Lisinopril and spells

I am so glad I found this web site because I knew my husband was going through changes and I knew something was wrong. He was having mood swings, talking crazy like he was going to dye and we were going to be harmed if we left the house. It was very strange and not like him. He was very impatient and he had a cough like something was in his throat. He would cough really hard. I know at times he had a very distant look and a look of confusion. I asked him what the doctor gave him for his blood pressure and it was Lisinopril. He has been using this medication for about three weeks and I told him today was his last day taking this medication. We are going to use apple cider vinegar to maintain his blood pressure, fruits and vegetables and regular exercise and see an alternative medicine doctor.

When I first started taking lisinopril, I had several episodes of dizziness and almost fainted. That was when I looked up the side effects and was alarmed to find out that it is made from the venom of a poisonous snake from Brazil. I stopped taking it for several months, but my blood pressure kept climbing, so finally decided to give it another try. It didn't give me any problems at first. Just before Christmas last year, I had a bad cough and congestion, for which the doctor prescribed antibiotics and cough syrup with codeine. The antibiotics did nothing for it, but the cough syrup finally gave me some relief. Since then, the congestion got a little better, then worse, with the good spells lasting only a few days, compared to the coughing getting worse and worse. Finally when my throat was very wheezy with every breath, I decided to check the symptoms of lisinopril again. I called my doctor and told her I wanted to go off of it and see if it helped. That was 10 days ago. My throat is clear now, but I still have a lot of lung congestion. The crazy thing is that my blood pressure kept going up in spite of taking lisinopril. I've been taking atenolol for years, and now the dr put me on lovaza, which brought my blood pressure down to normal within a day.
Another thing when I was taking lisinopril, I began to wonder if I had fibromyalgia because I had so much pain all over my body. I don't know it the lisinopril caused that, but I don't feel nearly as much pain since I quit taking it.