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 | blood pressure | Took Diovan for more than 10 yrs, side affects symptoms were slow onset. Started feeling tired. Joints started hurting. Weight gain. Six months ago switched to generic Valsart. Suddenly I have severe edema, fatigue, severe weight gain, bloating, blurred vision. Trouble breathing. Trouble sleeping. | F | 58 | 10 years 169-25 mg | 7/13/2015 | 1 | Hypertension | A lot | Glad I found this site.Thought I was the only one with serious side effects.My Doctor doesn't think Diovan is causing my neuropathy,fatigue,sexual issues,etc.Well,now I discover from other people posting here they have similar problems.I find Diovan creates a new medical problem about every 2 years I keep taking it.I'm beginning to think if you take Diovan long enough it will kill you. | M | 71 | 10 years 160 1X day | 6/12/2014 | 1 | BP | muscle pain, Bone pain, muscle spasms | I have been off of Diovan for a year now. After initially feeling better all progress stopped. My muscles still will not relax after contractions. | F | 53 | 10 years 1X day | 2/6/2016 | 1 | High Blood Pressure | I am 46 taking Diovan for over 15 years. I had 2 heart attacks in September, found out I now am a diabetic (insulin), my vision is almost lost in 1 eye. I totally blame this medication. Stopped it in hospital and feel so much better and my new medication I only take 25 mg. I no longer have hair loss or rash. | There needs to be a class action lawsuit | F | 46 | 10 years 160/25 1X day | 3/15/2016 | 1 | High Blood Pressure | Initially was taking Diovan with few side effects. Without notice prescription changed to Valsartan a few years back and then the trouble started. Unexplained weight gain, joint and muscle pain - started about 3 years ago I noticed weakness and pain in legs. Pain has increased steadily until almost crippling me. Some days very hard to do anything. Joint and shooting and burning pains in my muscles. Recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes although sugar control does not seem to be directly related to sugar input rather it is more cyclical. Recently spent the $350 for a 30 day supply of Diovan to see if some of this goes away. Other than not being able to function normally, has been effective in lowering BP. | Valsartan is a Poison | M | 57 | 10 years 160 1X day | 4/18/2017 | 1 | HBP | It worked fine for the first 5 years. Then slowly all the problems started...I thought "old age"....LOL Then 3 mos ago the Dr doubled the dose to 160 from 80mg. Instant "arthritis" in my left foot and now my left hand. Even changed my eyeglasses because of the blurred vision. I stopped yesterday...so we shall see. My question to people that have quit: did the side effects reverse and the joint pain stop? Vision go back to normal? Thanks..... | M | 57 | 10 years 160mg 1X day | 3/13/2010 | 1 | High BP Caused by sarcoid lesions | Hmmm. Well rash, tinnitus, heart palpitations, insomnia, partial ED. (could always get an erection but took more effort), rash, fatigue, did very little to lower bp, anxiety, and all the others I forgot to mention! No cough like ace inhibitors tho. I am tired of these poisons and have stopped tiazac, lipitor (muscle weakness big time), vit D. Just read about hypervitimonosis D. Not good a sarcoidosis thing. Also a reduced ability to sense low or high blood sugar levels. I am a type I since 23. Also something swoolen in my throat. Seems to be dying down since ceasing diovan 3 days ago. I hope it is really happening and not just seeming to happen. | I am trying to get off all of these pharmaceutical meds with things like valarian root (sleep sooo well now) and hawthorn. These doctor just ignore all problems when it says if this occurs consult your doctor. I would tell him and he knew where the problems were coming from but did not care!! Please contact me if you would like to hear more! | M | 38 | 10 years 160 mg 1X day | 4/23/2011 | 1 | high blood pressure | Weight gain...rash..gout...tremours. .. | F | 52 | 10 years 360 mg | 9/5/2013 | 1 | hypertension, leg swelling | Weight gain, weakness, fatigue, difficulty sleeping, severe depression, worsening lower extremity swelling, not improved. | Whether it's the Diovan or the diuretic it's mixed with, the bad effects are worse than the problems for which it is prescribed. My wife has been on this poison for 10 years and just had the diuretic part doubled, which doubled the depression, prompting me to search on line for possible side effects. The manufacturer and prescribing physicians should be prosecuted and forced to take everything they prescribe for the rest of their miserable lives. I'm disgusted with what these money-hungry entities are doing to their patients. Illegal drug pushers aren't doing any more harm, it's just that their crimes get more publicity. The illegal pushers, at least, don't expect to be treated as decent human beings while they are becoming millionaires by piling up corpses. | M | 57 | 10 years | 4/19/2008 | 3 | High BP 160/110 | I started taking Diovan about 9 years ago. At the time my doctor prescribed it because the medicine I had been on (Lotensin) was causing me to hack and cough (which was keeping me up all night long). I started out at 80mg & then 3 years ago my bp began creeping up. I was then prescribed a 80mg dosage with 12.5 diurectic. I am now taking one 160mg/12.5 & one 80mg/12.5 pill each day. Since I have been on Diovan I have experienced significant, yet unexplained weight gain (approximately 150 lbs), drastic hair loss, insomnia, itchy skin and more recently, brittle teeth (2 of which have broken off). Over the years I have been blamed by the doctors for not taking control of my weight. Yet with swimming 4-5 days a week, walking & using an elliptical machine, and changing my diet (and eliminating processed/bleached food) I could only get down to 220lbs. | It controlled my BP for a long time & I wasn't aware that the problems I experienced might have been from this drug. (Of course, my doctor(s) didn't listen to me either...) At this point, I do not know where to turn for advice. The doctors use more meds to mask