The prescribing physician will advise as to how to gradually taper down before stopping the medication completely.
Calcium channel blockers are available only with a physician's prescription and are sold in tablet, capsule, and injectable forms.
The prescribing physician or pharmacist will advise as to whether combining calcium channel blockers with any other prescription or nonprescription (over-the-counter) medication is appropriate or not.
Grapefruit juice may increase the effects of some calcium channel blockers.
Anyone taking calcium channel blockers should therefore consult with the prescribing physician concerning how much exercise and activity may be considered safe.
Correct dosage is determined by the prescribing physician and further information can be obtained from the pharmacist.
This medicine should not be discontinued without checking with the prescribing physician. Some conditions may worsen when patients stop taking calcium channel blockers abruptly.
The effects of taking calcium channel blockers during pregnancy have not been studied in humans.
No, side effects of calcium channel blockers do not contain hair loss.
Calcium channel blockers will not cure high blood pressure, but will help to control the condition.
Digitalis heart medicines: Taking these medicines with calcium channel blockers may increase the action of the heart medication.
The discovery of calcium channel blockers is attributed to two scientists, Albrecht Fleckenstein and Wilhelm Siegmund. Fleckenstein first characterized the mechanism of action of calcium channel blockers in the 1960s, while Siegmund later identified verapamil as the first calcium channel blocker used clinically.
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