DIOVAN Reviews (VALSARTAN)Average Rating: 2.0 (776 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare DIOVAN with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR DIOVAN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | High Blood Pressure | Loss of memory,uncoordinated,dizzy,hot flashes,muscle pain,depression ,anxiety attacks,confusion (the list goes on ) | Side effects didnt start till after about 2-3 years . Continously got worse. All the while thinking it was me. | M | 51 | 7 years | 2/20/2009 | 1 | High Blood Pressure | Tired, weak, WEIGHT GAIN, can't sleep, etc,...you name it! | I am not able to do much with my family (wife, toddler, new baby). Always tired, don't want to go outside, leave the house, go to the store, etc. I have gained weight and can't seem to get it off. We are eating RIGHT (fruits, vegetables, fish and low salt)...doesn't work. Also exercising, to no avail. Need I say more? There's a lot more I can say...my family has suffered greatly! | M | 37 | 2 years | 5/30/2008 | 1 | High Blood Pressure | Blood pressure was running 150/100 or higher. Doctor prescribed lowest dosage of Diovan 40mg once daily. Immediately gained 12 pounds around waist area without changing exercise or diet, and stomach felt bloated all the time. 4 years later was on Exforge (Diovan 320mg and Norvasc 10mg) Blood pressure was good on this medication. Stayed in the 130/70 range, but besides weight gain I felt like I had a cold or flu all the time. Chest congestion would get so bad I would have to go to the doctor every 3 months for steroids and antibiotics to clear up severe chest congestion. That would would clear up, but constant stuffy head and nose would cause it to get congested all over again. Just a vicious cycle that I got tired of. | Told my doctor I wanted to try something, anything else. Insurance company recommended I try Azor 40mg/10mg. Have been on Azor for about 3 months now, and absolutely no chest congestion, no stuffy nose or stuffy head feeling, and I immediately lost 12 pounds without adding exercise or changing eating habits. Blood pressure since starting Azor is averaging 125/65, which is as low as my blood pressure has ever been. Doctor was hesitant to change medication at first saying it couldn't be the Diovan or Exforge causing my problems. BE PERSISTENT YOU ARE THE PATIENT IT IS YOUR LIFE!!!!! | M | 40 | 4 years | 7/22/2008 | 1 | High Blood Pressure | I have gained about 10 lbs all in my waist area that keeps getting bigger. Hair thinning, nausea every morning, dry cough and bloody nose often in Winter especially. Stomach seems distended and bloated all the time. Often feel depressed and tired always. Have no energy to do much of anything. Aches in joints and often get a stiff neck. | M | 59 | 4 months | 5/25/2008 | 1 | High Blood pressure | My doctors will not admit that my symptoms are side effects. I think it is because the PDR is no longer in a book, but on the net at a cost of one thousand dollars a year. Many cannot afford this so they only know what the salesman tells them. I got diabetis, gloucoma, diarehia, eye flashes, left eye swollen, knee and ankle pain, horrible tenitis, night sweats, etc. I stopped the Diovan and will try a natural New Chapter drug that attacks HBP from three paths. I do worry that the glaucoma and diabetes will not go away. The other symptoms are gone after four days without Diavon. [email protected] | M | 80 | 2 months | 7/3/2008 | 1 | mild high blood pressure 145/85-90 | Headaches, back pain, swelling in calf and severe lower leg pain, arm fatigue. Tired more often than not. Trouble sleeping. | Will stop taking Diovan tomorrow. Will see dr day after. Have to find something else. My original prob was some water retension in lower legs and bp of 145/85-90 after drinking 20 ounce coffee. My mistake probably is drinking 8-10 cups per day instead of plain water. | M | 57 | 15 days | 7/1/2008 | 1 | Hypertension | 160mg prescribed for 160/100 hypertension - immediately had the following: Blurred vision, anxiety, depression, extreme fatigue, headaches, sinus pain, bloating, insomnia. | No quality of life on this stuff. Having read the other comments I'm coming off it today. | M | 50 | 7 days | 9/15/2008 | 1 | high blood pressure | Weight gain of over 10 lbs in 3 months, dry feeling inside nose,stuffy nose,sore throat, coughing all day,incessantly at night,enough to keep me awake, dry mouth, itchy scalp, dry brittle fingernails,were long before,tired all the time,would fall asleep in watching tv and couldn't force myself to wake up, no motivation,pain in kidney area | stopped taking 3 days ago and already feel as if my thoughts are clearer----dr.wants to put me on releven but believe i will try herbal remedy instead, this is the first drug i have ever taken, don't believe in them---now I know why | M | 59 | 3 months | 5/9/2009 | 1 | BP | Vivid dreams. | M | 47 | 1 years | 5/11/2009 | 1 | High Blood Pressure | Weight gain, was 150 lbs jumped up to 