ACE Cough? - High & Low Blood Pressure Message Board

CASSIEBEL · 12-11-2005, 02:06 PM

Can anyone help me figure out if the new cough I've developed is from the Altace? I don't cough a lot but it's everyday. A slight tickle in my throat and a dry cough maybe 2 or 3 times a day.
I've been on Altace for about 6 or 7 months and previously (20yrs ago) on Vasotec. Could it start after this long?
Any thoughts appreciated.

Cass

Lenin · 12-12-2005, 07:26 AM

Cass,

It could take long to develop. The time of the year makes it a guessing game though because it's cold season.
Best you can do is to stop the ACEI for a week and see if it goes away and then comes back when you re-start.

I can tell it from a cold because it reminds me of a thread of BRILLO stuck in bronchial tubes. With all the force of will I can stop the cough for awhile, but the tickle eventually becomes UNBEARABLE and I MUST cough...and that cough doesn't relieve the tickle so I must cough several times once I start. Of course, it is a completely unproductive cough.

CASSIEBEL · 12-12-2005, 01:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Lenin

Cass,

It could take long to develop. The time of the year makes it a guessing game though because it's cold season.
Best you can do is to stop the ACEI for a week and see if it goes away and then comes back when you re-start.

I can tell it from a cold because it reminds me of a thread of BRILLO stuck in bronchial tubes. With all the force of will I can stop the cough for awhile, but the tickle eventually becomes UNBEARABLE and I MUST cough...and that cough doesn't relieve the tickle so I must cough several times once I start. Of course, it is a completely unproductive cough.

What you describe sounds like what I feel BUT it isn't constant. I sometimes go all day without coughing but when I do I must have a coughdrop to stop. I'm almost sure it isn't a cold, I've noticed this pattern for about a month and a half now.
Thanks for your input.
cass

rigel434 · 12-12-2005, 02:26 PM

Sounds like a classic ACE cough to me, except for the time of onset. I had one for maybe a week after I started on lisinopril then it went away never to return.

Lenin · 12-13-2005, 06:14 AM

Cassie,

Mine (with enalapril) wasn't constant either, usually in the evening. Horrible when the timing was truly dreadful. One attack was at the Metropolitan Opera, another at a Broadway show...at those prices people don't wan't someone hacking away behind them. I even tried so hard to avoid the cough that tears would stream down my face until I gave in!
Sometimes it got most annoying just when I was trying to fall asleep.
It never stopped til I discontinued the drug 6 months later.

I too was eating coughdrops to the point of MENTHOL poisoning!

I even had a several week bout after stopping then restarting an ARB, Cozaar!