You know, I have Lisinopril...the doctor in the hospital started me on it. I only took it for a couple of days and my doctor took me off of it and put me on the Diovan.
The Lisinopril doesn’t cost me a cent...zero co-pay. The Diovan costs me $20! Now I don’t care about that if one would work better than the other, but she didn’t give the lisinopril a chance to start working!
In the information I received about the lisinopril, it said it might take two to three weeks before it showed any effect. I mentioned before that I had a time there where I was coughing, A LOT, and the information about the meds said that was a side effect. I mentioned it to the pharmacist at Wal-Mart, where we get the stuff for $4 for a 30 day supply, and he said that it was typical to go through a two or three week period with a bad cough, then it calms down. He was right. Where I used to get severe coughing fits 10 or 12 times a day, I'm down to three or four!
I'm hoping that the EchoCardiogram at the end of March will show my heart function back up to normal so I can start reducing the meds over a month or two then quit them altogether.