Had a doctors appointment today just been diagnosed with hypertension and I got an oppintment in a few weeks for ECG I am slightly freaking out their worried about my pulse and pressure was high is their anything I can do to keep me chilled I have anxiety too .
I was on Ramipril a few years back but it gave me a terrible cough, google will tell you all the hypertension medication that ends in pril one of the side effects is a cough,I also know of a few friends with the same side effects.Had a doctors appointment today just been diagnosed with hypertension and I got an oppintment in a few weeks for ECG I am slightly freaking out their worried about my pulse and pressure was high is their anything I can do to keep me chilled I have anxiety too .
Oh? Is Candesartan the more expensive? I have a friend who has been on sick leave for work for almost two years and they are on Ramipril and seemed to act like Candesartan was the beginner's BP meds and that if you REALLY needed it you would go to Ramipril.I was on Ramipril a few years back but it gave me a terrible cough, google will tell you all the hypertension medication that ends in pril one of the side effects is a cough,I also know of a few friends with the same side effects.
My GP changed my medication to candersatan and no problem since.
I think they just give the cheapest medication first.
Most GP surgery’s will prescribe the cheapest brand of medication first even if it is only a few pence saving, my surgery has changed my metformin brand to sucarto to save money.Oh? Is Candesartan the more expensive? I have a friend who has been on sick leave for work for almost two years and they are on Ramipril and seemed to act like Candesartan was the beginner's BP meds and that if you REALLY needed it you would go to Ramipril.
Anyway either way - I totally get white-coat syndrome and I can be fine and measure at home and be pre-high and by the time I walk at a leisurely pace to the surgery (you know... back in olden times!) and wait and then have my appt, I am up to high!
A home monitor is an absolute godsend though.
Most GP surgery’s will prescribe the cheapest brand of medication first even if it is only a few pence saving, my surgery has changed my metformin brand to sucarto to save money.
If you google the words rapipril cough it will come up with many users who have experienced it .
You can try it and you might be lucky and not give you the side effect, but if it does ask your GP to change ,there are loads of blood pressure medications that work in 3 different ways.
Only this week my doctor has added another tablet AMLODIPINE to take alongside my 16mg of candersatan because my blood pressure of 123/87 is still too high, he wants my lower levels down to 70 even though in my opinion it’s not too high.
Apart from my blood glucose meter a blood pressure monitor is one of my best investments
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