Hydralazine and Dizziness: What Users Say

• BP ...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• October 28, 2019

For High Blood Pressure "Hydralazine is a fast-acting drug to treat high blood pressure! Avoid this medication at all costs. The side effects I experienced included dizziness, lightheadedness, sweating, vomiting, and rapid fluctuations of blood pressure readings. I've been taken to the hospital twice in an ambulance from that med! I recognize that prescription meds affect everyone differently, but please read the list of side effects before allowing your doctor to prescribe Hydralazine. I would rather have a slower-acting blood pressure med that gradually decreases blood pressure and keeps it down. With all the blood pressure meds out there, there is no reason to use this med. Avoid it like the plague!"

• Dai...
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• July 26, 2019

For High Blood Pressure "On hydralazine 50 mg twice a day, with some Afib issues, but not a big problem. BP is still high anyway. Mitral valve replacement surgery in April, recovery seemed slow, then nausea, Afib, fast heart rate, dizziness, and fatigue getting worse and worse in May and June. I asked the doctor to reduce the dose, the more it was reduced, the better I felt. Now the doctor says I can reduce the dose to 25 mg once a day for 2 weeks, and then hooray, I'm off the medication. I just saw on the internet that hydralazine is contraindicated for mitral valve malfunction caused by rheumatic disease, and that's exactly what I have. I wonder why I was ever put on this medication. It caused the most unpleasant symptoms I've ever had, which were very depressing."

• Anonymous
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• March 15, 2017

For High Blood Pressure "My blood pressure numbers run high. I was given Hydralazine 25 mg 3 times a day, then increased to 50 mg. This medication gave me the worst headache, blurred vision, dizziness, dry mouth, chest pains, very tired. It dropped my blood pressure some but not enough to continue taking this drug. I am going back to the doctor to get something else. It had me in bed and sitting for most of the day, totally out of it. Made me feel like I was tired. This medication is not worth taking."

• Fed...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• August 4, 2018

For High Blood Pressure "My blood pressure (BP) has been really erratic for the past two weeks. Blood work came back with nothing wrong. My doctor put me on a clonidine patch to supplement Coreg, which I have taken for years. I had a horrible reaction to the patch: extreme tiredness, nightmares, dizziness, and ear ringing. So they took me off the patch and put me on hydralazine 50 mg. It's not helping to bring my pressure down, I have an extreme headache, my ears are ringing, and I feel exhausted. I am taking myself off this. It's worse than having my pressure go up. An echocardiogram is scheduled for this coming Monday. I am at the point where I hope they find something wrong so they can fix it and stop using me as a guinea pig with different BP meds!"

• Ovi...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• December 8, 2019

For High Blood Pressure "50 mg hydralazine every 8 hours, on day three woke with chills, confusion, arthralgia, flushing, nausea, dizziness, and light-headedness. While it did lower my BP 20 points, the side effects certainly outweighed the benefit. Promptly dropped the dose by half, BP is perfect, and will be having a talk with said doctor, post haste."

• Joe...
• October 7, 2018

For High Blood Pressure "I read the reviews on here before I started taking these medications. I almost never have reactions from any medications, so I thought these people were just whiners or were in rare situations. I was on the hydralazine for about 10 days, and I felt like I was going to die every single second that I was on it. I had severe chest pains, flatulence (gas), rapid heartbeat, headaches, dizziness, and I felt like something was squeezing my heart. I practically begged my doctor to hurry and take me off of this medication, and he switched me to Telmisartan. I feel like my old self again. The only thing I'm noticing with the Telmisartan is that it makes me sleep like a baby when I do go to bed. I usually wake up at 7 a.m. on weekends, but now I wake up at noon. But I am overall much happier now."

• Kik...
• January 13, 2017

For High Blood Pressure "I took hydralazine 50 mg on January 11, 2017. It felt like someone had given me a shot of morphine. This med messed me up. My heart rate was 122, my chest hurt, and I had difficulty breathing. I was dizzy, tired, and sleepy and immediately called my cardiologist and reported my side effect. I was told to take 50 mg of metoprolol so it would lower my heart rate. My legs and arm muscles hurt, and I will never take this medication again."

• Anonymous
• Taken for less than 1 month
• September 3, 2012

For High Blood Pressure "I was hospitalized after taking the first dose (25mg). I had severe chest pain, left arm pain, and dizziness. After all testing, the cardiologist determined the medication caused the above effects."

• roz...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• July 26, 2018

For High Blood Pressure "This med lowered sodium level drastically, nauseated, dizzy, headache, pain in arms, freezing cold, tired. Ended up in hospital for IVs. Threw meds away!"