Drug Ratings for CARDIZEM CDAverage Rating: 2.9 (64 Ratings)
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR CARDIZEM CD | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
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| 2 | high blood pressure | excessive coughing.....fast heart beating. | does this drug contain seldane? | F | 62 | | 12/25/2005 | 2 | hbp | my tongue became very irritated and i had taste disturbances, also felt dizzy and out of it. didn't work well to lower blood pressure | took for 2 months and will try atenolol next. have nearly tried them all and having a hard time finding one I can tolerate | F | 62 | | 2/27/2009 | 3 | HTN, Aortic insufficency | Lightheaded, weak - but this is all on the first day. Hoping these inmprove. Also feel somewhat "out of it". | Switched to this because the toporol XL was causing such lightheadedness - even though it did control my htn well. Hoping this will do the same with the LH. I'll give it a week. | M | 45 | 1 days | 2/16/2006 | 1 | high pressure | Severe chest pains. Had to pull over and stop driving. | M | 60 | 2 days | 7/15/2005 | 2 | Migraine headaches | Started feeling very depressed. | F | 36 | 3 days | 10/18/2009 | 4 | Esophageal and LES spasms | First two days I was extremely fatigued, tired, slept for more than 16 hrs in one day, consistent headache, out of breath, hungry, and just out of it. Since the 3rd day I have been very energized, accelerated heart beat and chest fluttering, hunger loss, a bit nauseous, weightloss, headache. VERY vivid dreams and acid reflux. | I have very low blood pressure, I was nervous about trying this medicine but it has helped so far, probably going to get a higher dose because my pain is still bad. | F | 22 | 4 days 120mg 1X D | 12/19/2010 | 3 | hbp and 1st time a-fib | Warm flushing feeling in chest, slight dizziness, slight lightheadness, heart thumping, tiredness. Told doctor bout symptoms he told me to take every other day. Gone give it another week to see how it controls my blood pressure. | F | 34 | 4 days 120mg | 10/3/2012 | 3 | extreme hypertension | First day: disorientation, hot flash, signifcant loss of eye-hand coordination, tightness in chest. Second and subsequent days, the same but markedly decreased in intensity. Bloating (gas) and loose stools continue to be noted. | Some effect to reduce blood pressure. Far better than other medications with regard to side-effects. | M | 59 | 4 days | 4/30/2004 | 2 | SVT | Depression, uncontrolable crying, fatigue, temors, agitation. | F | 41 | 4 days | 2/11/2009 | 2 | High Blood Pressure | Weight gain, swollen hands and feet. Can't walk a block without becoming winded. | F | 55 | 4 days | 2/12/2009 | 3 | Hypertension and palpitations | fast heart rates, disorientation, feeling "out of it" | I was put on Toprol-xl two years ago for my hypertention and palps. It helped, but caused me to have asthma symptoms so i discontinued the toprol and started taking 240 mgs of cardizem cd a day. The pain i used to have in my chest is gone now but my blood pressure is still kinda high and ive been having fast heart rates. But overall, i feel better on the cardizem then i did on the beta blockers (toprol). | F | 22 | 5 days | 2/9/2006 | 2 | a-fib | IBS returned (diarrhea, minor incontinence); urinary tract pain with frequency (PL 4). | First maintenance drug prescribed after diagnosis, I guess to control rate. It may have reduced rate slightly but seemed to reduce BP too much. Subsequent opinions question this choice and I've tried a couple of other meds but I'm skeptical about all of them. | M | 67 | 5 days 240 MG 1X D | 8/6/2011 | 2 | Inappropriate sinus tachycardia | Since I've started taking the medicine I've had a terrible headache that will not go away, its joined with worse chest pain than I had in the beginning, shortness of breath, lightheadedness, concussion, insomnia, and extreme fatigue. | F | 20 | 6 days | 1/11/2012 | 4 | ischaemic heart disease | slight headache for a couple days, increased urination, difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep. | Had breathing difficulties, fatigue and Raynaud's syndrome on Noten. These went away as soon as it was replaced with Cardizem. I have increased energy, and the minor side effects I'm dealing with are preferrable to the one's I had on Noten. | F | 50 | 7 days | 10/5/2005 | 2 | Hypertension | I'm fine