PRINIVIL Reviews (LISINOPRIL)Average Rating: 2.3 (177 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare PRINIVIL with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR PRINIVIL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Occassional hi blood pressure | At first I experienced no side effects, not even the dreaded cough. But somewhere in the beginning of the second year I began experiencing extreme depression, fainting spells, low pulse, a general sense of unwellness and a continuous ache in the area just below my breastbone. | I was told these symptoms were probably related to Carvedilol, which I was taking at the same time. Cut the dosage of Carvedilol by half, made no difference. Finally I couldn't stand the general feeling of unwellness any more, so went to another doctor, who gave me an abdominal ultrasound. Her diagnosis was sludge in the gallbladder. I know everyone my age has sludge in the gallbladder, so I started looking for other causes. After reading this site, I quit the Lisinopril. I felt better within days, all symptoms of tiredness and unwellness gone. I would not recommend that anyone take this drug for granted. It can sneak up on you. | M | 70 | 2 years 20 mg 1X day | 2/12/2010 | 4 | High BP | My BP had been creeping up slowly the last few years. Since I'm thin, don't smoke, limit my salt, exercise regularly and eat mostly a light Mediterranean diet, there weren't any lifestyle adjustments I could make. So, my doctor suggested Lisinopril. The first few days on the drug were rough. I was weak, very tired, had chills and felt unwell. At night there was a pressure in my head that made it difficult to sleep. I also had a tickle in my throat that caused an occasional cough. On the fourth day I began to feel human again. Slowly the side effects have modulated so that the only thing I notice now is that I tire out easily. | My pressure dropped from 178/100 to 90/60 the first day. So, I decided to tough it out and try to adjust. And I have. My BP has stabilized at round 115/75, which I'm satisfied with. I'm hoping that the longer I take it the less tired I will be. | F | 60 | 2 weeks 10 MG 1X day | 2/9/2010 | 3 | heart failure, hypertension | no side effects but no real control | I have to check pressure before taking this med because sometimes my numbers are very low, too low, and I feel too ill to get off the sofa if I take the prescribed dose. Other times the numbers are sky high even though I have taken it regularly. So where's the control it is supposed to be providing? | F | 68 | 1.5 years | 1/31/2010 | 1 | hypertension | allergic reaction to medication included excessive swelling of face and eyes, chest pain, arm pain | Didn't feel too great about 3 hours after first dose, then progressively got worse until day 3 of meds after which my doctor finally said to stop taking it. | F | 39 | 3 days | 1/31/2010 | 1 | High blood pressure | Dry hacking cough that would not go away. Bothered my work. Coughed so much that I couldn't sleep. But I have other side effects that others may also have but don't attribute to this awful, awful drug. One side effect is that my allergy symptoms increased. I would sneeze hard 5-10 times in a row and have these sneezing spells 4-5 times a day. I would even wake up at night to sneeze. Nothing helped with the sneezing - not Benadryl, not Zyrtec, not Sudafed, not Coricidin. I was stuffed up continuously, all the time that I am coughing. Sometimes I could tell that the coughing was triggering the sneezing. The sneezing stopped immediately after stopping this horrible drug. I experienced tingling in my hands and feet as well as warmth in my hands and feet occassionally. That stopped when I stopped this drug. But the weirdest side effect that I had was that I felt my feet were cold when in fact they were very warm. I wore double socks to bed even in the summer and my feet felt cold | The whole reason I am writing this is to help some poor suffering soul that is coughing a lot,sneezing a lot, feeling cold or having other weird sensations and can't figure out why. The drug made my life miserable. Oh, almost forgot the most important thing. It didn't do anything for my mildly high BP. In fact, with so much coughing and hard sneezing so frequently, my BP went up!! I know every drug has side effects but this drug is worthless. Now on Cozaar. Wondering what problems it will cause. | F | 63 | 9 months | 1/12/2010 | 1 | High Blood Pressure | COUGH, COUGH, COUGH! Constant coughing. | After reading all the coughing comments, I realized it was the medication that was making me cough. Doctor changed to a different med, and I IMMEDIATELY STOPPED COUGHING. | M | 62 | 1 years | 12/24/2009 | 1 | HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE | Coughing, Coughing and more Coughing! Dizziness and heart flutter when I lay down to try to sleep -- although sleep didn't happen because of the constant coughing. | Miserable existence with the coughing. Nothing would stop it (no cough meds.). Lived with a cough drop in my mouth, even while I tried to sleep. | F | 48 | 8 weeks | 12/22/2009 | 1 | HBP | Dry cough. So bad it keeps the whole house up. Especially bad in evenings and at 5am (of course). Off for a week now and still coughing (was told can take 2 weeks to go away) | Every person I have met/know who has taken this poison has had the cough. Some doctors are clueless and