It’s football Sunday, so I have to put this post up in about 0.2 seconds…gotta focus! 🙂
Some time ago (not sure of exact date) I made a video explaining what to do if you vomit after taking your medication (click here to see video).
A couple of days ago I received this question from a reader (a real life scenario on the topic at hand!):
Roughly 30 minutes after taking my bp meds:lisinopril 40mg, methyldopa 250mg, Hctz 25mg, I vomited. Should I redose?
This answer may be confusing, but hopefully you’ll get the jist of my message!
Very interesting situation you’re in…blood pressure medications are certainly important. In your case, I would consider how well your BP is being controlled. Are you at your goal blood pressure with your medications on a consistent basis? Have you had any cardiovascular events (i.e. heart attack, stroke, etc.)? The less severe your case, the better I’d feel about not re-dosing your meds!
Most likely some of each of the medications got into your bloodstream, but probably not to the full extent they usually do. If I were you, I’d redose one of them (whatever one you’d like -none of them will be over max dose if you take them again), and then you can see how you feel.
If you end up with a headache, it’s likely you’re BP is up. You could take another one of your BP meds at this point. If you feel dizzy or light-headed, it may be that your BP is low (most you can do here is sit/lay down and wait it out…should be fine in a bit!).
If you don’t feel anything, that’s okay too. Just resume your regular dosing schedule the next day! Hope this helps and wasn’t too confusing. Let me know if I need to be more clear!
Thanks for getting in touch,
Cate
If any of you are confused about my answer or have further questions, please get in touch with me at Cate@getpharmacyadvice.com or leave a comment below.
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Peace out.
Hi Cate! I was glad to find your video this morning because of course about 10-15 minutes after I took my medications I got violently sick. I didn’t see any of the tablets. This has happened before but it does not happen often. I take lamictal 200mg, tryleptal 600mg, 2 x daily, wellbutrin 300mg and aderall 30mgs, 2x daily. I was nervous about redosing the tryleptal because when I first started taking it, it made me unbelievably dizzy. Since you had said in your video that if had been 15 minutes or less to redose no matter what, I did. Was this the right choice with the number of meds I’m one?
Thanks for your help!!!
Calli B