BENICAR Reviews (OLMESARTAN MEDOXOMIL)Average Rating: 2.2 (332 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare BENICAR with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR BENICAR | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | Htn | Worked well. But veterans insisted on switching me to losartin. I've been getting knee. Joint pain. Leg pain. Affects sleep quality. Aching. Sore. Only on it 10 days. Is it from the new med? | F | 64 | 1 years 12.5/20 | 11/22/2014 | 2 | hypertension | Ok at first. Finally had some bp control. Also reduced night trips to bathroom. I developed severe insomnia, never thought they could be connected. Suddenly developed angioedema, thanks to reactions by friends and my PT I saw my doc who says no more of this type med or ace inhibitors. Now I'm off and surprise, I can sleep again. The insomnia was ruining my life and causing a host of other issues. Now I wonder if the severe intestinal issues I have were also caused by the drug. And I just have to find a new bp med that works. | F | 58 | 8 years 40 mg 1X day | 11/21/2014 | 5 | hypertension | Benicar was prescribed for me after the birth of my youngest child. I must say I probably experienced most side effects others have listed. I also think I dealt with them by way of denial and the reality of daily life having two babies, no time for illness, a husband in law school and myself working full time at the hospital. At the time, I felt Benicar was indeed beneficial because my numbers stayed within a normal range; this after having to test through several other HPT meds during a 2 week stay in the hospital only a week after child birth. Now, just in the last 3 months or so, I've been feeling awful pains from the top of the buttocks down the backs of both legs. The pain continued to grow until I was popping up to 6 Tylenol a day or more. As of 3 weeks ago, it became so excruciating I knew I had to do something without going back to these "Dr"s that pick you apart rather than heal you as a whole and keep you in balance. So, after all these years, I decided to heal myself and it started with going against Codex Alimentarius by not eating flesh and anything that has a face and runs away from you! Vegetables, plants, and herbs have all the healing you need. Take elementals as supplements and drink a better water; there are different ones, you know. Stop eating white powder food and strangely concocted oils. Monsanto has corrupted soy now so really vegan and strictly vegetarian is in. Get a blood pressure monitor and watch your numbers, keeping data and reference | F | 52 | 10 years ~10mg/day | 10/2/2014 | 1 | high blood pressure | Extreme diarrhea stomach pains stayed in the icu for almost a week drs thought it was some thing else and 2 weeks ago I four found out wat was wrong I thought it was the end of my life!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | F | 61 | 10 years 50mgs | 10/2/2014 | 1 | high blood pressure | Severe diarrhea and stomach pain was told it was gallbladder and to lose weight and eat right, was treated like it was all in my head. | F | 54 | 7 years 40 mg | 8/27/2014 | 1 | high blood pressure | Was only able to tolerate this med for 8 weeks. Unbelievable fatigue that started after first dose, entire body ached and this med inflamed pre-existing conditions. I didn't connect my pain to the med. Extreme joint pain, muscle aches and burn, blurry vision. Shooting pain in arms and feet sting/burn like I'm standing on a million tiny needles. My hair is falling out in clumps. I can say for certain that this med lowered my blood pressure but the side effects are not worth it. Some days I hardly had a pulse 85/64. After fighting to return to Avapro, which is not small feat due to cost, I'm throwing what's left of the Benicar in the trash. | Do not take this medication if you have alternatives. | F | 52 | 8 weeks 40 mg 1X day | 8/23/2014 | 1 | high blood pressure | Was only able to tolerate this med for 8 weeks. Unbelievable fatigue that started after first dose, entire body ached and this med inflamed pre-existing conditions. I didn't connect my pain to the med. Extreme joint pain, muscle aches and burn, blurry vision. Shooting pain in arms and feet sting/burn like I'm standing on a million tiny needles. My hair is falling out in clumps. I can say for certain that this med lowered my blood pressure but the side effects are not worth it. Some days I hardly had a pulse 85/64. After fighting to return to Avapro, which is not small feat due to cost, I'm throwing what's left of the Benicar in the trash. | Do not take this medication if you have alternatives. | F | 52 | 8 weeks 40 mg 1X day | 8/23/2014 | 1 | hypertension | Over 6 years weight gain off 100 lbs. Short of breath. Dizzness. Stomach pain and diarrhea. In 6 year 5 ER visits. Severe pain. Put on oxy to manage pain. Diagnosed with villi atrophy, celiac, ulcer colitis. Drs didn't know what caused abdominal pain.. performed surgery and removed gallbladder and appendix. Still having abdominal pain 2 weeks after surgery my med was changed to Norvasc. 