On a Tuesday, a woman named Lily noticed her lip felt sore in one spot. She figured she’d bitten it in her sleep. By that night, her whole lip had swollen. She went to bed anyway.

The next morning her entire face was puffed up. Her mother took one look and told her to go to the emergency room.

At the ER, the nurse asked her a question she wasn’t expecting: was she taking lisinopril? She was. She had been taking it for ten years for high blood pressure. They checked her vitals and put her in a bed immediately.

@tornado_girl12 More in depth update! #medical #fyp #viral #help #reaction ♬ original sound – Tornado_girl

More in depth update! #medical #fyp #viral #help #reaction ♬ original sound – Tornado_girl

The diagnosis was angioedema, deep swelling in the tissue under the skin. In her case, it was a reaction to a medication she’d taken without incident for a decade. She described the whole thing in a TikTok posted under the handle........

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