LISINOPRIL Reviews (LISINOPRIL)Average Rating: 1.5 (454 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare LISINOPRIL with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LISINOPRIL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | for high blood pressure | while taking this drug i experienced muscle cramping and numbness to my left arm-and after i was taken off the drug i still experienced the same symptoms even after 4 years | i would not recommend this drug to anyone | F | 45 days 25mg 1X day | 12/29/2012 | 1 | hypertension | Severe, debilitating paroxysmal cough | Should not be a first line drug for hypertension Should not be prescribed for people with lung problems | F | 59 | 4 months 20 1X day | 12/18/2012 | 3 | High Blood Pressure | Night sweats, hair loss, anxiety, dry cough | I would like to add that I took this medication for 6 years with no noticeable side effects. After my hysterectomy, maybe it was the change in hormones that caused the Lisinopril to turn on me, I developed what I had thought were menopausal symptoms. Night sweats, hair loss and anxiety. After 5 years of those symptoms along with extreme hot flashes, I developed the dry cough that can go with this medication. After my doctor switched me to another High Blood Pressure medication, the above symptoms stopped. I do occasionally have a hot flash but not like I did before. If you are on this medication and are blaming your symptoms on menopause or getting older, check with your doctor. | F | 55 | 11 years 20 mg 1X day | 12/17/2012 | 1 | Hypertension | Progressive nausea. Muscle fatigue and general malaise. Felt extremely exhausted without doing anything. Mentally foggy all day, hard to maintain conversations. Severe dizziness that left me spending most of my time lying down so I didn't fall over, and this was not because of hypotension either. | Sadly I hadn't found this site before I started taking this medicine. It took me a few days to figure out what was wrong with me. I just started having all these symptoms and then they just kept getting worse. Thank goodness that I put it together after 5 days, that was long enough of this medicine. | F | 37 | 5 days 10 1X day | 12/9/2012 | 1 | Hypertension | Severe coughing to the point of my throat bleeding | I was prescribed this drug by my primary care physician. I told her right away I was coughing, but she told me that (at the time) this medicine was only known to cause coughing in men. What?! I was young and not pushy enough, so I continued taking the drug. It got so bad I would have to chug cough syrup at night to knock me out so I could get some sleep. I was buying my cough syrup at Costco because I was buying so much of it. Finally a little over a year later my doctor realized the Lisinopril was making me cough and she took me off the drug. It took about six weeks for the drug to get out of my system, but the coughing stopped. I started to sleep again and my throat stopped bleeding. | F | 41 | 1 years 1X day | 12/8/2012 | 1 | Hypertension | Asked doctor to switch from Diovan(muscle problems) to Lisinopril.Medicine worked for 7 days.Each evening after 7 days feet would swell.At 14 days,feet were swollen double normal size.Area under eyes swelled too.Doctor switched me back to Diovan. | M | 66 | 14 days 20 1X day | 11/2/2012 | 1 | BP | I have the nagging cough everyone else seems to have,I cough so much and so long sometimes I throw up and it. gives me a headache.It did along with two other medicatios lower my BP but the side effects are awful,I'm afraid to go out sometimes because the coughing spells come on so strong I can't stop it and I may vomit it is embarassing.And as far as sleep I havn't had much since I started taking this medication 7mos ago. | F | 40 | 7 months 40 mg 1X day | 10/13/2012 | 1 | high blood pressure | face/lip swollen trouble breathing . few moths later still allergic reaction rash swollen lips very tired muscle pain testing me for lupus poss drug induced | AWFUL DRUG DO NOT TAKE | F | 47 | 6 months 20 1X day | 8/25/2012 | 1 | Diabetes | excess mucus, gagging, coughing, throwing up, bloodshot eyes, swollen eyes, dry eyes and insomnia | my Dr put me on this medicine for prevention of renal failure due to diabetes. My blood pressure has always been fine. After 2 days of taking it I decided it best to try a different route. I'd like to know the kickbacks she was getting for prescribing this drug! | F | 44 | 2 days 10mg 1X day | 8/10/2012 | 1 | High blood pressure | Cough like crazy that produces a thick metallic tasting mucus. Feel like I am choking. Cannot sleep at all. Cough is horrendous! | I have asthma as well and this is really raising cane with my asthma. Nothing helps the cough. I have tried virtually everything and nothing works. I can temper an asthma attack, but the severe coughing has such thick nasty phelgm I feel like I am choking and cannot breathe. It is the worst medicine I have ever been on. Thankfully, I have a dr. who took me off of it right away, but I am still suffering the effects of it! I feel like I am trapped until this goes away. | F | 64 | 40 days 10 MG 1X day | 8/7/2012 | 1 | High Blood Pressure | Dizziness, tingling throughout entire body, tight chest, constricted throat. | After one dose I ended up the the ER the next day. BP bottomed out and I could not function. I work inside so I wasnt over heated. The dizziness and tingles were so bad I had to have someone drive me to the dr office. | M | 46 | 1 days 10mg 1X day | 8/1/2012 | 5 | high blood pressure | no side effects | M | 78 | 5 years 20mg 