If I am taking medication for High Blood Pressure can I take Nimodipine?
It is a very important principal of medical practice to check that there are no interactions between prescribed medicines, whether they are prescribed or not and herbal products, foods or even minerals. The person to ask is you pharmacist or your GP. Remember however, if your GP looks up nimodipine, he or she is seeing it in the British context of eight tablets a day used for patients with subarachnoid haemorrhage. That dose can lower the blood pressure and interact with blood pressure medication. However, there is no problem with the lowering of blood pressure when the ME protocol is followed as the dosage used is so small. This is because one is using a thirty-second the dose of Nimodipine used for subarachmoid haemorrhage. To put it in perspective, it is the difference between having a few sips of wine and drinking the whole bottle. If there is poor kidney function, which can occur due to toxicity or recurrent infection in ME it is important to start with a small dose for example, o
