Aldomet for High Blood Pressure User Reviews
- Anonymous
- Taken for less than 1 month
- December 18, 2020
"This drug was given to me for pre-eclampsia. It caused me short-term memory loss until it was out of my system. I don’t remember an entire day of my life while the doctors tried to figure out if I had had a stroke because I asked the same questions every 5 minutes for 8 hours straight. I can’t find any information on this drug doing this to anyone before."
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"I'm sure this medicine has its place in the internist's arsenal, but under no condition should this drug ever be prescribed for the elderly. A board-certified internist prescribed this medicine (although there are over 100 other alternatives) for my 75-year-old mother. Luckily, she is totally competent and in very good health. But the smallest dose of this medicine did exactly what the manufacturer warns about - dizziness, sleepiness, etc. She wound up falling, and the ER doctors who treated her said that if (by pure luck) I hadn't been walking directly behind her and was strong enough to catch her, she would have broken her femur or hip. This was reported to our state medical board, and the MD was fully investigated. Within 60 days, the license was revoked."