NORVASC Reviews (AMLODIPINE BESYLATE)Average Rating: 2.1 (787 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare NORVASC with similar:
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| 1 | High blood pressure | In addition to the frequently-described swelling of the lower legs, dizziness, and fatigue, I became severely depressed, beginning about 6-8 months after I started taking it. | The depression and other emotional effects influenced my behavior at work. After 11 years as a police department employee (not a sworn officer) I made verbal threats of violence to a group of children who were misbehaving. I was suspended and eventually offered the choice of resigning or being fired. Prosecutor dismissed my claims of drug influence and charged me with a felony (Terroristic Threats), which was pled down to a misdemeanor assault. I became more depressed and suicidal after the incident, and decided to stop taking all meds in hopes my BP would spike and I'd have a fatal attack of some sort. Within 48 hours I felt wonderful -- Even knowing I was going to lose my job and be charged criminally! Naturally, my cardiologist would only admit the emotional problems MAY have been caused by the medications. Now I can't get a job because of my criminal conviction, and am trying to sell my house (after cashing in my IRA, etc.) If you experience any emotional changes, insist that your | M | 57 | 1 years | 10/29/2008 | 4 | high blood pressure | I have been taking Norvasc since 1995. It has kept my blood pressure normal all this time. I have had weight gain over the years and have tried to get the weight off, but it is very difficult. I do believe the Norvasc is partially responsible for this. I just started a new bottle and now my lower legs and feet have swelled up with fluid. This happened to me in the past once. | I am giving the new bottle of pills a chance for the next week. If I am still having this swelling, I will see my internist to have him check me out and I may have to go on another bp medicine as I cannot deal with this. I already have bad knees and this makes it all the more difficult to walk. I have read some of the other reactions people have had, and I also have muscle weekness, tiredness, muscle pain and muscle twitching. These can also be signs of other medical conditions, however now I am wondering if it has been the Norvasc all along. Don't know what I would take instead as I am allergic to ACE inhibitors. | F | 59 | 13 years | 10/26/2008 | 2 | M | 56 | 14 days | 10/21/2008 | 1 | High Blood Pressure | Where do I start? Norvasc needs to be taken off the market. It did more harm than good. I have fibromyalgia and was taking Norvasc for my high blood pressure. Within 2 weeks my ankles and feet started to swell and them my knees, legs, and shoulder and arm pain began. I was in so much pain, I stayed in bed taking pain meds, because my doctor thought it was due to my fibromyalgia. The longer I took Norvasc, the worse my condition became. I experienced insomnia, difficulty swallowing, blurred vision, headaches, dry mouth and thurst, depression, weakness, bloated, I gained 25 pounds, and I had no motivation due to always feeling bad. Not to mention I could hardly walk. I felt 110 years old. I was depressed from awakening to pain every single day. I told my boyfriend that something was terribly wrong with my health and that I thought that I was slowly dying, and I truly beleived it. I stopped taking Norvasc for 2 weeks because I ran out, and was afraid that it might be the cause of my | DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG, IT IS DEBILITATING AND PLEASE TELL ANYONE YOU KNOW TO CONSULT THEIR DOCTOS IF THEY START TO EXPERIENCE ANY OF THE SYMPTOMS ABOVE. | F | 50 | 1 years | 10/19/2008 | 1 | hypertension | My feet were really swollen and I had really bad dreams, but then it took a turn for the worse. SEVERE pain in left thigh area, to the point that I could not WALK. I had unbearable pain shooting through my thigh (sitting, standing, walking, even lying down)! It felt as if the muscle in my thigh had become so weak it could not hold me up, so when I would stand up my leg would collapse. I was only on the medication 26 DAYS! It progressively got worse...I