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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR DIOVAN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | high blood pressure | Definite 12 pound weight gain (all around the middle where I've never been heavy) in two months starting exactly w/ Diovan start. Visible hair loss, dry skin, rashes, puffy eyes, more ashthma symptoms, edema around ankles, extreme sluggishness, inertia, irritablility. | Told my doctor that I HAD to get off this. Am now just on HZT (25)...BP is higher than with Diovan, but tolerable (140/85 or so...was down to 115/70 with Diovan). After just one week after stopping Diovan, I am losing girth around the middle, feel like myself again and wish that you all could get off this drug. It's sneakily bad...it takes a while to notice that you're not yourself at all in any way. (My Dr. is sympathetic and reasonable but many do not believe that these drugs have these insidious side effects.) TRY HZT ALONE!! | F | 51 | 2.5 days | 1/29/2007 | 1 | high blood pressure | Definite 12 pound weight gain (all around the middle where I've never been heavy) in two months starting exactly w/ Diovan start. Visible hair loss, dry skin, rashes, puffy eyes, more ashthma symptoms, edema around ankles, extreme sluggishness, inertia, irritablility. | Told my doctor that I HAD to get off this. Am now just on HZT (25)...BP is higher than with Diovan, but tolerable (140/85 or so...was down to 115/70 with Diovan). After just one week after stopping Diovan, I am losing girth around the middle, feel like myself again and wish that you all could get off this drug. It's sneakily bad...it takes a while to notice that you're not yourself at all in any way. (My Dr. is sympathetic and reasonable but many do not believe that these drugs have these insidious side effects.) TRY HZT ALONE!! | F | 51 | 2.5 days | 1/29/2007 | 5 | Moderately Elevated BP | None. I tried a ACE I inhibitor which resulted in a cough and a Beta Blocker which had numerous side effects. Since being on Diovan HCT, an ACE II inhibitor, I haven't noticed any side effects and my systolic has dropped from 145 to 132. | Great drug. | M | 51 | 1.5 years | 1/31/2007 | 1 | almost off it ! | I have been on this site before and left a few reports on this bad nasty drug!DIOVAN!!! this drug is unsafe to take! as are most b.p medications,please read all side effects before taking it! make sure your not allergic to the medication your taking! in some cases you will or Must force your Doctor to test you ,with this drug !! I know it wont happen if your in a HMO group - | Diovan is one Nasty medication for high blood pressure! if taken with another medication its super Nasty bad! I will soon be totaly off Diovan and Toprol free forever of them both! as I step into the Natural world of medications for the first time -I know it sounds crazy folks! but really I have no choice since iv tryed over 18 diffrent medications and been threw 9 doctors in my hmo system! every pill has side effects! and has caused my body harm and problems! and has interfeared with my life at work and at home! not one has worked good in lowering b.p down to normal readings! so I must turn to a natural way of medications and help. I keep seeing a old tv ad DRUGS KILL ! so do dumbell doctors! as I have found out, most dont care what they hand out ! its in and out the door ! see you in 6 or 8 months bye bye ! they get the co pay - you get bent over ! Im threw with Hmo's - thats another story! hope this works for me.. best of luck to me Loling.. here goes everything | M | 53 | 3 years | 1/31/2007 | 1 | H.B.P | I Experienced: hair loss- waight gain by 8pounds-body cramps! - blurring visison- and vision problems- nose running with sore inside nose- throat closes up when eatting!-heartburn real bad!