Hello. Recently after being admitted to hospital it was discovered that I had an abnormally high BP. I'm 27 years old, and the nurses, doctor and consultant alike uniformally said that they didn't want to prescribe an anti-hypertensive as in most cases the patient is obliged to take the drug for the remainder of their life.
Anyway on my day of discharge they prescribed 5mg of amlodipine in addition to the 100mg Sertraline which was prescribed several weeks prior.
The 5mg dose of amlodipine was shortly afterwards upped to 10mg after an appointment at a hypertension clinic, but the 100mg sertraline remained.
The initial dose and increased dose of amlodipine made me feel, not tired as such, but lethargic, however this had passed by some weeks later.
More recently I've been prescribed propranolol 40mg in addition to sertraline 100mg for a general anxiety disorder.
Adding the propranolol seems to have left me almost entirely drained of any energy. For example I fell asleep at around 1am last night and slept through till 12pm today, and this is not an isolated incident. It isn't so much lethargy as much as just absolute tiredness.
I've searched around the internet looking for negative or sleep inducing interactions between these meds but haven't been able to find anything remotely conclusive.
Just wondered if anyone has had a similar experience with any or all of these drugs?
Thanks.
Propranolol with amlodipine?
Question posted by Chrispy88 on 21 Dec 2015
Last updated on 18 May 2020 by Alphabravo33
3 Answers
I experienced a lot of fatigue at 40mg propranolol daily. When I dropped my dose to 20mg a day, I no longer had that issue. We are all different, but I hope this helps! Good luck to you!
I experienced the same overt tiredness with 20mg propranolol and 2.5mg amlopidine.
Propranolol is a blood pressure medication that is used for anxiety. Your pressure maybe too low with both of these anti hypertensives in your system. Did the second doctor know you where taking amlodipine? You may want to ask your doctor for something different for the anxiety rather than the propranolol. You really need to be taking your blood pressure daily and report it to the doctor. The sertraline will take a month or so to really work well and can increase anxiety in the beginning so be patient and you may not need the propranolol once the sertraline has had a chance to work.
Yeah I had been on the sertraline 100mg for a few months before propranolol was prescribed. The reason the propranolol was prescribed was because I felt that the sertraline was becoming ineffective, so rather than increase the dose the doctor thought it better to prescribe a new drug, possibly because I was on propranolol a few years ago before I was prescribed amlodipine and Sertraline.
And yes the doctor was aware that I was on amlodipine when the propranolol was prescribed.
I work in a mental health ward so measure my blood pressure as routinely as possible. Ofcourse it's difficult to find the time to relax and not move for approx. 10 mins prior to measuring, so the result isn't ever going to be that accurate, and it's simply too loud and busy to measure my bp manually to get a more exact result.
The last time it was officially measured was at a hypertension clinic where it was deemed stable and under control. However I had ingested cannabis earlier that day which ive found lowers my bp and levels of anxiety drastically.
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