In 2008 I became a casualty of the recession as it began. I worked for a retail furniture store whose sales took a serious nose dive. I was a retail manager earning pretty good money, I was married with three lovely children and life was pretty good. But my life was just about to take a serious and devastating turn for the worse and the side effects of Ramipril only exacerbated these problems.
I was made redundant in December 2008 and this was pretty awful but we were in a better place than most as we had a thriving online business. However, yes it gets worse, in April 2009 our business sales took a serious nose dive as well and I was financially in trouble for the first time in my adult life. I had to claim unemployment benefit. Up to this point I hadn’t really had any illnesses, I had a few injuries from accidents in my miss-spent youth but that was it really and as far as I was aware I was healthy.
Suddenly I began to get dizzy spells and the frustration of being unemployed brought on hypertension and consequently my blood pressure seemed to raise in line with the unemployment figures month by month. My Doctor prescribed Ramipril; he started me on 2.5g, that didn’t work so it was increased to 5g, and eventually 10g. This did stop the headaches and dizzy spells and my blood pressure came right down. All good you would think however, what the Doctor didn’t mention was all the side effects of Ramipril and how they would control my life.
The side effects of Ramipril are many and varied, affecting everyone differently. I started to get out of breath all the time and it got to the stage where I couldn’t walk to the bus stop. By now I had lost both our vehicles so the bus and walking was my only transport. This of course made it impossible to get work as we live in a rural county where the phone book has twenty five pages of farmers and one of retail outlets. I could barely get to the interviews and when I did I prayed that the interview wasn’t upstairs. I was sent for blood tests and they found that the dosage of Ramipril was affecting my liver function.
The other Ramipril side effects that I experienced were dry throat and phlegm on the chest every morning coupled with a lack of energy and a general break down of my body and joints. My nails became brittle and kept breaking and my joints ached all the time. When I was out with my family, shopping etc. pensioners would pass me by, happy and healthy and I was struggling to keep up with them and I was only in my forties. I kept visiting the Doctor and they just said it’s the side effects of Ramipril and there is no alternative, so this was to be my life from here on in.
It also occurred to me that if I had a genuine illness or health problem how would they know, when they assume everything is caused by the side effects of Ramipril. I was lucky I didn’t have any real issues as it turned out and I found an alternative way of controlling my blood pressure. I am back at work and our business is back up and running and we are planning to move to a bigger house. If you are suffering with the side effects of Ramipril try and find an alternative as I did and don’t let Ramipril control or worse... ruin your life!
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I'm taking 2.5 mg of remipril now and my blood pressure has dropped to 110/60, going to 100/50 after meals. The side effects, however, are devastating: I have trouble thinking; it takes me 5 to 6 hours each morning to wake up; I'm now sleeping 12 hours out of every 24; and I often have to interrupt meals because I become so faint I have to lie down. I'm having to consider quitting my job as well unless I can get off this medication.
ReplyDeleteMe too, 3 years of "investigation" of High blood pressure, put on ramipril + amodolopine, made me dizzy, thick, lower back pains, shit sleep, cough of death every morn and constant thirst, fucking zombie. had to give up my job due to complete and utter tiredness. Had to start my own buisness to make ends meet. Got to the point where I couldn't aford the prescriptions so havent taken them for about 1 month, I am feeling better every day, I can think now. Even thought I was and still am a heavy drinker and smoker. I was wondering why my mind was going when 3 years ago I was a sharp as a shap thing. I'm geting my brains back now. My bp was high due to stress, if you have high bp by a monitor, log it and look at it for yourself. if it aint stress you prolly need some medical help.
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