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Old 12-29-2015, 04:23 PM
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I will repeat this again.... ACE inhibitor drugs used for hypertension increase bradykinin in the tissues, and this causes all sorts of problems. If you ask to have your blood pressure drug changed to a completely different family of drugs, you may find some relief. This happened to me with lisinopril.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradykinin
Hi Mrs D. I'm certain that these symptoms are nothing to do with my BP meds because they started years before I was put on these. I switched from Ace to Arb inhibitor after six weeks and now am hoping to be switched to Amlopedine so that my Raynauds symptoms are aided as well.
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