NORVASC Reviews (AMLODIPINE BESYLATE)Average Rating: 2.1 (787 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare NORVASC with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR NORVASC | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Hypertention | Constipation and weight gain | I was taking the 2.5 MG of the generic version, amlodipine besylate within a few weeks I started to experience mild constipation and gained four pounds in 45 days. I think the constipation was most likely mild because I routinely take a fiber supplement because I have diverticulosis, and I gradually increased the supplement. By the time I connected the symptoms to the amlodipine, I had increased the fiber supplement to almost four times as much as I was taking before. After being off the drug for two weeks, I continue to have to take the increased dose of fiber and have not lost any of the weight, despite the fact that I am eating less. I spoke to a pharmacist, who said to give it another week and to drink a lot of water, She said the drug dehydrates the intestinal tract and causes fluid retention. The amlodipine, along with losartan worked to control my hypertention. | F | 61 | 45 days 2.5 MG 1X day | 12/19/2014 | 1 | HBP | Weight gain, water retention, dizziness, extreme depression, anger, crying all the time, fatigue, no excitement. I would rather lay in bed all day, which is not an option...I work. | I am always leery about taking medications because I have been burned before. I asked the doctor if there were ANY side effects and he said no. After reading the dozens upon dozens of others who say otherwise...I am annoyed. I took myself off of the medication when I started to google the effects. I was wondering why I was gaining weight and not urinating. I drink a minimum of 60 ounces of water a day and was only going to the bathroom 3 times. I have been active with diet and exercise and suddenly the scale continued to increase even with the small amount of food I was consuming. I will not take this medication again and will look for natural alternatives. | F | 44 | 1 months 5MG 1X day | 12/18/2014 | 1 | High blood pressure | My body feels hot all the time, like I have a Fever and I don't. Very bad anxiety/depression which I have never experienced before in my life. Every morning I wake up my heart is racing, I just don't feel good at all. Night sweats, and also hot flashes throughout the day. Dizzy and feeling like I'm going to pass out. Muscles cramps. | Every less common side effect and every rare side effect I seemed to have them all. This medicine doesn't make me feel good at all. I kept thinking I was sick and was going to the doctor weekly. I was prescribed depression meds and anxiety meds. I stopped taking norvasc about 4 days ago and I'm slowly starting to feel like myself again. I have been having headaches since I stopped taking it but not sure if me stopping cold turkey is causing it. | F | 33 | 6 months 10mg | 12/16/2014 | 4 | hb | A little chest discomfort yesterday after 3rd pill(day).slight period of restless legs.nothing bothersome enough to make me stop taking. | I know 3 days isn't long enough to give a thorough review, but wanted to share that it did nothing or very little to lower my BP until this morning. Just now was 113/66! & I am thrilled! My BP has been spiking into the 190s to 200 for months now with BP readings usually 140+ systolic.. dystolic has been 70s and lower.I am also taking metopropolol 100mg for past 5 yrs which controlled it until last 6 mos. Norvasc was added recently after trying lisinpril with no effect on BP. I am encouraged with this reading but will keep monitoring & praying side effects stay away as BP stabilizes to normal readings. I am sorry for those of you who can not tolerate this dRugI hope we can all find something that works for us! THIS is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it! | F | 64 | 3 days 5mg | 11/20/2014 | 2 | HBP | Feeling horrible, worse every week. At first, nothing. Then after about 2-3 months, severe shoulder and arm pain, then rapid heart beats which felt like air pushing up and making me cough; when at rest, pounding heartbeat; some chest pain, alternating sides; depression to the point of crying on the bus going to work for no reason; I did not associate these things with Norvasc, but now I do. I was upped from 5 mg to 10 mg five months ago ... that's when I started feeling these weird sensations in my chest, coughing up air for no reason, and twice, for a milisecond, I felt faint, like I had skipped a heartbeat or something. Of course there is dizziness when standing, but all of this other stuff was off the charts. I feel