Lisinopril and amlodipine 10 mg each once a day. No side effects.
Lisinopril here. Had the dry cough for the first few weeks/months, but it settled down. Lately, they’ve switched me to lisinopril + something (one pill) because my potassium level went too high - even though all of my other blood work has improved. I go tomorrow for labs to see if the switch is helping.
Lisinopril and bisoprolol here, been on them quite some time with no side effects that I can identify aside from one very beneficial one–beta blockers really help lessen anxiety symptoms and panic attacks should one be prone to such, which I am. I can’t take statins though, statin induced myopathy is a real thing for a lot of people.
It’s also used by dermatologists to treat acne in girls and young women, when other methods have failed and there’s evidence that they are possibly making too much testosterone.
Yes, it has many other uses. I was focusing on beneficial side effects for people taking it for high blood pressure.
I’m on 3 different BP medications and there are no side effects at all. A few years back, the doc took me off one and we started trying others which messed with me. I had swelling in hands and feet and generally felt like shit. After a visit to a cardiologist and a backdown from the GP I’m all good.
I take Coversyl, Cardizem and some Indapamide hemihydrate thing which is the diuretic.
Last time I checked the BP I got 117 over 75. Before I quit working I’d regularly get 155/100.
I’ve been on Atorvastatin for about seven years now and I haven’t had any noticible side affects at all.
That’s a statin for cholesterol, not a BP med.
That’s interesting, I started on lisinopril two years ago and got the dry coughs. It was never a coughing fit like you get when you’re sick, more like the occasional throat itch that can only be scratched by a couple good coughs. Still, it was probably two or three times an hour. Because of that, raising the dosage wasn’t an option to get my BP lower, so the doc added hydrochlorothiazide instead. Being a diuretic I take that in the morning and don’t notice having to pee any more than before. If I took it in the evening I probably would. In any case, the coughing has also subsided a lot, down to only a couple times a day.
On a side note, although I try to substitute salt where I can at home, I don’t really do much otherwise. My mom is apparently super salt sensitive, and my dad isn’t at all. Doctors seem to just blanket blame salt for high BP even if it’s not actually a factor for the patient’s physiology, I guess because it’s hard to test for in the office.
I’ve been on HCTZ for maybe 35 years now, plus Losartan for maybe 10 years, plus Amlodipine for maybe 5 years. Other than peeing more frequently for a few hours after the HCTZ, I don’t notice any side effects.
A few folks are posting about statins. They’re an interesting subject regarding side effects, but they’re not blood pressure medications.
I’ve heard that near the end of life some people seem to have a sudden big improvement in overall health, mystifying those around them, which is actually explained because many medications they’ve been taking for years get dropped at the end. Some problems that seemed to be permanent health conditions, in other words, were actually side effects that now go away. This makes me wonder: would I enjoy any benefits if I stopped all the BP meds? I wouldn’t consider doing this experiment unless it had been blessed by my GP, but it could be useful even if only a temporary experiment, as it might direct us toward finding other meds with less side effect. Something to wonder about…
Losartan Potassium is my favorite. Used to be the brand name Cozar, been taking that for many years without any side effects. Enough Metoprolol Succinate to kill a horse, for the atrial fibrilation, which is persistant and permanent. Spironolactone, mainly as a water pill that does not deplete the minerals in the body. Digoxin for heart rate.
I feel just fine, am fully active and have no side effects other than my hair is returning to dark brown with only a little grey, it was fully grey, I think that is from the spiro. Heart is improving, semi-annual echo-cardiogram next week.
Took lisinopril in the past and will never take that again due to the persistant tickle in my throat.
I quit drinking beer and lost 70 lbs, so I have no need for blood pressure medication any more!
Currently metoprolol tartrate and Losartan. Stopped amlodipine recently and used to take metoprolol succinate. No side effects from any of them.
No, it’s true. I love grapefruit, so it’s been hard on me. That’s been the extent of my issues with taking BP medicine.
Yes, these are the two I’m on.
My older sister has always been very thin (the bitch!) and drinking beer is her way to bring her weight up if it’s getting too low.
The first med they gave me caused a lot of coughing (lisinopril). What it actually caused was itchy throat, the coughing was just me trying to relieve it. The one I am currently on (amlodipine) has no side effects that i can tell.
Hah on the itchy throat: It really felt like my trachea was itchy on the inside. I told my doctor that I was beginning to have very weird fantasies involving a bottle brush (to scratch the itch).
For me, though, the coughing was mostly at night, and my GERD symptoms seemed overall worse, as well, which was what led the doc down the path of “It’s your GERD, not the lisinopril!”.
I take three different meds for it. I cough, but that’s from the forced air heating system and allergies. I have joint pain, but that’s from the arthritis. No headaches or other issues. I’ve been on these meds for quite a long time.
“No beer” would seem to be a pretty serious side effect, nay an INTOLERABLE one, for many!
I’m grateful that my meds don’t seem to have any contraindications like grapefruit. My mother was put on something which meant she couldn’t have grapefruit any more, and she was really sad, as she loved it. I can’t help wondering if they might have been able to give her something else instead.
Then again, I don’t know what logic goes into which med (or class of meds) to try. I know my asthma doc was concerned over putting me on a beta blocker as that can, apparently, cause issues with asthma, but it’s turned out to be a nonproblem.
My PCP was away on vacation when my first gout episode happened. I was 99% sure it was gout, but wanted bloodwork to confirm, so I made an appointment with a woman in my OCP’s practice.
She told me I had gout. She asked if I drank beer and I told her I did. She told me I MUST STOP. I told her that wasn’t going to happen and she went absolutely nuts on me.
I had blood drawn. When I saw my PCP to discuss the results he told me the doctor I saw gave him all kinds of shit for allowing me to “get away with bad behavior”.
I still drink beer. I drink gallons of water though, and I’m doing fine.
I take Lotrel generic (amlodipine/benazepril.) About ten years ago I walked into my doctor’s office with a bp of 180/110. I have “white coat syndrome” and he was able to get it down to 170/100. I have always had elevated pressure, and at that time I was fit as a fiddle running 6 miles 5 days a week and 12-13 miles once a week. He put me on the stuff, and I was lethargic the first week or so, but after that, no issues that I could tell. And it’s got my blood pressure down to the 120-140/80-90 range and I’ve never had to increase my dosage in the last ten years. (It also literally worked the first day I took it. My blood pressure got down to 120/80 which I do not recall it ever being in my life.)
So some initial lethargy was the only side affect for me. It’s a calcium-channnel blocker and an ACE inhibitor.