as long as I don't exert myself. When I walk more than a hundred feet the fatigue hits me hard. Have to sit down. BP is down nicely. | Will ask my doctor to change drugs. | M | 56 | 7 days | 11/30/2005 | 1 | Prescibed by Doctor | Tightness in chest. Some slight swelling in throat and gums.Some nausea. Light headed. Breathlessness. | M | 65 | 7 days | 9/27/2009 | 3 | Hypertension | Weird, tingly feeling in face, Sadness, mild depression (never was diagnosed with depression before) which feels physical and notpsychological, take in am, BP under control | F | 65 | 8 days | 9/18/2007 | 1 | blood pressure to high | Massive cramping in shoulders back sides and belly and chest ! burning in chest and stomach instant acid reflux and heartburn non stop! spausm's in shoulders and feet and back of legs headaches off and on mild to heavy! vision blurred throat closeing when eatting foods and drinking anything! ringing in right ear high pitched hives happening on back only! lots of redness on skin on back ! itching everywhere - belly aches bad and non stop! trapped gas going on pushing outwords and upwords ! bad stuff this is .. real bad !! | this crap should pulled off the market!it pure junk! nerves bad from it caused night mares and vivid dreams and no sleep! breathing problems off and on cant do a thing on it ! its just a real bad drug to take and im getting off it tonight now !! never will take it again ever !! reported to the fda for recall -and mfg as well - why do doctors push this junk ? | M | 57 | 9 days 180 1X D | 12/21/2010 | 2 | rapid heart rate and HBP | Rapid heart rate, Pounding heart in chest, head ache lots of palpatations and lots of fatigue. | My heart doctor switched my medicine from Metoprolol 50 mg 2x daily to cardizem cd 120 mg 1x day. From the start it didn't work for my heart rate. After a week my blood pressure did ok but my pulse rate was very high, and where from 95 to 170 bpm. The doctor raised my does to 180mg 1x daily and it got worse. My palpatations and rapid heart rate was continuale, and couldn't do anything. I will never take this med again. | F | 28 | 10 days | 3/5/2009 | 2 | Isolated Systolic HBP | Headache, depression, confused thinking, palpitations, lethargy | It was effective for two days, then ISO BP returned to pre-med level. Now only have side-effects without effect, but this has been the case for every med tried so far. However, this is the first med for which I have had side-effects. | M | 67 | 14 days | 12/14/2009 | 2 | chest pain | very light headness almost panicy and jumpy, accelerated heart rate,blood pressure lowered but pulse higher. | M | 62 | 14 days | 4/19/2006 | 4 | coronary artery spasms | Depression, uncontrollable crying. Shortness of breath. Difficulty sleeping. Very strange physical symptoms during sleep having to sit up during sleep to stop the symptoms. | Worked great to ease up the coronary artery spasms and subsequent radiating chest pain. | F | 39 | 15 days | 10/7/2005 | 4 | a fib | Mild, persistent headache during the first few weeks. Skin became more sensitive, skin itching. Constipation. | Toprol for two years brought about problems and my doctor replaced it with Cardizem. I found myself with more pep, less fatigue. | M | 76 | 25 days | 2/20/2007 | 1 | atrial fibrillation, high blood pre | severe depression and suicidal thoughts, lack of energy or desire to do anything, constipation | This medicine is used to treat bipolar disorder, to even out moods, even though it's not approved for this. So for me, who is not bipolar, it made me a couch potato with depression and thinking of ways to end my life. I stopped dancing and socializing and had zero creativity. I was offered another calcium channel blocker but research showed the same side effects for that one. What next? This is the second BP drug to do this to me. I am normally very high energy and active and creative. I stopped the drugs and returned to normal in one or two days. | F | 64 | 25 days 120mg 1X D | 6/26/2012 | 3 | Atrial Fib | I was hospitalized and put on Tikosyn for Atrial Fib. The physician was concerned that my pulse rate was in the 130-140 range so decided to add Cardizem. I didn't start on it until after I got home and then the depression/fatigue set in BIG time! I've seen other comments here about" feeling out of it." Yes, apathy about covers it for me. | F | 59 | 30 days 120mg 1X D | 4/7/2010 | 1 | high bp, angina | light-headed, dizzy, dippy, hot flashes, sleepy | BP still running borderline high. serious interactions with several other medications. | F | 56 | 30 days | 9/1/2003 | 3 | pca | possible chest pain, hot flashes, | M | 64 | 45 days | 12/15/2001 | 1 | blood pressure | dizziness,disorientation,nausea,heart palputations and lightheadedness after bending down. | originally prescribed 1x170mg tab per day.after 6 weeks blood press was in fact rising.increased dosage to 1x 240mg per day BP still increasing.started losing balance and worsening dizzy spells.new Dr.took me off them and right away felt better.surprisingly blood press also began to normalise and after 2 weeks allside effects gone and feeling well again.BP has normalised. | M | 70 | 60 days 240mg 1X D | 11/13/2010 | 5 | Atrial Flutter, Atrial Fibrilation | Constipation, but don't really know if it's related. That's about it! | I hated Toprol, which I've been taking now for over a year, so my doctor switched me to Cardizem. So far, it's lowered my blood pressure, practically eliminated the pain in my heart, I don't feel so fatigued anymore and the fluttering in my heart has stopped. I actually feel normal again. Also, I've been sleeping GREAT at night (I take it at bedtime). I've only been taking it a week, but I think it's working great for me! | F | 49 | 1 weeks | 7/3/2007 | 3 | sinus tachycardia, angina | mild fatigue, bloating, insomnia, itching, anxiety and mood changes | this med has less side effects than others i have tried, less fatigue, and more moderate control of heart rate | F | 23 | 2 weeks | 9/7/2006 | 2 | HPB | It's just starting to take full effect, since I began taking it two weeks ago. I am tired, sometimes dizzy, and I am going through bouts of depression. | I was on this med about two years ago, but can't remember why I was taken of of it. It was replaced by Toprol XL, which was far worse than the Cardizem. Toprol XL was making me so week that I could hardly walk from room to room. I may be patient with this Cardizem for a bvrief period of time, but if I continue to be so tired, I will ask about a lower dosage. | F | 70 | 2 weeks | 11/13/2008 | 4 | To help control Blood pressure | Slight light headness once in awhile. Slight racing heart once in a while. Short term headache once in a while. Slight tightness in esophagus once or twice. | F | 61 | 3 weeks 120 mg | 1/8/2012 | 3 | A-fib | Have had swelling of hands and feet - even up in to calf and shin of (L) leg. Makes you feel miseralbe to be that swollen! Going to give it one more week and then calling doctor to see if he can suggest something else. | Go | F | 58 | 3 weeks 180mg 1X D | 8/9/2010 | 5 | palpitations, high blood pressure | Slight headache first 2 days, some constipation but manageable. | Great drug! stopped all heart palpitations, and lowered bp to normal, feel relaxed and well! | F | 64 | 5 weeks 240 1X D | 7/8/2010 | 2 | High Blood Pressure | Irregular heartbeat, waves of feeling like my heart was racing. | Had to wear a Holter monitor for 24 hours to see why the sudden race in heartbeat. Don't know yet if the doctor will change to a different medication, or if he thinks it will subside with time. I have an appointment in two days to discuss with him. | M | 61 | 6 weeks | 11/1/2008 | 4 | A-fib/A-flutter | 180mg daily. First 3 weeks or so felt woozy, sleepy, tired, lightheaded, nauseaus, the works, even though I was taking it at night. About the 4th week I felt better and now I have very few side-effects, even the constipation has eased. | So far it is working for the A-fib and A-flutter. | F | 55 | 8 weeks | 9/6/2009 | 1 | it caused Heart palpatations and did nothing to control my blood pressure | M | 9 weeks | 12/23/2003 | 4 | High blood pressure/Tachycardia | With Crdizem i'm having some bad dreams,not sleeping well,gas,headaches,they went away after a while.I feel whoozy,don't feel like my self.I pee alot,drink,dry mouth, i think this is the best med. i ever been on so far. I do have leg cramps.I eat alot. I'm tired complaining cuz all meds have bad side effects. I thank God I'm alive with my babies. | I could have went years & years with high blood pressure and die. I mean we complain about medicines but also we need help. We can't have it both ways. All meds. have side effects. We can post things on here to help each other figure out where