- headaches- chest pains out of knowhere! - breathing problems when I try to run or do something like working- im only 46 yrs old !!!! dont like it ! | this drug is not good! it lowers blood pressure sometimes for me but not always! I can not do things normal,as I did before! im tired and weak feeling sometimes I feel faint! I get winded walking up stairs now! never did before!!! and I get a crazy locking feeling where I have to stop and rest when ever I try and run or do something somewhat normal. its robbing me of my life.. how can anyone take this crap!!! I have to find another way to go I also get burning in my left upper arm only! it comes and goes when I run or try to excell ! Iv never had this before Ever !!! iv been on this drug now 4months I hate it ! maybe im allergic to the stuff! doctor wont take me off it!! im in a Hmo plan | M | 46 | 4 months | 2/7/2007 | 1 | High Blood Pressure | Was put on Diovan 80mg 2 years ago due to moderate hypertension, a great birthright passed down from my father's side of the family. I am otherwise healthy in diet, weight and exercise habits. At first the 80mg tablets seemed to be controlling my moderate hypertension (down to 115/75 on home monitoring and at my office visits). After about 9 months my numbers started creeping upwards to levels higher than I ever had in the many years of being diagnosed as "borderline" and off meds. Finally doctor upped dosage to 160mg daily. About three weeks after new dosing I ended up in the emergency room with severe heart palpitations and disorientation. Was sent home with Ativan prescription and told I had anxiety attack. About six weeks ago (1 year after emergency room visit) I started having constant ringing in ears and heart palpitations that are getting worse. Worst symptoms happen after getting into bed where ear ringing is deafening and palpitations feel like imminent hear | As of tomorrow I am taking 3-4 days off of the Diovan (with close BP monitoring of course... though I can't imagine it getting worse than when I am having the palpitation attacks). After six weeks of constant ear ringing and irregular heart activity I have to try something to see if in fact it is the pills that are causing my misery. I can't live like this anymore! Calling doc on Monday. I like him so I am giving him one last chance to take my side effect complaints seriously before trying someone new. I just honestly think that doctors may be unaware of these effects coming with this medication. Thanks to everyone who has posted their thoughts on this site. I honestly thought I was losing my mind!!! It's unbelievably liberating knowing that others have experienced the h*ll I have been living through. How can so many clinicians be unaware of these possibilities with the use of this med?!?! | M | 32 | 2 years | 2/10/2007 | 1 | H.B.P | Here's a new one! I never read before anywhere! if anyone has this problem please let me know asap! my left eye lid is lazy and wont open when I wake up sometimes! as well the same eyeball gets bigger looking while on the medication. and vision is poor (blurred) and its very sensitive to light. its like I have Owl eye ! | Im at my ropes end with these darn chemical drugs for b.p!! they all stink! everyone has side effects - what next I will grow a tail or a extra arm out my head ? im lost for words right now ! if anyone has this problem while on diovan or toprol let me know please, im sending a failure report to the drug makers of both medications ( not that they even care ) | M | 46 | 4 months | 2/11/2007 | 1 | High B/P | Hairloss!!!!! I tried to call Novaritis to do the right thing and report adverse reaction. They took my information & when I asked will it grow back?.. they gave me the run around and stated a person would call me back. She did but stated that this was post trial reaction but declined further comment. | She stated that if I wanted further contact with the Novaritis, I would have to talk to their legal representative. Be careful it looks like we are the guinea-pigs. I do expect a class action law suit any time, there are too many of us out there that have had a bad time of it. | F | 45 | 2 months | 2/17/2007 | 2 | HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE | Took 80 mg. Lowered my bp within one hour from 140/90 to 120/80. Felt exhausted. | Called pharmacist and she said it should take btwn 2-4 weeks to take affect. WHen I told her it took one hour and I felt lousy, she said that I should talk to my doctor about taking 40mg instead. Haven't taken it in 3 days and just now my bp is starting to rise. Strong stuff! Don't really like it. Makes me feel like c**p. | F | 51 | 2 days | 2/19/2007 | 3 | hbp | Initial hair loss, but this has reversed, hairdresser said this often happens when changing med. or starting med.but returns to normal after a few months - she was right. Fatigue, loss of libido,insomnia, backpain, pains in legs and feet, dry skin, itching all over about half an hour after going to bed, blurred vision,headaches and strange head pains,noticable deterioration in hearing. | Before taking Diovan I had developed a dry cough from my previous med. which I'd been on for 6 months.Before starting any hbp med. I had been experiencing twice monthly migraine attacks which lasted about 36 hours - the only thing I could do about them was go to bed and wait until they passed and try to cope with the terrible pain until it was over. I am worried about the side effects of Diovan especially now that I've seen this site and realize that what I'm experiencing are the side effects - and I intend to discuss this with my doctor- but even so this long list of side effects is still nowhere near as bad as the migraine attacks I suffered before medication, and which I have only experienced once since.Trouble is my bp hasn't lowered significantly so I may be facing an increase in dosage, and then I may feel differently about the side-effects.I'm glad I found this site! | F | 47 | 10 months | 2/22/2007 | 1 | blood pressure problems | no#1 vision problems-blurring-light dark sensitive,eye lids lazyness-No Sleep- internal shakeing threwout body,nose runs-ears ringing tintinitus rushing sounds in both ears at times.pannic attacks off and on, palpitations off and on- sore inside nose- hair loss and thinning hair-hair turning grey way to early!-aches threwout body! | I have tryed cutting down the dose from 40mg to 20mg but each time I feel im going threw a withdrawing symptoms from this drug.iv been on this drug for about 1year been fighting the side effects all along-first time I cutt back on the drug,seems side effect hit harder and more! If only my half wit Doctor would have taken the time to read about this stupid diovan drug and side effects it causes. maybe I wouldnt be going threw such pains or problems now! what in the world is up with these Doctors today? they seem act the part -but only cause problems for us with getting us hooked on these ugly Bad drugs for h.b.p. I feel they dont care and line us up as co payments the more they take in day the more Money they make! The Hmo and ppo systems are broken wheres the FDA! or did Bush screw that up too ? needless to say this drug stinks ! | F | 36 | 2 months | 2/25/2007 | 1 | HBP | Fatigue, especially in the morning. Difficulty waking up. Difficulty completing my usual (many years) walk, especially going uphill, flaking on my face and arms-really itchy and constant bladder issues-need to urninate a lot to not at all,I have experienced extreme feelings of heaviness and fatigue in my leg and hip muscles. tiredness in my back. Slight pressure in side of head, tingling hands and feet,Dry mouth, eyes hurt alot and I get a sharp pain from my left ear to my head, hoarsness to my voice, I have since experienced a foggy head, and a memory problem, I also have noticed a lot of hair loss, lack of concentration, Burning skin sensations on my shins, edema around ankles, joint pain in my legs, hips and back. | TAKEN OFF OF ACCUPRIL DUE TO COUGH. DOCTOR PUT ME ON DIOVAN DUE TO FREE SAMPLES. WHEN SAMPLES OUT HE SWITCHED ME TO DIOVAN HCT, AGAIN DUE TO FREE SAMPLES. BOUT DESTROYED MY KIDNEYS AND PLACED BACK ON DIOVAN BY CARDIOLOGIST. LOWERED BP IMMEDIATELY BUT AFTER 6-8 WEEKS BEGAN SYMPTOMS. BEGAN RAISING MY HEART RATE TO OVER 100+ AND PLACED ON INDERAL. BOTH WORK WITHOUT QUESTION BUT WITH MUCHO SIDE EFFECTS. MY FACE AND LEGS ITCH BEYOND BELIEF. ALSO HAD BOUTS OF CONSTIPATION TO ACID STOMACH TO CONSTIPATED. ENOUGH FOR HROIDS AND BLEEDING. THIS STUFF IS BAD NEWS BUT WORKS. WOULD NOT WISH THIS MED OR SYMPTOMS ON MY DOG. GOING TO NEW DOCTOR SOON. | M | 50 | 2 years | 2/26/2007 | 2 | HIGH BP | Extremely tired all the time, tingling in hands, pressure in ears | I have no energy. Hands tingle at