Hello,
My husband, 53 years old, underwent a planned open heart surgery to by pass four blocked arteries, on August 31st, 2018.
Surgery was a success! However, he is suffering from multiple side effects of medications.
He never was on any blood pressure medication, statin, aspirin, etc., until he was diagnosed with the multiple blockages (about a month prior to surgery). His pressure was always normal, total cholesterol on the higher end. He has always led a very active lifestyle.
His BP nowadays tends to stay low and falls as low as 80/50. We had to request the surgeons office to reduce his metropol dosage to one instead of two. They finally agreed to it. His systolic BP with one 12.5 mg dose, ranges anywhere between 95 to 135 during a 24 hrs period.
My question to the group: Is it very common to suffer these symptoms from the multiple medications he is on (metropol 12.5 mg, clopidogrel 75 mg, amiodarone 200 mg, Atorvastatin 40 mg, aspirin 325 mg)?
general weakness,
chills (no fever),
abdominal discomfort,
metallic taste in mouth,
nausea,
general itchiness at night times
low apetite
If you had these symptoms, did your doc/surgeon change your medications or dosages? When do they wean you off from these medications (metropol, amiodarone, clopidogrel), if your heart functions right?
I am sure I will find these answers from browsing through the multiple discussions that I am yet to go through (just joined the group:-)), so thought this would probably give us the mental relief much quicker.
Thank you for your feedback.
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Piki
Novi, MI
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