Re: Florinef (aldosterone) for low blood pressure

[Guest guest]

,

I was on Florinef for a couple of months last year for low BP. I

think it helped a little, but not to the extent that the doctors wanted

it too.

Smiles,

a

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 00:56:46 -0000 " heidi88_2000 " maxrules@...>

writes:

Hi,

Does anyone here take Florinef for their low BP? Mine drops when I

sit for any length of time, but pretty much normalizes when I stand.

I had blood tests done, and while my minerals and hormones seem to be

doing okay, my cortisol is on the low side, and my ACTH (pituitary

gland) is out-of-range low.

My Cardiologist (who wasn't happy that the endo did nothing about my

low levels) put me on the med. It's usually given to people with

's disease, along with something like prednisone.

Anyway.... it makes your kidneys retain sodium, which causes the BP

to rise. It also dumps a lot of potassium.

Someone asked me why I don't just eat a lot of salt, instead? I

didn't have a good answer. But if I learn that it would be just as

beneficial on raising my BP, I'd rather do that.

I'm calling my endo tomorrow to see what she says about all this; but

for now, I wondering if anyone here has had success, or problems,

with this drug.

Thanks,

B

[Guest guest]

I tend to have low blood pressure, but also have high sometimes.

Also I have a slow pulse (around 50 bpm often), so my cardiologist

told me to add more salt to my food. I wasn't told to go on salt

tablets - I don't know how someone would monitor increasing salt on

their own (measure out an amount for each day?). My GI doctor told

me to decrease salt, so I'm back stuck in the middle on salt intake

(which for me was normally relatively low).

Take care,

RH

> ,

>

> You can try taking salt tablets first. I went that route but

it was not

> enough to make my BP increase on it's own. I was prescribed

Florinef by a

> syncope specialist cardiologist after failing the tile table test

and being Dx'd

> with POTS. The Florinef really bottomed out my plasma Potassium. I

would

> highly advise you go on a K supplement while taking Florinef. I had

to

> discontinue the Florinef after my echo showed heart failure. It

works by making you

> retain fluids and that is not a good thing when your heart isn't

functioning at

> full capacity. I also use to take a different med for increasing my

BP called

> Midodrine. It doesn't have the same side effects as Florinef.

Maybe you

> could ask your doc about trying Midodrine. They can be taken

together as well if

> needed.

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

You sound like me when I had my surgery April first, they had to delay my

surgery as my BP spiked, when I came back my saturation level dropped

drastically and if that wasn't enough I couldn't be released as scheduled as my

BP bottomed out. My gastro and urologist both have me on a no salt/no sodium

diet. Now with all the gastro problems I have to watch everything I east. I

will know the results of my colon/esophageal biopsies the 30th, I just today

called my PCp about my heart tests and they hadn't seen them but when I called

back the results had been scanned into the computer when they came in and of

course no one had looked at them. That is how Cotton-O'Neil works, anything

that comes in their office even if it has a note to the doctor it " Does Not " get

to the PCP it is scanned directly into the patients on-line chart and the doctor

is unaware that it is there. I called this am about my heart tests and at first

the nurse said nothing had been received, when I told her that

they told me to check with my PCP last

friday and when I had called then they knew nothing yet she said she would call

me back. The results were with my on-line records so the nurse said she would

print it off for my PCP and someone would get back to me with the results??

Thank goodness I will go back to my gastro doctor about my biopsy results.

Thanks for letting me vent, Dolores

ohgminion rakshasis@...> wrote:

I tend to have low blood pressure, but also have high sometimes.

Also I have a slow pulse (around 50 bpm often), so my cardiologist

told me to add more salt to my food. I wasn't told to go on salt

tablets - I don't know how someone would monitor increasing salt on

their own (measure out an amount for each day?). My GI doctor told

me to decrease salt, so I'm back stuck in the middle on salt intake

(which for me was normally relatively low).

Take care,

RH

> ,

>

> You can try taking salt tablets first. I went that route but

it was not

> enough to make my BP increase on it's own. I was prescribed

Florinef by a

> syncope specialist cardiologist after failing the tile table test

and being Dx'd

> with POTS. The Florinef really bottomed out my plasma Potassium. I

would

> highly advise you go on a K supplement while taking Florinef. I had

to

> discontinue the Florinef after my echo showed heart failure. It

works by making you

> retain fluids and that is not a good thing when your heart isn't

functioning at

> full capacity. I also use to take a different med for increasing my

BP called

> Midodrine. It doesn't have the same side effects as Florinef.

Maybe you

> could ask your doc about trying Midodrine. They can be taken

together as well if

> needed.

>

>

>

>

>