COREG Reviews (CARVEDILOL)Average Rating: 2.8 (348 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare COREG with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR COREG | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Tachycardia | Palpitations, foggy head, lethargic feeling, depression, constant anxiety, tightness in chest, low sex drive | I was given this beta blocker due to unexplained episodes of tachycardia I was having at night time. I was prescribed 12.5 mg 2x a day, but only took half the dosage. I've been feeling terrible for the last year and a half and had no idea why. I now believe it was this medicine. I have not taken this medicine in 2 days and I already feel better. Definitely worth doing your research on... | F | 29 | 1 years 12.5mg | 1/24/2016 | 3 | High blood pressure | I have pain in neck and chest pain and anxious | F | 47 | 1 years 6.25@2 | 10/26/2015 | 4 | Peripartum Cardiomyopathy | Tired Sleepy Hair shedding Vision? | Overall, this drug for me, far helped me MORE than the side effects hampered me! In May 2014, I was rushed to the ER having threatened a stroke and going into heart failure, and one week prior to this, terrible thigh and ankle swelling like I had NEVER seen before! I found that after having my son, 2008, that I had been slowly developing heart failure. My heart just could not keep up with my regular, sedentary, office all day lifestyle. Long story short, I had a 15% ejection fraction rate, they believe I had a mini stroke, as those symptoms quickly dissipated once I was on IV Lasix, and losing all that fluid! Needless to say, I am over a year out on this thing, my current EFR is now a wonderful 66% and I feel so much better! I started this journey on about 9 different meds, whereas I hadn't had to take a single prescription in my life! Now I am on only 3 of those meds and while I still am not 100% activity level wise, I am thankful for my LIFE and Coreg! Once I got "used" to the symptoms, and learned "how" to take my meds, things were more bearable! | F | 1 years 12.5 2X day | 8/7/2015 | 1 | Cholesterol | 1) Erectile Dysfunction 2) Muscle cramps, while exercising 3) Gout-like symptoms 4) Muscle soreness, at rest 5) Diminished sex drive | People - don't fall for the Big Pharma Cholesterol Lie. For many years, it has been widely known cholesterol is also considered a male's "manhood." Testosterone is derived from serum cholesterol produced by the liver to the testes. While on Coreg - erections were simply non-existent. I also could not walk, due to painful, Gout-like symptoms. Riding my bicycle became a painful event. I had to STOP. I know two men who outlived dozens of their physicians, telling them both to take Statins and permanently cease eating shellfish, meat and eggs. Ignoring their doctors.....both unrelated men still naturally died in their nineties...even while showing cholesterol levels above 300! Is it genes or coincidence? | 51 | 1 years 20MG 1X day | 6/15/2015 | 1 | Hypertension | Irregular heartbeat, extreme fatigue, fainting spells. Do NOT take this drug if you are taking Paxil or another SSRI type antidepressant without checking for drug interactions first. Most doctors do NOT know about this interaction. | M | 61 | 10 days 3.125 1X day | 5/4/2015 | 2 | following heart attack/stints | Stay cold, chest pain, DRY COUGH and GAS, nauseated sometimes. Chest pain make it seem like another heart attack | F | 48 | 10 months 3.125 | 4/18/2015 | 2 | broken heart syndrome | Headache consistent, nausea, cp, sleep interruption, Left arm pain. . Feel worse than I ever felt. | If symptoms don't subside in month taking chances and taking myself off. Feel fine when I don't take it. | F | 65 | 3 weeks 20 mg tota | 3/4/2015 | 4 | blood presser | Stomah problems direera. Dizzy headed all the time. | F | 55 | 2 days 25mg | 2/6/2015 | 4 | heart congestion | I'm up and down on weight and never knew why. My hair sheds so bad and my sex drive is low. I'm always cold!!!! Lazy, lazy. I'm about to wing myself slowly off this drug. | F | 46 | 8 years 12.5 | 1/26/2015 | 1 | High blood pressure | After 5 by-passes in 2007, I was placed on another beta blocker called Toprol which put 45 lbs on me in 10 months. After a lower back operation in 2013, three months later my blood pressure went up to 205/85. Due this peak rise, I was placed on another beta blocker called Coreg/Carvedilol. I experienced such high nausea and dizziness that some days I could not even get out of bed for days. Finally after 10 months, my doctors took me off of this beta blocker after my health complaints and gaining another 10 lbs. The sad truth is I am still having the nausea and dizziness plus now aching in my joints especially in my feet. On many days, I do not think I am going to make it to the next. I am now going to the gym five times a week due to the workout, especially the treadmill, making me feel better. My doctors have now thrown their hands up and state they are lost and not sure what is causing my nausea and dizziness. If you go to www.google and type "beta blocker kills 800,000 | M | 70 | 13 months 3.25mg 2X day | 1/9/2015 | 2 | takotsubo | side effects I had: dizziness, hair loss, lack of energy, couldn't walk fast up a hill, vision getting blurry, feeling of not being alert. | My DR said I need it for the rest of my life, but newest studies say there is no study that proves you need long term drug therapy after the takotsubo is healed. So, I am weaning myself off it very slowly and feel better already. | F | 65 | 20 months 25 mg 2X day | 11/9/2014 | 1 | massive heart attack | Chest pain and felt horrible 30 minutes after taking it... | F | 1 days | 10/27/2014 | 1 | takosubo | Feeling dizzy and heart flutters, tried telling my cardiologist I couldn't take this med and said I could die without it. Even though there are no deaths from broken heart syndrome!!! This is my second one and will be seeing a new cardiologist. Don't take this drug! | F | 58 | 8 days 3.125 | 9/1/2014 | 5 | carvedolil | couldn't function while taking the drug and after going off drug my pulse rate is staying at 88 - 91 Why and long will this last? | F | 73 | 3 months 3.2 | 8/11/2014 | 1 | CHF / Viral Cardiomyopathy | Severe breathing problems, facial swelling, angioedema, daily general ill feeling, weight gain | I told my cardiologist about my side effects and they told me it was my lisinopril. Upped my dose of Coreg and took me off BP med. I have COPD/Asthma. Hospitalized numerous times for COPD flare ups but I know it's the coreg. Seeing ENT dr and having allergy tests. Cardiologist gave them permission to stop my Coreg 7 days prior to tests. No tapering off or titrating down, just to suddenly stop. I'm afraid to stop without a taper. More dangerous than the allergic reaction I have been suffering from since December of 2013. Also put on high doses of prednisone for breathing for last eight months and suddenly stopped without a taper. I'm extremely ill and no one seems to be listening except ENT. 10% EF June 2013 now 55% | F | 50 | 13 months 12.5 mg 2X day | 7/20/2014 | 1 | my mom takes it . She's very fatigu | Yes just finding out my mom is very fatigue. When she takes it in the morning and night she is sleeping like a drug addiction.Her legs are swollen also.But not sure if it's coming from med. | F | 79 | 2 years | 5/15/2014 | 3 | Takotsubo Syndrome (cardiomyopathy) | I suffered from stress induced cardiomyopathy on 2-6-14 and had an estimated EF 20-25%, prescribed 3.125 for 2 weeks with an increase to 6.5 for 5 weeks. The side effects required me to decrease to 3.125. Dr. says EKG looks better and indications are that I'm improving. He's not repeating the echo for 3 mo. I'm helping all I can with a healthy diet and walking 2x daily for exercise. The side effects that affect me the most are extreme fatigue and sleepiness. I just decreased to the original 3.125 three days ago and am still having the side effects. Dr. would like to leave me on Coreg but says he can change it if it just doesn't work for me. I'm going into my 8th week of dealing with this syndrome and medication. Not able to work at this time, largely due to fatigue and stress. | F | 56 | 7 weeks 6.5 2X day | 3/30/2014 | 3 | Hypertension | Initially, nausea and anxiety. These passed after a few weeks. But recently began to experience drowsiness, fatigue, and mental fog, every day. I started taking Avapro instead of Coreg, and these side effects disappeared immediately. This is typical for me: Meds work OK in the beginning, but side effects develop gradually. Sometimes they develop so slowly that you don't realize it's the meds causing the problem. | At this dose, it helped BP moderately, but lowered heart rate to 50. Did not control anxiety or palpitations. Could not increase dose because of heart rate and other side effects. This is the second beta blocker I've tried, and had to stop because of low heart rate and/or other side effects. I'm now taking Amlodipine and Avapro, and this combo seems to be working OK for now. | M | 62 | 9 months 3.125 2X day | 3/22/2014 | 1 | internal physician | Headache,giddy,blurred vision,loss hearing,fainting,face:tingling& twitching,arms-shoulder-body:pins & flushing &tingling,feeling cold and body shakiness,chest:sharp pain at heart area,tigthness,heavy sensation,palpitation,heart beat will stop1-3second and get faint blackout,stuffy nose,shortage and difficulty of breath,eyes swelling and pain from internal,nausea,constipation,joint pain and swelling:shoulder,elbow,knees,ankles,feets cant walk 1 year cant going to work,throat:dry,tightness,itchy,muscle pain,i had taken all group of hypertension medicine but all the side effect and allergic reaction are same,can someone tell me why my body cant accept this medicine??? | Almost all group medicine i had been try,but cant accept the side effect and allergic reaction:beta blocker,ace inhibitor,angiotensin receptor blocker,calcium channel blocker,alpha blocker,alpha beta blocker,physioten all of this group cause me suffer alot no life,cant work coz of all joint paint will be faint,anxiety attack coz of palpitation1-2hours everyday, i had done full mri scan from head to leg result was good,kidney test,liver scan,heart scan,artey test.all i get good result,Doctor thinking im nuts,my father taken amlodipine 10mg no side effect,why my body cant accept this medicine....any internal physician or cardiologist here pls help me?,18 types medicine i had taken all allergic and sid2 effect are same,i also try tradisional chinese medicine cant work, | M | 35 | 3 weeks 1X day | 2/25/2014 | 2 | Hypertension | Dizziness low libido severe aches in joints want to stop taking it but afraid due to heart attack warning if stop med | M | 50 | 7 months 50mg | 1/25/2014 |