| You are very young to need blood pressure medicine especially if you run 10 or so miles. I assume with all that running you are thin. I a just hit menapause and having blood pressure problems. I have tried most of the classes available and was just checking on retrying benicar and saw this website internet drug database with comments. I find most of the blood pressure medicines cause tiredness and weakness in the muscles. Because I am 57, I thought it might be that I am getting older. I still walk 4 miles but with a beta blocker, even a newer type, I have been pushing myself to exercise. But I have been trying to loose weight and with the medicine, I had to walk everyday about 4 miles and eat just about nothing and even with a waterpill I could not loose an oz and a day ago, I felt swollen in my stomach and when I skipped a waterpill, I gained back 2 pounds. I just stopped it and my blood pressure is up to 145/95 again. I talked to a woman in her 70's and she said her blood pressure went heywire just arround and after menapause. I think the hormones have something to do with bloodpressure in women. That is my own opinion, but doctors treat it the same way they do men. Could you be having early menapause caused by excess running. Check to see if your period are normal and are not altered by the running. I tried benicar before and two days into it, I came down with a terrible soar throat and than a full blown cold. I wanted to see if I should try it again. All the comments seem to add to problems down the line. I think I will try to exercise everyday and try to get it down that way. Oh, try norvasc: calcium blocker. I was on that for few years. Even when I was on estrogen replacement which I got off after the scare about estrogen. I have a sinus problem which was made worse from elective surgery so norvasc made my sinuses and allergies worse, but other than that and dry skin, it did not make me tired. If all else fails I may go back on norvasc. I find it dropped both the top and bottom equally. The beta blockers effects and drops my top and less of the bottom. My bottom number is the one that is really out of whack. And the worse with the beta blockers is that the pulse drops, another words the heart slows-it went down to 53. The doctor said the pulse should not be lower than 60. No wonder I am so tired. Check your bloodpressure with the pulse. They are on the newer automatic bp machines. good luck |