The medication prescribed to me is Avapro HCT 150mg/12.5mg (Irbesartan and hydrochlorothiazide) taken once daily (1 tablet) mainly to help ensure the blood pressure remains under 140 systolic, which is believed to help reduce the pressure on the aorta and root. I am booked in for a second opinion with another cardiologist next week mainly to re-assure myself and my wife (and kids) that things are chugging along okay.
Just diagnosed with a 43% ejection fraction and my doctor prescribed Avapro. Is this the proper treatment?? He gave me samples of 150 mg tablets and said I could cut them in half and just take a half a pill once a day. What do you think about that?
I have only Humalog to stop spike. But still when I wake up from bed pressure is 170/90/65. I take 300 gm Avapro. After ½ it becomes Ok. But sugar has gone high again. Last 2 days in addition to high pressure, sugar bounces to high value start to shake, I have to eat immediately then but suar goes further high. I habe no medicine to lower sugar at night. When I went to bed sugar was 8.4. To day morning sugar was 9.4, pressure high. Start shaking, sugar went to 11.
I had been taking 150 mg of avapro for 10 years for high blood pressure. I recently lost 25 pounds and was able to maintain my blood pressure on 75 mg. in fact with a home machine my blood pressure is consistently low. It never goes above 106/70 and most often is 90-97/70-75. Would it be safe to stop taking the medication to see if I can keep the pressure from getting high? Or would it be safer to cut the pill in half and if so, for how long?
Recently I began to experience tingling in my feet and hands which I attributed to the Diovan HCt (160/25) or diabetic peripheral neuropathy since I had a high fasting glucose last year and a definitely high one this year. I've also suspected I had an allergy to gluten and not IBS as was suggested. Finally after years of diarrhea, increasing pain and reading that a gluten intolerance could cause peripheral neuropathy I cut gluten from my diet.
Hi...I just wanted to offer what I do as a suggestion...u have more knowledge than I being in the medical field...but do get copies of ur MRI...report and the copies on disk.
And ask about looking for a auto immune thyroid issue...TSH- free T3 and free T4 and TPO antibodies....just looking at TSH the thyroid can appear normal...ur hair loss and a few other symptoms made me wonder about this possibility.
Just dont freak out sometimes they cant hear them completely. Im doing my hct levels also cuz of bleeding.
I am a 25 year old female.For the past couple months I have been having severe weakness in my legs(its worse in the mornings) and almost every time I pick up something it just falls out of my hands.Sometimes it happens repeatedly.I am currently on 3 medications Vyvance 30mg,Effexor 30mg and Benicar HCT 40mg/25.5mg.Should I be worried about this?Should I consult my doctor?
It always comes back the same. His HGB ranges from 18 -- 19, his HCT from 53% to 58%, his RBC 6.3 to 6.5. It is not getting worse, it's not getting better, it just bounces around in this range. He really never had bloodwork done before that, so it could have been high longer than that. My husband has no symptoms of anything being wrong with him. No pains or aches -- no shortness of breath.
1. Splenic contarctions under duress can affect HCT count
2. Dehaydration can also be a cause, though vet said potassium levels were normal, in fact they were super high-normal, one more point and they would be high on the reference range
2. Dipstick analysis prone to false positives, therefore questioning accuracy of +++ on protein
My questions:
1) Blood was drawn at 6pm, did not leave for the lab until after 9am the following morning. Could suspect handling/storage impact HCT readings?
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