Amlodipina - Dor e dormência muscular no lado esquerdo

Tratamento e medicação
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Hi, I wanted to share my horrible experience with Amlodipine. I had/have major Left Side issues (shoulder pain, abdomila pain, leg pain, foot pain, numbness, shortness of breath, insomnia) with Amlodipine 10mg. It didnt start untill few months after taking it, plus I was training for Half Marathons, so muscle pain I thought was due to overuse. After about 4 months I began having the distinct numbness and slight tingling on entire left side of body, including head/face.

My initial thought was OMG I might have had a stroke and didnt realize!?!? Went back to doc about the left side numbness symptoms (didnt ellaborate to much on muscle pain at that time), yet she did not make the link, nor did I. Had multiple X-Rays and MRIs, saw chiropractor and nuerologist plus ortho sports doc, all said there was nothing wrong.

I quit running due to pain on left side, eventually quit my job in Florida and moved back home to Michigan, became quite irritated by the littlest things, and extremley frustrated with my "mysterious illness" that a dozen doctors could not diagnos. (Frankly I continued to think I must have had a stroke that was undetected).

Fast forward 2 1/2 years later, 2 jobs later, 1 hip surgery later, 20+ pound later, 1 nuerophyscologial evaluation later, and thousands of dollars in medical bills, I somehow stumbled on these forums of people describing much of what I've been dealing with and the lightbulb went off!!!!

It's only been 3 days since my last pill (taking Lisinopril now) and I think feeling a little better. Hoping to see major improvement after some time being off this Amlodipine that I am fairly certain has been poisining me over last 2 1/2 years.

Anyhow, wanted to share my story for anyone else experiencing same.

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Should mention, I am white male, began taking Amlodipine at age 37 (I am 39 1/2 now). Other than High Blood Pressure I "was" in excellent health running 30+ miles per week and felt great! Prior to Amlodipine I was on Metoprolo for 2 years but my heart rate was often in low 40's so doc switched me to Amlodipine. (We initially tried Lisinopril for short time at age 34 but didnt seem to do much for me)

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Jonathan, apenas certifique-se de que seu médico saiba que você parou com esse medicamento. Finalmente acho que meu novo médico ouviu meus efeitos colaterais e vai me tirar do Amlodipino, vou vê-lo na próxima semana. Nunca, nem em um milhão de anos, teria associado esses efeitos colaterais sem esse fórum. Espero que você logo volte ao normal e consiga aproveitar a vida.

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Indeed Margaret, my Doc is aware and have appointement scheduled in 2 weeks to review. Meanwhile i'm taking the Lisinopril which seems to be working well.

Thanks! I hope to be feeling better soon! I'm thinking positve and feel a new lease on life coming for me

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My goodness that is terrible ,why can't these drs understand these side effects .I've got tingling in my right thumb Dr says nothing.and lower back pain, I feel so old with flu like symptoms I don't do things I used to do each time I call drs office I'm 29 Preston down the line to get appt terrible medi- cal

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Wish you luck Chris, hope your able to talk with Doc soon. How long have you been on Amlodipine?

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I think about 3 yrs. .thank you take care

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Wow... and I'm so very sorry to hear this!!!!! Thank you for sharing!!! God bless you.

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Just a quick update. After 4 days of being OFF Amlodipine, I am feeling so much better. Specifically, muscle tension in left side is letting up, numbness feeling in head and arm and leg is mostly gone, lower left abdominal pain is mostly gone, no more shortness of breath, foot pain is letting up. Also, my mood is so much better, not sure if its just optimism or if the Amlodipine was actually affecting me mentally as well.

I am 100% sure the Amlodipine was causing these symptoms, and so glad my nightmare is pretty much over. Only time will tell if any permanent damage.

Im now on 20mg Lisinopril, and going to be very observant to see if any side effects.

Happy Happy Happy!

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Johnathan, que bom que você está se sentindo melhor. Comecei a tomar medicamentos para pressão arterial quando tinha 27 anos, agora tenho 73. Confiei 100% nos meus médicos para me dar os medicamentos certos e nunca questionei. Nunca pensei em efeitos colaterais, apenas que parecia ter problemas de saúde constantes que eu não tinha antes de começar a tomar os remédios para a pressão. A sensação de estar desligado é uma das piores. Agora estou confiante de que posso conversar com meu novo médico, com confiança de que ele precisa analisar primeiro o amlodipino. Boa decisão, Johnathan.

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Eu tive formigamento e dor terrível nas panturrilhas. Os médicos não identificaram como efeitos colaterais. Depois comecei a ter manchas que pareciam sangue amarelado nas minhas pernas. Todos os médicos que consultei não sabiam o que era. Até perguntei se poderia ser um efeito colateral. Minhas pernas agora estão uma bagunça total. Estão com uma cor repugnante e manchadas. Eu adoro nadar e agora não posso mais porque pareço um monstro. Para completar, os médicos dizem que as veias não são mais tratadas pelo NHS. Fui medicada com esses comprimidos horríveis pelo NHS e agora fiquei com as pernas repugnantes… A empresa precisa parar de fabricar esses comprimidos.

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Pauline

That is terrible, I'm so sorry to here such suffering of these terrible side effect from.amlodipine.one day I decided to look up all my BP meds and their side effects most of them have similar effects as amlodpine .I myself don't.know what to do I know I need to eat healthier exercise

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Oh, que terrível, Jonathan! Comecei a tomar Amlodipina em junho deste ano. Fiquei muito alarmada quando meus pés começaram a inchar, estavam muito doloridos, e tive episódios de palpitações e pulso acelerado. Eu já estava tomando uma estatina, mas meu médico de família reduziu a dose pela metade porque não se deve tomar mais de 20 mg de simvastatina ao mesmo tempo que Amlodipina. Eu já tinha piora da dor muscular, provavelmente devido à estatina. Um mês após começar a Amlodipina, decidi interrompê-la e meus pés voltaram ao normal, mas continuaram doloridos.

Eu sofro de síndrome da camisa branca e discuti com meu médico que minha pressão arterial sempre está elevada sempre que estou na clínica! Ele sabia disso, e apesar de ter um monitor de 24 horas em casa, medindo minha pressão em intervalos regulares, o que revelou que as médias ao longo das 24 horas eram normais, ele ainda insistiu que eu começasse a tomar Amlodipina. Comecei a tomar novamente e já estou há 3 meses, mas os sintomas voltaram. Meu filho é médico e sabia que eu tinha interrompido o medicamento na época. Agora estou prestes a interrompê-lo novamente e pedir ao meu médico que me coloque em Lisinopril, se ele insistir que preciso de um medicamento para hipertensão.

Vou mantê-lo informado.

Penny.

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Hi Johnathan /all, 35 yo male 6 ft 5 and 300 lbs.

​Ive been on amlo for about 2 years. First taking 5 mg which didnt help the bp much but also didnt give me too many side effects that I can remember except for heart pulpitations and what I think Im realising today, sore sore solid feeling feet. There may have been more but anyways, my doctor added olmatec i think 20 mg but it didnt seem to do anything however i kept taking it for a few months. I went back to the doctor because my bp wasnt that low 150/ 90 ish down from 160. So she changed the amlo to 10mg. a couple months later I started feeling weird and zoned out and light headed so I stopped the olmatec that didnt work anyways and split the amlo in half. 5 mg in the am and 5mg in the pm. That was fine for a few months until a week ago I became light headed and dizzy spells, feeling foggy, feeling anxiety and empty and feeling like Im dieing, heart pulpitations, tight tingly chest, slight headaches, cold fingers periodically, tiredness and Im sure theres more.So yesterday  I went to the doctors to get off amlo because of these side effects and she got a bp reading of 180/? and sent me to the er. They checked my heart and said its fine. So even though the emerg doc told me i shouldnt stop taking the amlo but should add to it I stopped and didnt take any last night or today. Let me tell you I feel sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much better even after that short period.

​I went to the doctor today and got Coversyl HD and will give that a try. She said I can stop taking amlo and go straight to coversyl. BAM! So hopefully the rest of the effects go away soon. One thing I noticed between yesterday and today is a minor very brief pain on my lower left side of my oblique area. Ive only felt it about 6 or 7 times for about 5 seconds at a time and it is minor but it is there. Also I just noticed tonight that the bottoms of my feet barely hurt at all! Ive been messing around at the foot doctors the whole time and nothing until today, a day and a half off amlo. I havent had unsore feet for years and hopefully they are even better tomorrow. Just took my bp with no meds 30 mins ago and its 140/97. Ive been monitoring it every couple hrs today and its mainly been around there but one reading today was 160/100 after 2 hrs of driving in downtown traffic mid morning and one reading 155/ 103 after fairly strenuous physical work mid day. High yes but I feel great and would take the high bp in a heartbeat over the amlo if I had too.

