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How Should Pins And Needles Sensation In The Body, Dizziness, Tiredness And Intermittent Chest Pain Be Treated While On Lisinopril?
Question: Lisiniprol. Side effects I have been on it for 2 years . And I am always Dizzy and very Tired never have any energy. Sometimes I get chest pains from it and sometimes I get belching that won’t stop for hours. Is this normal. It really has effected my life daily. I even get a lot of pins and needle feelings thru out my body it’s crazy most of time almost never feel normal.
Brief Answer:
I would explain as follows
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
All the above mentioned complaints may be caused by Lisinopril use:
the most common adverse effect of Lisinopril seems to be dizziness (5%-15%), followed by dry cough (5%-9%) hyperkalemia (2%-5%), chest pain (3%), fatigue (3%), etc.
I am not sure about any patho-physiological connection between belching and Lisinopril, while pins and needles feeling may be explained with possible underlying hyperkalemia.
Coming to this point, I would recommend you discussing with your prescribing doctor on the above mentioned unpleasant complaints and eventually perform a laboratory checkup including:
- Complete blood count,
- Liver and renal function tests,
- Blood electrolytes level (especially potassium level)
In addition, a close blood pressure values monitoring for a couple of days (several times daily) up to a week is advisable before contacting your doctor (you should refer those measured values to him/her), a possible hypotension should be excluded first.
If no other causes is concluded, then the best strategy would go in favor of switching to another more safe anti-hypertensive drug.
Hope to have been helpful to you! In case of any further questions, feel free to ask me again.
Regards,
Dr. Iliri
I would explain as follows
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
All the above mentioned complaints may be caused by Lisinopril use:
the most common adverse effect of Lisinopril seems to be dizziness (5%-15%), followed by dry cough (5%-9%) hyperkalemia (2%-5%), chest pain (3%), fatigue (3%), etc.
I am not sure about any patho-physiological connection between belching and Lisinopril, while pins and needles feeling may be explained with possible underlying hyperkalemia.
Coming to this point, I would recommend you discussing with your prescribing doctor on the above mentioned unpleasant complaints and eventually perform a laboratory checkup including:
- Complete blood count,
- Liver and renal function tests,
- Blood electrolytes level (especially potassium level)
In addition, a close blood pressure values monitoring for a couple of days (several times daily) up to a week is advisable before contacting your doctor (you should refer those measured values to him/her), a possible hypotension should be excluded first.
If no other causes is concluded, then the best strategy would go in favor of switching to another more safe anti-hypertensive drug.
Hope to have been helpful to you! In case of any further questions, feel free to ask me again.
Regards,
Dr. Iliri
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