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Headache, High Blood Pressure. Taken To Campral And Antibuse To Become Sober. Medications?
I got sober one month ago with the help of Campral and Antibuse. I am very happy/hopeful about this, however have felt pretty poor physically. I am typically healthy despite the bottle of wine I was drinking every night, but I went to th doctor today with a pretty debilitating headache and my blood pressure was high, which it has never been before. I didn't tell my doctor about my new stint with sobriety because it is embarrassing. Lame, I know. Can the medications be causing HBP or headaches? Or is sobriety just not good for me (just joking)?
Mon, 29 Jul 2013
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Dr. Balaji Bharadwaj,
Psychiatrist's Response
Psychiatrist's Response
Being sober or the medications (acamprosate or disulfiram) do not cause high blood pressure.
Only in the initial days after quitting alcohol, high blood pressure may occur as a part of the withdrawals.
If your BP is high even after a month of quitting alcohol, it means you are suffering from hypertension and need to take antihypertensives as per your doctors advice.
Do inform your doctor of your recent sobriety and the medications you are now on so that he takes these facts into account and gives you medications without interactions with disulfiram (antabuse) or acamprosate (acamprol).
Hope this helps.
Only in the initial days after quitting alcohol, high blood pressure may occur as a part of the withdrawals.
If your BP is high even after a month of quitting alcohol, it means you are suffering from hypertension and need to take antihypertensives as per your doctors advice.
Do inform your doctor of your recent sobriety and the medications you are now on so that he takes these facts into account and gives you medications without interactions with disulfiram (antabuse) or acamprosate (acamprol).
Hope this helps.
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