​Still a bit too early to say for sure if it was the amlo but it seems like it and I will update.

Thanks for everyone who put info on this forum. This really is a life saver.

​Pat

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I had bad experiences with perindopril, ibersatan, doxazocin and decided to quit.... 2 years today , my BP was 160/116. Put on Amylodipine and just swallowed 10mg. After reading your experiences, it must be the only one that my system will see. I can't describe how bad I felt on the other drugs. I was everything that you have all described on Amylodipine. .....reason I went to the doc today was because of my eyes. The rst of my body gas been great without the pain, weakness, gout, severe weakness , and feeling of impending doom. I was dying slowly from within. Good bye Amylodipine. ..now...I am going to work on my weight

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Hi Olyd, so have you not been on any meds for the last 2 years and just started amlodopine today? And what is the issue with your eyes?

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Hi Jonathan

I've been in amlodipine for years and I too have experienced severe muscle pain in my lower back .plus numbness in my thumb index finger. At first I thought it was because I'm a caregiver and I was pulling my client up from her chair. It's not I strongly believe it is amlodipine I ache all the time at night my back gets cramps I have told my doctor over and over please change it but now I will be insistent this time because I do not have any quality of life I can't hold my grandson can't play with him like I used to

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Hi Bigpat,

I was getting severe headaches and was unable to read beyond my page. I decided to go back to University now that all my children are grown, but i was finding it hard to read, on a very intensive course. At first I thought it was aging issues, or some kind of late adaptation but then I started getting double vision and that is when I went back to my GP. My pressure was high, and I had to amke a choice this time between blindness and bad Side effects.. I was prescribed Amylodipine and 2 weeks later Indapamine. I havent started the indapamine..No more headaches, I can now read,but then I developed oedema ( swelling of the lower limb. It is not as bad now..and I havent yet got the bad sideffects I used to get with the other meds...I am only hoping that they wait for at least a year ..giving me time to complete my course.

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Hello. I have left side numbness and I'm feel like I'm going insane. I cry all the time. I'm taking Norvasc 10mg. I've been to 3 doctors. I've had a ct scan and blood work done,nothing. Tomorrow I have a MRI order. My question for you did your numbness ever went away? If so,how long did it take for you to feel normal again. I've been off the norvasc (replaced w cozaar )for a week now I've been taking Norvasc for a year. Thanks

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Uau. Este fórum está absolutamente certo. Há dois anos, fui prescrito com Amlodipino 5mg (um por dia) devido à minha pressão arterial de 160/100. Alguns meses antes disso, corri a Leeds 10k e jogava golfe regularmente, caminhando os 18 buracos. Tenho tido dor intensa na panturrilha anterior, quadris, ombro e punho há aproximadamente o mesmo período de tempo. Não consigo andar continuamente por mais de 500 metros e só consigo jogar golfe com um carrinho elétrico. A dor na panturrilha e nos quadris ocorre apenas ao caminhar. Já fiz um ultrassom vascular e uma ressonância magnética na coluna lombar para tentar identificar a causa raiz. Nada foi encontrado e agora fui encaminhado para um especialista em musculoesquelético. Também consultei uma fisioterapeuta esportiva que disse que posso ter um arco plantar plano no pé. Isso afeta apenas a minha perna esquerda, por sinal. Meu ombro está com dor intensa todas as manhãs ao acordar. Os últimos dois anos foram severamente debilitantes.

Para concluir, esqueci de tomar meus comprimidos nos dois primeiros dias desta semana e percebi que meu ombro estava livre de dor no terceiro dia. Depois de refletir por dois anos, percebi que talvez toda essa dor tenha começado quando comecei a tomar amlodipino. Deliberadamente, não tomei os comprimidos nos últimos 5 dias e acabei de completar duas caminhadas de dois quilômetros completamente livres de dor, e meu ombro e punho também estão livres de dor.

Tenho uma consulta com meu médico de família na segunda-feira, quando tudo será esclarecido sobre por que isso não foi detectado. Só para mencionar, já vi quatro médicos diferentes na minha clínica sobre esse problema na perna.

Vou informar o resultado.