3 weeks later major improvement. Not on any other meds. Still have ulcer colitis and I am on a gluten free diet. | Any abdominal pain stop taking Benicar | M | 54 | 6 years 10mg 1X day | 7/23/2014 | 3 | High Blood pressure | Moderate muscle and joint pain. My hands are increasingly staying numb and swelling with joint pain. Hair feels life straw and thinning. Kidney pain, decreased urine output. Fatigue depression | F | 50 | 5 days 20 MG day | 7/19/2014 | 1 | High Blood Pressure | Joint and muscular aches and pains. Feel a lot of fatigue. Weight gain, hair loss. Feel like there is no life. Depressed. | M | 50 | 4 years 30 1X day | 7/6/2014 | 1 | High Blood Pressure | Major Fatigue/ took my life away for 90 days/back on lisinopril 10mgs x 2 day fell great again--BP 120/76. | M | 65 | 90 days 20mg 2X day | 6/7/2014 | 2 | Has anyone got their life back after taking Benicar? How long did it take? | F | 47 | 3 years 40mg 1X day | 5/26/2014 | 1 | hb pressure | this drug is poison. i think it should be recalled. I really thought the last few weeks i had the flu, its not flu season plus too many other symptoms, insomnia, diarrea, severe stomach pain, joint pain, fatique, and much more...awful | F | 63 | 1 years 40/25 | 4/28/2014 | 1 | Hypertension | Fatigue, dizziness, shortness of breath, body aches, swelling of hands and feet, cough/clearing throat, anxiety, depression, panic attacks, thoughts of suicide, jittery wired feeling. | Started at 20 mg, so fatigued I couldn't do anything. Dr dropped me down to 10mg. Did that for a few months. All the time complaining of fatigue. Then weird symptoms started cropping up. Dizziness, shortness of breath, body aches, ears ringing, vision changes, sleeplessness. anxiety, depression, panic attacks, feeling like my life was not worth living. Some of those symptoms were attributed to a sudden onset of GERD. A month ago, my dr told me to start taking 40 mg. Within 4 days I was so sick I thought I was going to die. So dizzy I was listing when I walked. I refused to take it anymore and he gave me Losartan instead. My bp is okay and I'm feeling somewhat better but wonder if I will ever feel right again. One year ago I was walking every day and swimming 4 days a week. Now just the walk wipes me out. This poison has ruined my life. | F | 51 | 1 years 10 to 40mg 1X day | 4/23/2014 | 1 | High BP | Head aches,heavy eyes and red ness, dry mouth, knee pain, shortness of breath and no energy,use to run in the morning and now can 't even climb out of my bed. terrible | M | 52 | 2 months 1X day | 4/10/2014 | 1 | blood pressure | The first day after taking the pill, I was not able to go to work the next day, could not get up from bed, feeling weak and trembling, called my doctor she said cut pill in half, I took my blood pressure and it was so low to the point of danger, I took the half the next day missed work that they, then back to work when all the symptoms of a stroke began was in the hospital 3 days. Don't take this medication even if you are not having this side effect, it could have killed me or left me disable, I was lucky that I have a good heart. | M | 57 | 2 days 20 | 4/7/2014 | 3 | High blood pressure | This drug stole 8 years of my life. Yes, it did keep my blood pressure under control. Side effects began to slowly creep up on me and made it difficult to figure out what was happening. I experienced bouts of low blood sugar, depression, severe light headedness, tired all the time and a ton of other small things. These symptoms came on very slowly and I had a hard time figuring out why. After my new doctors said "just stop taking it and see how you feel" I began to realize that it was the Benicar that had been causing all of my health issues. Sad to think that I felt ill for all that time due to this horrible drug. | M | 50 | 8 years 20 MG 1X day | 4/6/2014 | 2 | Hop | Weight gain of 12 lbs. although eating less. Hair is noticibly breaking off and thinning out, the texture changed from thick to wispy! Anxiety, tiredness, depression, not sleeping as well as I get to sleep easily but don't stay asleep. | Not a wonder drug! My doctor gave me no other options of drugs to try, and blew off my symptoms. | F | 66 | 6 months 20 mg 1X day | 4/3/2014 | 1 | blood pressure | blurd vision mussel pain loss of site by hal ,bad headache .. then a stroke!!!! | very unsafe don't take it | M | 52 | 2 months 20 1X day | 4/1/2014 | 1 | High BP | First two weeks were ok BP went down then started having pain in legs knees and feet had tingling burning feeling also fingers tingle always tired no energy right eye began to twitch noticed when brushing teeth gums began to bleed called doctor he said give it a chance I decided to go against his recommendations and quit benicar within 10 days all symptoms have gone away | M | 50 | 3 months 20 | 3/3/2014 |