MICARDIS Reviews (TELMISARTAN)Average Rating: 2.7 (221 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare MICARDIS with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR MICARDIS | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | HYPERTENSION | M | 65 | 4 days 80MG 1X day | 5/3/2013 | 1 | High BP | Dizzy,aching joints in particular knees hips and lower back, alterrnate hot (sweating) and cold (shivering) bouts. Constipation, very high frequency passing urine small amounts (just make it) many times or have to when long distance driving side of road embarrassing . Bad head aches and surviving on minimum sleep re toilet... | This medication has definite bad side effects as I very aware of my body and the result of medication. Doctor has changed meds. Bottom line it has reduced BP however side effects not worth it. | M | 60 | 1 months 20 1X day | 5/2/2013 | 1 | Hypertension | Massive headache first day of taking, Constant light headedness, Dizzy when standing, take 3 or 4 steps and felt like I had run a marathon, Pain in leg muscles, impotence, laydown after walking a few steps felt whole body throb with heart beat. | Would recommend ask your Dr for some other medicine as micardis made me feel like I was 150 years old. Dr stopped me taking it after I told him of the effects. | M | 40 | 30 days 40mg 1X day | 4/11/2013 | 1 | Hypertension | hideous headaches, commenced regular pain relief, severe cardiac palpitations, nausea, dizziness, unable to sleep. Constant feeling of foreboding | Took myself off this drug without medical advice (not advisable of course but in the end I couldn't stand being on it any longer, was considering suicide) local doctor not happy! Within 72 hrs I had no palpitations, no suicidal thoughts and had a great night's sleep. Have just commenced on low dose Coversyl at this stage no side effects noted!! Yippee life seems to be for living again. Micardis for me was almost a death sentence. | F | 66 | 2.5 years 40mg 1X day | 3/20/2013 | 5 | HPB | None | Best BP med I have been on - started at 80MG/HCT - have been lowering the dosage with changes to diet and exercise as well - am currently on 40MG (removed the diruretic) and will probably go to 20MG soon as BP is still low - this may have helped me eliminate the need (along with diet and exercise) for any med at all | F | 52 | 3 years 40MG 1X day | 2/2/2013 | 2 | Tro reduce blood pressure | Fatigue, dizziness, breathless after very mild exercise | This type of medication affect different people in different ways. All seem to have some side effects so you just have to find the one for you with the least. Micardis is not for me. | M | 72 | 90 days 40 1X day | 1/29/2013 | 5 | High Blood Pressure | I have no side effects. I take it at night and feel like it works the best out of the four different bp meds I have tried. Love it. It's worth the money | F | 34 | 2 days 20 mg 1X day | 10/17/2012 | 3 | Blood preasure | All part of my body is paining ang im always dazzy | F | 29 | 3 months 40mg | 8/11/2012 | 1 | Hypertension | Lower right back pain. On and off joint pain in knees and hands. Worrying swelling of veins on hands and spider varicose veins appearing on calves. I felt as though I was swollen although ankles were fine. Drinking the normal 8X glasses of water a day made these symptoms worse.Another effect was hair texture becoming fine and almost transparent...and I had thick hair before.. | F | 72 | 2 years 20mg | 8/8/2012 | 1 | Hypertension | Severe leg cramps after a couple of years on this med which went away when stopped the medication. No one connected the cramps with the Micardis but now know its a regular side effect. | They must be able to make meds without serious side effects.. | F | 60 | 10 years 40mg 1X day | 8/2/2012 | 4 | to lower blood pressure. | knee and muscle pain...checked with a pharmacoligist, she said no such known side effects......reading these comments , I am grateful to know its more common than the drug company is willing to admit or publish.....knee is weak and painful...this site has given me confidence to convey my concern to my cardiologist...thanks. | did bring pressure down... | F | 63 | 4 months 20 mg 1X day | 7/27/2012 | 4 | high blood pressure80 | very serious hair loss. because of this i will have to change to another medication | F | 76 | 4 months 80 ng | 7/21/2012 | 1 | mild hypertension | Both myself and wife are PHYSICIANS and on this drug upon recommendation of colleague, who thinks it is great. Maybe he has been infulenced by reassurances about the safety and low side