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Experiencing adverse reactions to blood pressure medication: Metropol
Transplants | Last Active: Dec 6, 2019 | Replies (18)Comment receiving replies
My main problem is dizziness and dull headache, but I have no idea which of the six drugs I swallow every day might cause it. Mainly, the blood pressure meds are not getting my pressure down. It causes anxiety to have consistent readings of 165/95 while taking two different drugs that are supposed to lower it. Pre-trqnsplant I was never over 130/80, usually much lower. Now I'm getting a new drug for anxiety. Yikes! They tell me to be patient, things will change, so I am patient, (but anxious). What I understand about it is that the immunopressants affect the kidneys. The kidneys produce hormones that regulate blood pressure (among other things).
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I am sorry to hear that your blood pressure remains high. I am new to this form. I take Lisinopril and Metoprolol for my hypertension. It takes care of it. But lately I have been getting many headaches and I sweat like it's 100 degrees inside. I change clothes several times a day cause they are wet. And man does it feel uncomfortable.
It could be attributed to the other 14 prescriptions I am taking. I don't know. I am not sure if I want to be a living donor or not. I feel like I should but not sure what my grown kids would say.
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@mostlybill I was on blood pressure medication back around 2011 - 2014 then I got off of it because one doctor thought some of my meds could be causing the confusion that turned out to be HE. Now my BP is high again and my PCP is pushing to get me on a medication again. What I learned though is that if you had cirrhosis, as I did, it tends to make your BP be lower. I had no idea that was the case prior to transplant and I was feeling positively smug at how good my BP was! Now the systolic pressure is often in the 130s and the diastolic is usually in the 60s or 70s. Sometimes the systolic does go up into the 150s though so that is why he is concerned.
JK