the cough...my pharmacist new all to well about the "lisinopril cough" though. I'm trying old school diuretic + diltiazem for now. If that's not successful here in a couple weeks the cardioligist wants me to try Avapro. | M | 36 | 5 weeks | 12/1/2009 | 3 | High Blood Pressure | persistent dry cough...always felt like I had a "tickle" in my throat just below the Adam's apple. Also had weird short term memory issues, like I wasn't "in the moment," such as walking away from an ATM machine with my card still in it (I had my ATM card replaced 4 times because of this). | Finally got sick of it and stopped taking it. Doc put me on 8mg of Atacand and in combination with some great whole food supplements, I feel great now but won't take Lisinopril again. My 65 yr old father has been on this drug for 15 years and has a dry cough all the time too. | M | 39 | 3 months | 11/13/2009 | 4 | hypertension 140+/90's | dry throat, difficulty swallowing, fatigue | I am also taking metoprolol, so I do not think my now normal BP's are entirely due to lisinopril. My doctor prescribed it for the kidney-saving effect in a type 2 diabetic. | F | 63 | 2 years | 10/6/2009 | 1 | High BP | blinding headache, sweats, clamminess, nausea, faintness, exhaustion, horrible tablets. | F | 37 | 1 days | 9/12/2009 | 3 | Lisinopril | This brought my BP down but I developed the dry cough and itching. But not to the extent that some have claimed. At least not yet. I also take Crestor which causes it's own problems. | I am 74 and I felt good until I began taking Crestor and Lisinopril. I now feel like I'm am 85 or more.My doctor says I will have to take them the rest of my life. I"m not going to do that. I think O.K. I would rather live a few less years than live to 90 and feel like crap all the time. | F | 74 | 1 years | 8/21/2009 | 4 | hypertension | muscle cramps, decreased libido | M | 69 | 3 years | 7/30/2009 | 3 | If any of you are taking NEXIUM (the purple pill)and have aching joints, (back, neck, fingers) nerviousness, pounding heart, muscle cramps, muscle twiching and many other symptoms, I would start by looking up the side effects of Nexium. You will probably be shocked as I was. | M | 38 | | 7/19/2009 | 1 | high blood pressure | While taking this drug for 5 months (about 5 or 6 years ago) I endured such severe, chronic coughing that I couldn't leave my house without lozenges. The amazing thing to me was that neither my internist nor my pulmonologist associated Lisinopril with this cough, assuming it was asthma-related. One day a girlfriend came over, heard the cough, and stated, "You sound just like my husband when he started taking Lisinopril." At that point I went on line and was amazed to see report after report of patients experiencing this side effect. I immediately stopped taking this drug. Fortunately, this side effect disappeared. Such was not the case with Fosamax and Simvastatin; I suffer greatly from their ongoing adverse effects. | Why do our doctors seem so reluctant to attribute these side effects to drugs? I like my doctors, and I go to a hospital with the best reputation in my city. Medication adverse effects have really compromised my health. | F | 62 | 5 months | 7/19/2009 | 2 | Hypertension | Severe dry coughs throughout the day and night. Very dry unproductive coughs that were hard to contain and control. The coughing was so bad I woke up every night from my sleep due to the coughing attacks. I actually started to take Robitussin DM to quell the coughs until I finally told my doctor that it wasn't working out for me. It did control my blood pressure to a good level though. I also had the usual lightheaded feeling if I got up off my couch or chair after I have been sitting for a while. | Used it for about 4 months and I do not think I had the severe coughs in the beginning. Not sure but I think it progressively got worse. | M | 38 | 4 months | 7/18/2009 | 3 | HBP | Tickling cough is eliminated with iron supplementation, but I feel tired and groggy a lot and have frequent urination. | F | 44 | 2 months | 7/16/2009 | 3 | prehypertension | Dry cough, dizziness. | This medication lowered my blood pressure but the cough got so bad I stopped taking it. The cough went away after about a week. I can't see that any of the alternatives are much better so I am trying to control blood pressure with diet and exercise. | M | 3 years | 6/25/2009 | 2 | BP | Cough, cough and cough!!!! | I am going to have to go off this! The cough started during the swine flu scare. Every time I started my coughing fit,finally ending in a gag, people would scatter. I have been on it for 2 months and the coughing is not subsiding. I have to bring my right knee to my chest because the coughing is so severe I feel as if its causing a hernia in my right abdomen. This is nuts! | M | 55 | 2 days | 6/13/2009 | 2 | Kidney protection | So far, major abdomenal pain in my lower front abdomen, both sides | I was prescribed lisinopril for my kidneys. I have chronic kidney failure (Stage 3) and the nephrologist prescribed this to slow down any further failure. I just started 5 days ago, and 3 days ago I started having a "stomach ache". I take 1/2 pill at night. My BP is quite low as it is. If it causes coughs, that is no good as I have asthma and cough all the time. If my pain continues, and the coughing worsens, I'm going to stop taking it. | F | 51 | 5 days | 5/27/2009 |