benicar and heart rate

Toprol (metoprolol succinate) is a beta blocker and can lower your heart rate

Lower blood pressure reduces the workload of the heart and provides time for the heart to completely recover from the operation. If you experience dizziness, fainting, etc., your doctor may want to adjust the medication, but if you can tolerate your current blood presssure the better it is for your heart.

Thanks for the quick reply, I do track my blood pressure occasionally during exercise, it does increase with my activity level and normally tops out around 145/80 to 150/90, I can push it higher by increasing my level of exertion but I keep my heart rate to 85% of my max heart rate. . It also recovers very quickly when done.

He wants me to start on Benicar 20 mg and Norvasc 5 mg. Well I took the benicar day one and forgot to go pick up the norvasc at the pharmacy and did okay. The second day on the Benicar I did good but when I left work I forgot to go to pharmacy for Norvasc so I was gong after dinner. Before I had the chance within a 2 minute time frame my heart rate went from normal to 160 bpm and would not stop. Went to er where they did blood work and said all blood work looked normal.

What questions should I ask re what type of blood pressure medication I should be on? I tried benicar and lisinopril and caused sinus drainage - however, they worked Then tried hydrochlorothiazide which cause major constipation .... Now on amlopidine beselate and coreq cr and have fatigue....seems the latter meds are overkill as I had only one coronary stent over 10 hrs ago and cardiologist a few weeks ago said my heart is fine.

Do you take a daily medicine to help control your asthma if you do that could explain your heart rate I would still have your doctor check it out on your next visit to be safe though

Searching online I am finding some links to heart arrhythmia and benicar. I now am supposed to get a heart ablation for the pvc's.

My resting pulse rate was between 50 and 60, now with benicar is above 70. My question - Is this really the medicine side effects ? which drug could be better to not affect my running performance? Am I really with high blood pressure, because I've read some people saying that for people who are very active, it's common to have low pulse rate and relatively high systolic pressure?

Dear Doctor, I am a healthy 36 year old male. In the last year I was put on Benicar 20 mg for high blood pressure. In that year I have began to notice PVC's that started occassionally and now are happening everyday all day. They drive me crazy. My blood pressure is under control and I exercise regularly. Could the Benicar cause the PVC's? I have had them checked out with my doctor and they tell me that they are okay and that they are PVC's. They drive insane.

He fought changing me so I told him I was going to change doctors and he finally relented and but me back on Benicar. I love that drug, works great and no side affects for me. I'm fairly sure the doctors at my new health care provider gets some kind of incentive to prescribe other drugs than Benicar, but who knows, maybe that's how I got Benicar in the first place!

Getting out of breath with every day actiivities and a faster than normal heart rate can be a serious condition. It is possible your condtion is not heart related or concomitant with a respiratory issue and/or low oxygen level in the oxygenated blood pumped to heart cells...medically termed hypoxia. Other possibilities for tachycardia can be due to an overactive thyroid, imbalance of electrolytes, adverse reaction to medication. You are being treated for high blood pressure...

I realize both medications are intended to lower blood pressure in addition to controlling the rhythm. I have normal heart structure and no history of heart attack. My blood pressure was 120s/60s on sotalol and Benicar. Is this opposite effect (higher instead of lower blood pressure) common with this medication? Thank you.

I take 80 mgs extended release Coreg and 40 mgs of Benicar but my blood pressure still gets up to 170/105 and a resting heart rate of 120 sometimes. Is it possible that I just got used to the medication? I just had an angiogram and they gave me many medications but I was still fully awake which they said was odd. Could I possibly just have a high tolerance to medication? Also this is the first time that I really have been on any meds.

If your hbp is secondary to heart vessel disease, a stress test would be appropriate and/or echocardiogram to determine if there has been any enlargement of the heart and if there is any heart wall movement impairment.. Some of your symptoms may be related to your medication or a heart condition, and you would need more tests to do a differential diagnostic. Speak to your doctor. Thanks for you questions, and if you have any further questions or comments you are invited to respond.

