Has anyone struggled with high blood pressure?

[Santina]

having issues with bp and anxiety's Have celiac 9 months gluten free & small intestine atrophy. Had a reaction to lisinopril pharmacy told me it has Sodium starch gluconate in it which is gluten. Had to stop it. Now struggling. Has anyone else had anything similar?

[captaincrab55]

4 hours ago, Santina said:

having issues with bp and anxiety's Have celiac 9 months gluten free & small intestine atrophy. Had a reaction to lisinopril pharmacy told me it has Sodium starch gluconate in it which is gluten. Had to stop it. Now struggling. Has anyone else had anything similar?

Welcome Santina,  Are you taking Generic or Name Brand Lisinopril?  My quick search shows the name brand as gluten free. https://www.google.com/search?q=does+lisinopril+contain+gluten.  Each tablet contains 5, 10 or 20 mg of lisinopril, present as lisinopril dihydrate, as the active ingredient. Mannitol • maize starch • magnesium stearate • iron oxide red. This medicine is gluten-free, lactose- free, sucrose-free, tartrazine-free and free of other azo dyes.  I try to get all NAME BRAND meds, because the generics can be manufactured by multiple companies using different fillers.  I find it strange that a BP med contains Sodium,  Sodium raises my BP 20 or more points.  Keep in mind that I only researched LLISINOPRIL for gluten.  You need to become your own health advocate.  Good Luck. 

[Santina]

I felt like i got glutened so i talked to my pharmacist. She told me yes there is gluten in lisininprol

[Santina]

It wasn't generic. I guess with that ingredient they use corn rice or wheat as a binder. Thats where gluten comes in. Like anything else hidden gluten!

[trents]

https://www.drugs.com/inactive/sodium-starch-glycolate-128.html

https://celiac.org/gluten-free-living/gluten-in-medicine-vitamins-and-supplements/

Santina, are you a super sensitive celiac? If there is gluten in the starch used in this med it would be a very small amount since gluten is the protein component of wheat, not the starchy part. You can never completely separate the two but the starch should have only a trace of gluten I would think. It is also possible that you reacting to the active component of the medication itself.

[Scott Adams]

You can search this site for prescriptions medications, but will need to know the manufacturer/maker if there is more than one, especially if you use a generic version of the medication:

To see the ingredients you will need to click on the correct version of the medication and maker in the results, then scroll down to "Ingredients and Appearance" and click it, and then look at "Inactive Ingredients," as any gluten ingredients would likely appear there, rather than in the Active Ingredients area.

• https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/ 

 

[Beverage]

I had horrible reaction to lisinopril, a severe cough that kept me up all night. The cough is apparently common. I did better with irbesartan, no cough, and it controlled my BP better too.