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why is my blood pressure higher when I am lying down?

I have been having some problems sleeping lately, I am hypertensive and also have chest pains. Recently i started noticing that when i lie down to sleep at night i feel my heart beating irregularly and it makes it difficult for me to sleep, i then have to take some valium b4 i can sleep or have slow sex (without exerting myself so much) before i can sleep. yesernight i decided to measure my bp b4 going to bed it was 125/76, pulse 56. I measured it again while lying down and it was 140/80 pulse 54. i was surprised, so i sat up, went over to my table and measured it and i got 123/75 when i went back to bed it was 139/81. i then concluded that my bp seems to go up when i lie down which doesn;t seem right to me, is that y i have been having irregular heart beats and angina pains when i try to sleep lately. I am currently taking atenolol 100mg once a day, norvasc, captopril and aspirin but it seems these drugs no longer help especially with this irregular heart beat, altho they seem to have succeeded in lowering my bp and stabilizing me cos my bp behaves erratically, rises without warning, in such cases i quickly take take isordil (nitrate to bring it down quickly) but the above mentioned drugs seems to have stabilized my bp so i hardly take the nitrates. this new episode of palpitations and arrythmia (if that is what it is) that started 5 days ago when i bought a new pack of norvasc. its usually noticable when i lie down. I am thinking of stopping the norvasc bcos it coincides with the day the irregular heart beat started, fake norvasc are very common here in Nigeria and the last time i had these irregular heartbeats it stopped when i stopped taking the new norvasc pack that i bought then. I am suspecting the norvasc cos the previous pack i had was not giving me any problem, this prob started with this new pack or i'm i getting it all wrong, is my condition getting worse, i want to know what u guys think b4 i go to my cardiologist. yesternight i switched to atenolol 50mg twice a day to c if it can control the irregular beat at night, i don't like taking the atenolol cos i used to be ashmatic (then i was a heavy smoker). now i have stopped smoking and the ashtma seems to have gone with it. but one day after having intense sex with my wife i started having difficulty breathing, in less than 3 mins i could hardly breath at all, i managed to grab my old ventolin inhaler was lucky to find something inside, i inhaled deeply twice and within a few mins felt some relief, but that sudden ashtma attack really scared me cos i wonder what would have happened if i didn't have that ventolin inhaler at home, now i carry it about with me, i told my doctor and he said i shud stop the atenolol, last 2 months i complained of chest pains and he said i shud start taking the atenolol again...anyway i want u guys to evaluate my case and advice me b4 i c my doctor, if there are better drugs out there i wnat to know them so i can suggest it to him, also i will like hints on how to get authentic norvasc cos my system doesn't take kindly with the fake ones (or maybe they are not fake as one pharmacist suggested that my reactions my just be psychological). I am 34 yrs old, slightly over weight, not very active, wanted to restart my exercise routing but i have to be careful not to over stress my heart, my doctor suggested walking quickly will do for now until i get the hang of it...he also suggested i shud cross over to UK and have a proper heart test done, medical facilities are limited here in nigeria, i have done a heart echo and ecg with chest xray, the echo showed i had LVH as at then which has resolved and slightly thickened endo which my doctor said is quite normal with hypertensive patients but i have discovered that i can't do some things i used to do b4, like vigorous sex cos of my heart, if i try it i usually end up panting and maybe suffer some irregular heart beats.. give me all the possible advice u can b4 i go and c him, and do u guys really think i shud spend my life saviings on a trip to the UK to have my heart properly checked out or is everything under control...my major prob is my bp rising suddenly without warning, if i don't notice it in time and take adequate measure maybe a cardiovascular incident may occur...what shud i do?

capoten 150mg PO t.i.d. is ordered for mrs. nelson. available is captopril in 12.5, 25, 50, and 100 mg tab. select the most appropriate dosage form for this order. can you please show me how to do this and set this up to get the answer? thank you so much!

I am currently taking captopril, norvasc, nitrates and occasional atenolol with NSAIDs, after ny pack of captopril finished i bought a new pack and started having some new probs, i;ll wake in the middle of night with a feeling that my heart/breathing has stopped or is stopping, i will immediately get up from bed and try to force air into my lungs and gradually everything comes back to normal, but i notice my heart beating slowly then...this is a new development, when i take my bp then its usually ok too, i;m really worried,.,did i buy a fake captopril or is this a new development, i want to gather as much info as i can b4 seeing my doctor, cos most times he will examine me and find nothing wrong and ask me to continue taking my drugs that everything is ok...few months ago a cardiac echo showed that i have lvh, but that has been brought under control, it also showed that i have slight thickened endo but no cardiomegaly with moderate cardiomyopathy, is my condition getting worse or i shud stop taking my drugs cos i have noticed that since my bp is under control i feel relatively better when i am not taking all these drugs...but since my dad degraded to end stage prostrate cancer, my doctor advised that i take my bp drugs more regularly cos of the stress of taking care of my dad

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