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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR DIOVAN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Lower Blood Pressure | Joint swelling, unbearable pain, gout, crippling foot pain, weight gain, horrible urine odor, skin rash, general swelling in lower extremities | M | 65 | 2 years 160MG | 12/7/2013 | 1 | Hypertension | Impotence | Diovan controls my bp.But for the last 5 years it has caused increasing problems with sexual issues.Doctors say it doesn't.I say it does for me.Time to switch back to an ACE drug and see if the cough starts. | M | 67 | 6 years 160 1X day | 12/3/2013 | 1 | HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE | SHORTNESS OF BREATH, LOWER STOMACH PAINS, JOINT PAIN, ANXIETY, GREAT AMOUNT OF FATIGUE and it never worked | I READ ON THIS SITE ABOUT ATACAND 30 MG.-HCTZ 12.5 MG.THAT WAS BRAND COST $90.00 SO I GOT CANDESARTAN-HCTZ32 MG.-12.5 MG. THE GENERIC WAS $60.00 IN 5 DAYS IT LOWERED MY B.P. 40 POINTS NO SIDE EFFECTS | M | 65 | 30 days 360 1X day | 11/25/2013 | 1 | Mom took it for high blood pressure | My mother developed a mass in the neck just six months after starting the diovan, which turned out to be cancer. | Prior to starting Diovan, I read that there was a "small" chance that Diovan could cause cancer. Well sure enough, that "small" chance happened to my mom in early 2012. By October 2012, despite beating the cancer, she died from complications caused my the effects of cancer treatment. I subsequently started a website that I hope can raise more awareness about the dangers of prescription drugs. www.couponsforacause.org. | F | 62 | 1.5 years 1X day | 11/25/2013 | 1 | hypertension | insomnisa depression, anxiety, swelling in ankles, joint pain all over body, extreme back pain, major colitis, bladder infection, constant fulshing of face | Valsartan, ex-forge and all forms of diovan are dangerous drugs - the side effects are insufferable - i do not recommend this drug and don't know why doctors and pharmacists are pushing his drugb unless they are receiving kickbacks from big pharma | F | 57 | 6 months 160mg 1X day | 11/22/2013 | 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 | high blood pressure | Weight gain...rash..gout...tremours. .. | F | 52 | 10 years 360 mg | 9/5/2013 | 1 | hypertension | I notice I have gained weight even though I have been on a weight loss program and have heard of other people with this same problem. | Perhaps some of the problems with Diovan result in faulty studies by inside people who lied about its effectiveness and with conflicts of interest. "Following a long series of accusations, retractions, and the resignation of a prominent professor, it now is clear that data from a large Japanese study of valsartan (Diovan, Novartis) was fabricated. Recently, officials at Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine said that “had patient records been used in their entirety,” the Kyoto Heart Study “would have had a different conclusion,” reported AFB. In 2009 the Kyoto Heart Study investigators, including the chief investigator, Hiroaki Matsubara, reported that treatment with valsartan resulted in significant cardiovascular benefits independent of the drug’s blood-pressure lowering effect. Now officials at the university say the drug had no such effect. Norihisa Tamura, Japan’s health minister, said data had been “fabricated and falsified.” (Cardiobrief) | F | 75 | 60 days 320/`12 1X day | 9/3/2013 | 1 | from cardiologist | Dufficulty breath,chest sharp pain,chest burn,chest heavy,joint pain,dizzy and vertigo,palpitation,tremor,nausea,insomia ,headeach,eyes pain..... | M | 35 | 1 days 80mg | 6/3/2013 | 1 | Hypertension | Horrible drug, severe muscle pain, dizziness, fatigue, blurred vision, depression,panic attacks, shoulder and neck pain, tinnitus, swollen feet, sinus headaches, intolerance to the sun and heat. Low blood pressure, brain fog, numbness in feet and hands at times. Listen everyone this drug is an ARB and has a black box warning. It can cause serious problems to your health. Worse than those that I experienced, believe it or not.. Read the Wall Street Journal front page article dated May 31, 2013. It talks about ARB's and specifically mentions Diovan and the need for the FDA to remove these drugs from sale to patients. Supposedly the FDA is dragging it's heels. Please get a copy of this article, I will never take any drug in this class again. I can only hope no permanent damage was done to myself or anyone else. Consider writing the FDA . I know I am going to. Oh, ,If your doctor won't give you another class of hypertension drugs, switch doctors. This drug will control blood pressure but at what price? | F | 57 | 5 years 80mg. | 6/1/2013 | 1 | For High Blood pressure and to redu | Swollen legs and feet, burning sensation up and down inside of legs. | Since I began taking Diovan 2 months ago my legs are so swollen by mid-day that it hurts to bend at the knees and I keep getting a burning pain sensation along the whole inside of my legs from ankle up to and including my thigh when I am walking or standing. | F | 65 | 2 months 80 mg 1X day | 5/25/2013 | 1 | Other blood pressure medicine was n | After 3 days of taking, as a medication change, had a severe blood pressure drop resulting in a ride to the hospital for every test known, all other systems ok, be careful of