ALTACE Reviews (RAMIPRIL)Average Rating: 2.6 (265 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare ALTACE with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ALTACE | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | MILD HYPERTENSION | UNEXPLAINED LOWER BACK PAIN. HEADACHES AS WELL. DISCUSSED WITH DOCTOR MANY TIMES AND HE KEPT TELLING ME IT WAS BECAUSE OF MY AGE AND "HALF THE POPULATION HAS BACK PAIN". I DECIDED TO STOP TAKING ALTACE AND WITHIN 2 DAYS BACK PAIN EASED, WITHIN 5 DAYS BACK PAIN WAS ALMOST 100% GONE. I AM CONVINCED ALTACE CAUSED MY DISCOMFORT. UNFORTUNATELY MY BP WENT UP TO 140/92 SO AM NOW TAKING ALTACE EVERY OTHER DAY TO SEE IF I CAN LOWER BP BUT AVOID PAIN. WILL BE SEEING DOCTOR TO DISCUSS AGAIN. IT DOES KEEP MY BP AROUND 125/80 SO THAT PART WORKS BUT THE BACK PAIN AND HEADACHES ARE A PROBLEM. | NO DOUBT THE DRUG WORKS BUT IS THE DISCOMFORT WORTH IT? WILL BE SEEING MY DOCTOR (WHO IS NOT OPEN MINDED TO CHANGE) AND ALSO GOING TO SEE A NATUROPATH DOCTOR WHO IS OPEN TO NATURAL MEDS AND SEE IF SHE CAN HELP. I'M FED UP WITH THE HEADACHES AND BACK PAIN. | M | 64 | 6 years 10 MG 1X day | 4/15/2013 | 2 | High Blood Pressure | Felt tired and extremely anxious. Coughing all the time. Extreme water retention (had to take a water pill). Didn't control my blood pressure at all. | Changed pharmacies and the second pharmacy didn't carry ALTACE so they switched me to RAN RAMIPRIL 5mg. (supposedly the same as ALTACE) ... and surprisingly I have had no side effects since. Plus it controlled my blood pressure!! | F | 55 | 3 months 5mg 1X day | 1/14/2013 | 2 | High blood pressure | Chest pain, unable to sleep, loss of sex drive, extreme lethargy, constant nausea, constipation, cough, sore throat and generally feeling unwell most days. Could cry, this isn't me! Finally got GP to see I'm not imagining it. Stopped today to start velsartin tomorrow but going to give my body a week to recover | F | 47 | 2 months 2.5mg | 11/29/2012 | 1 | High blood pressure | Couldn't sleep, nausea, coughing, very week, tierd, flu symptoms, stomach pain, diareah. I stopped after 2 months of hell. First doctor appointment after 2 month taking this med that could of killed me. It's been 3 days since I stopped I still feel terrible. Call the FDA and report this. Should be off market. | F | 75 | 2 months 5 mg | 8/9/2012 | 1 | to help protect my kidneys B.P. | Sore throat, dry cough, felt like I was chocking . | It has been almost a week since I stopped taking my 2.5 mg once a day Ramipril at bedtime and I am still feelin the side effects of thiis medication. DO NOT TAKE THIS MEDICATION . I am still waking up at night coughing and chocking as well as going thru this during the day at work. My mouth and throat is constantly dry . BE AWARE OF HOW YOU FEEL . | F | 45 | 2 weeks 2.5 1X day | 7/30/2012 | 3 | high blood pressure | Extremely tired and fatigued. Dizzy. No desire to do anything | F | 35 | 2 weeks 25 mg | 3/11/2012 | 1 | high blood pressure | Extreme weakness/tiredness especially in legs, dizzy nausea, also felt very depressed all this after just 4days! | Went back to doctor who said never heard of any side effects from this medication ...madness not sure what planet shes from! | F | 52 | 4 days 2.5 1X day | 10/5/2011 | 1 | high blood pressure | numbness in hands, extreme acid reflux, shoulder and neck pain, mid back pain, chest heaviness, bp unstable, abdominal pain | Only after taking this med for two weeks I began having serious stomach pains, wernt to ER due to severity. While the diagnosis was acid reflux, I was not having any problems BEFORE taking Altace. For the last two weeks the symptoms got worse and chest pain made me feel I was having a heart attack. My BP was only at 140/85 but my MD felt I needed this med. My BP jumped up to 176/110 the second week and I went to the ER cause it would not come down and the chest pain..thought It was a heart attack. This stuff sucks and there are too many side effects for it to be considered safe. People wake up and do not push aside any symptoms you are having...these may be allergic reactions. I am officially taking myself off this med as of today and will look for something more on the holistic side to see if that can help[. How in the hell does a BP med that is supposed to help made your BP go up? Doesn't sound like it is working to me. Bye Altace. Thanks for my high ER bill and my $300 copay. You truly were not worth it! | M | 38 | 4 weeks 5mg 1X day | 8/24/2011 | 1 | high blood pressure | recurrent angioadema of the neck head and abdomen, swelling of neck, dry mouth, pale mouth, shortness of breath | not so uncommon side effect of blood pressure meds. Don't let them misdiagnose you as having anxiety attacks. | F | 44 | 2 days 1X day | 6/25/2011 | 1 | heart attack | My dad took this medicine for 3-4 days. Had to take him to the ER for swelling of the neck and tongue on 5 different occasions. He stopped taking the meds after just a few days but continued to have side effects for a year