Prinivil Side Effects

Common Prinivil side effects include fatigue, body weakness, dizziness, and extremely low blood pressure. Rare side effects -- seen in less than 1 percent of people taking the drug -- include fainting, pelvic pain, and anemia. Serious side effects of Prinivil should be reported immediately to your healthcare provider, such as difficulty breathing, decreases in the amount of urine produced, and unexplained blisters on the skin. 

 

An Overview of Prinivil Side Effects

As with any medicine, side effects are possible with
 Prinivil® (lisinopril). However, not everyone who takes the drug will experience side effects. In fact, most people tolerate it well. If side effects do occur, they are generally mild and either require no treatment or can be easily treated by you or your healthcare provider. Serious side effects are less common.
 
Prinivil has been studied in several groups of people with different conditions. Because the groups were so different, the side effects are broken down by group. These groups include people with:
 
(This article covers many, but not all, of the possible side effects with Prinivil. Your healthcare provider can discuss a more complete list of Prinivil side effects with you.)
 
High Blood Pressure
Prinivil has been studied extensively in clinical trials for people with high blood pressure. In these studies, side effects are always documented. The most common Prinivil side effects, occurring in more than 1 percent of people with high blood pressure, were:
 
Most people do not need to stop taking Prinivil because of side effects. In previous research studies, 5.7 percent of people stopped taking the drug because of side effects.
 
Chest pain and back pain were also noted in clinical studies in people with high blood pressure. However, these side effects occurred at a higher rate in those people taking the placebo, which is just a sugar pill that contains no active ingredients.
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Written by/reviewed by: Kristi Monson, PharmD; Arthur Schoenstadt, MD
Last reviewed by: Kristi Monson, PharmD;