great isn't it!!....

I am glad to find this web site. I have "Leaking Valves in my Heart" I do not have high blood pressure, I have low blood pressure, but my cardiologist prescribed Lisinopril 5mg to me anyway saying that it may help to reduce the pressure of the blood go into my heart, but dr. did not say anything about the coughing, after 4-5 days taking I developed coughing so bad, first I thought I had allergy, so I took allergy pill for 2 week but the coughing did not go away, I talk with some friend they told me it could be the Lisinopril, now I decided to stop using it. I also feel some numbness in my right arm & fingers, loss of sleep, tired. Do anyone use Lisinopril for heart problem like me?

I had been taking lisinopril for about a month when I began having nose bleeds and bleeding piles. My doctor insisted that it was not the lisinopril and pointed out the Plavix I was taking is a blood thinner. He didn't say it directly, but I inferred that he suggested I reduce the Plavix, which I did. But the bleeding has stilling continued irregually.
Then about a month ago, I woke up with tinkling in my hands and feet, although I sleep only on my back in my recliner. After several days of this, I check the info sheet that comes with the medication. It states that lisinopril may cause swelling of hands and feet. Since once before, when a pharmacist told me another medication could cause swelling of the extremities and when I got the numbness and tinkling I called and he confirmed it was the same thing.
Any way, I stopped the lisinopril completely and informed my doctor thru his medical assistant, who relayed that although the doctor doublted lisinopril was the cause, he cautioned that I keep checking my BP. (I have been taking Verapamil for seven years to control it, but this new doctor wanted the BP even lower, so he put me on lisinopril in addition.)
I stayed off it for ten days and the numbing of the hands and feet vanished. But to verify that it is the lisinopril, I took one pill two days ago and woke up with strong tinkling in my right hand and lesser amount in my left hand.
Even today, as I am writing this, I still experience tinkling or numbness in both hands.

I have been on Lisinopril for several years now however I have been noticing a pain in my left hand side and numbness in my hands. I plan to check with my doctor tomorrow see about changing meds only thing is that with 3 bp med and an persistent 180/110. I found this website while checking about the Calcium blocker and recognized some of the symptoms.

I have experienced:
Weight loss (10 lbs in 3 weeks) I am now 120 lbs, 57 yrs old
numbness and coldness of fingers and toes
dizziness, shortness of breath
fatique
I have been to the doctor but he didn't connecxt with Lisinopril
Thanks to your web site ..I know I am not dying.