and a half. Last Thursday the swelling was so fast that he didn't make it to the hospital in time. This medicine is horrible!!! I don't understand how that after a 1.5 that you could still have the side effects that finally take your life. Do NOT take this medicine!!! | HORRIBLE. DO NOT TAKE!!!! | F | 38 | 4 days 2X day | 3/15/2011 | 3 | High Blood Pressure | This medication made me choke till I gagged and wet myself steady, until I finally had to stop it because now my bladder is totally weak from choking nonstop. Now I face surgery to get my pelvic organs back where they are to be after years of coughing till I choked. | I rarely had a headache while on it. It controlled my blood pressure well. It was inexpensive. | F | 50 | 8 years 10 mg 1X day | 12/6/2010 | 1 | High blood pressure | I had terrible stomach pains withinfirst week. Eventually went to the ER because I couldn't sleep at night. ER took xrays and other tests and prescribed a pain medication. One week later, my lips started to tingle and I woke up at midnight to find my face, neck snd lips swollen. I rushed to the ER and one doctor looked at me and said, are you on ramipril/altace. He said you are having an allergic reaction (my stomach pains was also a swelling of the intestines from altace). He immediately treated my allergic reaction and I stopped taking altace. I felt better within a day, but it took several days for my face to return to normal. | Altace was prescribed to lower my BP and protect my heart and kidneys, and my doctor didn't think this was a side effect of altace. But a simple search on the internet I found that intestinal or facial swelling is rare, but does occur and can be life-threating if your airway swells shut. I returned to my original medication adalat. | M | 72 | 25 days 10 ng 1X day | 11/22/2010 | 1 | high BP | Last 5 months have had chest congestion, cough, then choking and gasping for the last 6 weeks. Stopped taking it 3 days ago on advice of lung specialist. Feel much better already. | not a good drug | M | 64 | 9 years 2.5 mg 1X day | 10/18/2010 | 2 | Diabetic on Glucophage | Severe Edema, Dry Cough, Zero Libido | After stopping Altace, the dry cough developed into a Pneumonia like lung problem. Constant cough, constant Phlegm, inability to breat | M | 54 | 2 years 2.5 mg 1X day | 10/15/2010 | 3 | blood pressure | cough,leg cramps, low lobido, chest heaviness, vission slightly blurred. did not lower BP very much : from 180/95 down to 145/90. | Cough cleared after 5 weeks. I would really like to hear from anyone who got their BP down by diet ONLY. I'm a solid medium build and have lost 14 lb but doesn't seem to lower BP. Not on anything else, Pls e-mail me if you had any success with low salt diet. I need some motivation. | M | 49 | 1 years 10mg 1X day | 7/4/2010 | 3 | Elevated Blood pressure / diebetes | There were no apparent side effects for most of the 7 years . then i began having severe dizziness problems , very dry eyes and severe muscle pain. I tried cutting back on zocor and glucophage with no success. Finally the ringing in my ears became so bad I could barely tolerate it. My Dr increased my Altace recently to 10 mg due to a increasing trend in my blood pressure. My muscle cramps and leg pains shot beyond my tolerance level and I stopped taking the drug. Cramps and muscle pain have diminished in just 3 days to nerly zero. Tinnites is still bad but I am hopeful it will subside with time. | M | 70 | 7 years 5 mg 1X day | 6/5/2010 | 3 | high bp | i'm experiencing hair loss after my dr. increased my dosage from 2 mg/day back in july 2009 to 5 mg/day beginning this past february 2010. should i be switching meds? i also get a dry, itchy cough sporadically throughout the day. | F | 41 | 2 months 5 1X day | 5/8/2010 | 3 | high blood pressure | On Tritace. Breathlessness, extreme tiredness, insomnia, a cough and feeling congested in chest like a cold but I don't have one,lack of libido and do get depressed. BP only came down with increase in diltiazem. | So glad to read others comments on side affects like mine. Will be asking cardiologist for a change. | F | 57 | 2 years 10 1X day | 3/31/2010 | 3 | Hypertension | Random dizziness/lighheadedness, chest heaviness/pain ... but by far the worst has been a 24/7 headache. Libido seems to have waned, but that might just be from the fatigue. :/ | I still have a couple of weeks until my follow-up, but have put a call into the PA to see if I should come in, quit taking it, or wait it out. I can sleep through the night without the headache if I take an Advil PM before bed ... and carry around a full bottle of Tylenol wherever I go. That can't be good. :( | F | 38 | 2 weeks 2.5mg 1X day | 3/1/2010 | 5 | high blood pressure | Been on Altace for well over 10 yrs. In the beginning I experienced cough and ticklish throat but just worked through it with throat drops. Also felt light headed but changed to taking it in the evening before bed helped get beyond this too. | F | 48 | 10 years | 1/3/2010 |