LOTREL Reviews (AMLODIPINE BESYLATE; BENAZEPRIL HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 2.5 (412 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare LOTREL with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LOTREL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | High Blood pressure | Extreme pain in shoulder blade, shoulder and arm. Pain was deblitating. It started 2 weeks after starting Lotrel and ended 2 weeks after I stopped taking it. In the meantime, tests ruled out any other cause for pain. | M | 59 | 45 days | 3/11/2008 | 1 | High Blood Pressure | DO NOT TAKE THIS ! IT IS DANGEROUS !! I COLLAPSED AT WORK AND WAS UNABLE TO MOVE MY LEGS. THIS WAS AFTER 5 DAYS ON MED. I RECOVERED IN 2 DAYS. DR. TOOK ME OFF OF IT AND PUT ME ON AVELIDE. MUCH BETTER ! | BEWARE OF SIDE EFFECTS !!! | M | 67 | 5 days | 3/5/2008 | 1 | High Blood Pres. | Depression, a feeling of dread, big toes are numb, hair thinning, extremely nagging coughing at night, tired feeling, some loss of appetite, back pain, but my shoulder joints feel better. THE MOST ALARMING side effect was with my vision. I returned to my Dr., got a coratid[sp] scan to be sure I was not having a stroke. While waiting on the scan results, I went to my eye doctor. My eye nerves and blood supply are fine. Then the carotid scan came back clear so I went back to the eye doctor. He just gave me a new perscription and said he was alarmed at the loss of vision I had in such a short time. Every day a 2:00 pm I couldn't see well enough to do my job. I felt sure it was the Lotrel that I was taking with my lunch everyday at 1:00 pm and I told the eye doctor so. He said it was not the cause of bad vision. So I started taking it at 6 pm with dinner. Sure enough, it has been 2 weeks and my eyes don't blur during my work day. This entire experience has been very distressing an | I will be talking to my doctor to find another medicine to replace the Lotrel. This site was a great help in easing my mind. I'm NOT crazy and I will insist that my prescribing doctor LISTEN to me carefully this time. By the way, Lotrel did bring my blood presure into normal range. It's just not for me. | F | 58 | 60 days | 2/28/2008 | 5 | HBP | None that I can really attribute to the drug. I am routinely 130 or 120/80 from a high of 165/110 so it is doing the job. | I'm a generally upbeat person, but there may be something to the feelings of depression and lower sex drive. Also, genetically I would not be prone to hair loss yet my hair seems to be more brittle than in the past. | M | 37 | 2 years | 2/24/2008 | 5 | High Blood pressure | I have experienced no side effects at all | My BP was 160/90 it brought it down to 125/70 also the headaches I had from my high BP disappeared instantly..I feel great, I would recommend this for people to try | M | 41 | 1.5 years | 2/20/2008 | 1 | blood pressure | I have been taking Lotrel for about 1 year. Over the past couple of months I have been experiencing terrible sense of flushing and aches in my arms, legs, feet and ankles. I have been to my doctor who has drawn blood taken x-rays and performed an MRI all which came back normal. After stumbling across this website I now attribute it to LOTREL. Thanks to everyone who posted the comments. I am now going to stop taking this medication and ask for another type of medicine. | F | 33 | 1 years | 2/20/2008 | 1 | hbp | Swelling | Would not recommend!!!!!!!! | M | 32 | 16 days | 2/19/2008 | 2 | Prinz Metal Variant Angina and HBP | Worked very well at first for the first several months and then my ankles began to swell, with some rashes or tiny broken blood vessels above my sock line - about a month ago I began to get very sudden episodes of horrible fatigue...feeling like I weight 1,000 pounds...trouble breathing...vision weird. Heart tests turned out okay, eye tests turned out okay, going for a "tilt test" next week to check for sudden loss of BP but now that I am reading all of this I am stunned my doctor(s) have not tried removing me from taking thie highest dose of Lotrel you can take. Actually I am very upset. | I will be contacting my doctor to see about trying another medication or reducing this medication as I take more control of reducing my weight and getting more exercise. My HBP was never really high just around 145/90. I can't tolerate these sudden episodes. They are getting closer together, very scary, I have to pull the car over if I am driving, they are embarrasing and I feel something terrible is going to happen to me soon unless I do something about it. | F | 52 | 6 months | 2/15/2008 | 2 | high blood pressure | I have always had the cough, at night and