Nifedipine

Don't use the fake estrogen pills.

another medication that will increase your risk of leg cramps is naproxen celebrex any of the anti-inflammatories that are non-steroidal in nature ibuprofen all these guys can increase your risk of leg cramps calcium channel blockers like Procardia and Norvasc fiddle with the calcium channel they fiddle with all the calcium channels not just the ones in your heart and in your arterial tree but also the ones in your striated or skeletal muscle as well and so if you're taking a calcium channel blocker and you've already taken care of these other most common causes of leg cramps you might talk to your doctor about another medication choice Zyrtec I hear patients talking about leg cramps if they take Zyrtec too often It's fine to take occasionally, but don't take it every day for years and years.

Cipro, which is an antibiotic, ciprofloxacin, can cause problems with muscles and tendons and muscle cramps.

Leg cramps are a symptom that I often hear.

The first-line oral antihypertensives in pregnancy are labetalol, nifedipine, and methyldopa.

Labetalol, a combined alpha and beta blocker, is effective and well-studied but should be avoided in women with asthma.

Nifedipine, in its modified release form, is very effective and widely used, with headache and ankle swelling as common side effects.

Methyldopa has the longest safety record, including long-term follow-up of children, but causes tiredness and low mood and should be stopped after delivery because of the risk of postpartum depression.

Amlodipine is increasingly used, and the available data are reassuring, although less extensive than for nifedipine.

So that's, that's the kinda main thing that you wanna do if it's got really, really bad, right? So he wants to make sure that I don't have, you know, osteoarthritis or something like that, and he did sort of various tests to make sure that that wasn't the case.

And then he said, um, yeah, "Possible solutions are," there's a drug called Nifedipine, which I took earlier on this year, and I hated it 'cause it made me really dizzy.

Mm-hmm.

Um, and I got a letter this morning said, that sort of went, "Yeah, fair enough." Um, m- and that's 'cause my blood pressure isn't super high.

So it includes atojapan, eptanizumab, freminizumab, propranolol, Remedipant, Topiramate, and Valproate.

And then a slightly longer list for the low-confidence drugs, so Amitriptyline, Bizoprolol, Flunarazine, Fluoxetine, Levotiracetam, Metoprolol, Nifedipine, Pizodafin.

and telmisartan.

And for this outcome, I'm specifically talking about episodic migraine headache days.

Slow-release calcium channel blockers.

Nifedipine is the usual one.

They relax the smooth muscle in the vessel walls and improve peripheral circulation and which reduces the frequency and severity of the blanching episodes.

Uh, second line.

Ibuprofen, all these guys can increase your risk of leg cramps.

Calcium channel blockers like Procardia and Norvasc fiddle with the calcium channel.

they fiddle with all the calcium channels not just the ones in your heart and in your arterial tree but also the ones in your striated or skeletal muscle as well and so if you're taking a calcium channel blocker and you've already taken care of these other most common causes of leg cramps you might talk to your doctor about another medication choice Zyrtec I hear patients talking about leg cramps if they take Zyrtec too often It's fine to take occasionally, but don't take it every day for years and years.

Cipro, which is an antibiotic, ciprofloxacin, can cause problems with muscles and tendons and muscle cramps.

It's not just verapamil though.

Another woman had been taking antidepressants along with another blood pressure medication called Procardia and keeled over dead while vacuuming.

A young man from Michigan died after taking an antihistamine called Seldane.

The thing they had in common? They both drank grapefruit juice at the time they were taking their medications.

Ointment.

With nifedipine.

Nifedipine.

Yep.

Which is a calcium channel blocker.

Usually it's my second choice.

Yes.

Nifedipine is the oldest and has the most evidence, but I find diltiazem is like, It works a little bit longer.