If you have any concerns you can ask your doctor about changing to an ARB, which are functionally the same* but with a better side effect profile (e.g., telmisartan).
*Unless you have a particular form of heart failure
I took Lisinopril for about a month and then started getting awful leg cramps and passed out twice in my house.
Called an ambulance and the neighborhood ER did a CT scan where the found a small brain aneurysm.
The aneurysm wasn't caused by Lisinopril, though.
In the hospital for four days where they couldn't figure out why my BP was so low.
I told them to let me go back to my Amlodipine and that fixed it.
Turns out it kept building up in my system and finally made my BP go too low.
Anyway, it's a good thing since I would have never known about the aneurysm if it weren't for Lisinopril.
I got a stent in my brain which fixed the aneurysm.
They don't open your skull or anything, they actually go in thru an artery in your groin/leg and all the way up to the brain which was such an easy operation. Only stayed overnight cuz they have to monitor you all night, just to make sure you're good. 💕
Lisinopril gave me such bad coughing fits I’d start to feel like I was going to black out. My doctor didn’t believe me until I had one so bad I literally couldn’t see or hear while driving 90 km/hr.
Fortunately I was on a country road so I just took my foot off the gas and tried to keep going the same direction. I could tell where the shoulder was by the feel of the car and kinda rode the edge of that for a couple hundred yards as I slowed down and regained my senses.
I took Lisinopril for years with only the occasional cough, but eventually I got major nearly passing out type coughing spells. He said “there are plenty of other bp meds” and switched me to something else. The coughing stopped within a couple of days.
Yeah, that happened to me earlier this summer. My tongue swelled up and didn't respond to benadryl. (happened while my daughter and I were visiting my parents in rural MN) Went to the ER at a small rural hospital in the wee hours of the morning and the doctor figured out right away what happened. (My PCP has an app so I could easily being up my list of medications, but I also brought all my meds in a bag, too.)
I was REALLY impressed with the level of care at their small town hospital. I left a glowing Google review. I bruise easily and the IV insertion was insanely good.
Drug allergies can develop at anytime.
i was only in the ER for a few hours and I'm feeling insanely lucky after reading other people's experiences.
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u/nucleophilic 9h ago edited 9h ago
Sounds like Lisinopril/ACE inhibitors