Blood Pressure Medicine
MorganGeo
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Do any of you guys take it? I just got put on it a few months ago along with a lecture about losing some weight.
My questions is if you take it does it make you cough? My Dr. said it was a potential side effect. I have like a dry cough that is annoying and I think it's from the medicine. I take 10mg of Lisinopril.
My questions is if you take it does it make you cough? My Dr. said it was a potential side effect. I have like a dry cough that is annoying and I think it's from the medicine. I take 10mg of Lisinopril.
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King Lear
STOP NOW!
If lisinopril is making you cough it's not agreeing with you. STOP and see your Dr. immediately. The allergic reaction to lisinopril is angioedema. First symptom is a cough, then, even if you've been on it 20 years, sudden onset angioedema.
Seriously! I've seen people come to ER with their tongues so swollen that their teeth were cutting into their tongues!
THIS IS NOT A JOKE! I've seen it at least 20 times myself working ER.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
What is considered high blood pressure?
I guess I've never thought about it, because doc never mentions it.
They put the strap thing on, pump it up, write some numbers down and nothing is said. I know what they are, because when I got injured I asked if the numbers were bad, being broken up and all and they said they were fine.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
"I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke ever last one of 'em." - Ron White
i think the logic has always been you want it 120/80.
The medicine I know will work is to quit being a fat a ss and doing just a tad bit of exercise. It's just making myself do it is the problem
Exercise is tough for anyone who works. I do enough exercize at work.
Stressing about it doesn't help you.
One thing a buddy of mine does that helped him is he goes on a long walk during his cigar time. He walks about a mile a day. He's lost 20 lbs in 3 months.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
Cough is common, and by all accounts nothing to worry about if reasonable. I too take the same pill and get a cough or scratchy throat at times----unknown if related. My mother and grandmother (family has hx of BP issues) both took different pills and both suffered with the cough----mom still does. Doctor says, "its happens...the pill works well though, so unless its too much for you I don't want to change"
As far as what is high.....seems to be less and less every year. Used to be 150/90, then 140/90, not its like 135 over 85............Grandmother was on 3 different BP meds and hers was NEVER under 160/95---and I mean NEVER. Lived until she was 83 and died of cancer never having had a stroke, heart attack, etc. Go figure.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain