ACE inhibitors vs calcium channel blockers

[Guest guest]

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!

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el (andrea@..., andrea_frankel@...)

Nevada City, CA, USA

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