more miserable every day. Am seeing my Dr. next week. | F | 60 | 5 months 10 1X day | 11/19/2014 | 2 | HBP | Dizziness, Panic, Anxiety, Depression, Racing Heart, Fear, Blurred vision, This stuff is horrible. | F | 34 | 2 years 5mg 1X day | 11/6/2014 | 1 | blood pressure | It had my face very swollen. I was ugly I didn't want to look in the mirror. | F | 50 | 3 years 10mg | 11/3/2014 | 2 | High Blood Pressure | I am 47 years old and weight train everyday. I was prescribed the generic version of this drug (Amlodipine 5mg). I am having teffible side effects: sleeplessness, irritability, tingling in hand and foot, blurred vision, tiredness. I have scheduled an appointment with my doctor to get off of this and on to something else. Your quality of life should not suffer while trying to control a health concern that is very manageable now a days. | 47 | 10 days 5mg | 10/16/2014 | 3 | to wean off of clonidine patch | Clonidine sucked worse that Norvasc, and Norvasc is no picnic. I have depression weight gain and edema. This does lower my blood pressure, and is more tolerable (just barely) then the other BP meds. | F | 50 | 6 months 2.5 mgs | 10/4/2014 | 1 | High blood pressure | Feeling like I couldn't catch my breath, very mentally foggy, heartburn, very cold feeling like my insides were freezing, dizzy to the point I can't drive, swollen gums and anger, sleep problems | F | 31 | 5 days 5mg | 8/31/2014 | 4 | High blood pressure 143/102 | I went to the dr. BP was 143/102 was prescribed norvasc 5mg initially. Next day BP was 135/100 called dr. Increased to 10mg. Norvasc works at lowering my BP but at an unfortunate cost. I get up in the a.m no appetite, take meds. 2 hrs later I'm ready for a nap and with 2 lil ones it's unlikely. I feel like a zombie or high, I can't concentrate and this is just 2 weeks of taking it. I'm constipated, and having chest pain neither of which were an issue before I began this medication. I also noticed that if I get up to use the restroom at night I have trouble falling back asleep which is why I'm adding my "2 cents" to this thread at 1:54/a. I'll definately be letting my dr know but I'm trying to be a "good lil patient" and wait an entire month before asking NO, demanding something else. I went from living a normal life, not knowing I had hbp to having all kinds of symptoms trying to control it. I've read poor reviews of this medication and very few good ones, as for the good reviews, each person claims to be otherwise healthy so I guess the rest of us are overweight, obese, and have bad habits. Just a thought! Good luck and God bless. | F | 26 | 2 weeks 10mg | 8/8/2014 | 4 | Pulminary hypertension | I take the generic brand of norvasc along with adcirca and xarelto . I've noticed that the drug does work. My blood pressure was near perfect and I can actually climb stairs again without my heart beating so fast that I have to lie down because otherwise I would faint. I have been having fainting spells prior to takin my calcium channel blockers and now I do not so its a huge relief. Yet the side effects are unbearable! I feel like I am always chasing sleep. I am a awake a few hours than sleep a few hours awake for a few and then sleep for a few. I have no days and long nights its awful. I have had a persistent headache for over two weeks that is in the areas of my head as if I wear wearing a thick headband. So pretty much all over! I have extreme lower back pain after a month of taking (norvasc). I have lack of motivation to do anything I stay in bed all damn day. My joints hurt. And my gums hurt and bleed. I even got a canker sore on my lip. Ugh! And I have barely an appitite. And if you now me you know all I used to do was eat all day. I also have runny eyes n red tired looking eyes. Not a good look. I just want a normal life and for people to understand I'm actually going through something and to stop judging me n thinking that I don't care. This medicine is probably causing me depression. Also I'm always in a fog and have almost tunnel vision. I feel more awake when I'm dreaming then I do when I'm actually up! | F | 29 | 1 months 10 mg | 8/2/2014 | 3 | This has been an excellent medication lowering my BP, with few side effects until now. I've developed brown leopard spots on my arms and legs that appear all in a row. I'm not vain but I have 6-7 areas and worry that they may turn up on my face. | F | 65 | 6 years 10 mg 1X day | 7/28/2014 | 1 | High blood pressure | This drug is poison. I'm in excellent physical shape but have hbp. Felt fine for 3 weeks. Slowly this drug turned me into a zombi. Depressed, no energy , shortness of breath. Every side affect possible I had. Don't