It mentioned Reagan and Thatcher who said they only slept 4-6 hours a night.
I take Losartan daily for high blood pressure.
I remember hearing that Regan slept about 10 hours a night. I think the press made fun of him for it.
I take Valsartan for blood pressure, which is one of those ARBs.
I’m of Ramipril. If it helps memory ...hate to think what my memory would be if I wasn’t. Going downhill. :-)
I recently have had to take chlorthalidone for BP. 6 hours is the norm for me.
If that’s the case I should be well-protected. I have to take huge doses of three different blood pressure medications in order to manage my aortic dissection. They keep my brain in a fog, among other things, but I’ve gotten somewhat used to them.
I’m sleeping only 4-6 hours per evening as I wake up constantly, although I’m in bed for 8 hours. Anyone care to share the secret of getting 8 hours sleep?
Trying my hardest to stay off of BP meds. Dad had high BP, but he also had a cr@ppy diet and a sedentary life.
Mom has low BP, and I fall in between them. I am currently on a mild diuretic per my Doc at the VA.
Walking more, cutting out the booze and carbs, cut out caffeine, the usual.
So far, so good.
Atenolol
Common brands: Tenormin
I take the above and had an interesting and not happy several weeks with this drug last fall right after Thanksgiving.
For years I took the drug in the morning.
Three separate events changed that.
1.The articles about how cardiac drugs protected us better when taken at night. So I started taking the drug at night instead of the morning.
2. We had fairly chilly nights and basically kept our windows at night opened a few inches in our master BR.
3. So I changed to taking it at night and my PPO changed the generic manufacturer and used its package insert more on this later.
4. I started having chills in my feet and hands shortly after being in bed. Then, about mid night to 3 am, I had severe hot spells with hands/feet at first and then my whole body. If my wife and I were lucky we got some fairly good sleep from 3:30 am to 6 am ish, then we woke up and got out of bed.
I read the new package insert and there was basically zero warning about hot or cold flashes. So I didn’t equate the flashes to the new form of Atenolol.
During this time, my short term memory was going to hell.
Again nothing in the package inserts of any drug I was taking.
About 3 months ago, I got a heads up from a relative with a medical background to do a google search on each of my drugs and not depend on their package insert.
There was basically nothing about the flashes on every drug I was taking with the exception of Atenolol.
Hot and cold flashes were at the top of every Google search as common/severe side effects re Atenolol.
So I switched back from taking Atenolol at bedtime to early morning. Within a few days, the hot/cold flashes went away.
If I still have them in the daytime, I take off a layer of clothes if I’m having hot flashes or add a vest like now if I’m having cold flashes.
Back to good sleep and my short term memory lapses are basically gone.
“... added benefit beyond that of lowering blood pressure...”
It probably cures Wuhan too. Everything cures Wuhan except Remdisivir and Windex
It must work. I too take Losartan daily for high blood pressure and some other medicine that’s name I can’t remember.
“Those drugs include certain ACE inhibitors and angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs) — two major classes of blood pressure medication.”
Well, I am allergic to both after receiving the shingles vaccine in a study some years ago...
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