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Felodopine 2.5 mgs

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jane6
jane6

Was put on Felodopine 2.5 mgs yesterday to take alongside my Losartan 50 mgs, which I've taken for ten years. I had a 24 hr bp monitor which proved categorically once and for all, that my blood pressure is high (170/108 - 149/99) and out of control!! I admitted to smoking to the dr, and have agreed to stop today. Yesterday morning, took my first pill (felodopine) and by the afternoon I was feeling drowsy with a mild headache. Last night my cheeks were flushed and I felt drowsy. In the night my feet felt hot, and I got up to urinate twice - which is unlike me! This morning my BP reading is 145/70!! The bottom figure has never been that low. So this medicine is having immediate effect. I am going to keep a blog going here on the side-effects. I'm going to take a proactive role in exercising, stopping smoking as from today, take magnesium, vitamin d etc. Like most, I'm not best pleased to have to take this drug but not crazy enough to not take this whole BP thing deadly serious. Will return with updates. Meantime, if this is relevant to anyone, I would be grateful for your opinion, thanks

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    I'm embarrassed to admit to my very sweet tooth and I've read high sugar consumption can have a detrimental effect on BP far worse than salt. Always suspected it, and how remiss of me to not twig that the amount of sugars I consume IS one of my biggest culprits. I've been looking at the DASH diet for reducing weight and BP. Spoke to the pharmacist in Boots today about side effects to Felodopine. She said definitely don't cut the pill - it has a coating to them and if you cut them they'll lose the slow release factor and spike up, causing more side effects. Well I'm not happy to take a whole 2.5 mgs yet! Asked her for her opinion on other drugs (with fewer side effects) and she wrote down another one which is a diuretic. I'm going to study alternatives!
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