I figured the lisinopril was $5, so for $50 I don't have to cough. He said he would switch me to Cozaar, but that it was ten times the price. He said he told me the lisinopril and any of the "prils" had this side effect, but that only about half the people that took it had a problem. I hacked for a solid week and went back to him. He prescribed what he said was the least expensive meds. My doctor, who I've seen for the past 11 years, knows I currently don't have insurance. I took lisinopril the first week of my diagnosis. Sooo, if you are taking an ACE inhibitor and coughing, don't just "tough it out." Ask your doctor. It never entered my mind that it was the ACE inhibitor because I had been taking it for 20 years.Ībout a month ago, my endo switched me to an angiotensin receptor inhibitor which does the same job as the ACE inhibitor but in a different way. I gagged so badly, it nearly made me throw up. Eventually it got to the point where I gagged and couldn't stop coughing. Over the two years since, I began to cough-more and more. I couldn't function with the beta blocker (I felt like I was made of lead, I was so tired) until I got it down to ONE SIXTH of the dose prescribed (25 mg now.) My endo agreed with it so I went with it. My heart was fine and my vessels and arteries are healthy also but he doubled the ACE inhibitor and added a beta blocker.
Both symptoms disappeared.Ībout two years ago when my blood pressure began to creep up, my endo sent me for a baseline evaluation by a heart specialist due to my longstanding diabetes. The first week or so, I was dizzy now and then and had a bit of a mild cough. The study had just been released saying that it would help protect kidney function in diabetics. I was given this med 20+ years ago before I even had high blood pressure. I thought I would post this because of a recent experience with an ACE inhibitor.
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