Labetalol dosage

[hillary8l8]

Hey Everyone,
I had my daughter at 37 weeks in 2010 due to PIH. I am currently 28 weeks pregnant with my son, and have been on BP meds since about 20 weeks. I started at 100 mg Labetalol once a day, was raised to 100 mg twice a day not long after that, and just last week my dose was raised to 200 mg twice a day. With taking 200 mg twice a day, I find that it drops my BP for about 4 hours and makes me feel cruddy, and then my pressures go right back up for the rest of the day. I called my OB's office yesterday, but they were gone for the weekend. I just wondered if anyone had ever been advised to stretch their doses out through the day. Maybe take 100 mg in the morning, and then 100 mg in the afternoon?

[cndmommy]

I started taking Labetalol 200 mg 2x a day every 12 hours last week when I was in the hospital for 3 days due to really high BP and protein in my urine. My BP was doing well and then last Tuesday my OB increased the dosage to 200 mg 3x a day every 8 hours because my BP was rising again. My BP does the same thing as yours... stays low (for me) at around 130s/ 80s then I start feeling dizzy, spots, etc. and my BP is back up to 140s-160s/ 90s-100 again. I'm not sure about dosages and what the best is for you, sounds like your OB might be the best person to ask. Sorry you're feeling so cruddy though!

[MomTimesThree]

I also had the same conversation with our doctor, we had that drop in the mid morning that made me feel so junk. After maybe a week however I stopped having that drop, though we still trend higher and higher as the day goes along. For now, we are going to keep at the twice a day, but our MFM did mention that we could always stretch it out to 3x day changing our dosage. It's a great question for your doc... I know that dip feels awful.