210 lbs after taking Diovan 320 for 1 year. Joint pain, bloating, ED, head aces, blurred vision, ringing in ears, flu like symptoms | Blood pressure goes up and down, but never gets to the normal range, from 160/100 up to 220/110. This stuff makes me sick. Stopping it now no matter what doc says, maybe I will be able to get it hard again!! | M | 59 | 1 years | 7/12/2009 | 1 | As a Diuretic | Pain and cramping, muscle weakness, light headed, heart palpitations,tingling in hands and feet and confusion and anxiety. | I have just begun taking Diovan. It was prescribed as a diuretic to offset symptoms associated with my diabetes. I exercise everyday to keep my diabetes in check and for weight loss. I have noticed since beginning Diovan that the symptoms I have described are getting progressively worse; yesterday I could not make it home from my 5 mile daily run/walk which I have routinely finished for 4 years now; my wife had to run ahead and return with our car to get me home. When these symptoms first began occurring I, initially, suspected it was caused by dehydration so I have carried a "camel back" of water to insure I have water available. This has not helped. I'm now beginning to suspect that there is a potentially very dangerous problem with potassium depletion and, as a result, my electrolytes "tank" when exercise is undertaken. For those of you who do not appreciate the impact of depleted potassium, potassium is critical for nerve message transmission/communication in yo | M | 58 | 30 days | 9/15/2008 | 1 | High blood pressure | Very severe Joint pain,fatigue,have been on this for a year and DR keeps upping dose,now on 160MG & 80MG daily and side effects just getting worse | Spoke to Dr who said joint pain very rare with this drug, and dismissed this as cause of pain.Have stopped taking this med today and will monitor BP myself!! | M | 40 | 365 days | 10/28/2009 | 1 | HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE | MAJOR MUSCLE ACHES, BOWELS ARE VERY SORE, SICK TO THE STOMACH,TIRED AND DISORIENTED,NO ENERGY WHAT SO EVER, LIGHT HEAD AND DIZZY AT TIMES, GET ME OFF THIS CRAP... MY INSURANCE COMPANY AMERIHEALTH WOULDN'T LET ME TAKE AVALIDE!!! I GUESS THEY'D RATHER I SUFFER....... | I WOULDN'T RECOMMEND THIS TO MY WORST ENEMY!!! | M | 52 | 4 days | 9/2/2009 | 1 | bp | Ed even with Cialis,and very difficult to achive orgasm tired,reflux | It did lowere the Bp..but what a cost... | M | 54 | 5 days | 9/5/2009 | 1 | HBP | Hair loss, weight gain, dizziness, ed, heart flutters, insomnia and on and on. | I discontinued use of Diovan about two years ago. Lousy drug. Just thought I would share that I have no side effects on Atacand--also an ARB. You may want to talk to your doctor about it. | M | 53 | 1 years | 9/30/2009 | 1 | high bloood pressure | Dizziness, lightheadedness, severe stomach pain, diarrhea, flu-like symptoms, tired | M | 92 | 4 weeks | 1/7/2010 | 1 | High Blood Pressure | Muscle pain, back pain, cold feet, Hacking up flem | Unfortunately for me most drugs are problematic, It seems that i am the 1 percent that always gets the side effects. All drugs have benefits and problems, I have tried almost all the bp drugs with varing degrees of side effects. My advice to everyone is no one knows your body better than you if you do not feel right it is probably caused by the drug, If you do not have a heart problem stopping bp drugs will not kill you until you find out if it is the problem. you are you own boss, Dr will always say the side effects are rare, Do not start a new drug until the effects from the old one are gone. It took me years to figure this out. I hope this helps | M | 52 | 2 weeks | 1/19/2010 | 1 | Internal physician/hypertension | I have been try 14 types of medicine,but no one my body can adapt, can't tolerate with the side effect and allergic such as: giddy with spinning sensation,blurred vision,headeach,ears discomfort,flushing:face,ears,neck,shoulder,with pins sensation,chest tightness,heavy,sharp pain,difficulty and shortage of breathnesss, hands and feets cold and numbness,body shaky,cold and pins. I had stopped medicine almost Moreno than 1 month but side effect still in my body ,can everyone tell me how's long does this side effect out of my body, now thinking of commit sucide or waiting to be stroke,all doctor can't be trusted tell them about my problem they won't listen, | M | 35 | 1 months 80 | 10/27/2013 | 1 | cardiologist | Chest tightness,chest pain,eye swollen,shortage and difficulty of breath, palpitation, joint pain, shoulder pain,muscle pain,headeach,legs weakness,throat tightness,anxiety attack coz spike of blood pressure... | I had try almost all group of hypertension medicine,and done alot of test all is normal.i already stop taking medicine almost 3 months but side effect still in my body..how longs does this system out of my body? | M | 35 | 45 days 80 1X day | 12/15/2013 | 1 | bp | Hairloss and tingling in forhead also E.D | M | 45 | 6 months 160 | 4/12/2013 |