Re: ACE inhibitors vs calcium channel blockers

[Guest guest]

---I am not on any ACE inhibitor and now wondering if I should be? I

don't have high blood pressure. My husband has kidney problems and

is on the ace inhibitor but also has high blood pressure. Should I

bring this up at my next appointment?

Also last time at the doctor earlier this month, they were not able

to get a blood sample from me at all. A buterfly was used in my hand

but no luck. My arm veins have long ago closed up shop. The techs

are good so not their fault. Two had tried this last time. I was

given a rubber ball to take home and squeeze to try and bring up the

hand veins. I don't see anything happening yet.

Madge

In diabetes_int@y..., el <andrea@o...> wrote:

> All this talk about how diabetics should be on ACE

> inhibitors to protect their kidneys got me thinking.

>

> I was having really terrible migraine problems for years,

> and the doctor was going to put me on an ACE inhibitor for

> migraine prophylaxis, until he saw I was asthmatic

> (contraindicated), so he put me on a calcium channel blocker

> instead (plus Depakote), which has helped immensely.

>

> Does anyone know if the calcium channel blocker protects

> diabetic kidneys the way the ACE inhibitor does? My blood

> pressure has always been great, except for the year or so

> before I was diagnosed as a diabetic (and even then, it was

> only borderline high). Once I got my HbA1c down below 6, my

> blood pressure went back to being 102/68 or thereabouts.

>

> Oh, and I'm a Type II (NIDDM). Is it only Type I's that

> need the ACE inhibitor, or all of us?

>

> Inquiring minds want to know!

>

> --

>

> el (andrea@o..., andrea_frankel@c...)

> Nevada City, CA, USA

> " ...wake now! Discover that you are the song that the

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