Hormones like estrogen (in birth control pills or hormone replacement therapy) and testosterone
Blood pressure medicines called calcium channel blockers (such as nifedipine, amlodipine, diltiazem, felodipine, and verapamil)
Steroids
Antidepressants, including MAO inhibitors (such as phenelzine and tranylcypromine) and tricyclics (such as nortriptyline, desipramine, and amitriptyline)
Home Care
Elevate your legs above your heart while lying down.
Treatment for coronary artery spasm is with calcium channel blockers (nifedipine, diltiazem, verapamil, etc) and nitrates (nitroglycerine).
Hope this helps, and thanks for sharing. If you have any further questions or comments you are welcome to respond. Take care, and I wish you well going forward.
Does the nitrate relieve the chest pain?
The diagnosis of coronary artery spasm has taken on new significance because of the marketing in this country of a new class of drugs, such as nifedipine, called calcium channel blockers. These drugs have afforded dramatic relief in spasm-induced angina. Patients were treated with calcium channel blockers such as diltiazem, amlodipine, nifedipine, and benidipine.
s disease may include prescription medicines that dilate blood vessels, such as calcium channel blockers (nifedipine) or diltiazem. In severe cases, a sympathectomy procedure can be performed.
I sincerely advise you to consult a physician and discuss this possibility with him.
It is very difficult to precisely confirm a diagnosis without examination and investigations and the answer is based on the medical information provided. For exact diagnosis, you are requested to consult your doctor.
Hormones like estrogen (in birth control pills or hormone replacement therapy) and testosterone, Blood pressure medicines called calcium channel blockers (such as nifedipine, amlodipine, diltiazem, felodipine, and verapamil), Steroids, Antidepressants, including MAO inhibitors (such as phenelzine and tranylcypromine) and tricyclics (such as nortriptyline, desipramine, and amitriptyline).
Antidepressants, including MAO inhibitors (such as phenelzine and tranylcypromine) and tricyclics (such as nortriptyline, desipramine, and amitriptyline)
Blood pressure medicines called calcium channel blockers (such as nifedipine, amlodipine, diltiazem, felodipine, and verapamil)
Hormones like estrogen (in birth control pills or hormone replacement therapy) and Steroids.
I suggest you sleep with your legs elevated and SEE YOUR MD NOW!!!!!
He may prescribe you diltiazem,nitroglycerine or nifedipine which is used to relax the sphinicter so it can begin healing or if your case is really serious you may need a Lateral Sphincterectomy which is an outpatient procedure involving cutting a sphincter muscle to change the resting pressure of your fissure to help it heal.You could be in the early stages so be pro-active so it won't turn chronic.Luckily I avoided surgery,I used nitroglycerin for 2 months and I finally got it to heal.
Has anyone had to take nifedipine fo a few weeks towards the end of their pregnancy? Its my birthday today and I spent it in l&d because I was contracting and they were really close! I was prescribed nifedipine to smooth out contractions. When I stop taking it, is it possible I will go into labor?
Hey ladies, just wondering if anyone has used nifedipine? Im 33 weeks today and went into labor Monday. Nifedipine stopped labor but I've been off of it for almost 24 hours now. Wondering if anyone had labor stop for long/short periods of time...
Hi, Adalat is nifedipine, a calcium channel blocker. Nifedipine is completely absorbed after oral administration. The elimination half-life of nifedipine administered as Adalat CC (nifedipine) is approximately 7 hours. So, its unlikely that the medication can be excreted as such, but check with your doctor to rule out any malabsorption syndromes and also if your hypertension is adequately controlled. Regards.
It really depends on what you need. If this has been prescribed for you, and you are uncertain about it, then you can always ask your doctor for more clarification. It really just all depends on your individual circumstances.
