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How To Withdraw From Amlodipine Besylate?
If my doctor recommends me to stop amiodipine besylate is this something I have to be weened off of. It s been causing a lot of swelling in my legs and feet and I am taking two other medications with it. losartan potassium hctz and metoprolol tartrate
Tue, 2 May 2017
Hello,
No need to wean it off and you can stop it abruptly, just measure blood three to four times on next day of stopping Amlodipine, and if needed dose of Losartan may have to be increased.
No need to wean it off and you can stop it abruptly, just measure blood three to four times on next day of stopping Amlodipine, and if needed dose of Losartan may have to be increased.
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