I have been on ramipril for about 8 months now. Have had a dreadful cough which has got worse the longer I have taken them. I also have asthma and the cough has been put down to that as it has triggered severe asthma attacks, which have caused me to go into hospital with blue light flashing.
Not once has any doctor said this is down to Ramipril. I will be changing this medication before it kills me. My elderly husband has taken ramipril 5.
But over the last two years he has suffered increasingly from dizziness in the morning. I think he also coughs a great deal more than he ever did. I've been measuring his blood pressure regularly recently and the diastolic measure is consistently on the edge of 'low' around The systolic is just into 'high' and it creeps up a bit if he forgets the ramipril however.
I wonder if a reduced dose of ramipril might still control the latter with less risk of hypotensive dizziness. Does that make any sense? I was put on Amlodipine for severe hypertension and the first night i was in terrible pain with my chest and that brought on a anxiety attack, stayed on it for a week and still had spikes in my high blood pressure and chest pain, went back to the doctor and told her and she looked at me like i was lying, changed my medication to Ramipril and the chest pain and anxiety went but i have got a terrible dry cough with the Ramipril so need to come of them too, my blood pressure was very high and i was told it may lead to a heart attack or stroke so now i am in trouble as i don't trust any medications because of the side effects.
Just spoken to my GP who has taken me off Ramipril because of the blasted cough. I'm now on Candesartan, which I've never heard of. Anyone out there have any experience of this drug? Prior to taking Ramipril I suffered from a persistent dry cough of which the cause had not been diagnosed. On taking Ramipril the cough was very considerably aggravated particularly at night: codeine gave some relief as phoschol and 15mgm tablet but sleep was reduced to snatches between coughing bouts.
Within a week I retrurned to the status quo ante with considerable relief. I had a heart attack 5 weeks ago and since have been on various medicines one of which is 5mg Ramipril every night.
I read the booklet which explained that a side effect is a cough but agree with other inputs here that the cough is very depressing. It constantly disrupts my sleep pattern and it's so dry! Im off to the GPs Tomorrow and hopefully he can prescibe something else. Is there anyway else of stopping the cough? My experienced with ramipril for high blood pressure was that I had a very bad cough, not a dry cough, but a very congested cough which I suffered for about three months.
Although I returned to the Doctor after having the cough for about 6 weeks they still didn't take me off the ramipril - but gave me antibiotics this was despite me saying I felt it might be the ramipril - sometimes they don't listen. I was told to come back after 3 weeks which I did the anti biotics has done nothing - what a surprise and I was beginning to think I had developed some sort of severe Lung problem.
I could hardly speak without coughing, I could not sleep for coughing, my chest felt like it would burst, I was physically sick from coughing.
Doctor then thought it may be a good idea to stop taking ramipril I am now taking Atenolol - watch this space. I have developed a dreadful dry tickly cough which starts at the back of the throat and immediately starts to make my eyes water. The coughing then starts to go into a spasm and its worse at night - I haven't had a full night's sleep for weeks.
Also my chest is beginning to be sore due to all the coughing, its very distressing and I am going to be back at my gp. Saw new Dr few months ago whos took me off ramapril because of cough. New tablet evil drug called amlovasc terrible side effects, pins and needles to the face, legs, and arms, severe tiredeness, swelling to ankles and knees.
Cough has emerged as a class effect occurring with all ACE inhibitors with no clear difference between the single substances. While ACE inhibition is safe in the vast majority of patients with obstructive airways disease, asthmatic symptoms or exacerbation of asthma as well as a rise in bronchial reactivity have been occasionally reported. ACE inhibition increases the cough reflex. Have you ever had a constant tickle in the throat for, seemingly, no reason? So why the tickle?
Throat cancer is a big deal, no doubt, but there other symptoms must be present before arriving at that conclusion. A tickle in the throat can feel itchy and there is often a dry, unproductive cough that comes and goes. Then we touch our eyes or our mouths, which allows germs to settle in our chests and throats, and an infection starts, causing irritation. A throat tickle can be really distracting and annoying because it often lingers, stubbornly, despite our best efforts in alleviating it.
There are a number of reasons why a throat tickle might be triggered:. This is when there is inflammation of the pharynx. It can cause irritation, a cough, and a tickle. This is an inflammation of the larynx, or the voice box. It can be caused by a cold, an upper respiratory infection, smoking, pollution, or even just shouting or talking too much.
Being sick with the flu or a cold will produce upper respiratory symptoms such as coughing, sore throat, and post-nasal drip. All of these can cause a tickle in the throat.
A ticklish throat is a common symptom among those with allergies, whether the allergy is due to, for example, an environmental factor e. The solution?
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