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So i have just had my annual diabetic checks i'm already on 5mg of ramipril and 5 of amlodipine when they checked by blood pressure i was shock to find out it was 200/104 they have now upped my ramipril to 10mg been taking for a couple of days and it's hardly come down at all starting to panic a little i exercise daily with now problems or shortness of breath and have no pains anyone had any similar experience

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shopman profile image
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Have they not added anything else, I would have thought the introduction of a beta blocker would help - please note I don't have any medical training so could be talking rubbish.

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I love your honesty 😀

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Retirement65

Hi black cat sooty do you mind me asking what your tinnitus relaxer is? My husband suffers with it and I feel helpless not helping him in anyway we have tried the usual things he has his hearing aids in most of the time but it’s rare he gets a break from it - glad your doing well with the BP I have issues with mine I panicked a few weeks ago had high reading it seems to be behaving now fingers crossed for both of us take care 😊

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Blackcatsooty in reply to Retirement65

Dear Retirement 65My tinnitus relaxer is a plastic globe. I can select from a choice of pleasing sounds and i opt for waves on the beach. It will play this relaxing sound and it has white noise in the background. I select the option to play for thirty minutes then it turns itself off. I do not have tinnitus, thank goodness, but this little machine gets me off to sleep and, during the day, it will relax me if i have it running beside me.

Cost about £35. Runs on batteries, but i soon bought the plug in adaptor as it used batteries quite rapidly.

My friend has tinnitus and she told me about a tinnitus relaxer. She uses sound eliminating headphones, which gets her away from her tinnitus. She has the very good headphones, which cost a lot. She was involved in a tram crash and she spent some of her compensation monies on the headphones. I tried them and they are amazing. Think they might be Bose.

My relaxer has done the trick for night time sleep. And its an aid to enforce daytime relaxing, which i find hard as there is so much to do in a day.

My problems emanate from a stroke five years ago. Not helped by AVR one year ago !

I think summer hath arrived

Colin

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Retirement65 in reply to Blackcatsooty

Oh thank you so much for getting back to me anything we can try will be great will certainly get onto this in the meantime take care I’m glad it’s helping you to relax which to be fair is what it’s all about enjoy the sunshine 😎

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thepuppetman

i went in for my pre op for cataract surgery on my left eye in feb 2020 i already had my right eye done,ny bp was too high and without telling me removed me from the waiting list,my bp is under control now and i have been put back on as an urgent case its been a nightmare

Do you take the ramipril in the morning and the amlodipene at night? GPS often forget that very important little gem of information...

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My GP advised both at night, out of interest and I am still learning why do you take ramipril in the morning and amlodopine at night?

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When i had the HA, I was taking them both together. The consultant advised ramipril should be am and amlodipene pm. My bp came down almost immediately.

What the consultant later told me is that the effects wear off throughout the day and taken this way the drugs work together much better.

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Retroluxer in reply to

Hmmm that’s the exact opposite of what i have been told. I take the amlodipine in the morning and Ramipril at night. I might try swapping them round and see what effect, if any that has.

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That’s strange. I was told to take Amlodipine in the morning and Ramipril in the evening.I no longer take Amlodipine at all as I felt it achieved nothing in my case and the cardiologist agreed. Still take Ramipril after 6.00pm.

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Retroluxer in reply to

It seems a bit hit and miss

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peterjones105 in reply to

Thank you for your reply.

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