Posted by DStupid on March 30, 2007, at 19:53:06
In reply to Re: Cozaar Helps! Can You Believe it? » saturn, posted by Larry Hoover on March 27, 2007, at 5:58:26
I'm actually familiar with Cozaar since my dad had given it two runs for his high blood pressure and I had the misfortune of watching him struggle over its side effects. Cozaar (an ARB, not an ACE inhibitor, a technical difference in that it doesn't produce a cough like an ACE inhibitor) is a pure blood pressure reducing medication, and, on the substantive level, it doesn't do a great job of reducing it. More importantly, as far as its psychiatric effects, while my dad was on Cozaar (standard dosage of 25 mg), he was completely uninterested in anything that was going on, was not reading, and was watching TV just to have something to do. His preference was to lie in bed during the day. He wasn't sleeping well at night, though, as Cozaar didn't have hypnotic properties. One week after commencement, he developed edema in his legs and could hardly move. He stopped taking Cozaar, only to resume several months later at his doctor's request, and quit again after several days. He expressly warned me not to take Cozaar in case I wanted to try it for my depression.
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