1. Has anybody experience about interaction between the usual ADD-medication and the tablets against high blood pressure?
2. Also interesting the interaction of Ritalin et al. with cholesterol lowering medication?
3. Antidepressiva combined with the blood pressure lowering agents?
4. Lastly: what about the combinations of the above in an ADDult?
Re: Ritalin & hypertension?
At the bottom quotations on Ritalin and bloodpressure from three websites. I guess Jimm is aware of such warnings. In some countries Ritalin is sold with instruction leaflets with strong warnings to combine it with beta-blockers.
How is your doctor dicussing these warnings away?
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Use cautiously in patients with hypertension. Blood pressure should be monitored at appropriate intervals in all patients taking Ritalin, especially those with hypertension.
http://www.nursing.uiowa.edu/sites/adultpain/Adjuvant/RITOPtt.htm
Ritalin is known to cause cardiac arrhythmia, tachycardia and hypertension. Ritalin and other amphetamines can interfere with the body phospholipid (complex fat) chemistry causing the accumulation of abnormal membranes visible with an electron microscope. Such abnormalities were seen in an adult treated with Ritalin for 4 ½ years. A heart muscle biopsy was obtained during coronary bypass surgery. Fischer (1972) concluded: “Although the patient was exposed to a variety of different drugs, we feel the methylphenindate (Ritalin) should be considered as the incriminating factor since this agent is amphetamine-related.”
http://www.attention-deficit-disorder.org/editorials/adverse-reactions.htm
Contraindicated in patients with: hypertension, cardiac arrhythmias, ischemia,
http://www.nursing.uiowa.edu/sites/adultpain/Adjuvant/RITOPtt.htm
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Re: Ritalin & hypertension?
We are lay people– consult a trained doctor—verbalize—ask questions—be cqareful of the web—there is a lot of BS out there—experimentation with type and amount of the drug then stratagies is the method—Brown of Yale medical, who is doing a lot of work uponthe executive function aspoects, states that first change the brain chemestry, then work of the methods of stratagy
I am an adult with ADHD. I take a total of eight medications.
I take meds for high blood pressure, cholesterol lowering, depression and pain relievers for arthritis. I have had great success with these. The worst reaction I had was when I took a multiple vitamin for a week. My blood pressure shot to 190/90. My doctor had me return the next week. I stopped the vitamins and my blood pressure went to normal. I reported this to my doctor who thought I was nuts. Of course my thyroid test taken the day my blood pressure was high was normal. (Imagine that! I had just taken a weeks worth of the vitamins.)
I had started the vitamins because I had read an article that linked ADHD with low thyroid activity. I thought if I took the multi-vitamin (w/iodine 100% DRA) I would lower my cholesterol.
I have researched ADHD and how the brain and hormone levels effect many bodily chemical reactions. I believe that people with ADHD may have different “normal” reading for critical bodily chemical reactions. (I.e. thyroid, cholesterol, blood pressure)