BENICAR Reviews (OLMESARTAN MEDOXOMIL)Average Rating: 2.2 (332 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare BENICAR with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR BENICAR | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | high blood pressure | none | it made my whole body cool off to the point of it making so much of a diferrence of how i felt in the past. it seems to be working very well for me. have had no side effects to this medication so far. but unlike another medication i have taken in th past, which did give me bad side affects. i have to say that this was the better choice for me and maybe not for everybody. i am taken 40 mg a day | F | 42 | | 3/25/2008 | 5 | High Blood Pressure | None | F | 60 | 2 years | 3/4/2008 | 2 | HBP | Been on it for abt 2yrs. Started out much better than previous meds. As time goes on it has been causing palpatations and heart racing, tireness, light sensitivity, prostatitis(mine is sensitive to many meds), upper body pain(arms and shoulders). Always have had elivated liver levels thru all HPB Meds...Its a shame because Bennicar has been been helpful for 2 yrs with lowering my bp especially since I lost 60 lbs. But its starting to fail. At least it seems. | Thank goodness I found this site where smart people share thier symptoms. I thought I might be crazy. I have been battling symptoms off and on thru several meds for 9 years. Started with lisonopril and thought I was going to have to be institutionalized. After failing with several others, Benicar came to the rescue and for a while was much better but recently all of the sudden it seems to be causing symptoms(back to the drawing board). When on the Lisonipril I experienced several more severe symptoms including closing of my throat but one symptom in common with Bennicar is heart palps/prostititus digestion problems that all seem related. I eat, become extremely bloated and intestinal spasms and heart palps occur simultaneously often related to later stages of food digestion. I have taken my bp reading with an expensive digital ACCURATE BP monitor during above mentioned symptoms and found that its almost like my heart skips a beat! Its sad because this was working well for quite a while | M | 43 | 3 days | 2/23/2008 | 4 | HBP | Only mild dizziness at times. | Most side effects from this drug are in people's mind. Sounds like most who complained were in pretty bad shape to begin with. | M | 50 | 2 years | 2/20/2008 | 1 | High Blood Pressure | After the second day of taking medicine started having severe tingling over entire body. Stopped medication but tingling lasted for 3 days. I have had this reaction from other medicine but this one was the very worst. | F | 57 | 2 days | 2/20/2008 | 1 | I have been feeling very tired and fatigued. I also have visual impairment and now a constant running nose. | F | 46 | 3 weeks | 2/8/2008 | 1 | High Blood Pressure | Insomnia, nightmares,gas, muscle pain, tiredness and fatigue. | My BP 170/110 was triggerred by Synthroid and BENICAR 40Mg was my first ever BP medicine. I do not like it: it did not work for me, caused a lot of side effects and BP is still high. | F | 52 | 10 days | 1/29/2008 | 2 | High Blood Pressure | I have been on Benicar for years and have many side affects I have never had before taking this drug. I get light headed/head rush when standing or sudden movement, arms go numb and feel very heavy when walking, heart racing (gone to hospital many times because would not get back into rythm on own). Very scattered thoughts hard to concentrate, heavy chest/labored breathing. Now vertigo, I have noticed when ever I eat bananas, baked potatoes or cantalope (potassium basically)it triggers it. I am now also getting crushing chest pains when bending over or laying on my side but test show heart is fine. So tired of my heart randomly thumping hard for a second. They caught that on tape while I was in hospital but were not concerned just said you are probably use to that, how do you get use to that? If I new how to safley ween off I would, the doctor scared me by getting on to me and saying I could die if I just stopped taking it. My blood tests show elevated liver enzymes and my doctor said | I don't know if I am the minority on these reactions but please be mindful of any changes or new things that you did not have before. | F | 42 | 10 years | 1/25/2008 | 4 | HBP | After three years of watching my cholesterol climb while on this medicine, I am ready to stop. My HDL has decreased dramatically and my LDL has increased, but my blood pressure has been under control since the beginning Anyone else with cholesterol problems and Benicar? | M | 52 | 3 years | 1/24/2008 | 5 | High Blood Pressure | None | As a regular blood donor (9 1/2 gallons to date) I have found that my blood pressure has gone up in the past year to the point where I have been deferred as a blood donor. After taking Benicar for the past three weeks I was able to donate blood again with a normal reading blood pressure. | M | 61 | 21 days | 12/31/2007 | 1 | Hi BP | Fatigue, muscle pain-legs, knees; nausea w/ occ. vomiting, constant GI upset (nausea, cramps, spasms, dirrhea); tired eyes which didn't always focus right; sl. bronchospasm & 'winded'; esophageal spasms & burning-diag. as GERD; occ. difficulty swallowing; poor sleep; anxiety; short tempered; | Has done nothing for BP; I cut it out & felt better in 2 days. This is like so much poison. | 74 | 2 years | 12/31/2007 | 5 | high blood pressure | I have had rare episodes of mild chest discomfort. But in regular physical, all tests are normal. Also, rare episodes of fatigue and