this drug, I was lucky as a stroke was not induced but was told this drug could have initiated. Now trying to get this drug out ASAP , IMO ask about other options, this has been an awful experience. | M | 49 | 3 days 160 | 5/23/2013 | 1 | High Blood pressure,aortic aneurysm | Never felt sensations before taking this drug such as: Total loss of libido, apathy, depression, tingling of back and shoulder blade area, memory loss, drug is no longer working, when taken it does the paradoxical opposite effect, it actually raises the blood pressure even in the maximum dose taken | Horrible side effects from Diovan. ( it was regular Diovan, not the iovan HCT with a water pill ) AT first for the first two years it did control my blood pressure, however I had never before felt experienced side effects: Never felt sensations before taking this drug such as: Total loss of libido, apathy, depression, tingling of back and shoulder blade area, memory loss, drug is no longer working, when taken it does the paradoxical opposite effect, it actually raises the blood pressure even in the maximum dose taken. After taking 320 mg to the nurses avice when BP was up to 170 /98 espite the mornign 160 mg, I had to take another 160 mg ( as nurse said ) and my BP went up even furhter to 167/111 from the total dose. Tingling in chest, throbbig neck carotid artery, medication stoppe working and even on the max dose now I feel I could have a stroke at any hour. Also approximately the time I started takign this medicine an adreanl tumor started forming, that grows 1 mm on my left adrenal now. Based on the rate of the tumor, backdating in time assuming that the tumor always grew 1mm month, then it starte growing when I started taking Diovan. If you have any paradoxical effect from this medicine after being on it for a while I woul suggest to test adrenals to see if med had a side effects on the adrenals. Adrenals regulare the blood pressure.... | F | 43 | 3.5 years 160 mg 2X day | 4/18/2013 | 1 | High Blood Pressure | All side affects are to the extreme. Dry mouth, joint pain, trouble focusing, blurred vision, fatigue, dry cough to the point of not being able to breath. Neck pain on right side. Not able to walk straight seemingly very weak on the whole right side of the body. | I cannot believe Dr.s and Drug companies are pushing this dangerous drug. Where is the FDA on this? I took Accupril for ten years and started having bad side affects and the Dr. put me on this Diovan. One bad drug to another. I discontinued any BP meds. Ive been off the Diovan for a week and am still experiencing many of the side affects. Although, I am feeling better. Does anyone know how long it takes to get this out of your system? I DO NOT recommend this medication to anyone. It is really scary. I foresee a class action suit in the future. So drug companies if your reading this, quit manufacturing crap like this and poisoning people. | F | 54 | 2 months 320 MG 1X day | 4/14/2013 | 1 | bp | Hairloss and tingling in forhead also E.D | M | 45 | 6 months 160 | 4/12/2013 | 1 | High blood pressure | Nausea,numbness in toes,hands and fingers hurt,light headed,fatigue,lower sex drive,sinus problem,I could go on but my fingers hurt. | F | 53 | 7 days 160 mg | 3/19/2013 | 1 | hypertension | Unsafe Drug For Me | Thank goodness for this website.I thought I was the only person with adverse reactions to this drug.My Doctors tell me it's all in my head.Diovan makes my bp numbers normal.Buy the side effects are horrible.Numbness in toes,sexual problems,constant muscle pain,etc.Other people have success on this drug. Many others don't.I just can't endure these negative effects anymore.And these side effects came on gradually. | M | 70 | 9 years 160 1X day | 1/26/2013 | 1 | High blood pressure | Extreme light headedness, fatigue | This is a terrible drug! I went off it 3 days ago because I can't think anymore (too light headed). STILL dizzy. Very scared | F | 62 | 3 months 80 mg 1X day | 1/19/2013 | 1 | Hypertension | The worst drug I've ever taken | Diovan controlled my blood pressure better than any other of the 15 meds I've taken.But the medical side effects are life changing.I had one medical issue when I started Diovan,blood pressure.Now,I have 8 more.Underthyroid,blood sugar,peripheral neuropathy,gout,tendinitis,sinus ,muscle dysfunction,amd impotence.Not a good trade,exchanging one med problem and inheriting 8 more that I never had before Diovan.I truly wish every Novartis company exec/cheminst who invented Diovan were forced to take it for 5 years. | M | 68 | 6 years 160 1X day | 1/7/2013 | 1 | HBP | Hair falling out, severe back, joint pain, headaches.Problems standing too long.Severe neck and shoulder pain.High pulse and very fast heart palpitations even made me pass out twice. | When I first started to take Diovan it seemed to pretty good with kepping my BP low then shortly after I had very bad headaces everyday.I then started with the pain in my neck and the longer I was on Diovan the worst my side effects got.My hair was falling out just a little at first,but, the longer I have been on it,the worst it has got.Thank you all for your comments! I just read these post 4 days ago,then stopped taking it right away.My pulse is back to normal,my BP is staying about 130/78.I have also already noticed an improvement in my back,neck and shoulders. | F | 50 | 3 years 320 1X day | 1/3/2013 |