NORVASC Reviews (AMLODIPINE BESYLATE)Average Rating: 2.1 (780 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare NORVASC with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR NORVASC | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | HBP | Horrible muscle cramps and pain in leg, dizzy , breathlessness, blurred vision, mood swings, zero energy,headaches, sunburn look on feet ,legs and face! | I ABSOLUTELY HATE THIS DRUG! | F | 50 | 3 weeks 10Mg | 2/20/2016 | 2 | High blood pressure | Very tired, urinated frequently, swollen anchors around the sock like line, headaches.. | Not recommended | M | 45 | 3 years 10 mg | 2/15/2016 | 3 | Chest pain,couldn't take NITRO | Started on this drug due to chest pain, since on it the chest PAIN is better but I do feel chronic pressure in my chest. I have serious sweating for about 2-3 hours after taking the drug, I have had chronic insomnia for more than 20 years, average about 3 hours of sleep per night but since on this drug all I do is sleep (about 18 hrs a day), I am dizzy most of the time, unsteady, weak, short of breath (more than before taking this drug). My O2 stats are in low 90s at times 87-88, I just completed a number of cardiac tests and my heart is no worse than pre med ??? (I suffer from an arrhythmia is and have off and on for 30 years, but that got worse over the last 2 years due to stress - while caring for dying family members and their subsequent deaths). I believe that although I am not having the chest pain that I was having, the other symptoms may be due to this drug. (I have many symptoms that others complain of, but I had them pre-med due to the multiple health issues that I h | I am still on this drug. but after ready some off the comments, I believe that I will wean myself off this drug and see if my health improves. For the last 3 mos, I have been in bed most of the day, too weak to do much of anything-- short of breath, dizzy, faint... in general I feel ill. I am so tired that all I want to do is sleep and after years of NOT sleeping and averaging 3 hrs a day, you would think I would love some sleep, BUT NOT LIKE THIS. I sleep but I do not feel rested upon waking. I am glad I found this site and read what others have experienced, I thought it might be the med, but when told it was not I let it go. But tonight I thought I would review the side effects of this drug due to the terrible sweats I get and in doing so found this site and more info that now make more since in relation to the symptoms I am having. | F | 62 | 90 days 5 mg 1X day | 2/13/2016 | 1 | HBP | Severe headache, extreme tiredness, dizziness, heart palpitations. | I Went into hospital for very high blood pressure, they gave me 5mg to take for 2 days. My doctor then increased my dose to 10mg which literally sucked the life out of me! I decided not to take it anymore for nearly 7 days then my doctor convinced me to continue with the drug but back to 5mg. The same side effects came back! These types of drugs are poison and should be illegal! But the big pharmaceutical companies prefer money than saving lives!!! STAY AWAY FROM THIS DRUG! As of today I will be taking the natural remedy pathway and live a happier healthier life..... | F | 40 | 7 days 5mg | 2/9/2016 | 4 | hypertension | Sometimes my ankles swell. That's the only side effect I've experienced. | F | 71 | 6 years 10 mg 1X day | 2/5/2016 | 2 | BP | Ugh...moderate ankle and leg swelling. My calves feel like rocks. Headache, fuzzy feeling. Aches on the top of my feet right where my foot bends. Recently developed a blotchy rash on the tops of me feet. Kind of looks little like all broken blood vessles. Also flushing of my face and ringing in ears...I hate it. I want off! | F | 51 | 3 months 5mg 2x a d | 2/1/2016 | 1 | Bp | I've have vivid dreams feel terrible my mind is going crazy lymph nodes swell | M | 58 | 1 years 10 | 1/27/2016 | 2 | HBP | Dr put me on very lose dose (2.5) due to my concerns of side effects. Well it didn't matter because the first few nights extremely dizzy and lightheadedness. However, that did go away which is why Im rating it a 2. My on-going side effects are blurred vision, swelling gum, insomnia and stomach distress, tingling/numbness in feet and calf and sweating. Plus my blood pressure still high! Searching for natural remedies. | F | 43 | 2 months 2.5MG 1X day | 1/23/2016 | 1 | Prescribed in ER | Was put on Norvasc at the hospital due to high blood pressure from a different medicine, what I discovered was it can take up to six weeks to even effectively lower BP. Day two I developed canker type sores on lips and tongue, muscle pain and weakness. Also do not take while breastfeeding! | F | 27 | 2 days 10 mg | 1/23/2016 | 1 | High Blood Pressure | I have been taking this crap since October and it has gone from bad to worse. I kept a journal for the first month and listed every side effect from headache, terrible muscle aches especially in my back and forearms, cramps in my legs, tightness in chest, and right foot with pain which was so bad I was hopping, pain in left knee, shortness of breath, wheezing, coughing, extreme tiredness to the point of feeling like I am drugged up. Rash under my arms, itching, breast pain, memory loss, brain fog, nervousness, chills, irritability, sadness, and now a stomach ache with a nagging pain on my right side. | I have taken other high blood pressure medicines and they all have side effects but I think this is the worst. My body is saying this poison does not belong there. My Dr. said that Norvasc does not cause all those side effects. I am going to take myself off this stuff, and if she does not listen, I am going to keep looking until a find a Dr. that will listen. No one should have to get sick from something that should be