ATACAND Reviews (CANDESARTAN CILEXETIL)Average Rating: 3.1 (180 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare ATACAND with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ATACAND | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | hypertension | Except for an occasional headache, none | After a year of trying various blood pressure meds and suffering side effects from all, this has worked the best. I am taking 16 mg, and my blood pressure always tests within the normal range. | M | 43 | 7 months | 9/17/2006 | 5 | hypertension | dizziness at first, but subsided after a month. | not as strong as using accupril, which I had to give up because of annoying cough, but allows me to function within the CA driver's license requirements for high blood pressure without the side effects of many others I tried. this medication took a number of months for full effect. I can drive transport and big rigs without depth perception problems and multiple vision problems noted in other medications as well as not wanting to fall asleep. | M | 52 | 6 months | 8/25/2006 | 5 | high blood pressure | makes me pee a lot | So by the time I get to work after my long commute I feel like I'm going to bust! Seriously, this drug is excellent. No problems, and significantly improved blood pressure. | F | 46 | 3 years | 8/16/2006 | 5 | High Blood Pressure | None | Excellent drug, my blood preasure is 115/75 on 16mg. | F | 56 | 10 months | 6/6/2006 | 2 | High blood pressure | A week after I started taking 32 mg per day of atacand, I started experiencing panic attacks and anxiety. I have a happy family life, good wife and kids and no financial problems. There should be no reason for panic attacks. Panic attack usually wakes me up at 3 in the morning. It can also happen any time of the day. Felt like drowning. Hard to breath. The problem with this is that I knew that there is no reason for feeling like this. I suspected Atacand was causing this because the panic attacks started a few days after taking atacand. I take 32 mg atacand with 10 mg. norvasc. Perhaps this combination is bad for me. I told my blood press. MD about my condiion but he said that atacand will not do that. I belived him and kept on taking atacand for 1 year and 3 months while suffering the panic attacks. I asked my family MD (blood press MD a different doctor) to give me 0.5 mg ativan to combat the panic attacks (more drugs on drugs) and it did help but only when I take it. Finally (1 year | I have high blood pressure, diabetes and cholesterol problem. I take 45 mg actos, and 16 mg gluconorm and 500 mg metformin (3x daily). I also take 81 mg aspirin, 10 mg eztrol and 40 mg lipitor. Also of course with the 10 mg norvasc and 300 mg avapro. My BP is 130/85 average. | M | 55 | 15 months | 5/18/2006 | 2 | High blood pressure | Continuation... previous description got cut (too long?) I said after taking atacand for 1 year and 3 months, I had enough panic attacks (don't wanna kill myself over it) I told my BP MD to take me off atacand or I will do it myself. He then reluctantly switched me to 300 mg. avapro. VOILA! LIKE MAGIC MY PANIC ATTACKS DISAPPEARED LIKE MAGIC IMMEDIATELY! Doctors, please listen to your patients (even if only sometimes). | M | 55 | 15 months | 5/18/2006 | 5 | BP | None | Taking this to reduce BP as I am Typ 2 Diabetic. First tried Altace which gave me a persistent cough. Switched to Mavik but still coughing although less. Now on Atacand for 5 months, I have no side effects at all. | F | 53 | 5 months | 5/13/2006 | 2 | High Blood Pressure | Nausea, Vomiting. | I took the atacand for a total of 32 days. I took it because after doing research on atacand, I thought it would have the least amount of side effects for me, so I asked my doctor to precribe it. I had no side effects for the first 2 weeks, so I thought I had finally found the perfect high blood pressure medicine, since lisinopril (side effects were nausea, cough, bronchitis, asthma) and norvasc(extreme swelling that would not go away even when taking a diuretic as well) did not work for me. After the 2 weeks, I began getting nauseous after meals and in the middle of the night. This occurred at least 5 times in the last 2-3 weeks of me taking atacand. The majority of those times I would get sick almost immediately after a meal, but I had taken the atacand hours earlier. I was hoping that the medicine wasn't the culprit so I continued the medicine, but I kept getting sick. After eating dinner out one evening recently, I had to pull my car over because I got sick. I spoke with my ph | F | 42 | 32 days | 4/23/2006 | 4 | | 1/30/2006 | 5 | Hypertension | None that I noticed. | A superb drug. Insurance company raised co-payment, so I switched to Avapro, but couldn't tolerate the bad side effects of heartburn and severe pain in buttock. I had to switch back to Atacand and pay double the co-payment. | M | 64 | 2 years | 1/23/2006 | 5 | High Blood Pressure | None noted | It supposed to extend the life of my transplated kidney as a bonus. | M | 40 | 4 years | 11/7/2005 | 3 | hypertension | Depression, shoulder pain, lower back pain, need more insulin to balance blood sugar, all side effects vanished or significantly reduced after discontinuing. | Switched to deprynl which controls my hypertension just as effectively. Deprynyl has many positive side effects including increasing cognition, neuroprotective, antidepressive, significant life extension in lab animals, lower cost, etc. | M | 49 | | 6/20/2005 | 3 | hypertension | Some back pain/ did not have that before taking it | M | 63 | 45 days | 4/2/2005 | 5 | Migraine and HTN | None. | Helped prevent my headaches, but little or not affect on my HTN. | M | 46 | 2 years | 1/26/2005 | 5 | Migraine and HTN | None. | Helped prevent my headaches, but little or not affect on my HTN. Taking max dose 32 mg. | M | 46 | 2 years | 1/26/2005 | 5 | hypertension | slight back pain,but not sure its the medication yet,i was having neck pain every second day or so thats now gone.feel great.im taking 4mg and that got blood pressure to 115/75 form 170/110 in about a week no dizziness. | F | 37 | 1 months | 8/29/2004 | 5 | hypertension | fatigue | Excellent side-effect profile | M | 54 | 6 months | 5/13/2004 | 3 | hypertension | numbness in the fingers | F | 66 | 1 years | 3/8/2004 | 4 | High BP | Excessive sweating, especially around the head and neck | Does the job, but the sweating starts as soon as the temperature goes over 70F | M | 56 | 2 years | 3/17/2003 | 5 | I have high blood pressure | What I like about Atacand is that I experience NO side effects whatsoever. The first bp med I took made me VERY tired. But as soon as I started Atacand my bp went down and I felt great! | F | 52 | 2 years | 11/10/2001 |