Q: I am using a small dose of lisinopril (half a 5mg tablet) I have noticed longer and heavier periods. I noticed also days of nothing, then several days of bleeding. Since September I have been bleeding more days than not. I am nearing menopause (aged 48) no other symptoms, and pregnancy is not the culprit. Concidence? Or lisinpril affects?
A: Abnormal bleeding needs to be evaluated by your doctor. It is not normal to spot all month long. Although medicine can have all sorts of side effects, your bleeding is more likely to be related to the beginning of menopause.
Further Reading:
Lisinopril Side Effects – SideEffectsGuide.org
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I had very severe side effects to lisinopril w/i one week of starting it. I found myself sitting & staring aimlessly & then with a depressing mode for no apparent reasons. I also experienced reduced stamina, aches, weird body spasms & noticable reduced immunity to cold viruses (it was early winter & I worked in sealed-windowed, 28 story germ-factory “office bldg”). I took pro-active action & halfed my dose but within a few days I was right back to where I was. My thoughts it builds up in the system anyway. By the 2 month I tried to take my dose every other day or so but I was getting huge angina symptoms. By the end of the 2nd month I stopped altogether & had a “coming off med” reaction. By this time (start of 2nd month) I had the smarts finally to check on the internet, VOILA! people by the tens having the same!!! I also ran into my cousin who had the same experience almost on the same time schedule. We both stopped within a week of each other. Her doc had mentioned the allergic potential.
Lisinopril is pure poison!!! Arsenic can reduce your BP too especially a sholve full esp if the docs get kick-backs from th ePharma rep!
I also can relate to the above experience. What is ‘abnormal’ bleeding when nearing menopause? The effects of BP meds and approaching menopause may not mix. I had so many tests to find the cause of the bleeding, including colonoscopy, suggestions to have a hysterectomy and a bi-lateral oopherectomy due to a small cyst, that may or may not become cancerous. I then saw a oncologist who said that this would have been the slowest growing cancer he’d seen in his career. That was 10 years ago. I am still alive and still have my ovaries and uterus and am fit and healthy and a one-liner diagnosis for the colonoscopy, the result of which was entirely normal.
Approaching menopause can cause an upheaval. Starting BP meds at this time of your life may make it worse. I was ill for a whole year and everything was blamed on the effects of menopause, certainly not on the BP med. I did the dangerous thing of discontinuing BP meds by myself over a period of 6 months using Resperate and following Dr McDougall’s diet. I would NOT SUGGEST this method if your BP is high and you have other risk factors! It can be life threatening. I believe the adotpiton of a vegetarian/vegan diet helped.
I know the feeling of ‘coming off med’. It was wonderful. It was like a veil had lifted. I felt healthy and alert again. Coming off meds also reduced my hot flashes enormously and I did not have these mood swings and angryness anymore. My family noticed it too. My BP now, at 61 ranges from between mid 120/70s to mid 130/80s without medication. I am still told that I ‘need’ medication to control it but without any other risk factors I tell the docs to get stuffed and that I do not want to be ‘controlled’ by meds. In doctors’s eyes BP meds do not have side effects or only mild ones you don’t complain about, although they may make your life a mysery.
My suggestion would be: By all means talk to your doc, but also talk to other women who have gone through menopause. I left once a swimming training session early and told one woman I had to, because of menopausal mens. She exclaimed: “What?! When I have mens I can not even come swimming!” I then realised that many other women too have very irregular,sometimes very heavy bleeding which is very annoying. Also suggest to see a doc who may specialise in menopausal women’s medicine.
Then, one day my periods just stopped, like a tap was turned off.
All blood pressure meds are toxic to your system. The side effects are varied and many. If you can control your blood pressure naturally, you will enhance your health tremendously. Good luck!
I will have to disagree that all BP meds are poison. I have a great Aunt that has extremely high blood pressure and has all her life…she is 97 years old now and less than 100 pounds…so it hasn’t affected her life at all.But, unfortunately herand sister have passed this high blood pressure on to my mother and myself. We MUST take BP meds to keep it under control.
Whe I take lisinopril, which is the only pill that keeps my pressure under control,I notice very heavy periods and even after it’s over,I get cramps and breast pain…
Lisinopril made my husband crazy!!! My husband Jim first notice having chest pains and coughing often. Then a few weeks later after being on the drug Jim was having dreams waking up thinking they were real. Jim didn’t seem to be his himself and wasn’t all there. Jim also said that reality seem like an intense day dream sometimes and wouldn’t know if it was a dream or reality later. This went on for a few months until Jim started having dizzy spells from his blood pressure being too low. We went to a different Doctor after that ran all the tests again on Jim. The new Doctor said Jim was fine and didn’t need to be on any blood pressure meds. Jim was off the drug a few weeks before having all the tests run again. All the side affects went away too and Jim is back to his normal self.