Dibenzyline Description

If your symptoms of hypertension, sweating, headache, rapid heartbeat, and shortness of breath has sent you to your doctor, you may be tested for a type of non-cancerous tumor in one of your adrenal glands. A pheochromocytoma usually only affects one adrenal gland, but it can affect both and those between 20 and 50 years old are more likely to develop this kind of tumor.

As treatment, your doctor can prescribe Dibenzyline or generic Phenoxybenzamine, an alpha blocker drug that will lower your blood pressure to help you avoid the risk of a heart attack, stroke, or kidney disease and will reduce your sweating. The generic alternative is not manufactured by the company that makes the brand product.

How Dibenzyline Works to Lower Your BP and Decrease Sweating

When taken as directed, Dibenzyline will work by blocking certain nerve impulses from being transmitted. This acts to prevent a neurotransmitter called noradrenaline from being able to bind to its receptor in order to cause a variety of effects in your body, including the constriction of blood vessels which increases blood pressure and also raises your cardiac output that causes increased body heat and produces sweat to cool your off.

Conditions Treated by Dibenzyline

On top of each kidney sits an adrenal gland and each gland has 2 sections. The outer part of the gland makes corticosteroids that play a role in the use and storage of energy; aldosterone to encourage salt and water to be reabsorbed; and sexual hormones. The inner part of your adrenal glands produce hormones called adrenaline and noradrenaline (also a neurotransmitter when released from noradrenergic neurons).

A pheochromocytoma tumor can cause increased amounts of hormones to be released that raises blood pressure and causes sweating as your body’s way of trying to cool you off. Treatment is important to avoid your risk of life-threatening damage to your cardiovascular system. You may only be required to take Dibenzyline until your hypertension is controlled and you can undergo surgery as long as the tumor is operable and has not become cancerous and spread. This type of rare tumor is usually benign (non-cancerous).

Before Dibenzyline is Prescribed

If you are pregnant, trying to become pregnant, or are breast feeding, ask your doctor if there are any risks to taking Dibenzyline. Inform your doctor of other medical conditions and allergies you have and list any OTC and Rx drugs you currently take or use, including supplements and alternative medicine, so your doctor can determine if Dibenzyline is the right medication for you.

Dibenzyline Precautions

Keep all doctor appointments so your progress can be monitored. Dibenzyline may cause your thinking or reactions to be impaired so do not attempt any activities that require you to be alert until you know how your body will be affected by . All medications should be kept out of children’s reach and only taken by the person it was prescribed to.

Possible Side Effects of Dibenzyline

• Dizziness
• Tiredness
• Blurred vision
• Stomach upset

Drugs Similar to Dibenzyline

• Inderal
• Corgard
• Trandate