There are several options that you can try. I would ask my doctor first about an angiotensin II receptor blockers( ARB) like Benicar. Angiotensin is a chemical the causes the muscular part of your artery structure to constrict which causes the arteries to narrow and increase your BP. ARB's block the ability of angiotensin to cause muscle to constrict and keeps your arteries flexible and allows them to absorb the pressure of each beat.

Yes, when I was 17 my blood pressure peaked at 250/140 and heart rate 120. However, at your age it could be dangerous. But seems like your bp is controlled with meds, so it sounds good.

Benicar keeps blood vessels from narrowing, which lowers blood pressure and improves blood flow. Benicar HCT has a diuretic included as well. I have been fortunate, Benicar has worked from the first day I took it and works well still today. My 90 day average BP is 108/67 down from 135/85 when I started. I have had no side effects as well, the best of both worlds!

My heart rate would be crazy manic fast in the 200s and happened my whole life. I thought it was normal so I never had it checked out until I got older and it started to happen a lot. Because it was happening a lot I also started to get a lot of extra ectopic beats. I did not know they were two different things but see now that they fed off each other. The ectopic beats triggering the tachycardia and the tachycardia making my heart irritated triggering more ectopic beats.

The chest pains got worse and my PCP switched me from the Coreg to Benicar 40mg since my BP was not low enough and my chest pains increased on the Coreg. A new cardiologist did a nuclear stress test and a calcium score test and i wore an event monitor for 21 days.and it came out negative for any problems. I have also had a renal ultrasound, an abdominal ultrasound, cartoid artery ultrasound, x-ray of back and neck and all were fine.

ability to retain water. This reduces the volume of the blood, decreasing blood return to the heart and thus cardiac output and, by other mechanisms, is believed to lower peripheral vascular resistance. Hydrochlorothiazide is sold both as a generic drug and under a large number of brand names, including Apo-Hydro, Aquazide H, Dichlotride, Hydrodiuril, HydroSaluric, Microzide, Esidrex, and Oretic. http://en.wikipedia.

If you have time to shed a little light on this, I would appreciate it. After two weeks on Coreg and just a small decrease in BP, I took 20mg Benicar this morning (10mg four hours apart), and my BP went down to 98/60 (normal for me). My headache all but vanished, and I feel limp as a dishrag. Why did Coreg not hit the mark, while little-known Benicar did? Is this an indicator of the cause of my high BP and headaches? Thank you.

For the record, I had my gallbladder removed today laparoscopically and did not stop taking the Benicar HCT. No troubles that they felt worth mentioning, so it does sound like at my dosage, it was fine. And, yeah...the surgery itself was unbelievably easy!

Did you ever figure out a way to help your mom? My dad is one month out from his open heart surgery and still has nausea, vomiting and gagging. Doctors can't seem to figure it out. Poor guy hasn't had a meal in a month. I would appreciate any advice.

i went too take my meds and took the wrong stuff, im on benicar 40/25 my wife is on benicar 20 make along srory short ive took 120mg of benicar by mistake should i be worried

I also have had an elevated BUN and Creatinine since beginning Benicar. I am also on Toprol XL 25mg daily. My Benicar dose was dropped from 40 to 20 mg daily last visit. I am concerned about the elevated BUn as it is indicative of renal issues. I drink more water daily and will see on my next visit to doc in Sep what we will do as a plan if my labs are abnormal. I might add I think these 2 have also elevated my cholesterol and LDL! Look forward to follow up note.

I am going to be asking my doctor that same question!! I never had anxiety until I started taking Benicar and I am only on 10 mg 1x per day.

It is embarrassing, as I would like to bike and burn some calories, but my heart rate gets up there extremely fast and I cannot speak. Make sure that he is able to talk while on the stationary bike. When a person cannot talk that means that their heart rate is extremely fast. Hope he is feeling better. It is tough to adjust to limitations. I just read an article in consumer reports the other day, which stated that a study has shown that people with CHF can improve their heart with exercise.

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