What Causes Dizziness, Nausea And Mild Headache While Weaning Off Amlodipine?

Posted on Mon, 23 Nov 2015

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Question : Experiencing light dizziness and nausea
for past two days...tired...now mild headache?
Have stopped a Bp med recently, Amlodopine 5-25 been off of it for several weekscant get script refilled
could this be the issue

Answered by Dr. Benard Shehu (31 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Following answer to your query...

Detailed Answer:
Hi and thank you for asking!
I read your query and understood your concerns.

Nausea, dizziness and headache aren't usually related to Amlodipine withdrawal. Since this symptoms appear weeks after stopping Amlodipine there they aren't related to Amlodipine withdrawal.

However in order to exclude hypertension as the possible cause of your symptoms you should measure it and if the BP is normal than your symptoms may be related to inner ear problems.

Hope this will be of help!
Wish you help!
Dr. Shehu

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar