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| 1 | High Blood Pressure | Severe Joint Pain, headache, sleep disorder, anxiety attacks, loss of libido, hair loss, rash, sun intolerance, wait gain (over 60 pounds), nervousness, dizziness, lack of energy, wrist pain, blood circulation problem, numbness | Please share you story if you tied or completely stopped Blood Pressure medication Diovan (SEND US AN EMAIL). My husband is taking Diovan 160/12,5 mg. My husband is a very health oriented and dedicated person. Since he became raw vegan (eats only raw veggies, fruits, nuts and seeds) his blood pressure dramatically & dropped naturally (it's is now 117/76 - 120/80). We do not eat any animal products, including diary and eggs, do not smoke or drink. My husband lost more that 45 pounds and feels way better than before. If he knew that RAW VEGAN life style will help him so much to become feel healthier and younger looking, he would never have needed drugs to start with. Now he knows that getting rid off toxins in your body by eating raw food can lower blood pressure as body becomes healthy. I wish we knew it 5 years ago! Now when his blood pressure naturally lower, and when he takes Diovan (he takes half of the pill now, so it's makes it a dose of 80/6,5) he feels horrible and his blood pressure drops as low as 106/68 (used to be 180..). Our doctor insists on impossibility of stopping BP medication. But I googled and saw that IT IS possible after 6 months of stable BP!!!! I googled and found horrible side effects of Diovan (severe muscle cramps, headaches, depression, anxiety, joint pain, rash, hair loss, libido loss, low energy level etc), my husband experienced all of them. We found this great website and I see that plenty of people who used this drug and experienced t | M | 50 | 5 years 160/12,5 1X day | 2/13/2010 | 1 | High blood pressure | Dry cough so bad I had to start using pads again or I would wet my pants. Pain in chest, joint pain, head ache, vivid nightmares, depression, waking up at night. | I started out with another bp medicine I can't remember the name & start a dry cough a few days into it I did not connect it with the bp meds, the medicine did not help with my bp so I talked to my Dr. so she said she would change me to Diovan, she mentioned that the first medication had a dry cough side effect anyway so that's when I knew I got the dry cough from the bp med. I stopped taking the 1st bp med and my dry cough stopped. I started taking the Diovan and within a week the dry cough started again. I am so miserable I can't do anything I feel so depressed I can't get out of bed on the weekends and force myself to work, have headaches & joint pains and can't sleep on my right side because of pain in my right lung and cough the whole time. The only way I can get any sleep is on my left side with two pillows holding up my arem. I actually felt like I would like to kill myself a few times. I told my Dr. & she said to stop taking the Diovan. It has now been a week but I am still coughing & tired & in pain. She wants me to start taking Norvasc 10mg for the bp but I am waiting until my cough goes away. Now I will look up that bp med and see what people have to say about it. This is a catch 22 you are screwed if you don't take the meds & screwed if you do. | F | 61 | 1 months 1X day | 2/8/2010 | 1 | HBP | Major weight gain, extreme bloating, I had tinnitus before taking diovan but now it is worse than ever, itching all over, droopy eyes, swollen fingers and feet, wrist and ankle pain, I feel horrible and it all started with taking this medication, cough, extremely dry throat, extreme fatigue | Digestive problems, had endoscoppy, ultrasound, CAT scan of the abdomen, just want off of this medication, doctors look at me like I am hypochondriac, I feell terrible and no one can tell me why | F | 52 | 2 years 160 2X day | 2/8/2010 | 1 | HBP | Two very strange infections that won't go away. Confusion. Hard to think. Low back pain. Ears ringing. Loss of libido. Tremors. Neck pain. | At first it was great but a week in some of the changes started. BP normally 145-150/90-95 but doctor says to high. I run two miles a day (for life) or bike 70 minutes. Heart doc says my cardio system is great except for BP. I am stopping Diovan this morning. Actually, cut in half for a week. See if infection clears up. Have tried 10 BP meds and got all adverse reactions and side effects. Ten year fight to control elevated BP. Not worth it. I will continue to run and ride my bike. Oh, and watch out for enalipril. It is a real bad med. | M | 59 | 45 days 80 1X day | 2/5/2010 | 1 | Blood Pressure | After taking for two days, I noticed a very bad rash on my left breast in which I had cancer two years ago. Of course, you can imagine my concern so off to the doctor I go this morning. I am also experiencing extreme vertigo - can barely lift my head. This is a terrible drug. Will report back later with report from my oncologist. This drug was a replacement for a drug (Benicar) I was taking which is no longer being manufactured. | M | 67 | 2 days | 1/27/2010 | 1 | hi blood pressure | Dry mouth, insomnia,upper respitory infection (the cough associated with this seemed to last forever over 30 days) insomnia caused hallucinations(Seeing things that were not there)and paranoia | The side effects started immediately and were very scary. I only took this medication for two weeks, only because thats how long it took me to figure out what was causing the haallucinations and paranoia. p.s. i was taking the diovan 320mg in conjuction with 3 other blood pressure medications | F | 45 | 14 days | 1/21/2010 | 1 | High Blood Pressure | Muscle pain, back pain, cold feet, Hacking up flem | Unfortunately for me most drugs are problematic, It seems that i am the 1 percent that always gets the side effects. All drugs have benefits and problems, I have tried almost all the bp drugs with varing degrees of side effects. My advice to everyone is no one knows your body better than you if you do not feel right it is probably caused by the drug, If you do not have a heart problem stopping bp drugs will not kill you until you find out if it is the problem. you are you own boss, Dr will always say the side effects are rare, Do not start a new drug until the effects from the old one are gone. It took me years to figure this out. I hope this helps | M | 52 | 2 weeks | 1/19/2010 | 1 | high blood pressure | i only took 3 pills. each day symptoms of diarrhea and horrible stomach pain got worse. I stopped taking it. i will never take this type of medicine again! | F | 66 | 3 days | 1/11/2010 | 1 | high bloood pressure | Dizziness, lightheadedness, severe stomach pain, diarrhea, flu-like symptoms, tired | M | 92 | 4 weeks | 1/7/2010 | 1 | HBP | extreme back pain and upper leg pain. had to go to the emergency room. | i think this is a dangerous drug. i wish i had read this site before taking this stuff. | F | 54 | 26 days | 12/29/2009 | 2 | HBP | LOSS OF LABIDO; ED; SUDDEN DARK SPOTS IN VISUAL FIELD, LACK OF ENERGY, LACK OF INTEREST, LACK OF CONCENTRATION, JOINT PAIN | This is crap DRUG !! I have reviewed almost 500 reviews and all the comments in this database. Try another drug. FDA should take it off the shelf. | M | 50 | 9 months | 12/25/2009 | 1 | high bp | I was put on Diovan for elevated bp. | I was in a constant fog and experienced constant dizziness. It began in interfere with my ability to function in daily life and work. Other side effects that were inconvenient but not deal breakers were ringing in my ears and tingling hands and feet. I switched to Atacand and experienced the same side effects. My Dr. has now ruled out the ARB's for me and switched me to a beta blocker. I've been taking Bystolic for three days. This is the closest that I've felt to "normal" since starting bp meds just over 2 months ago. | F | 35 | 2 months | 12/12/2009 | 5 | hypertension/diabetes | I've taken 80mg diovan for 8 years, no noticeable side effects. | My doctor prescribed a BP pill after I'd had several high readings of 130/95+. I have type 1 diabetes and he said that ACE Inhibitors, such as Diovan, were successfully eliminating complications from diabetes in many patients. That convinced me to start taking yet another medication. The first BP pill he put me on caused me to cough, so he switched me to 80mg Diovan and I haven't had any problems since, plus my BP is now regularly 110/70. I'm sorry to hear others are struggling, the good news is there are a lot of BP pills out there so if one causes you problems there are always options. | F | 45 | 8 years | 12/7/2009 | 4 | hypertension | The 80 mg has worked fine for me with no side effects except occasional vivid dreams. My BP has stabilized at 140/90 and for me that is just fine. I don't accept that one set of numbers is 'normal' for everybody. | M | 69 | 1 years | 11/23/2009 | 3 | High blood pressure | Have been taking diovan for about six years and was satisfied that it dropped my blood pressure. Started having heart flutters and went to Doctor and he took me off this med. Had been having lots of joint problems and real bad pain in the heel of my foot, also starting having consistant erectile disfunction thought was due to age but at 45 really didn't understand why. Long story short Doctor put me on 5mg nebivolol and within one week my joints and heel of my foot started feeling better, also guess what.......my erectile problem became less frequent and now that Ive been on new meds about 3 weeks not having any erectile problems. Wife very happy and so am I. | Be very cautious of this drug. They say only 1% of men have erectile disfuntion from this drug, guess I was the 1% | M | 46 | 6 years | 11/10/2009 | 3 | hbp | pain on left side of head ,dizziness ,cant sleep once i wake up,feel like passing out ,tired after 12 noon | M | 50 | 9 months | 11/10/2009 | 2 | lower blood pressure | I was so tired and all my joints hurting and alot of coughing. I lowered my blood pressure but the side effects were too much. I am stopping it. | F | 38 | 21 days | 11/3/2009 | 3 | HBP | I started taking Diovan about a year ago after the beta blocker I was taking really wasn't working well enough. The Dr. prescribed Diovan 160 mg, and I do have to say that it helped lower my blood pressure without major side effects... for almost a year. After that time, I started experiencing side effect that many others are listing. I reduced the dose to 80 mg myself, and immediately noticed improvement in the side effects. I really have concentrated on exercise and trying to watch what I eat as well. I actually hope that I can come off of the meds completely. I've recently picked up a book called Ultra Metabolism (for the pupose of weight loss), but I am optimistic that it will also help in the management of blood pressure as well. I hope to comment further on that, but I am only in my 1st week of the new eating plan; likewise, I have only recently reduced the dosage of the meds I am taking. | Reading some of these comments is scary - scary enough to want to go off the medication to avoid these side effects. Doing so at the sake of increased blood pressure can do irreversible harm to your body - even death. Be careful, educate yourself, and if you feel like your Dr. isn't helping... change doctors. | F | 41 | 1 days | 11/2/2009 | 1 | High blood pressure | Very severe Joint pain,fatigue,have been on this for a year and DR keeps upping dose,now on 160MG & 80MG daily and side effects just getting worse | Spoke to Dr who said joint pain very rare with this drug, and dismissed this as cause of pain.Have stopped taking this med today and will monitor BP myself!! | M | 40 | 365 days | 10/28/2009 | 2 | B/P was 170/110. Been on 80mg Diovan for a month now and have lowered BP to 130/90. Side effects are starting to kick in. Mouth and lips have tingling sensation, finger tips tingle, dizzy and lightheaded. Going to speak with my Doc about other options. Man my quality of life is terrible right now, I would rather suffer from high BP then be on this drug. | There has got to be something better. | M | 44 | 30 days | 10/14/2009 |