effect profile of this drug, which we are having an increasingly hard time believing. Listed in order of frequency and severity: muscle cramps, from annoying persistent to extremely painful electric incapacitating and seemingly associated most strongly with fluid balance/changes/sweating; dizziness (checked in ER thinking I had a stroke!); tinnitis/dysphoria/asthenia: skin changes/thinning/hair loss. Of course, we ourselves were patronistically reassured that these sides were not from the Rx but just from getting old! It takes even longer for us to doubt a physician, especially a friend. | For us, these side effects could no longer be tolerated for the sake of the modest improvement in blood pressure obtained. We have had a very hard time getting our experiences posted on the internet, and wonder if others with bad reports on various Rxs have seen the same. Certainly these side effects were real and due to the medication, and there may have been others less prominent for us but more serious for others. Just amazing how easily we were duped into believing that these symptoms were not from the Rx, and we were the only ones who had them. Hopefully, others might make the connection sooner than us. We've never had any patients with cramps as severe as we have endured! | M | 60 | 2 years 40mg 1X day | 6/25/2012 | 3 | high blood pressure/chest pain | major tiredness -drowsy -heat - OI am diabetic taking Janumet which is mixture of Januvia and Metphormin-Started taking these new pills and side effects are hard to determine however i am weighing 180lbs and am overweight by only 20 lbs whoich i feel increased due to the meds . Have no problem falling asleep but to wake up is hell. I take it morning 8:00am. after reading the comments i" scarred about the muscle and joint issues. Recently started having major stomach issues that led to diarrea on and off. I'm trying to lose weight but I have a major appetite more than before the meds-I | Micardis | F | 37 | 45 days 40mg 1X day | 4/28/2012 | 4 | retina haemerage revealed HBP | No side effects that i'm aware of. Intense pain in my upper central back last 2 weeks however I think it is unrelated to Micardis? | I was a fit ex professional tennis player on the seniors tour who completely gave all exercise away for 2 years due to injury. I then presented with BP 165/98 following a diagnosed eye retina haemorrhage.I was put immediately on micardis 20mg daily which reduced bp only to average 135-140/88 so after 3 weeks increased to 40mg daily. BP immediately went down to average 120/80. 3 months on, I have no side effects that Im aware of. Commenced going to gym again,became a vegetarian and I have never felt physically better. Yes, I feel anxious and often stressed however that is me, and possibly the reason why I got hypertension...so i'm not going to blame Micardis for that.My advice for those on micardis, change your lifestyle, exercise more, eat more vegetables & less fatty foods, reduce cholesterol and hopefully improve your cadiovascular system. If we had all done that to start with, none of us would have had to be on Micardis. | M | 57 | 4 months 40 MG 1X day | 3/18/2012 | 1 | blood pressure | First a severe rash on both legs then sore muscles in both legs which lasted for weeks. | M | 65 | 2 days 20 1X day | 2/26/2012 | 4 | hypertension | mild jittery feelings only a few times per week. | where are all the comments on this website from those it works for? anyways i am not on any other medications, not overweight,do not have diabetes and was generally healthy. people saying a drug works or does not work, really should disclose if they have any other health issues. i am non-smoker and maybe only drink 1-2 glasses of wine a week. in my case, bp went from say 160/110 to 116/80 in one day and has been controlled since. | M | 47 | 6 months 80 1X day | 1/26/2012 | 5 | High blood pressure | Keeps my blood pressure down but my lower back n legs are always sore | F | 45 | 4 years 80 mg | 1/7/2012 | 1 | high blood pressure | Pain in the back, muscle weakness that led to injuries. | This is a really bad drug and I would not reccomend it to anyone. I experianced random muscle pain that gradually stoped several weeks after I stoped with it. I tought that the pain is only 'in my head' and tried to force myself threw it and ended up with a calf strain and now I have really had time walking. | M | 25 | 5 weeks 40mg 1X day | 11/17/2011 | 3 | HBP | feel fainty...very tired....back pain..leg pain...hasn't really lower my bp | F | 73 | 6 months 80mg 1X day | 11/8/2011 |