started out with a limp, then dragging my leg, then literally feeling like I wanted to crawl! As soon as I realized that this was probably a side affect from the medicine I immediately stopped taking it and saw my new Physician(who had not perscribed this, and she expressed she never would have because she saw similar side affects in her other patients.) PLEASE! PLEASE! DO NOT TAKE THIS MEDICATION! | F | 44 | 26 days | 10/2/2008 | 1 | hypertension | It's an awful medicine. It makes your calves swell and legs heavy.I have awful nightmares,sob,sleeplessness,fatigue.My heart sometimes skips beats. It is a nightmare medicine. Kathy | F | 56 | 6 months | 10/2/2008 | 1 | High Blood Pressure | Swollen feet, ankles and lower legs. Eczema. Insomnia. Extreme fatigue. Cloudy thinking. | I am 70 years old and have never had eczema. In April, my doctor increased my norvasc dosage from 5 to 10. The druggist also switched me to the generic. That's when I developed the eczema although it took until 3 weeks ago for me to get a diagnosis. I've been to an allergist and a dermatologist. This web site has saved me from thinking I'm going crazy. It is such a relief to see that there are other people who are having the same problems as me from this medicine. I have an appointment this Monday and I am telling my internist doctor I do not want to take this drug. In the meantime, I'm going back to the 5 dosage until Monday. I had asked him to switch me before due to the swelling and his response was the swelling wasn't that bad and that the norvasc was doing such a good job controlling my high blood pressure. I'm not a doctor but does it make any sense that I'm also on a diuretic to reduce my water retention and yet I'm being kept on norvasc which is causing me to have ede | F | 70 | 2 years | 9/13/2008 | 1 | H,B,P, | Heart palpations, edma,skin rash,weight gain,severe leg pain. | I would not recomend norvasc to anyone.I did not realize just how much it was hurting me until the Dr.took me off it.I would never take it again. | F | 64 | 4 years | 9/5/2008 | 2 | High blood pressure (130/90) | Depression, low energy, low motivation, no sex drive. | I stopped taking 5mg Amlodipine (generic Norvasc) after only 2wks due to a sudden onset of depression and a near complete lack of motivation to do anything. I'm very active (riding bike approx 100mi/wk) but I'd lost interest in anything requiring energy or thinking. Symptoms started within several days of my first Amlodipine dose, but it took me two weeks to put 2+2 together. Within a week after stopping the medication I'm feeling normal again. Who knows? - I don't trust it, so I've got a call into my doc to get a different med. (I'd previously been on 20mg Lisinopril and had switched off that due to lowered energy and motivation.) | M | 53 | 2 weeks | 8/26/2008 | 1 | high blood pressure | I did not take it very long, maybe a week. I had just had a kidney transplant and my blood pressure started rising again. My doctor gave me Norvasc and I started retaining fluids.... this is not what a kidney transplant patient wants!!!! I have had to start taking low doses of Lasix daily to keep the fluids off now. I was not retaining fluids after the transplant until I took the Norvasc! | F | 36 | 6 days | 8/24/2008 | 1 | High Blood Pressure | Severe ankle, feet and leg swelling with pitting edema; face bright red; constipation; dry mouth; itchy skin; hot flashes; weight gain, feeling bloated and swollen | I was told to switch BP meds after adult onset asthma as the meds I was on is known to cause a cough. I had been on the same meds for 2 years+ without problems. I have actually thought I was going crazy...face constantly red, and then a couple of months ago I finally looked closely at my legs and feet which were achy. The swelling is alarming. I would not recommend this medicine without constant physician follow-up. | F | 51 | 6 months | 8/23/2008 | 1 | High bp | was only taking 5 mg every night at bed for a few weeks...started getting sores on arms and legs, all various sizes, blisters that would weep constantly,more blisters near welts that seemed to be healing,patches now look like burns, itchy, aches in elbows and knees, like an arthritis pain, shaky