Patient/caregiver was educated on the precautions to be observed while taking isosorbide mononitrate as follows:
- Your physician could change the dose of isosorbide mononitrate, based on the relief obtained from symptoms of hypertension and episodes of chest pain or side-effects developed. So, maintain compliance with follow-up physician appointments, as scheduled. Be accommodative to the plan of dose changes, until you show an optimum response.
- Take a blood pressure reading always before you take the pill. Maintain a log of every day blood pressure reading. If the blood pressure is too low, you can defer taking the medication for that dose. Notify your doctor, if more of such occurrences are happening, so that, your medication dose could be revised.
- If a dose is missed, it should be taken at the earliest notice of noncompliance. If it is time for the next dose, the missed dose can be skipped. Compensating for the missed dose by taking an extra dose can pose serious risk for an episode of dangerously low blood pressure, very high heart rate, and angina, thus precipitating an emergency.
