Had an emergency c section 1/12/24, because of high blood pressure/pre eclampsia. I was on labetalol and continued to throw it up, had horrible high blood pressure on that one and doctors switched me to nifedipine. All blood pressure meds make me feel horrible. Nifedipine gave me a burning pain in my brain, all over inside my head, it just burns and throbs and I get the worst headache, I also have eye pain. I also have a consistent heart rate of 112-130bpm which for my little heart is a lot. —
I’m 5’1, female, weighed about 204lbs during pregnancy,160lbs prior.. but I didn’t have hypertension until the end of my pregnancy. And postpartum.
~~~~Nifedipine makes me feel like I’m living in an out of body experience. I feel out of it, loopy, almost drugged, my thinking becomes disorganized, I can’t follow conversations, I pretend a lot because doctors had accused me of being on drugs because I had hypertension. (Apparently it’s pretty common to be accused of drug use when you deliver early or late or have high blood pressure or your baby is preemie or overweight, go figure). But another issue, for example, I will be talking with a healthcare worker and they’ll ask me a question and it’s as if I cannot focus on what they’re telling me :( before I could think clearly, comprehend conversations, laugh back, but I feel sedated, lucid…shaky, unwell and this med has given me extreme sense of paranoia and anxiety. Which as a postpartum mom, I have to pretend I don’t feel any of that, otherwise they can take my baby away (they already think, I suffer from postpartum depression and on drugs (which isn’t true) but the only med, I’ve been taking is this one. It controlled my blood pressure (so it looks great on readings) but I feel I am going to have a heart attack and die at 32. I legitimately can’t handle the tachycardia on a daily basis caused by this medication. The other side effects is SEVERE water retention, (if I bring this up with my providers they say “it’s normal for you to retain water since you had pre eclampsia”) but I have a huge feeling it’s these pills!! My feet and ankles swell up like balloons.
———
I was in the hospital postpartum for 7 days. While they regulated my blood pressure, worst 7 days of my life. Nifedipine allowed me to go home, because it did stabilize my blood pressure, but at what cost? My heart feels like it’s failing. My body is spent …
——-/
It also constantly feels like I’m short of breath. Almost gasping to breathe, and very fatigued.
Doctors mentioned they will be hopefully decreasing my dosage now that I’m postpartum. Please, send me good vibes and prayers so I can get off this medication.
-honest mommyRead More Read Less