making them feel better. | F | 62 | 3 months 10MG 1X day | 1/20/2016 | 1 | hbp | Fatigue, thumping heart beat, headaches, occasional cough, no motivation, internal nervous feeling, trips to bathroom. | Felt horrible most days shortly after taking the drug in the morning. I'm a normally very healthy guy who knows his body pretty good. Trying to find another drug for BP that doesn't make me want to stay in bed all day. In very happy to have found this site... | M | 63 | 1 months 2.5 mg | 1/20/2016 | 1 | high blood pressure | Pancreatitis, enlarged and fatty heart, read the comments | I am writing this on behalf of a good friend that passed away in 2009. She was 33 years old! Her husband and we believe that this drug caused her to go into cardiac arrest and led to her death in 2009. She also had Pancreatitis 4 months before her death. This is a possible side effect from this drug and/or the generic form called Amlodipine. Beware!!! This drug should be taken off the market forever!! It is an evil, evil drug!! | F | 51 | 2 years 1X day | 1/16/2016 | 1 | BP | I am so glad I found this site. OMG since day one of taking this medication I have felt anxiety to the fullest. I keep forgetting things cannot focus at work feeling dizzy lightheaded. I have not been able to sleep at all. I feel sick to my stomach. Thank God I found out in time I will NOT take this crap anymore. It didn't even help my BP made it worse. I hope I get better worse feeling in the world not having control of my life. I feel so tired and out of it. | F | 42 | 5 days 10MG 1X day | 1/12/2016 | 5 | Hbp | Cramping of calves slightly swollen calves and ankles...however no is down to 111/66 but am taking lisinopril and bisoprolol and Lipitor also! Uh hate drugs! | F | 68 | 1 days 5mg | 1/3/2016 | 1 | Hypertension caused by stress | Tightness in chest, chest pain, muscle aches in upper back, neck and tops of my arms, panic attacks, difficulty sleeping and overall sick feeling. | I wish I had found this site sooner. I ended up in the ER twice with what was diagnosed as panic attacks after taking the generic of this drug amlodipine besylate for 4 weeks. My blood pressure was great so I never thought the dug was causing the symptoms. But I began to keep a journal. Since my BP was very low and I also felt a bit dizzy I started decreasing the dose to 3/4 of a pill and then 1/2. Then a week ago I forgot to take it and remembered by 3pm. Within 40 minutes I had tightness in my chest and 7 hours later shooting chest pain. No other symptoms. I started writing notes in my journal and realized that the shooting chest pains always occurred 7 hours after taking this drug. That's when I decided I had enough and stopped taking it. It's been a week and the symptoms have subsided although not totally gone. Still a bit of tightness in the top of my chest now and again but I understand this drug has a long half life and takes a while to be completely gone. I have started yoga and walking to deal with my stress due to the fact that all of my tests were better than normal. I have also been eating more plant based foods and have made an appointment with a homeopathic doctor. This medicine is poison and I will never take it again. | F | 63 | 7 weeks 2.5mg 2X day | 12/28/2015 | 2 | hbp | Extreme fatigue and muscle weakness | Also take 50 mg metoprolol 2 x | M | 1 days 10mg 1X day | 12/25/2015 | 1 | High bp | Severe anxiety, body flushing, painful joints, feverish feeling, chills, light swelling in the ankles. | I ended up at the Er do to the anxeity. Can't wait to call doctor tomorrow. I skipped one dose and felt like I was coming off a withdrawl it was horrible. Please anyone reading this please let me know your side effects. | F | 34 | 1 days 10 | 12/20/2015 | 1 | Hypertension | Horrific muscle pain under shoulderblade fatigue dizzy,sweats unable to sleep pain so severe. I also went to emergency 2×, so stopped norvasc for 8 days and started bp manager supplement pressure normal, should I have stopped Norvasc5mg so abruptly? | Heart racing, pain pain pain | F | 66 | 8 months 5mg. | 12/14/2015 | 1 | High bp | At first I was amazed my bp was so low(116/72),even though I fealt light-headed,slightly dizzy and a low grade headache. Then I started sleepy issues,feeling in a fog,fealt like neurotransmitters were imbalanced,dizzy,pain in the back of my head & worse of all,I had,as one website described under side effects,this general sense of unease and feeling off. | Today I was supposed to take a road trip with my son,but had to cancel due to the effects of this drug! This is truly a nasty med. It has done something to my sense of balance,changed the cranial pressure,altered my perception,and made me feel like 'crap' all in three days! My heart goes out to anyone who has been on this stuff for long periods without being aware of the consequences... | M | 57 | 3 days 5 mg 1X day | 11/29/2015 | 1 | high blood pressure | Thought I was doing fine with Norvasc until this year when we had an extremely stressful situation in our family & I lost way too much weight. My BP became super high, so doctor upped my dose to 10 mg. My legs & feet became so swollen that I had a hard time walking. Terrible problems with constantly going to the bathroom. . . I've also have a bad chronic cough for many years but was told Norvasc doesn't cause coughing (ha ha). My cough is so bad now that sometimes I reach the point where I can't breath, which is a panicky feeling. (yes, I've seen 3 ENT Doctors in the past 2 years & they say that my sinuses, etc. are dry & fine. So then, I'm back to Norvasc - since it doesn't cause any problems - HA! After so many years, I think it's time to get off this drug because things aren't getting better. | F | 77 | 15 years 5 mg 1X day | 11/28/2015 |