Amlodipine nightmare

I’ve read all the feedback on the Amlodipine. Although I find most of the feedback to be negative, the jury is still out on my decision about the drug. Here’s my story. Had high blood pressure for decades and have taken blood pressure medication for it, but b/p still high (I have high cholesterol level, too). My doctor put me on Amlodipine about a month ago. Immediate side effects were that my nose and skin on my face by my nose felt like I had a chemical burn and the skin was very dry, and I did get tired after dinner time. I have since been putting vitamin E oil on effected dry area on my face, which helped a lot and keeps my skin feeling/looking good. My whole face does still itch, though, especially my eye brows!  In an effort to try to get less of the side effects in my body at one time, I halved the pill, taking one half in the morning and the other half at night. The tiredness thing...since I have issues sleeping well at night anyway, I’ve been taking half of my daily pill in the morning and half at night (thinking it might actually help me sleep, which it seems to). If I can tolerate the side effects, which aren’t going away, I’d Like to continue taking the Amodipine, since my b/p daily readings have been great for me.  I guess we need to consider if the risks if the side effects are worth the risks of why we are taking the drug in the first place. Maybe tomorrow I will decide the side effects aren’t worth it, but for today, for me, they are. Tomorrow is another day...I’ll take this one day at a time. Blessings