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I was also revived after the combination of my prescription blood pressure medication interacted with over the counter niacin, to lower my blood pressure to a dangerous level. At the start of the episode, I went unconscious, then according to the EMT, who came to my aid, I stopped breathing and had no pulse at one point. He got me back and I was rushed to the hospital. When I woke up the next morning the nurse said I had coded 4 more times during the night. She told me to bury the rest of the niacin pills in kitty litter and never under any circumstances take a niacin supplement again. Believe me I won't. The doctor who told me to take it originally had just been assigned to me, after my previous PCP moved away, and apparently he didn't read my chart very well on my first appointment with him.