OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now's my chance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was put on Norvasc in June of last year. I had one spike one night and ended up in a panic attack which in turn raised my bp even more and wound up at the hospital. Dr. there tells me that I don't need bp meds, that it was an isolated incident caused by many factors that I won't go into. He gave me a very mild anti-hypertensive drug that night, and when I left the hospital my diastolic # was 56. So I called my dr. the next morning and told him about it, he winds up putting me of Lisinopril AND Norvasc. Well...........the NORVASC caused me to be extremely fatigued, caused severe depression, nausea, I felt mean and hateful and had constant feelings of impending doom. PLUS, my feet and ankles were constantly swollen, and I mean SWOLLEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have been off that sickening drug for 2 weeks now, have seen NO change in my bp, it's still waaaaaaaaay too low, but I cannot tell you how NICE it is to NOT have all those "mental" feelings, and all that fatigued. I am still tired a lot, but not as badly and it's now due to my low bp. Plus, now when I look at my feet and ankles I can see bones and veins, not puffy, stretched out skin. Nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I doubt you'll find many people on this board who will have anything good to say about that drug. I sure didn't.
I'm not dr., so I will not advise you in any way, and I'm not a senior member of this board, do not have the experience that the others do, but I would definitely talk to your dr. about it.
Good luck,
Mellie
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