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What Causes Body Pain While On BP Medication In An Elderly Person?

Hello, my mom is 71 and is pretty good shape but has blood pressure of 180 over something..and keeps going to her doctor and the medicine they keep giving her leaves her a great deal of pain ..she was crying due to the medicine...its like doc wasn t listening..he wont give her a referral..for specialist...keep giving her different medicine and she does not want to take it because how it makes her feel at night..and plus sluggish in the morning...shes tried about 4 idffernt types, changed diet and everything..eat fruit and veggies now walk..last 8 pounds.....what is the medicine putting her in pain...body ache..how can she avoid..she is scard to take what they gave her...now..beginning with a V...
Mon, 2 May 2016
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Hi and welcome to HCM.
I'm Dr. Taimur and I will be addressing your health concerns.
I have read your question and understand your concern.

First of all you should have given the name of drugs which she has used or using, as that would have given us the opportunity to go through the list and pick any culprit drug ( if you can mail me the list that will surely settle down the issue).
Most of the antihypertensives used now a days are not associated with the aches and pains usually,
The lipid lowering agents like statins are highly associated with the aches and pains ( usually prescribed at night).
sometimes the uncontrolled blood pressure will give the generalised body aches and pains and headache.
And it needs sometime to achieve a desirable effect ( usually few days ) for most of the drugs.
And last thing the aches and pains may be due to another concomitant illness, and wrongly associated with the drugs.

I hope this might be of some help, if you have any query feel free to ask me any time.
Thanks.
Dr. Taimur
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What Causes Body Pain While On BP Medication In An Elderly Person?

Hi and welcome to HCM. I m Dr. Taimur and I will be addressing your health concerns. I have read your question and understand your concern. First of all you should have given the name of drugs which she has used or using, as that would have given us the opportunity to go through the list and pick any culprit drug ( if you can mail me the list that will surely settle down the issue). Most of the antihypertensives used now a days are not associated with the aches and pains usually, The lipid lowering agents like statins are highly associated with the aches and pains ( usually prescribed at night). sometimes the uncontrolled blood pressure will give the generalised body aches and pains and headache. And it needs sometime to achieve a desirable effect ( usually few days ) for most of the drugs. And last thing the aches and pains may be due to another concomitant illness, and wrongly associated with the drugs. I hope this might be of some help, if you have any query feel free to ask me any time. Thanks. Dr. Taimur