Amlodipine - Left Side Muscle Pain and Numbness

Should mention, I am white male, began taking Amlodipine at age 37 (I am 39 1/2 now). Other than High Blood Pressure I "was" in excellent health running 30+ miles per week and felt great! Prior to Amlodipine I was on Metoprolo for 2 years but my heart rate was often in low 40's so doc switched me to Amlodipine. (We initially tried Lisinopril for short time at age 34 but didnt seem to do much for me)

Jonathan just make sure your doctor is aware you stopped that medication. I finally think my new doctor has listened to my side effects and will take me off the Amlodophine, I see him next week.  I never in a million years would have put together these side effects without this forum.  Hope you are soon back to normal and able to enjoy life

My goodness that is terrible ,why can't these drs understand these side effects .I've got tingling in my right thumb Dr says nothing.and lower back pain, I feel so old with flu like symptoms I don't do things I used to do each time I call drs office I'm 29 Preston down the line to get appt terrible medi- cal

Wow... and I'm so very sorry to hear this!!!!! Thank you for sharing!!! God bless you.

Just a quick update. After 4 days of being OFF Amlodipine, I am feeling so much better. Specifically, muscle tension in left side is letting up, numbness feeling in head and arm and leg is mostly gone, lower left abdominal pain is mostly gone, no more shortness of breath, foot pain is letting up. Also, my mood is so much better, not sure if its just optimism or if the Amlodipine was actually affecting me mentally as well.

I am 100% sure the Amlodipine was causing these symptoms, and so glad my nightmare is pretty much over. Only time will tell if any permanent damage.

Im now on 20mg Lisinopril, and going to be very observant to see if any side effects.

Happy Happy Happy!

I had the tingling and terrible pain in my calves. The doctors didn't identify as side effects. I then started to get what looked like yellowish blood staining on my legs. Every doctor I saw didn't know what it was. I even asked if it could be side effects. My legs are now a total mess. The are a disgusting colour and are patchy. I love swimming and just can go because I look like a freak. To top it all the doctors say that veins are no longer done on the NHS. I was given these awful tablets on the NhS and am now left with disgusting legs.... The company needs to stop making these tablets

How terrible Jonathan! I started taking Amlodipine in June this year. I was very alarmed when my feet started to swell up, my feet were very painful, I had episodes of pounding in my head/rapid pulse. I was already on a statin, but my GP halved the dose because one is not supposed to take more than 20 mgms of simvastatin when on Amlodipine. I already had worsening muscle pain, due I think to the statin. One month after starting Amlodipine I decided to stop it and my feet went back to normal, but remained painful.

I suffer from white coat syndrome and argued with my GP that my BP will always be raised wnever I am at the surgery! He knew this, and despite having a 24 hour monitor in at home taking my BP at regular intervals which revealed that the averages over the 24 hours were normal, he still insisted that I commence Amlodipine. I started taking it again and gave now been on it for. 3 months, but the symptoms returned. My son is GP and he knew I had stopped it at the time. I am now about to stop it again and ask my Dr to put me on Lisinopril if he is insisting that I need to take a drug for hypertension.

I will keep you posted.

Penny.

Hi Johnathan /all, 35 yo male 6 ft 5 and 300 lbs.

​Ive been on amlo for about 2 years. First taking 5 mg which didnt help the bp much but also didnt give me too many side effects that I can remember except for heart pulpitations and what I think Im realising today, sore sore solid feeling feet. There may have been more but anyways, my doctor added olmatec i think 20 mg but it didnt seem to do anything however i kept taking it for a few months. I went back to the doctor because my bp wasnt that low 150/ 90 ish down from 160. So she changed the amlo to 10mg. a couple months later I started feeling weird and zoned out and light headed so I stopped the olmatec that didnt work anyways and split the amlo in half. 5 mg in the am and 5mg in the pm. That was fine for a few months until a week ago I became light headed and dizzy spells, feeling foggy, feeling anxiety and empty and feeling like Im dieing, heart pulpitations, tight tingly chest, slight headaches, cold fingers periodically, tiredness and Im sure theres more.So yesterday  I went to the doctors to get off amlo because of these side effects and she got a bp reading of 180/? and sent me to the er. They checked my heart and said its fine. So even though the emerg doc told me i shouldnt stop taking the amlo but should add to it I stopped and didnt take any last night or today. Let me tell you I feel sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much better even after that short period.

​I went to the doctor today and got Coversyl HD and will give that a try. She said I can stop taking amlo and go straight to coversyl. BAM! So hopefully the rest of the effects go away soon. One thing I noticed between yesterday and today is a minor very brief pain on my lower left side of my oblique area. Ive only felt it about 6 or 7 times for about 5 seconds at a time and it is minor but it is there. Also I just noticed tonight that the bottoms of my feet barely hurt at all! Ive been messing around at the foot doctors the whole time and nothing until today, a day and a half off amlo. I havent had unsore feet for years and hopefully they are even better tomorrow. Just took my bp with no meds 30 mins ago and its 140/97. Ive been monitoring it every couple hrs today and its mainly been around there but one reading today was 160/100 after 2 hrs of driving in downtown traffic mid morning and one reading 155/ 103 after fairly strenuous physical work mid day. High yes but I feel great and would take the high bp in a heartbeat over the amlo if I had too.

​Still a bit too early to say for sure if it was the amlo but it seems like it and I will update.

Thanks for everyone who put info on this forum. This really is a life saver.

​Pat

I had bad experiences with perindopril, ibersatan, doxazocin and decided to quit.... 2 years today , my BP was 160/116. Put on Amylodipine and just swallowed 10mg. After reading your experiences, it must be the only one that my system will see. I can't describe how bad I felt on the other drugs. I was everything that you have all described on Amylodipine. .....reason I went to the doc today was because of my eyes. The rst of my body gas been great without the pain, weakness, gout, severe weakness , and feeling of impending doom. I was dying slowly from within. Good bye Amylodipine. ..now...I am going to work on my weight