different pain and other things that's going on with our bodies while on the medications so we don't have to keep running to the doc. every week trying to figure out where this or that coming from. Post your pain or bad experience. i know i would love to hear and read about them. This is a good drug. Just remember to eat bananas and take a vitamin every other day.Also i'm on metoprolol as well. | M | 23 | 1 months | 9/8/2007 | 4 | Atrial fibrillation | None really. I take at night. I get a little drowsy, but that's not a bad thing. I get a good night sleep. | Still working on the dosage, but for the most part, the heart flutters and afib are under control. | F | 48 | 1 months | 8/2/2009 | 2 | High B/P and Chest Pains | Worse chest Pains and tighting in throat. | F | 59 | 1 months | 6/28/2004 | 2 | SVT | dizziness, nausea, weakness, lethargy, sleepiness, severe depression, more frequent anxiety attacks, weird dreams that were vivid and bizarre | the cardizem helped keep my massive attacks from happening [the episodes that i have largely lead to me nearly passing out], but i felt like i was having a lot more mini-attacks. i began to have attacks even in the shower/bed. i'm thinking they were more anxiety attacks, but i'm not 100% sure. the cardizem also took my stress and anxiety and exacerbated it to the point that i got full-blown depression. the depression got so bad that i was having suicidal thoughts, and my college counselors intervened. also, the bizarre dreams i had were laughable on occasion, but sometimes they were absolutely terrifying, especially because they felt so real; they were so vivid. while on the medicine, i had many bouts of nausea, and i was always tired. i also have almost no energy, and just walking to class makes me out of breath. i should be in decent shape as i am on the college's dance team, so this made me worry. i'm coming off of cardizem now because the side effects weren't worth it, really. t | F | 19 | 2 months | 3/14/2009 | 5 | High B/P | None | Two and a half years ago I had to go on long term steroids (2 yrs) and for the first time in my life I developed high B/P after 3 months. I was put on Norvasc at that time and it controlled my pressure very well until 3 months ago. My Dr. changed me over to Diltiazem CD (generic) and it's working fine.....no side effects, no problems. | F | 73 | 3 months 120 mg. 1X D | 7/23/2011 | 2 | High blood pressure | Tickle in the throat leading to a lot of coughing - especially if I didn't drink enough water. Almost 100% improved when I began taking it in the morning, then I'm OK by bedtime. | Blood pressure still not fully controlled. One day it is 117/80 the next it is 140/100 I've even cut way down on salt intake but it continues to fluctuate. Any ideas out there? | M | 54 | 3 months | 12/19/2006 | 3 | SVTs | I read about the side effect of having nightmares . I have only had dreams - some good , some bad . I never had dreams before taking this med . | M | 67 | 4 months 240 1X D | 8/25/2010 | 3 | Arrythmia | Reflux. Lump in throat. ENT had to put me on Prilosec because of what the reflux is doing to my vocal chords. | Cardiac doc says it's not the Cardizem. That's crap. When I skip a dose, I have good days. When I take it, I have reflux days. Cardiac doc won't take me off this stuff because it's working for the a-fib. | F | 48 | 4 months | 12/17/2009 | 1 | Atrial Fibrilation | It made my very depressed and very greatly decreased my ability to think. I am back in school and I went from an A student to an F student in a few weeks, then the depression set in. I wasn't able to figure out the problem for 4 months, and the doctors never even asked about side effects. | M | 58 | 4 months | 3/25/2007 | 5 | FSGS | Not aware of any. On a daily dose of180mg. | Take it conjunction with tritace ,micardis and a diuretic. At the start of treatment my scarred kidneu filters were leaking 3 grams of protein a day 150 mg a day is the baseline. After 6 momths my protein loss has dropped to 750mg a day. I am not saying this drug has no side effects just that the other drugs I am on ,prednisone and methotrexate, may well be masking them. It certainly is controlling my kidney problem. | M | 59 | 6 months | 4/5/2009 | 3 | High BP | Weird/nervous feeling when trying to go to sleep, have to be exhausted. Greater fatigue than normal in the afternoon. Anxiousness. | Have stopped