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What a to do!... I have had nothing but problems with side effects from the medication after my HA in January...problems with mobility, breathlessness, cold hand and feet.. tiredness.. to name a few.

I’m sure you have all probably had some if not all of these yourselves.

Some side effects did subside over time, others didn’t.. then, numerous changes of tablets etc.. 3 weeks ago they then put me on ramipril, because my BP was up,which caused a horrendous cough! So they then changed that to candesartan, which I had been on a week.. blood pressure has been around 137/93 all week and I came out with big red lumps over my body! Was absolutely fed up so I contacted the GP yet again to say that’s it. I’m stopping them all together. She advised me to stop them and up my bisoprolol to 5mg and guess what.. after 2 days my BP is 127/75... I no it’s only 2 days but I woke this morning with no head ache and feeling much better in myself.

I am so chuffed ( even though I no it’s early days yet ) that I just wanted to share this with people who will understand

Thank you for reading my long post 😁

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I bet you are so relieved. Side effects are the pits as if the original illness isn't enough to cope with.

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Kazzy60 in reply toBagrat

They are Bagrat, I’m just glad things are starting to settle down now

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Great. But just one thought...are you sure you haven’t given up any really important preventive ones. EG Clopidogrel?

Now that you’ve stopped getting the ghastly side effects, perhaps its time for a quiet discussion with your GP about whether they’d now really like you on anything else and why,

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Kazzy60 in reply toKristin1812

Sorry Kristin, I didn’t explain myself properly it was only the candesartan that I stopped. I’m still taking all my others, I was so excited to see a better result from my BP 😊

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Kristin1812Heart Star in reply toKazzy60

Excellent! I’m pleased you’ve got a good result. Thanks for clarifying.

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Pollypuss

Well this sounds good. People ask me what was the bypass pain like. I can’t remember . I do remember 2 months of the worst stomach upset I have ever had. At my 6 month check up I was taken off all medication apart from aspirin. I could not believe the difference. I was really very depressed because I thought that would be my life forever. I didn’t need blood pressure pills but the rest were really horrendous

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