Bisoprolol / hydrochlorothiazide and Dizziness: What Users Say

• Blu...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• May 10, 2015

For High Blood Pressure "I have been taking it for 10 days and am shocked by the side effects - starting with very dizzy, continuous headache, very tired. Warns against doing anything needing alertness! How can people in full-time jobs take this? Then in the last days, developed a runny nose, sore throat, and now for 3 days, I have trouble getting my breath - even just talking on the phone. So I am now coming off it - cutting the dose in half for a few days (dose was only 1.25). Unimaginable to take more of it. I take felodopine as well as read that it's not necessarily a good idea to take it with that drug too. Pretty bad."

• Anonymous
• June 13, 2009

For High Blood Pressure "I have been taking this medicine every morning for the past six months, and it has reduced my blood pressure from 155/105 to 138/88. It has a beta-blocker and makes me feel calmer shortly after taking it. Although, I find it harder to get going with my cardiovascular exercise. My doctor recently added an additional drug, amlodipine (calcium channel blocker), to my treatment regimen. My heart rate went down to a constant 42 beats per minute, which made me very tired and dizzy."

• ric...
• Taken for 10 years or more
• December 11, 2022

Bisoprolol / hydrochlorothiazide for High Blood Pressure "Been taking this for 15 years or so, started at 5 mg, 5 years later 10 mg, just lately been having cold feet. Over the years, I have developed diabetes because of the weight I have put on. I went from 200 to 310, then it took me 5 years to get back down to 250, now weighing 240 lb and getting lower, but very hard to do with this med. It has kept bp at a good rate, 130 over 75 on average. Resting but heavy workouts make me short of breath, also sinus problems and ringing in my ears all the time, with dizzy spells now and then, and my balance is bad."