I was prescribed wrong blood pressure medication? june 11th by dr mina rizwan md. was supposed to be lisinopril hctz 20 25 mg. i received 20 12.5?

Interesting statement, but why post here. This is a public information site where volunteer docs answer health questions. It does not share your information with specific docs or other sites. You need to contact the prescribing doc or pharmacy through whatever portal/method you used before. This post will go nowhere.

You may find that based on your blood pressure control and lab work, your doctor changed the dose for your good. HCTZ is a beneficial at low dose as it controls blood pressure but does not cause low potassium, high calcium, high uric acid excretion, alkalosis. If your Blood Pressure is controlled at thos dose, that would be way to go.please contact your doctor’s office. Hope it helps.

As a Hypertensionologist I often try to reduce meds once one has been controlled for some time. It is always ok to try to step down. If you eat Ed’s salt you may only need 12.5 HCTZ or your dr had another reason to step it down such as recommending you move to the DASH diet or you have had a low potassium problem in the past. Please discuss with the prescribing Dr. I am not a mind reader.