Re: Inspra Update (Side Effects?)

[Guest guest]

Have you gotten any side effects from Inspra including these ones

that I got?

My side effects from Inspra (eplerenone) at 25 mg:

1. strong metallic taste

2. very thirsty

3. bad headache

4. feeling very dried out

5. increased urination

6. feeling fatigued

7. feeling nervous

The worst side effect for me is this bad headache because I already

have fibromyalgia as well.

I would be curious also to know if you have any sexual side effects?

1. difficulty getting an erection

2. less desire for sex

3. more difficulty in ejaculation

Please reply.

Thanks.

> Just an update on the replacement of spirolactone with

Inspra.

> I am very pleased with it. BP is in the 120/80 range with 25-50

> mg. After a little more than 2 weeks, brest pain is gone.

> Surprisingly, the proctitus I've experienced since radiation

therapy

> for prostate cancer resolved itself during the same period. The

> bleeding and pain hasn't occurred in the past two weeks. In the

> past year, only a day or two have been without problems.

> I guess one of the mineral corticoids spirolactone suppresses

> must effect the swelling and/or inflamation of tissue. Also it

> definitely is not as hard on the stomach. I can take a 50 mg

tablet

> without discomfort. In fact, this caused a problem. I don't like

> breakfest, but since taking spirolactone in the morning I found I

> had to have something with it.

> So I've been eating breakfest for the past year. Once I

> started Inspra, I found I could go without breakfest once again.

> Only about 1-2 pm I found myself getting light headed and shakey.

> Low blood sugar. So I'm back to eating a breakfest (ugh!) but the

> hypoglycimia is gone. I guess breakfest is good for you. Wayne

[Guest guest]

Airliner:

Looking over your list below, I can say I've experienced none

of them. In fact, #5 is just the opposite. Couple of times a night

is now once-and it seems more due to habit. I really, really am

happy with Inspra. None of the side effects of Spirolactone, with

the bp control. Just what the darn things were designed to do.

As far as the sex problems, you're talking to a guy that just

spent a year on Lupron for prostate cancer. It is a chemical

castrator-it really is. At 63, after 35 years of high blood

pressure, and after that, I don't think my sex life will be great

again. Lupron is the shits! I am still mad at the doctor for

putting me on it, and for keeping me on it for so long.

I learned something from it. Don't take a drug that you hate.

Life is to short to waste being miserable extending it. Wayne

> Have you gotten any side effects from Inspra including these ones

> that I got?

>

> My side effects from Inspra (eplerenone) at 25 mg:

>

> 1. strong metallic taste

> 2. very thirsty

> 3. bad headache

> 4. feeling very dried out

> 5. increased urination

> 6. feeling fatigued

> 7. feeling nervous

>

> The worst side effect for me is this bad headache because I already

> have fibromyalgia as well.

>

[Guest guest]

I have had the thirst, dry out feeling, and increased urination, but

none of the others. My endocrinologist said that this is to be

expected since Inspra is a type of diuretic. He said it will

eventually even out in the body and you will have less of these

happen. I've not noticed any change in sexual function from it.

Jim

> > Just an update on the replacement of spirolactone with

> Inspra.

> > I am very pleased with it. BP is in the 120/80 range with 25-50

> > mg. After a little more than 2 weeks, brest pain is gone.

> > Surprisingly, the proctitus I've experienced since radiation

> therapy

> > for prostate cancer resolved itself during the same period. The

> > bleeding and pain hasn't occurred in the past two weeks. In the

> > past year, only a day or two have been without problems.

> > I guess one of the mineral corticoids spirolactone

suppresses

> > must effect the swelling and/or inflamation of tissue. Also it

> > definitely is not as hard on the stomach. I can take a 50 mg

> tablet

> > without discomfort. In fact, this caused a problem. I don't

like

> > breakfest, but since taking spirolactone in the morning I found

I

> > had to have something with it.

> > So I've been eating breakfest for the past year. Once I

> > started Inspra, I found I could go without breakfest once

again.

> > Only about 1-2 pm I found myself getting light headed and

shakey.

> > Low blood sugar. So I'm back to eating a breakfest (ugh!) but

the

> > hypoglycimia is gone. I guess breakfest is good for you. Wayne