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The nurse was asking questions.  She told me "Oh honey, that is your blood pressure med. Come on in and we will confirm it."  Before I went in, I hit the internet again looking for side effects of this medication.  After a lot of digging, I finally found a comprehensive list of side effects and it was scary. 
1) Congestive heart failure
2) Asthma
3) Diabetis
4) Severe skin reactions
5) Kidney failure

This is the worst ones.  So off to the doctor I went.  He didn't want to take me off the meds.  He did not believe that the meds were causing me the problem.  So when I insisted, he told me to just stop them.  They are low dose and won't hurt you.  I left and called a pharmacist and he told me how to walk down off them.  My last blood draw when on the meds  had my cholesterol at 240 , my tryglicerides were over 300.  I showed an elevated A1C.  I insisted on a blood draw 3 months after stopping these meds.  My cholesterol had dropped to 120.  My tryglicerides had dropped to under 100 and my A1C was under 5.  All the swelling in my lower extremities had gone.  I was losing weight without even trying. 

Rock along to 2013.  I let that quack of a doctor put me back on bp meds.  He swore that this time they were completely different from what I had been taking.  So idiot here said yes.  That was in December of 2013.  By January 2014, 1 month, I was in the same mess with the skin eruptions.  Since it was just a dry rash at this point, I didn't make the connection.  I went back in March 2014 because it was just getting worse. The first words out of that asshole's mouth when he walked into that exam room were "Oh, you really can't take those meds."  The asshole, because he didn't believe me that it was the meds, has put me back on the same damn thing.  He changed out the beta blocker.  So this time I told him to stick it.  I got off, but still had to deal with the allergic reaction.  I would up with huge hives all over my arms and stomach.  I went to a dermatologist.  He treated me for chemical burns and cleared up the rash, but my body could not recover from the second attack of the meds.  I had popped on 45 pounds in 2 months.  I had trouble breathing.  I did not get rid of the hives until September of 2014.  I did not get the lower blood pressure.  So I delt with that until around fall of 2015.  Then I went to an older doctor that I knew.  He was concerned about the blood pressure.