CLONIDINE vs Losartan

Height: 5’10” Weight: 200lbs American White Male Past Medical History: Concussion/GERD/Appendectomy. I was a Paramedic for 3 years during the COVID Pandemic. One day, I finally caught COVID from Christ knows where. Immediately after .. I was having episodes of lightheadedness and tachycardia. One

Below is a summary of my daughter’s past ten days. Our doctors are stumped. Any ideas or suggestions are greatly appreciated. Summary of Past 10 Days – 14-Year-Old Girl Baseline • Previously healthy, no major medical or psychiatric history reported, no drug use, no family history of mental illness,

My father (79 male) has stopped caring for himself. He has ocd, bpd, type 2 diabetes and struggles with depression and pretty severe anxiety. I'm not sure of his dosages, but he is prescribed welbutrin, metformin, valium, and clonidine periodically steals and abuses my brother's aderall and abuses a

19FtM, 5’4, 241lbs, white, USA, 200mg Geodon, 60mg Cymbalta, 0.2mg clonidine, 1200mg gabapentin, 15mg mirtazipine, 300mg lithium, daily testosterone topical gel, Kyleena IUD, 1000mg of Diamox. So I have chronic insomnia. I’m on the mirtazipine and the clonidine for it. For some reason, I became comp

32yr old female. 140lbs, 5’1”. History of anxiety and depression. I was inpatient in 2015 for suicide attempt. I stopped taking my meds when I found out I was pregnant in 2016. It’s weird, around 6/7th month of pregnancy I felt better and after birth I didn’t need meds. I felt better. I had a marita

One of my patient's is using clonidine to help with methadone withdrawal, didn't know that. I want to try and make this a weekly/semi-weekly thing to increase interest in this subreddit. Any thoughts?

Working in poison control, children getting into clonidine is not uncommon. It's sometimes around grandma's house or an older sibling has a Rx for ADHD. Usually the kid is drowsy for several hours or some bradycardia develops, but I've fortunately not had to deal with too many cases requiring intuba

I’m a 32M and went almost my entire 20s not worrying about or even checking my blood pressure. When I was 30 I began having tachycardia episodes with high blood pressure readings which I had to go to ER for 3 times in a period of a few months with my readings at around 190/100 I got on losartan 100

Today went to see my cardiologist and no longer need to take losartan nor atorvastatin ! Got to a healthy weight and good diet that he said I no longer need the medication. Hopefully I can stay off it from now on. Im 5,8 went from 225lbs down to 185, eating a lot of food with high sodium to no/low

Hello all. I’ve been diagnosed with hypertension since 2021. I take losartan 12.5 mg 2x day, hydralazine 100mg 3x day , Carvedilol/coreg 25mg 2x day, amlodipine/norvasc 10mg 1x day (mornings), aspirin 324mg 1x day and a vitamin b12 as directed by my doctor. Yesterday I stood up and went into the kit

Hi, how is it going. Today I'm officially off blood pressure meds completely. With lifestyle changes, low sodium diet, low sugar, aerobic exercise and weight loss. I had blood pressure in the 170 to 180 systolic in January of 2025 after heart surgery on November 2024. I was 230 pounds and am current

I wanted to share with this group since I’ve gained so much value from this forum. Sometimes I think people don’t share their positive results enough, and it can really skew people’s ideas of what medicating hypertension will be like. I put off getting medicated for 15 years. My story was basically

I take 100 mg of Losartan daily, but before meds I was easily in the 140-150/90-100 range. Even after taking medication I was usually in the 130/90+ range. My resting heart rate used to sit at about 110 too. I felt like shit and my bod was so tense. But recently I stopped drinking and smoking and be

25M. When I was first diagnosed with hypertension (late 2022), I was hesitant to start any synthetic medication. I tried the “natural” route first — mainly beetroot juice. It did help a bit, but having to constantly buy, wash, cut, and juice beets was too time-consuming with my schedule as a univers

My blood pressure (seemingly) started giving me problems beginning of this year and I was put on losartan 50mg. I take that once a day and it seems to control my BP well (below 130/80). However, in the 4 months I've been on this medication, I've noticed when I'm on my period, my blood pressure shoot