Blood pressure- urgent problem for medical ppl only?!
Question: Blood pressure- urgent problem for medical ppl only!?
I recently started taking 10 mg a day for high bp, it was knocking me out (sleep) so I started the last two days splitting the pill 1/2 and 1/2 for the 1st and 2nd part of the day and did okay then!.
I hard a higher heart rate last night, and woke several times with racing heart, and a fitful sleep, and then woke up at 6 and was feeling very ill and heart racing!.
So I said, "Well, I just haven'ttaken my meds- " so I took 1/2 a pill!.
Then my heart rate up even higher! At one point I thought I'd pass out, so I'm stuck here with 3 kids an dnot a working car!.!.!. so I broke down about 7 am and called an ambulance!.
They got here, and I was ambulatory, and had taken a prescript narcotic to calm down and was okay, so they didn't even take vitals and just left!.
I don't know of anything I did DIFFERENTLY- except that a weight loss shake I took had alot of potassium in it!.
Could this be the problem!? The potassium!?Www@Answer-Health@Com
I hard a higher heart rate last night, and woke several times with racing heart, and a fitful sleep, and then woke up at 6 and was feeling very ill and heart racing!.
So I said, "Well, I just haven'ttaken my meds- " so I took 1/2 a pill!.
Then my heart rate up even higher! At one point I thought I'd pass out, so I'm stuck here with 3 kids an dnot a working car!.!.!. so I broke down about 7 am and called an ambulance!.
They got here, and I was ambulatory, and had taken a prescript narcotic to calm down and was okay, so they didn't even take vitals and just left!.
I don't know of anything I did DIFFERENTLY- except that a weight loss shake I took had alot of potassium in it!.
Could this be the problem!? The potassium!?Www@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
Lisinopril is an ACE inhibitor!.
You should not have much potassium at all while on an ACE inhibitor!. This was more than likely the case!.
Stay away from potassium!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
You should not have much potassium at all while on an ACE inhibitor!. This was more than likely the case!.
Stay away from potassium!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
http://search!.yahoo!.com/search!?p=potassi!.!.!.
Lose weight, don't eat late!. Potassium gives you energy!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Lose weight, don't eat late!. Potassium gives you energy!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
10 mg!. of WHAT!? (Amlodipine, Lisinopril, etc!.!?) How long were you on it before the symptoms started!?Www@Answer-Health@Com