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 | Hypertension | Chronic Urticaria (Hives) that now are activated by vasoactive foods also, weight gain, tingling hands,leg and foot cramps, hair loss. | This drug is a poison. I am hoping I recover. My doctor, after months of my telling him about the hives and work-ups by dermatologists and allergists, finally took me off cold turkey. I feel terrible like I am going to explode. My blood pressure has had a rebound effect which I'm assuming will calm down. I am debilitated by the hives, which I've read may or may not go away. I am praying my hair will stop falling out. Where is the FDA - oh, yeah, I remember, in the pocket of the drug companies. | F | 53 | 1 days | 10/8/2007 | 1 | high blood pressure | Been taking Diovan 80 for 6 months. I have joint pain in my hips, knees, shoulders, and back. I used to walk several times a week about a mile. I can't walk anymore. I'm lucky if I can walk in the grocery store holding onto a cart. Around the house I often have to use a cane. The doctor tells me its osteoarthritis and just gives me anti-inflamatories that make my bp go up. Dr. said they all do that. My blood pressure is usually around the 130's over 70's but I often have a rapid heart beat and have developed severe insomnia. Sometimes bp goes to 150's. I definitely want to get off this medication. I have never had this kind of joint pain all over my body before. | F | 73 | 5 months | 7/14/2006 | 1 | hypertension | I took the Diovan in 80mg, then 160mg. doses. The higher dose regulated my b/p fairly well, but after a few weeks I started having unbearable dizzy spells every day in the morning, along with fuzzy thinking and inability to concentrate. This makes working very difficult, needless to say. After doing extensive research online, I found that these are common side effects of Diovan. I am going to see my doctor soon and get off this horrible drug! No one can live like this!! | I would definitely NOT recommend it to anyone. There has to be a better way, but I don't know what it is. Every anti-hypertensive drug I have tried has awful side effects. | F | 60 | 3 months | 7/15/2006 | 1 | High Blood Pressure | I took 40 mg Diovan (valsartan) for two days. My docs wanted me to transition to the drug from clonidine. Had dizziness and bright yellow/orange feces (I have no liver or gall bladder problems); sent my BP from 120/69 to 183/105 the first day and to 203/135 the second day; had an early-morning surge the third day. Had to bring down BP with additional doses of clonidine. I hope this is out of my system soon! | None of these side effects are listed by the drug company and doctors are quite unaware based on the paltry case reports published. | F | 48 | 2 days | 6/4/2006 | 1 | Elevated blood pressure | At first, my BP dropped immediately. Other than some initial intestinal discomfort and urgency, minimal impact. After about 5 weeks, I began feeling lightheaded, dizzy, nauseous, anxious with muscle aches and was losing lots of my little remaining hair (I have an auto-immune illness that can cause hair loss.) I thought it was my other illness kicking in. After I almost fainted several times and flu-like symptoms continued, I began to suspect Diovan. | Alopecia (hair loss) is listed as one of Diovan's "post-marketing experience" findings in the PDR. Stopped taking it about a week ago and most of the side effects have greatly diminished or disappeared . . . except for the hair loss. June 2006 | F | 59 | 7 weeks | 6/12/2006 | 1 | high blood pressure only. | this drug is bad! forced on it due to quack doctor and hmo system pushing pills. and my high blood pressure!this medication has caused me to nothing but daily problems in life! vision is bad due to it blurring,eyes dry!short term memory loss! feel faint most times!massive aches and pains I never had before? | I think most of us who are caught in Hmo system, are stuck to take whatever the hmo doctors gives us,without question! when the simple thing to do is demand!! to read about the medication,and side effects the pill has. then make your mind up if you want it! as we must remember people, we are paying for a service Hmo or not ! we have the right to demand good and safe service. these hmo doctors iv run into are mostly pill pushers, who do not take the time to read or study up on what they are giving out to people. they dont care ! its a fast buck! they have lied to me over and over about drugs they hand out! and iv lost faith in the Hmo system today! as I find more and more people are dieing from idiot doctors. | F | 34 | 4 months | 3/26/2007 | 1 | High Blood pressure | have borderline hbp worsened by white coat syndr. was put on 80 mg Diovan HCT, bp worsened, increased to 160 mg. My bp was no lower. Months later I connected my SEVERE lower back pain to the Diovan HCT. Chol., trigl., and blood sugar levels were sky high. Dr. put me on plain Diovan 160 mg. 2 yrs later & 5 months at the chiropractor I still have loss of fluid in my spine and joints. Extreme fatigue. Had my hair cut short because it's become so thin. | Have great difficulty taking any prescribed drugs, each drug causes side effects that drs only want to prescribe more drugs for. After reading on this web site hopefully my horrible sinus problems and runny nose and congestion, dry eyes, and stabbing pains in my head are from the Diovan. I take only 80 mg instead of the prescribed 160. My chol. & glucose are still a little high even though I take supplements for that, exercise faithfully, watch what I eat and weigh 120 lbs. Am going off the Diovan and try an herbal remedy for hpb too. The higher dose of Diovan seemed to work against itself and make my bp worse. Afraid drugs are going to cripple/kill me. | F | 55 | 5 years | 11/1/2006 | 1 | High Blood Pressure | I have been on Diovan for 4 years. It has been good at lowering my blood pressure. Until about 9 months ago I was taking 80 Mg since 2002, then it was changed to Diovan W/Hctz 160/12.5. Over