vision, dizziness, nausea, insomnnia, heart palpitations, shaking hands... | I don't like it!!I would rather get rid of this terrible rash and try some stress-relieving techniques instead to lower my dangerously high blood pressure before starting a new product. I have enough health problems that I didn't need this too... | F | 41 | 3 weeks | 8/19/2008 | 4 | High Blood Pressure | M | 1 years | 8/12/2008 | 4 | hypertension | swollen feet and ankles, esczema type itching on back of hands and forearms, distended stomach, mild depression (whether this is the drug, or not, i cannot be sure). | i am using amlodipine which, i believe, is the generic version. it lowered my bp from 150/100 to about 120/80 on a 10mg tab once a day together with 5 mg tab of hydrochlorithiazide. i give amlodipine a 4 because it helped with the bp... but i am not at all happy with the side effects. am gearing up for a diet and exercise regimin to see if i can knock the dosage down or cut it completely. | M | 54 | 6 months | 8/10/2008 | 3 | HBP | swollen feet, ankles, and calves. | Docs finally put me on this after 6 years of being unable to control HBP. Was 180/130. Norvasc has controlled it well, but now the swelling is ridiculous. | F | 29 | 3 years | 8/10/2008 | 2 | High Blood Pressure | I have been experiencing extreme leg pain and foot swelling (not ankles only). My legs feel stiff and I shuffle more than walk--it has become much worse over the past few weeks. There have been several episodes of broken capillaries in my lower legs. I have been on Norvasc for years and never associated it to my side effects. I cannot climb stairs without great difficulty as my feet won't cooperate. I am discontinuing this drug TODAY and will see my Dr to discuss other options but NEVER NORVASC, NEVER again! | I feel like I lost many years of good health. Now maybe some of the weight I also gained will be shed--many diets and nutrition techniques just didn't work and the weight just kept increasing. I feel so bloated most of the time. | F | 58 | 9 years | 8/6/2008 | 2 | High Blood Pressure | Within 30 minutes of taking the first pill, I started to experience joint pain. First a finger joint, soon spread to elbows, etc. Pain was excruciating. | Dr. said joint pain was not a side effect of this med. I said, no way could I live with this pain all the time. I can't take this stuff. | F | 60 | 1 days | 8/2/2008 | 1 | HIGH BP | I'VE BEEN TAKING THIS SINCE 2003 FOR HIGH BP IN APRIL 2006 THEY SWITCHED FROM NORVASC TO GENERIC AMLODIPINE. SYMPTOMS STARTED SLOWLY, BUT GOT WORSE. I DEVELOPED SEVERE EDEMA OF THE ANKLES AND FEET. IT WAS SO PAINFUL I COULD BARELY WALK. I HAD INSOMNIA & THE LIST GOES ON. AFTER AN ONLINE SEARCH I TOLD MY DR I THOUGHT AMLODIPINE WAS CAUSING MY EDEMA, HE CUT IT FROM 10MG TO 5 MG.1 WEEK LATER WENT TO THE ER FOR NAUSEA, AND THEY DISCOVERED IRREGULAR HEARTBEAT.WHICH IS A KNOWN SYMPTOM OF NORVASC.30 DAYS LATER,STILL HAVE THE IRREGULAR HEARTBEAT, BUT EDEMA & INSOMNIA ARE GONE. I CAN WALK AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 2 YEARS. THEY ARE DOING TESTS ON ME TO TRY AND GET MY HEARTBEAT IN CHECK. SO FAR THEY HAVE NOT ADMITTED IT MIGHT BE DUE TO THE MEDICATION!! SINCE I NEVER HAD IT BEFORE, AND DIDN'T GET IT UNTIL I CUT THE DOSAGE, I AM CONVINCED IT IS FROM THIS DRUG. NOW I AM REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT MY HEART, A POSSIBLE STROKE, OR HEART ATTACK. . I DON'T WANT TO DIE OF THESE HEART PROBLEMS. I | THIS IS A TERRIBLE DRUG. I REMEMBER THE DRUG REPS COMMING IN TO THE DR/S OFFICE PUSHING THIS DRUG. IT IS A SHAME MORE TESTING ISN'T DONE. THIS CAUSES SO MANY PROBLEMS, AS ALL OF THE FOLKS HERE HAVE MENTIONED. IS THERE NNOTHING US PATIENTS CAN DO ABOUT THIS SEEMINGLY LACK OF CARE BY THE BIG DRUG COMPANIES? PLEASE, I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM ANYONE WHO DEVELOPED ARTERIAL FIBULATION (IRREGULAR HEARTBEAT) FROM THIS DRUG, AND WHAT HAPPENED AS A RESULT. | M | 66 | 6 years | 7/31/2008 | 2 | high blood pressure | flushing, weight gain, tired all the time, sleeplessness,and when I asked my doctor can this be a side effect he looked at me like I had two heads!! | F | 49 | 2 years | 7/29/2008 | 5 | hypertension | minor ankle swelling | M | 50 | 6 months | 7/14/2008 |