dizziness...but, not enough to keep me from using the drug. | I was first diagnosed with HBP over 6 years ago. Pressure at that time was 210/135. NO JOKE!! I have been on a combination of Lisinopril and Benicar since. Currently using Benicar HCT 40. Overall quality of life has not been at all adversely affected by the Benicar. Would recommend it highly. | M | 44 | 6 years | 12/28/2007 | 2 | HTN | On just 5 mg of Benicar, I was having frequent intermittent episodes of disequilibrium, hangover like feelings, occasional concerning heart palpations, mild depression, weakness, poor concentration. It did keep BP normal limits, but not worth the side effects. | Stopped the drug, feeling 100% better. Seeing my doctor later for a new Rx. Not all ARB's are the same or have the same effect. Don't put up with the side effects! | M | 3 years | 12/24/2007 | 3 | HBP? | EXTREME muscle spasms, anyone else? In my sides, heart races, and beats very hard under light exertion, tired no sex drive at all...( muscle spasms new to anyone else BTW?) Sensitive to light...also | M | 45 | 1.5 years | 12/8/2007 | 2 | high blood pressure | feeling run down all the time, sinus and congestion problem, makes me nasally now. | 40 mg too much for me, down to 20 mg and controlling pressure pretty good. Having problem with sinus and nasal feeling all the time now after 3 months. Looking into new drug now. Calan worked great for years, but pressures were starting to climbing. | M | 42 | 3 months | 12/6/2007 | 4 | HBP resulting from an adrenal tumor | Very tired throughout the day even though I take it around 10 pm and get 8 hours of sleep at night. I feel like I'm in a fog for most of the morning and day. I can't take this medicine in the morning without taking a 2 hour nap in the afternoon. Lack of concentration. Lack of focus and attention to detail....ex: constantly transposing letters and numbers. Constantly saying things incorrectly...ex: I want to say Tuesday but will say Monday instead or I might say 21 when I mean 12.....very strange. My husband and kids really notice this. I feel like an air head which is NOT who I am. Sometimes my speech is slurred. I make many mistakes at work which is not typical of my work ethic. In general, I lack motivation and don't have much energy or passion for things that, in the past, were desirable to me. I have gained 25 pounds. I feel weak and very out of shape. My arms ache. My legs feel heavy. I have a constant cough and sinus drainage. Recently, I was diagnosed with heel spurs and | My bp was 197/139 due to an adrenal tumor. I had surgery to remove the tumor and adrenal gland and my BP improved significately but still high enough for meds. Benicar has lowered my BP to very good readings but.....I feel lousy. I desperately want to get off this drug but my doctor doesn't want me to. I thinking of weaning myself off the drug slowly to see what happens. | F | 42 | 2 years | 12/1/2007 | 1 | high blood pressure | Severe coughing started soon after I began taking Benicar. Coughing got uncontrollable. Sinuses became infected. Am now under the care of a pulmonary specialist due to side effects of Benicar. | F | 70 | 5 days | 11/12/2007 | 2 | HBP 150/90 | symptoms similar to anxiety attack - heart palpitations, chest pain, dizziness | I filled my prescription for benicar on 10/15, took it for four days and ended up in ER. I felt like I was having a heart attack. First, I was scared, then, sort of embarassed because as it turned out my EKG was normal and my blood pressure went down from 157/90 when I first came to 126/73 after a little rest. I really couldn't think of any other reason for this anxiety attack than starting benicar so I stopped. After couple of weeks I thought I'll give it another try. I took it for three days and this morning I had almost the same episode, dizziness, heart racing, chect discomfort. It passed but surely didn't feel good at all. | F | 44 | 3 days | 11/7/2007 | 1 | Hypertension | When I was on the full dose 40 of HCT I could not take the pain in my muscles and joints. Without the Doctors opinion I cut my pills in half and now have noticed the pain has gone down considerably. I still cannot workout because the next day I can't even move from the pain. My blood pressure has stayed down even after taking 1/2 the dosage. I plan to cut these down again and see how that works. I think most of the time we are overdosed on medicine. When I first went on this my left arm went numb and I had sever chest pains, ended up in the hospital on the cardiac intensive care floor and had an angiogram. I was told my heart was perfectly healthy so I went through a dangerous procedure and I believe it was because of this drug. It gave me intense muscle pain in my chest and left side. I plan on taking my self off all this medicine and bringing my pressure down naturally. I believe most of thes medicines they give us do more harm then good. | M | 58 | 3 years | 11/7/2007 | 1 | high blood pressure | general ill feeling, blood test revealed serious changes in liver, kidney, and thyroid function that went away when I stopped the drug | Dr. put me on this when diovan stopped working for me. My BP dropped like a rock, but so did I. I felt lousy. Blood tests revealed benicar was messing up my liver, kidney & thyroid. Lots of creatinine. When I stopped drug, everything went back to normal. I now only take garlic, 800 mg. of Vitamin D, and forskolin (an Aruvedic herb derived from coleus plant), and my BP was 104/60 at Drs. last week. I also do deep breathing exercises for 15 minutes each day--pulls the BP numbers down better than any drug! | F | 51 | 2 months | 11/5/2007 |