191402 Resource 101842 2154 2154 1196716691863 1196716691863 Controlled Nighttime Hallucinations After Taking Norvasc

After starting our daughter on a second blood pressure medication, her night time hallucinations returned.

Rita was off Lisinopril for 6 days and she had no recurrence of hallucinations. While she was afraid of going to bed, once asleep, she slept well. On Wednesday, Nov 28, we started her on a very low dose of Norvasc 1mg/day.The first day she was on it, she woke in the night with a bad dream but went back to sleep and I didn't think anything of it because she's had so many rough nights, I expected she might be scared even if nothing was going on.The second night, she woke and at first was simply scared by her dream but then started seeing bugs and spiders and feeling stings again. It took her a couple hours to get back to sleep. While she was scared and upset, she wasn't completely terrified as she had been the night before Thanksgiving. Again, it was clear that she was not dreaming and that she really was seeing things. She mentioned other objects as well--like a rose floating in the air.On Friday, I talked to a nurse that works with Rita's nephrologist, Dr. Kershaw. She said to stop the Norvasc over the weekend and closely monitor Rita’s BP which we did. Rita has slept soundly every night that she's been off her meds--another three nights at this point. She has mild high blood pressure--often it is in a normal range and the highest reading we've had off medication is 112/75.I realize Rita’s reaction is very rare and the fact that two different classes of meds seem to be causing the same reaction, perhaps entirely unique. However, every day Rita was off the meds, she slept fine.  She has no idea that either med caused the hallucinations.The current plan is to keep Rita off meds for 2 weeks to completely clear her system. Then, slowly reintroduce the Lisinopril starting at 1mg/day. She was on that level for over a year with no bad effect and it has the added benefit of lowering her proteinurea. After she’s been on it for a month, we'll gradually try to increase the dose—provided her BP requires it. During all of this, we’ll monitor her BP closely and notify nephrology if she gets in the 130/85 range or complains of illness.While Rita doesn’t show signs of dehydration, I think that drier weather and a few weeks of diarrhea may have contributed to her reaction. I’m hoping to keep her well hydrated and see if that helps when we restart the Lisinopril. 10 application/xml false Amlopidine ARPKD blood pressure medications kidney disease Lisinopril night time hallucinations Norvasc side effects in children sleep disturbances Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 carols 68.40.167.222 false true false false true 173251 false false true false false false true 101842 blog blogsite/Seidl/web