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I have been recently diagnosed with chronic hypertension and started with the treatment 2 weeks ago. a few days ago, i started having swollen foots (both of them), and sometimes feels uneasy generally, could this be side effects of the medication?
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Edema: Certain antihypertensive medications like the calcium channel blockers amlodipine, nifedipine nicardipine can cause harmless ankle or foot edema because of their vasodilating properties. An option is to add a low dose diuretic or switch medications to ACE inhibitor or angiotensin receptor blocker class which don't have the side effect of edema in feet or ankles. Lisinopril, losartan are examples
Answered 10/25/2020
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