These comments are made for the purpose of discussion and should NOT be used as recommendations for or against therapies or other treatments. An individual patient is always advised to consult their own physician.
Side Effects
Question: I have just started taking Imdur (30 mg daily) for four days and have had headaches and nausea since I started. What can be done about these side effects? Are drugs other than Imdur than can be taken?
Answer: Imdur is a long acting nitroglycercin agent. The most common side effect of nitroglycerin is a headache. This will occasionally get less severe over ten days or so. However, 20% or so of my patients will never get tolerant to the effects and continue to have incapacitating headaches. If you need nitro, other formulations will be expected to have the same effect. Sometimes you can start at a lower level and work up. Sometime you have to increase other medicines to compensate (beta blockers or calcium channel blockers).