the last 6 months I have suffered severe joint pain in my legs, hips and back. I noticed my hair starting to fall out. Not knowing what the cause was, I had gone to several doctors trying to find what was happening. I also suffered from reoccurring acid reflux. Finally my obgyn asked me about Diovan and how long I have been taking it. I told her several years. I now am beginning to realize that my severe hair and joint pain loss started about the same time my Diovan was increased to double strength. I have lost over half of the hair on my head. I have always had extremely thick hair and this has become a major problem for me. I will get off Diovan ASAP. | Diovan has caused me several side effects that took me a long time and several visit to doctors to find out the causes of my problems. It is the Diovan. Not worth the pain and suffering to take Diovan. I am just glad I found out the cause before I went bald and crippled. | F | 63 | 4 days | 12/5/2006 | 1 | Blood Pressure | Tingling in legs,feet,hands & arms, feet hurt, muscle pains in legs, electrical shocks in legs & weakness in legs. I called doctor, am awaiting call back, but I want to go back to the Cozaar, even though BP was high. Also taking Hydrochlorothiazide 12.5. which brought BP down, but only on this for 2 weeks. Pins & needles started 6 weeks ago, after being put on 80 mg. Diovan. | F | 60 | 6 weeks | 3/9/2006 | 1 | High Blood pressure | not able to concentrate; dizziness; lightheadedness; tingling in feet and arms; back pain; weight gain; fatigue. | I have been having these symptoms for approx. 3 years and just accepted them as the cost of keeping my blood pressure down. I have been explaining these symptoms to my doctors (yes more than one doctor) and none has ever recommended that I switch medication. I use to be very sharp and over the years it has been extremely frustrating for me to concentrate and stay focus. This has also been affecting my job. A Natural Medicine specialist finally told me that it could be the Diovan and suggested that I browse this website. After reading your comments, I am ready to come off this medication and try something else. | F | 43 | 4 years | 5/30/2006 | 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 | High Blood Pressure | Excessive drowsiness, dizziness, and headache. | Have taken other bp meds and didn't have these side effects. Will not take any more of this drug. Called doctor today to have it switched. | F | 36 | 2 days | 5/3/2007 | 1 | high bp | This medicine definitely lowered my blood pressure, but the side effects are horrible. | I started this medicine because my bp was high. I was started out on 80 mg and didn't really notice any bad side effects, but I was only on this medicine one week when they bumped me up to 160 mg., because my doctor thought 80 mg. was "little old lady medicine". After taking 160 mg. for approximately a week or so I started noticing that I was sleeping at least 9 hours a night and waking up tired. I've always had loads of energy and was starting to get depressed about my terrible lack of energy. I continued on with the drug hoping that I would adjust. After 6 weeks, I still felt horrible. Then I developed a bad case of acid reflux which I never had before. I was prescribed omeprazole 20 mg. for it and that really took care of the acid reflux. I decided to cut back to 80 mg. of diovan and monitor my bp carefully. I immediately felt about 25 percent better with the energy levels, but I'm still depressingly tired. I am really thinking about taking 40 mg. of this drug and | F | 49 | 6 weeks | 2/25/2006 | 1 | Hypertension | Chest Pain with shortness of breath | I was taking this medication for HBP (160 mg per day). After 4 days I had serious symptoms that were similar to a heart attack! I had chest pain that radiated around to my back along with shortness of breath. | F | 39 | 4 days | 4/3/2007 | 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 | i have been on 80mg for 10 months. didn't know what i was experiencing was caused from the diovan 'til i found this sight. i have terrible wrist pain, much hair loss, weight gain, anxiety, sleeplessness, fatigue, ocular migranes, lower back pain for two months non-stop, foot pain and my bp wasn't normal by the new standards. i started taking a tbsp of noni juice for the last 6 wks and my bp has been below 120/80 daily. maybe it is a coincidence but i think it works and i need to know if these side effects are from diovan. i went to the dr. and told her i want to be off the meds and about the noni juice. she laughed and said she hoped i didn't get a stroke. i have been off 2 days now, i still have all the symptoms except i am not falling asleep at 7 pm. my bp these last 2 days has been 110/75. | everyone reacts differently to drugs but if you feel something isn't right - investigate. try natural remedies first. i'm hoping with exercise, eating right and noni juice i will never have to been on bp lowering medicine again. | F | 53 | 10 months | 11/20/2005 | 1 | High Blood Pressure | I have nausea, insomnia, dizziness, no concentration, bursts of anger toward loved one, hot sweats, woke up with hallucinations and visual bursts of lights coming from my feet, hands, head and stomach. It triggered migraines and headaches every day. Made me feel as though I was taking a drug trip from illicit drugs. I've never done street drugs and drink lightly. Worst meds I've every taken. | I wonder if there is an antidote? | F | 68 | 7 days | 10/16/2005 | 1 | hypertension | Mainly erratic heart beat that sometimes would be helped by Xanax but most times not. Came on mainly at night when my heart would skip a beat every five beats. It had gotten so bad it was waking me up out of a sound sleep. | I skipped taking it yesterday. Today no erratic heart beat, no dry mouth and eyes. How well do they test these things before they release them on the general public. | F | 73 | 4 months | 4/20/2006 | 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 |