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I have had an anal fissure for about 3 years, I have had success with nifedipine 0.2% ointment. I will use the cream and it heals the fissure 90%, I say 90% because even when I am using the nifedipine ointment I still have some pain on certain days (when I have the occasional bout of diarrhea or I have mutiple bowel movements in one day)
When I stop using the nifedipine ointment all together the fissure will come back and hurt me.
My question is...
I have suffered with taking diltiazem(180 mg ER) AND metoprolol (50 mg ER) for atril fibrillation for the past two and a half years. The side effects have been debilitating.. Both drugs have the same side effects and together and one or the other or both create what I can only describe as chaotic turbulence in my chest and pain in my left arm when the second drug kicks in.. My cardiolgist now wants me to add a blood thinner (xarelto) to my meds menu.
I am fairly convinced these are esophageal spasms wonder why we haven’t tried Muscle-relaxing drugs including nitrate medications, such as isosorbide (Isordil), nifedipine (Procardia), diltiazem (Cardizem, Tiazac, others) or dicyclomine (Bentyl). I also wonder about Hyoscyamine Sulfate and what about this Heller Myotomy surgery (I’m desperate).
In December 2012, I had an EGD done and was told it looks excellent, no ill effects of the acid reflux disease and esophagus looks good.
Not all of us respond the same to the same medications. The indapamide worked better for you than the dilitazem so it only makes sense to stay w/the indapamide and forego the diltiazem since your doctor obviously didn't consider the indapamide and diltiazem a good combinantion.
I understand about uninsured doctor visits. We lost our family doctor of some 30 years and got a rude shock when we started doctor shopping!!! From a standard $35 office call to a $150 initial office call!!!!!
ve had problems randomly fainting (usually just once or twice a year). I always wake up within a few seconds after someone catches me, and am usually just tired afterward.
The last time I fainted I was unconscious for a bit longer than usual (maybe 15 seconds...I actually dreamed this time while I was unconscious), and when I woke up a numb feeling was creeping over my legs and arms. It also went over half my face, then stopped. My hands were clenched together really tightly.
Your doctors knows your full medical history and prescribed you this medication because it is in the best interest of you and your baby (benefits outweigh any risks). No one here can recommend that you start nifedipine but your doctor can, and did and your doctor is the best person to make this decision - not you, I, or any poster on a community board.
Nifedipine is a Class C medication so it hasnt been associated with causing harm to the fetus and is used to prevent preterm labor.
I had preterm labour stopped 3 times at 27-38wks and was on bedrest and nifedipine until 36wks. I then went into labour and my baby via emergency csection the day after stopping nifedipine at 36+1 but I had been having contractions every day since the preterm labour started 9wks beforehand. Wishing you and baby all the best!
LOL - I answered your post about the nifedipine and didnt realize you were the author of both of the posts :-)
I hope your starting to feel a little better and those contractions are getting under control.
I have been taking metoprolol and diltiazem for sixteen months and initially the medications brought the SVTs under control. Fourteen months ago I started coughing blood and experiencing chest congestion. This took my attention off any heart issues and sent me on a long search for the cause of the bleeding. After many tests and visits with various specialists I never did get the answer. The bleeding resolved itself after 10 months (last October) and has not reappeared.
Anyway, he said that I was over medicated so he lowered my dosage back down to 240 mg. of Diltiazem CD and he also put me on Enalapril 2.5 mg. Since my Diltiazem dosage was raised I have been losing weight unintentionally. Believe me I have been eating VERY well and the pounds are still dropping. I have struggled to lose weight for months and now all of a sudden I'm losing. My question is could the Diltiazem be causing me to lose weight and has this happened to anyone else?
Then (like you) I went on to diltiazem for 3 days. While on this, I had some insomnia and almost felt like I was having a stroke at one point. I had facial flushing and weird body sensations. Came off that one.
Now I'm on atenolol (25 mg) and it puts me to SLEEP very easily. It's so funny that some people like you experience insomnia whereas I can barely keep my eyes awake.
I take atenolol b/c of tachycardia moreso than high BP but I do have prehypertension.
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