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On Norvasc 10 Mg For Hypertension. Started Pain And Swelling In Ankles And Increased Heart Rate. What's Wrong?

Posted on Thu, 29 Nov 2012

Question: I was on Norvasc 10 mg dailly for hypertension, had done well then started swelling horrobly and pain in ankles and feet. My physician cahnged me to hydralazine 50 2 x daily, heart rate increased and terrible headaches, unbearable. Have been on coreg 6.25 2 x daily x 1 week. blood pressure is going up having episodes after 1-2 hours of taking with throat hurting and itching, hoarseness, breathlessness but systolic is always high when this happens also. Calle ddoc on call last night who said wait and talk with my doc but don't take any meds at all until then except for a benadryl last night. waiting fro doc to call.

Answered by Dr. Muhammad Ishfaq Habib (2 hours later)

Hi
Thanks for the query

Norvasc has got the side effects of gout due to which your ankle and feet hurts while hydralazine is a vasodilator whose major side effect is headache. so using these medications cause these effects to occur.

To avoid these side effects you have to switch to alternate hypertensive drugs which includes beta blockers which is the drug of choice if you are also having an increased heart rate or an other safe group is the angiotensin receptor blockers also known as ARBs. you can to talk to your doctor about the alternate groups of anti hypertensive drugs.

If you still have some query, feel free to ask

Thanks
Regards

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar