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Originally Posted by Songfellow
I also have low blood pressure due to 3 things:
1) weak heart
2) hyperthyroid
3) Sinemet reduces blood pressure!
Keep an eye on your PD drugs!
I thought I'd include the graph I created and gave to my neurologist showing how my blood pressure was declining during the day due to the Sinemet. (Yeah, I'm very truly that much of a geek. lol.) Anyway, the time of day is shown in the X-axis.
Steve
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Steve, thanks for that graph! Looking at it is scary, I see that both sides of the blood pressure equation reduce while at the same time the heart rate increases, no doubt because the heart is pumping harder to try to keep blood pressure up. I don't remember seeing "lowers blood pressure" on the list of side effects for sinemet, unless "dizziness" counts for that. Good to know.