Had stents done yesterday. Now given Perindopril (used prior to stents) Bisoprodol Fumerate, Trangina XL (used Momomax XL prior to stent) concerned they will lower blood pressure too much as prior to stent BP was 125/75 or slightly less. Was surprised that nitrates are continued too. Think it is OTT and don’t want to go dizzy.Happy about Aspirin and Clopidogrel.
Brother in law had bad experience with his meds list heart intervention.
Any advice/experience. appreciated.
I'm in agreement with Thatwasunexpected. Normal BP range is 90/60 to 120/80. Yours is pretty well at the upper limit so I would have thought that the meds would be unlikely to take you into the dizzy zone. A lot of heart medicines have a tendency to make you a bit wobbly when you first start taking them but once your body has got used to them that goes away.
I'd be inclined to give them a try and see how it goes, if you do start having side effects which are hard to live with and don't go away contact your GP
I am not going to. Asking to be referred to heart failure clinic.
Having had 2 misdiagnoses in the past and nearly dying as a result of botched surgery for appendix and gallstones I am not very confident with medical professionals. My brother in law also nearly died when given Contra indicating medications for his heart.
Once again have to agree with Thatwasunexpected. It appears that you had already made up your mind on your course of action, so assume you were posting and expecting to get replies from people agreeing and suggesting you don't take the medicines. One of the first principles/rules of this forum is that no one should suggest that medicines be discontinued, so it would be unlikely that anyone would offer that sort of advice - if they did, they would correctly be reported.I won't reiterate what I've previously said, good luck with the referral.
I was posting because having researched the procedure beforehand there was no mention of some of the additional meds I have been prescribed and wondered if anyone else had been prescribed the same cocktail of drugs. You are just handed a bag of drugs on leaving hospital and told to follow the doses prescribed on the packs with no explanation as to why and what they are supposed to do. Life is a lottery anyway - more so with Covid.
Thank you. That’s very useful. Only wish the hospital had made the effort to explain all this or even the consultant. Seem to have been given 2 lots of nitrates though so contacted GP who said take only 1 as both were same but with different names.
I was self funding too. Procedure cancelled previous week due to consultant being ill (Covid) Told it would then be February some time. Then following Monday told it might be possible for Friday, admission previous evening but no guarantees. Covid test arranged for next day.Phone call Thurs morning to say angioplasty would go ahead but to wait to be told of admission time. We live an hour away from hospital and got a further phone call at 3.45 asking me to be there for 5p.m.
After procedure and consultant discharge waited over 2 hours for discharge letter and meds. No explanations or advice re do’s and don’t. Glad its been done though but not the best experience. The procedure was fine. It was all the stress and uncertainty surrounding it.
Got a call from cardio rehab nurse this afternoon (nobody told me to expect this) Her exercise advice contradicts that of consultant. No exercise classes due to Covid but I had already visited BHF exercises online. Phoned back 10 mins later as her records showed I had been given 2 packs of blood thinners and was worried I had been taking 2 a day since discharge. Hadn’t had 2 packs given and wouldn’t have taken 2 anyway. I am just going to go it alone with help of my wife and this forum.
Stent lifespan
Lifestyle after stent.
Post Stent Pain.
Pain in stent area 
Recent Angina Diagnosis,Two Angiograms and still no stent because it's difficult?