believe everything you read on the studies. Guess who is paying for them? If they say 9% get headaches you can be sure it's 50%. By the way. Do you think your gp reports back to the pharma companies what his patients are telling him? Also. Consider how many people are suffering that don't post or say anything. This is my fist post ever. I can't believe how sick this drug made me. I thought it was something else. Read read read. Come to your own conclusions. | M | 47 | 2 months 2.5 mg | 7/19/2014 | 2 | Blood pressure | My dr prescribed Norvasc a while back and I would get migraines so I stopped. Recently my blood pressire was 177/118 and I was scared so I started taking it again. It's been 10 days and each day feels worse. I already suffer from depression and this drug drags me deeper. I lack motivation because I'm so tired, every task is overwhelming. Then there's the the panic attacks. All day I was weak and felt faint I could barely grocery shop. Last night I was light headed and would feel like my eyes were about to black out and I'd faint, my chest started feeling uncomfortable, my arm was tingling and started feeling numb, I panicked and thought I was about to die then after what seemed eternity it went away. My right hand is tingly and shaking and when I take the pills "they take me out" is the phrase I use which means I just want to be in bed. I have a long commute and I get so dizzy and drowsy driving. I just want to live again, I'm tired if feeling this way. I'm not going to work today and will call my dr again. | F | 32 | 10 days 10mg | 6/23/2014 | 5 | High blood pressure | None, I read all the reviews and was hesitant, this prescription had not only helped my blood pressure but has no side effects what so ever in my case. I read about a lot of body aches and cramps, but have been drinking lots of water and eating high potassium foods, so no headaches, no cramping, no feeling of tiredness either. | F | 39 | 2 weeks 5mg | 6/13/2014 | 1 | Hypertension | Fatigue, constipation, general malaise, racing pulse. | Tried this drug because Bystolic gave me a very slow pulse, and I thought it was making me tired. I will look for more natural ways to control BP because I've had too much trouble with prescription drugs. In the meantime, I'll go back to Bystolic. | F | 65 | 7 days 5 1X day | 6/11/2014 | 1 | hypertension | Have had mildly high bp 130/90 for several years. I was given prescription for 5mg norvasc. After about two months of taking this regularly i developed papitations, skipped beats, anxiety, ankle swelling, and i was so dizzy sometimes i had to just lay down. Went back to the doc he said i had anxiety gave me prozac. Everytime my heart would flutter it would send me panicking. I actually felt worse so I went back and asked to lower my norvasc dose. It was a huge difference. In four days i felt so much better it was crazy. Yeah this med lowered my bp to where it should but its not worth the side effects. I'm currently weaning off this and will be working on eating better and exercising instead. | F | 28 | 4 months 5mg | 5/31/2014 | 2 | high blood pressure | At first chest tightness and tingling in legs, agitation, overly excited,not relaxing. if late taking dose felt weird but hard to explain! Weight loss (good). After a while on this med I have painful knees hips arm joints lower back pain. I cant get off the floor for the pain it causes. Arms and hands tingling in bed.shoulders aching. General weakness. Leg weakness. Agitation. Foggy brain. Off balance when walking. Hot then cold during the night (not caused by menopause).. diagnosed as 'idiopathic blood pressure'only goes up with stress, fluid retention and pigging out on carbs as I am a type 2 diabetic diet controlled. Dr now weaning me off ('Norvasc') only positive from the meds was I didnt gain anymore weight! | F | 58 | 8 months 5 mg x1 | 5/6/2014 | 2 | Hypertension | Rebound hypertension, panic/stress, insomnia, foggy thinking | Has quite a few side effects. Most noticeable are substantial increase in panic/stress which is quite debilitating at times, a very salty taste in my mouth after taking the medication. My hypertension seems to rebound quite rapidly if I don't take the medication within 18-24 hours after last dose(Normal blood pressure for me is 130/82 without medication, and have seen spikes with the amlodipine up to 150/95). Am going to get in touch with my doctor to try a different medication. Perhaps someone can use this medication as a "quick-fix" short-term solution (perhaps one day if blood pressure is high) for HBP, but does not appear very useful as a long-term medication. | M | 39 | 7 days 5mg 1X day | 4/29/2014 |