2014-10-18

ACE inhibitors - magic cure or annoying itch?

I have been on 2mg/day Perindopril for a month for slightly high blood pressure. It is a very low dose.

What has changed?

1. I can now get drunk (if I want). For maybe a year now I have not been able to get drunk without fear of a debilitating headache all night. Since being on these, I can now, confidently, get drunk. Even (whilst a whisky shipment is delayed) drinking glayva and southern comfort again, as I used to. I try not to get drunk all the time, honest, but it is so much nicer knowing that I can if I want to. The headaches really were bad.

2. I have now got psoriasis, apparently as a drug reaction, which is not worth the hassle - so have to go get something else instead.

Why me!?

There are other medications that they can try, and we'll see how it goes. Shame.

3 comments:

  1. Some people walk through life almost never getting ill or needing to go into a hospital and they can often eat and drink quite poorly. Others suffer the exact opposite; it's the balance of nature’s order. I'd liken it to a first person shooter game.. if you play enough Call of Duty / Battlefield / WoW Battleground matches long enough then you'll find the average stats across all players are nearly 50% wins to 50% losses (unless the map is unbalanced of course). But somebody is always more on the losing side than the winning one and vica versa.

    Mark
    ISPreview.co.uk

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  2. Well yes, if you look at all life as finite then in the end it's always 100% loss :). But perhaps I shouldn't say 100% as some of our "unique" DNA and experiences should carry over to a new generation.

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