when stressful or busy situations occur it is worse.Now I am unable to ride my motorcycle and having trouble driving in the car on the highway due to a lightheadedness, vertigo. Get hot and nauseated with anxiety when driving over 30 or 40 mph at times. I have knee and hip pain.Also have had a pain just under my right ribcage for several years.Complained to Doctor for several years, have run tests and can't figure any of it out. | Ive had enough of the side effects (not to mention sexual)and have made appt. with my doctor. Ive had the weird feelings of doom and lethargy --I thought all of this was me getting older as this occured slowly over a period of time for me. So you think its other factors not your blood pressure meds that are so common. | M | 51 | 7 days | 2/7/2008 | 5 | HBP | Felt a little tired for about 2 weeks. | BP was at 190/127, started taking 5/10 dose, 30 days later BP was at 120/80, now 105/65 and holding steady. My (almost daily) headaches are gone. | M | 35 | 7 months | 1/15/2008 | 2 | BP stayed high using lisinopril | fluid retention in fingers and joints, | more difficulty in running my 3 miles daily, exhausted quickly | M | 64 | 5 months | 1/11/2008 | 5 | HBP | None so far that I can detect short term. | Taking 5/10 at evening time to keep BP low then and over night. Athete, work out 8 to 17 hrs per week. Main issue was BP went too high during high intensity cycling efforts, and would remain higher than desirable. Norvasc (5 mg) alone helped but was not enough. So far so good. Time will tell. | 5 days | 1/7/2008 | 3 | hbp | rash and swelling, however it did bring down my bp | Why is it still on the market if so many people are having side effects? I went to Dr. got a prescription for something else. There are too many other medications out there to be hindered with these particular side effects of Lotrel | F | 56 | 1 months | 1/7/2008 | 1 | HBP | I was changed to this med two weeks ago by my new military doctor. After one week, my legs hurt on the inside of my thighs and the swelling of my feet and ankles scared both my wife and I. I also have developed a problem with shortness of breath and my wife says I breath very heavily at night to the point of distraction; like I'm having trouble breathing. Like other reviews I've read, I have a trmendous loss of energy. I'm going to get off this stuff... | M | 57 | 14 days | 1/2/2008 | 1 | High Blood Pressure | Dizzy, chest tightness, nausea | M | 42 | 2 weeks | 12/27/2007 | 5 | BPH | None | Greatest feeling as it has virtually eliminated daily headaches and I have had no evidence of repeat strokes. I now work out for an hour, 3x week and last BP reading was 95/54. | M | 61 | 4 years | 12/22/2007 | 3 | hbp | swelling and rash around ankles, weight gain, sore legs,hips,arms, my mind seems to drift off | at first the 10/20 took about 2 months to get swelling so was put on 5/20 and it was ok at least for the swelling but now it's getting bad , too. It also caused potassium level to be too high per blood test so you have to watch for that as that can be dangerous | M | 53 | 18 days | 11/21/2007 | 1 | HBP | Dizziness, blurred vision and red, itchy eyes, racing heart, HIGHER blood pressure,upset stomach, elevated tinnitus, zero energy, additional flu-like symptions...and on and on.... | Doc moved me to this drug to get off Atenolol (10+ years), The first day or two, I thought "Wow, a BP med that has no side effects!". About the third or forth day, my vision became blurry and eyes red. Heart rate at 75-80 at rest. Stomach hurt and I also had bresthlesness with minimul exersion. Stayed on it for 13 days and couldn't take it anymore. BP went from 157/82 on Atenolol to 210/103 on Lotrel. Stopped this morning, switched to Hyzaar 100/12.5 and all. or most, of the symptoms vanished. Better vision, energy, etc. BP still too high, but wil add another drug to the Hyzaar. This drug may work for some, but not for me. Good luck, my friends! | M | 61 | 13 days | 11/21/2007 | 1 | high blood pressure | Dry throat irritation. Feeling like someone was sitting on my chest. | The first day I noticed some light-headedness when I walked uphill, but I thought it would pass. The second day I was very tired. When I ran three miles, it felt like someone was sitting on my chest. I had no breath. I didn't take it today and will be calling my doc. | M | 58 | 3 days | 11/15/2007 | 3 | borderline HPB | terribly coughing at night---slight coughs during the day; slight fatigue, lowered desire for sex | It does work fast to bring BP down, however, I take it every other day because of the terrible coughing that interrupts my sleep | F | 35 | 2 months | 11/9/2007 |