times. I have moderate kidney failure and noticed that one of the warnings said to use extra caution with this med. Will ask my dr. about this today. Seems that drs. may not be aware of the side effects or they don't care. Hope it's not that. Hope I can find something else, maybe homeopathic. | F | 51 | 3 days | 3/1/2007 | 2 | Hypertension | I posted 11/15/2006 about side effects, most especially debilitating leg aches that prevented me from walking more than one block at a time without resting for a minute. I have gained 35 pounds since starting Diovan. I had same side effects on Lisinopril. | As an update: I was switched to a beta blocker (Toprol XL) and within 48 hours the leg aches were gone. I have not been affected since, and am walking again. Now...to lose the weight! Now that I am off Diovan I realize I feel better overall. My blood pressure is under control, too, although it was on Diovan as well. | F | 56 | 9 months | 3/3/2007 | 3 | High Blood Pressure | I have been taking Diovan for nearly a month now. It has lowered my blood pressure, but I have gained about 9 lbs. all around my waist and I seem to have excessive heart burn and gas. | F | 43 | 25 times | 3/5/2007 | 1 | Cardiomyopathy | I was on this drug for about 2 weeks, when I started having severe heart palpitations, chest pains, exhaustion, dizziness, nasty taste in my mouth and abdominal distress. The palpitations were so severe that after a couple of days I called my doctor and contemplated going to the emergency room. The doctor told me to discontinue use of this drug and after a couple of days, I returned to normal. This drug is GARBAGE. | M | 45 | 14 days | 3/7/2007 | 3 | rise in blood pressure | I am going through menopause and since I started on Donivan my hot flashes stopped and after a year of not having a period I started one. Has anyone else had this problem? | F | 50 | 30 days | 3/8/2007 | 1 | high blood pressure problems | I just started this med 2 weeks ago,and already experienced these side effects from Diovan! Hair Loss! blurred vision-dry mouth ! nose running non stop! throat shuts when eatting! stomach aches and gas pains with bloating belly! back aches! side aches! off and on case of the Runs! as of 3 days ago my ears starting ringing! for the first time in my life palpiations very mild but bothersome as they feel in my throat! I give this drug 2thumbs down!!! | THIS MED DIOVAN, I WOULDNT GIVE TO ANYONE! I WAS FINE WITHOUT IT ONLY HAD H.B.P. THEY SAY THESE MEDS HELP PEOPLE,OK IT LOWERS B.P DOWN- BUT WITH ALL THE SIDE EFFECTS IT HAS, AND PROBLEMS IT CAUSES, IT ISNT WORTH TAKING. MY DING DONG DOCTOR HAS NOW REFUSED TO CHANGE THE DIOVAN TO ANOTHER TYPE! HE SAYS LET IT SET IN AND WORKOUT THE SIDES WILL GO AWAY SOON! WELL ITS TIME FOR ANOTHER DOCTOR! THAT MAKES 8 SO FAR! QUACK CITY HERE I COME !! | M | 28 | 2 weeks | 3/8/2007 | 1 | High Blood Pressure | Nausea that comes and goes. Heat intolerance, severe dizzyness and have almost fainted in temps over 80. Recurrent yeast infections (never had these before starting this horrible drug). Weight gain around middle. Severe joint pains, sore throat and swollen lymph nodes in neck. Fatigue, eye sight getting worse. Ringing in ears. Dry skin. This is nuts! I'm choosing quality of life over quantity. I think I've put up with these side effects long enough. | I had a heart attack 2.5 years ago and Dr. says I'll live longer on the meds. Too bad, I think I'll enjoy less time with less pain. Besides, diovan hct only lowered my BP 10 points. Increasing dose not an option, makes me feel like I've been hit by a truck. | F | 50 | 5 years | 3/9/2007 | 1 | Blood Pressure | Ringing in ears, headache, dry mouth, hoarseness | Was on 40 mg for about two years and seemed to be OK / Dosage was increased to 80 mg and almost immediately I started getting many of the symptoms I have seen listed. I quit taking it after three weeks and it has been three days now and symptoms still present. Can anyone give me an idea what their experience was when they quite taking Diovan. How long before the symtoms dissappeared? Would really appreciate feedback to email address. Thank You. [email protected] | M | 69 | 2 years | 3/14/2007 |