taking for several days and the effects wear off. | M | 40 | 7 months | 7/5/2007 | 4 | tachycardia/palpitations | Swelling of my feet for the first 4 days of taking the medication (I couldn't wear anything but loose sandals), and hot flashes/sweating that resulted in low potassium levels when going off of the medicine. I also had a lot of fatigue going off of the medicine before my procedure, but this may have been my fast heart rate returning that was making me tired. | I had a lot more energy and less side effects on Cardizem versus Toprol XL, but decided that ablation is a better treatment for me because of my age. And at 22, the hot flashes sucked!! | F | 22 | 13 months | 5/23/2007 | 4 | HBP | faster heartbeat. | I had taken atenolol for 10 years and it stopped working, so my doctor prescribed cardizem. It took 4-5 months for my body to get used to changing the med. It works okay now, but only if I continue to eat right, exercise and not get stressed. | F | 52 | 14 months | 11/11/2006 | 3 | rapid heart beat and chest pains | hives and rash, intense itching on body trunk, coughing spells | Lowered heart rate but blood pressure elevated | F | 67 | 14 months | 4/14/2005 | 4 | high blood pressure | Dose has been gradually increased over last 12 months to now 360mg which I have been taking for 4 days. Have tingling in the lower arms constantly and was wondering if this is another side effect. It has really slowed me down but bp alot lower. | F | 56 | 15 months | 10/24/2009 | 3 | high blood pressure | constant yawning and fatigue for about a week then went away. | Took almost a year before my blood pressure went low enough.Before I was put on medicine my blod pressure suddenly shot up to 200/143.I am only 110 lbs so this was very high. | F | 40 | 15 months | 9/20/2009 | 5 | palpitations, afib | GENERIC VERSION SIDE EFFECTS WERE HORRIBLE I FELT SUICIDAL AND COULDNT REMEMBER ANYTHING ALWAYS LOSING THINGS IT WAS VERY STRESSFUL, ALWAYS STRESSED MAD ARGUEMENTIVE ONCE I SWITCHED BACK TO THE NON GENERIC VERSION ALL SIDE EFFECTS STOPPED | WHEN I FIRST STARTED ANY MEDS I WAS PUT ON METPROLOL MY DOCTOR SAID I WAS TOO YOUNG TO BE TAKING THESE MEDS SO HE SWITCH ME TO CARDIZM CD ITS WAS GREAT UNTILL I WAS SWITCHED TO THE GENERIC VERSION (SEE SIDE EFFECTS)OTHER THAN THAT I FEEL GREAT | M | 35 | 1 years 120 1X D | 1/30/2011 | 4 | heart arrythmias, spasms | Worst side effects are severe flushing and dry skin. A little bit more fatigued. A bit of depression I think from this. | Much better than Toprol, had terrible side effects. What really helps also is learning to do deep breathing exercises, they help to regulate heart beat and lots of milk which also helps heartbeat. Not putting myself under heavy stress anymore. Heart is much better after one year of meds and therapy. | F | 50 | 1 years | 10/29/2006 | 4 | HBP | Took almost a year to get over the very bothersome side effects--anxiety, headache, itchiness. Am sensitive to fillers in drugs so it was difficult to find this one. Did control the blood pressure at 240 mg twice a day | Anyone out there? The doctor prescribed 2 CDs a day. Is this safe?. Am I compounding the release factor? My ears start really ringing after the second pill. | F | 66 | 1.5 years | 4/28/2006 | 5 | chest tightness under stress | Since this drug can lower your blood pressure sometimes I feel fatigued. | Helped with the chest tightness tremendously. I can still get a little of it when I have a panic attack which isn't very often (3X/year) | F | 49 | 2 years 60 mg 1X D | 8/26/2010 | 4 | Atrial Fib | I have pretty severe fluid retention in my feet. Started to have very vivid nightmares, almost every night. | Heart Specialist had me on Amiodarone which really had bad side effects, such as enlarging breasts, Very Bad Vivid Nightmares every night. Finally took me off this medicine and started the Cardizem which controls the Atrial Fib much better. Increased dosage from (2) 120 mg capsules to (2) 180 Mg Capsules each day. | M | 63 | 2 years 180 2X D | 4/16/2010 | 4 | Arythmias | Fatigue, light headed, vivid dreams | M | 55 | 2 years | 11/4/2006 | 1 | Rapid Heartbeat | HOSPITALIZATION FROM FROM VERY SEVERE DIZZINESS,TROUBLE BREATHING,VERY LOW RESPIRATION,KIDNEY FAILURE | THIS MEDICATION SHOULD BE TAKEN OFF THE MARKET. | F | 56 | 2 years 360 MG 1X D | 11/6/2010 |
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