the side effects of other meds & I have yet to find one that doesn't play into that mindset. | F | 29 | 9 years | 7/8/2007 | 3 | high blood pressure | M | 47 | 9 years 160mg 1X day | 12/12/2010 | 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 | Hypertension | Several | My Doctor switched me to Isradipine from Diovan two weeks ago.My numbness in toes and feet is now reduced by about 75%.The sexual issues are disappearing too.In my humble opinion,Diovan is a terrible drug and should be banned.I'm frightened by what it did to my body that I don't know about versus what I did know such as peripheral neuropathy and impotence. | M | 66 | 9 years 160 1X day | 6/28/2014 | 1 | high bp | I dont know where to start,I complained to my dr for years something was,5 yrs.ago he raised my dosage to 320 once aday I have just about lost my mind,confused atomach ach,blurriness head hurting,insomnia ao bad,anxetiy so bad it felt like my neck waz being drove up into my skull,my ligimits in my shoulder was coming apart, it felt like something was living an crawling in my sinusis an I would wake up an my nose would piur for hours my brincutis an breathinv was crazy. an the whole for years everytime I would complain about one or the other all he would is put me on another med,I finally changed docs. went an had multible test an mri,done could find nothinv wronv an after that I made him against his will, cause he said diovan was one of the mildest hp meds there was,I went on anothed within days things atarted changing an I am 90% back to feel so good,I still have trouble with my head the right side hurting an getting confused but I dont feel stuck in the same day or month any more, I feel like I have almost lived an relived the same day fir the last 5 or 6 years, I can't explain it but it was like my mind could nit forget its like I relive everyday, for the past 5 ir so years everyday in my mind even thiugh I was still living another day, I can't explain it,an still mentally I think its harmed me an I dont know what or who to see about it,please uf anybody can tell me any info,about what or who to see about this please email me, [email protected] thank you, please excuss | M | 52 | 9 years 320 | 9/29/2014 | 5 | hypertension/diabetes | I've taken 80mg diovan for 8 years, no noticeable side effects. | My doctor prescribed a BP pill after I'd had several high readings of 130/95+. I have type 1 diabetes and he said that ACE Inhibitors, such as Diovan, were successfully eliminating complications from diabetes in many patients. That convinced me to start taking yet another medication. The first BP pill he put me on caused me to cough, so he switched me to 80mg Diovan and I haven't had any problems since, plus my BP is now regularly 110/70. I'm sorry to hear others are struggling, the good news is there are a lot of BP pills out there so if one causes you problems there are always options. | F | 45 | 8 years | 12/7/2009 | 5 | High blood pessure | None | I have had excellent results with Diovan. No side effects that I can tell, and I've been using it for at least 8 years. It works great. | F | 64 | 8 years 160 mg 1X day | 1/22/2013 | 4 | High Blood Pressure | Weight gain, absolute alcohol intolerance (even in small amounts), fatigue, insomnia | Most of the time I can handle the side effects. I am exercising and that is helping. I stopped drinking alcohol in any amount. My bp still fluctuates and is not always under control, however, it is better than before. | F | 40 | 8 years | 1/22/2006 | 2 | Pre Hypertension | Slowly lost sex drive and developed ED problems. I started this drug with BP at 140/90 but that was the highest it ever got. My doctor insisted I needed it because they just lowered ratings for Pre Hypertension to 120/180. | I have long suspected this drug was causing my ED problems but my doctor insisted that it did not. ED drugs worked at first but I slowly got worse. I tried everything. I finally took matters into my own hands and just tapered off this drug over a period of two weeks. Been completely off it for three days and this morning woke up stiff for first time in years! I monitor my BP closely and it rose to the 130s/80s but I think that is just a rebound effect. Time will tell. | M | 63 | 8 years 80 MG 1X day | 7/5/2010 | 2 | High Blood Pressure | I have been a relatively healthy individual throughout my life with no major illnesses or surgeries. I was diagnosed with HBP in the 1980's and went through a battery of trials with available blood pressure medications. All had significant side effects. In 1998, Diovan was prescribed as having minimal side effects and was prescribed a daily dosage of 320mg. Without the drug I could reach elevated blood pressure levels of 210/110. I was unaware of any initial side effects, however, in the past few years I experienced constant insomnia, "tennis elbow" syndrome, pronounced anxiety , loss of motivation--almost depression. Initially, I presumed it was age yet I could not understand the recent rapid decline of my health. I stopped taking the drug for 7 days. All of the above symptoms were no longer exhibited, however, the blood pressure sky rocketed. I am currently back on the drug and receiving alternate health care treatment to remove the Diovan dependency. | One has to seriously evaluate the consequences of presription drugs. I personally do not accept prescription drugs as the "cure all". I believe that Diovan produces immediate results as intended. The general public is vulnerable and at the mercy of prescription drugs! | M | 63 | 8 years | 3/23/2007 | 2 | High Blood Pressure | I started taking this medication after my son was born. I developed high bp after weight gain. I was ok for the first 3-5 years on it with little side effects. But last year I began to experience fatigue, dizziness, stomach problems, asthma and eczema. I feel like my whole body has inflammation. I see know that it's likely caused by the only med I'm on, Diovan! I have made a choice to ween off of it by excercise, nutrition and vitamins. I'm going to a Naturopathy to get off of these pills once and for all. | F | 38 | 8 years 60 mg | 1/5/2016 |