Advice wanted

My husband was diagnosed with heart failure 3 years ago. He is becoming increasingly tired. His dose of Ramipril has been increased to 10mg before he is changed to a different drug. He has become increasingly tired. Does anyone have any experience of this.

[Tweety78]

Hi I was the same they put my ramipril up to 10 mg my body did not like that one bit to cut long story short I took to taking cayenne pepper in my tea start with a tiny amount on the tip of a tea spoon and build it up slowly I am up to one tea spoon a day now it really does give you a boost try it but do start small and build it up best of luck tweety.

[Prada47]

Hello Spar and a Happy New Year

Does your husband have a Heart Failure Nurse or HF team who you can contact for advice ?? I also have HF had a CABG which didn't improve things !!! and been on various medication which has been changed a few times.

I move in and out of H F stages sometimes classed as Moderate and can move to Severe quite quickly without changing anything. Tiredness can come from either H F or from the Medication I think that's why they change the Meds to keep you ticking over, without tiring you out ( if that makes sense )

It's definitely worthwhile seeing GP for a check when symptoms change like getting more tired for no apparent reason.

I changed from Ramipril to Candesartan (because of Cough a known side effect of Ramipril do you know why they have increased his Ramipril ??

Regards

Frank W

[Hidden in reply to Prada47]

Hi thank you for your reply w. The ramipril was increased from 5mg to 10mg pending a change of drug as there is a new one now that is deemed to be better but he needed to be on a higher dose before changing. He does have an appointment with the HF nurse in a couple of weeks time but I might ring her before if things don't improve.

[Prada47]

Hi again Spar,

Do you know the name of the new Medication ? Valsartan ?? or something like that ??

I thought you would have an HF Nurse good to have a professional on call.

Hope all goes well

Frank W