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Have Asthma. On Advair And High Blood Pressure Medication Legs Feel Weak While Walking. Concerned
Question: Mt wife's legs feel weak while walking and she haves to stop.
It mainly happens when walking up hill, she has asthma and is on Advair and high blood pressure medication.
It mainly happens when walking up hill, she has asthma and is on Advair and high blood pressure medication.
Hello and thanks for the query.
Weakness or tiredness or feeling fatigued can be caused by several factors.
The most important ones are
1....Drugs used for antihypertensive therapy can have certain side effects. Diuretics may lower potassium levels and can lead to weakness and cramps in the legs. They can also raise blood glucose levels in patients suffering from diabetes. There have been reports of people developing gout on diuretics.
Beta blockers are known to lower blood pressure and slow the heart rate. They can also cause depression and fatigue, as well as asthma symptoms. Patients with diabetes should be closely followed by a physician after taking beta blockers.
2....Heart becoming weak due to long standing hypertension resulting in poor supply of blood in legs resulting in poor supply of oxygen to the legs.
3... Peripheral vascular insufficiency.
4...asthma can itself result in poor oxygenation.
5... Even ADVAIR can cause fatigue.
6.... Lack of iron and B12.
7... Lack of calcium and VIT D...
These are some of the causes amongst a long list of reasons and the best would be to consult a heart specialist and get a ECHO done to look for any heart involvement and see whether her asthma is well under control or not.
Give her B complex vitamins and VIT B12 and look for any deficiency of calcium,iron and VIT D.
A detailed check should reveal the real cause of her tiredness which can be subsequently taken care of.
I hope to have answered your query however you may revert to me for any further query.
Best of luck.
Thanks
Weakness or tiredness or feeling fatigued can be caused by several factors.
The most important ones are
1....Drugs used for antihypertensive therapy can have certain side effects. Diuretics may lower potassium levels and can lead to weakness and cramps in the legs. They can also raise blood glucose levels in patients suffering from diabetes. There have been reports of people developing gout on diuretics.
Beta blockers are known to lower blood pressure and slow the heart rate. They can also cause depression and fatigue, as well as asthma symptoms. Patients with diabetes should be closely followed by a physician after taking beta blockers.
2....Heart becoming weak due to long standing hypertension resulting in poor supply of blood in legs resulting in poor supply of oxygen to the legs.
3... Peripheral vascular insufficiency.
4...asthma can itself result in poor oxygenation.
5... Even ADVAIR can cause fatigue.
6.... Lack of iron and B12.
7... Lack of calcium and VIT D...
These are some of the causes amongst a long list of reasons and the best would be to consult a heart specialist and get a ECHO done to look for any heart involvement and see whether her asthma is well under control or not.
Give her B complex vitamins and VIT B12 and look for any deficiency of calcium,iron and VIT D.
A detailed check should reveal the real cause of her tiredness which can be subsequently taken care of.
I hope to have answered your query however you may revert to me for any further query.
Best of luck.
Thanks
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
In addition to not related to walking she said that she sometimes experices a choking feeling and a dry cough, her high blood pressure medication is Diltiazem 240mg and 120mg.
Hello
Diltiazem can cause tiredness and fatigue
It can also result in choking,shortness of breath and tightness of chest.
Please consult your doctor and apprise him about this.
Thanks
Diltiazem can cause tiredness and fatigue
It can also result in choking,shortness of breath and tightness of chest.
Please consult your doctor and apprise him about this.
Thanks
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
Thank-you for your advise, she will follow up with her MD.
Hello
Best of luck to you.
Thanks
Best of luck to you.
Thanks
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Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
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