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09-02-2019, 03:31 | #1 |
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Got a bit of Insomnia tonight - found this on U-Tube
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10-02-2019, 00:29 | #2 |
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Insomnia / night cough / breathlessness is back !
Well after about 4 nights of virtually no sleep am thinking it might be caused by some medication I am on its called Losartan, have been on it for 9 months.
Had to come off Ramipril after 7 years for the same side effect. Skipped a dose tonight but too early to know if that is a fix as the drug takes a week or more to be removed from the body. Going to see the Quack on Monday morning to see what he thinks |
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10-02-2019, 10:55 | #4 | |
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I assume you mean Amitriptyline - although developed initially for MH issues it is also used with great effect as a catalyst in quite low doses to amplify the effectiveness of other drugs including pain killers & chronic nerve pain. Wendy took it for about 18 months when she had post surgery pain - she was very anti the drug at first due to its MHA associations but I did some research on its newer use as a accelerant / catalyst. This convinced her, it did the trick. She also found the deep sleep side effect. |
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10-02-2019, 15:25 | #5 | |
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The doctor spent an age explaining to me about their use in MH, and was very surprised that I had no idea what she was talking about. Have to say that once they started working, they are pretty good. I had to start on 1 for 2 weeks to give them a chance to get into the system, but it did not seem to do anything, so stepped up to 2, same thing, but then 3 and it was "good night Vienna" and as long as I don't sleep in a bad position, I wake up feeling a lot better for a few hours. I started on one blood pressure tablet (can't remember the name) but I was getting really bad dizzy spells, so after a couple of months they changed me to 10mg of this one, but I kept fainting, so they reduced the dose to 5mg, which seems a lot better, now I only get dizzy spells when I mess up taking my tablets and get out of sync. Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk |
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