1X day | 7/10/2012 | 2 | High Blood Pressure due to Cymbalta | Dizziness. BP was high due to taking Cymbalta. Water pill was not enough, so Dr. scripted Lisinopril. First day I almost passed out after standing up. (Sudden drop in BP). Called pharmacist who suggested taking it at night. Did this for remaining 6 weeks and still felt dizzy often. BP was not lowered by much (Cymbalta, again, I think). Also felt really tired from Lisinopril for a few weeks, but that seemed to go away. Dry cough was bad for a while, but slacked off after a few weeks too. Cough never totally went away though. | M | 53 | 6 weeks 10 MG | 6/16/2012 | 1 | High Blood Pressure | I didn't realize all the bad side effects this medicine had until a few weeks ago when I decided to read the side effects to see if this was what was causing my hands to be swollen & crippled for the last 8 months. Sure enough it was. Had a nurse one time tell me to never read the side effects, cause if you did you would never take any medicine. She is right about that, because after going to the hospital twice in 3 years & being plagued with fatigue, depression, anxiety, numbness on my entire left side of my body, not being able to use my hands for 8 months, swollen joints, inflammation, dehydration & many MANY other side effects, I will never EVER take any man made medicine for anything unless it is a life & death situation, because I am convinced that a couple more months on this medicine & I would be dead. If you read the side effects of this medicine, most of the side effects themselves would probably CAUSE High Blood pressure. | This drug is like most other man made drugs. It might help you a wee bit with one problem, but the side effects are much worse than the problem you had. I guarantee ya someone at the FDA is getting a lot of money & kickbacks from these drug manufacturers that are selling this kind of poison to people & destroying their lives. Just like the rest of our government, they are corrupt beyond words. Cigarettes are also FDA approved if that tells you anything. If anyone knows of any Class Action Lawsuits or any other Lawsuits against the makers of Lisinopril, its generic, Lisinop, or its brother Benazepril, please contact me. Exercise, Eat right, Change bad habits like tobacco etc, do what ever it takes, but believe me, you do NOT want to take this drug or any like it. | M | 51 | 4 years 10mg 1X day | 6/2/2012 Patient History | 1 | elevated blood pressure | It began with flu like symptons, chills, sore throat, body ache & fatique, it was flu season so I made no connection to the drug. Later, my left arm and shoulder began to hurt, then it was a severe aching, burning, stabbing pain. Dr said I must have pulled something. Iced shoulder, took pain meds some days better than others. Then in a few weeks my Rt arm developed same symptoms (left shoulder now frozen). Dr said that I was compensating by using that arm more and pulled something. Finally I could not raise either arm to even comb my hair and had trouble dressing! I started researching arm pain and it led me to Lisinopril side effects! I am angry to have been in so much pain and continued to take this poison (the majority of side effects listed do not include severe arm/shoulder pain). I have missed work, sleep, caring for my home and family, and suffered a daily torture of pain, chills and fatigue. I began to worry that I had a very serious muscle/joint disease, I am so lucky to f | Mine was a gradual onset, and just kept getting worse. The pain was unbearable when I quit taking them and I am sure it will be a few weeks before it is gone. I quit without my Dr.'s knowledge or permission, I do not want another med like this. I will go holistic from now on! The FDA is asleep in this matter, I agree there should be a black box warning! If it helps some people, I am happy for you and you should have access. For those of us who cannot take this drug - we needed to be warned of the seriousness of these side effects! | F | 63 | 90 days 10mg 1X day | 4/26/2012 | 5 | Very high blood pressure | No side effects noted. Excellent therapeutic response. | F | 50 | 2 months 20 MG | 4/15/2012 | 1 | Hig Blood Pressure | Inflammation of of joints and muscles. Headaches. Chest pains. Shortness of breath. Heavy muscle tension in chest. swelling in arms, legs and feet. Constant swollen throat. Multiple infections. Lost of voice three times. Dizziness. Blurry vision. Ear ringing. Patchy skin rashes. Itchy scalp. Unable to sleep during the night. G.I. Tract problems (i.e. acid reflux) | Do NOT take this medication if you have never been on it. I let my doctor talk to into taking this medicine at I have had nothing but health problems for the last few months. I have managed to regulate my blood pressure by changing my diet and exercising more because I'd rather fix the problem naturally than with poison. | F | 36 | 60 days 20 MG 1X day | 4/3/2012 | 1 | High Blood Pressure | Severe cough, severe nasal congestion | My cough got so bad my doctor took me off this medicine. The congestion was out of this world, could not sleep more than 4 hours because I could not breathe and could not stop coughing. By the time I went back to the doctor in 30 days I was ready to collapse from exhaustion, I hadn't sleep more than 4 hours a day for a month. | F | 42 | 30 days 1X day | 3/7/2012 | 1 | High Blood Pressure | F | 55 | 6 months 5-10 mg 1X day | 2/21/2012 Patient History | 5 | Hypertension | No side effects. | Blood pressure normal. Recommend to everyone. | M | 46 | 3 years 10 mg 1X day | 2/7/2012 |