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My mother is taking amlodipine basylate tablets 5 mg presription of a doctor and another doctor gave her calcium tablets. Does not any harm to her and I am also reading amlodipine can cause cancer. Is it safe to use now my mother's bp shows 120/80.and also after taking amlodipine she feels weak as she will fell down will she stop it
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Get her BP checked before taking medicine and after 12 hrs of taking medicine.
If BP remains normal both times, then stop amlodipine for 3 days but do check BP every day for next 3 days.
If everything is fine you can stop the medicine but do keep checking BP regularly at least once in a week.
Amlodipine is one of the safest anti hypertensive medicine.
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Blood pressure may have to be checked more than once before someone can be diagnosed to be suffering from hypertension or high blood pressure.
There is a type of high blood pressure which is known as white coat hypertension which occurs only when a patient's blood pressure is checked by a doctor in his apron but disappears later on.
The history that you have provided makes me suspicious that your mother is having either a low blood pressure on taking Amlodipine or a postural hypotension ( low blood pressure ) after taking Amlodipine which may occur with many anti hypertensive drugs.
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Since your mother is having a BP of 120/80, I would suggest that you stop giving her Amlodipine for 2 to 3 days and check her blood pressure after this with an electronic BP checking instrument or have her blood pressure checked by an experienced compounder or a local doctor.
If her blood pressure is more than 130/80 which is the higher normal limit, you may restart Amlodipine in a low dose to start with.
If BP is 130/80 or less, stop giving her Amlodipine.
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By the way, Amlodipine is one of the safest anti hypertensive that you can give to a hypertensive patient without much investigation.
In any case you do a ECG, blood for urea, creatinine, sodium, potassium.
You can come to my clinic with your mother as she needs to be checked clinically.
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Dr. S A Mallick
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You need to reduce or change the medicine probably.
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