Patient Log of Experience Using COZAAR
DRUG RATINGS REPORTS HISTORY FOR A PATIENT TAKING COZAAR
| Key to ratings for COZAAR: 5-Very Satisfied: this medicine cured me or helped me a great deal. 4-Satisfied: this medicine helped. 3-Somewhat Satisfied: this medicine helped somewhat. 2-Not Satisfied: this medicine did not work to my satisfaction. 1-Dissatisfied: I would not recommend taking this medicine. |
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| Rating | Reason | Side Effects | Comments | Sex | Age | Time Taken and Dosage | Date Added | |
| 1 | High blood pressure | Intense right shoulder/back pain. | My hypertension had been controlled for over 10 years taking 80 mg of Accupril and 100 mg of Atenolol until I had a hysterectomy in December 2009. I started taking 2 mg of Estradiol and within a month my BP starting to rise. For the last week, I had tried three different types of BP meds. First was 10 mg of Amlodipine, but had to quit it after a few days because it gave me a terrible migraine. The second was .2 mg of Clonidine, but that one caused urinary incontence. The third was this nightmare 50 mg of Cozaar (Losartan). I took the first pill on Friday and noticed Saturday morning that my right shoulder hurt. I thought I had slept wrong and the discomfort went away. I took my second dose that evening and withing the hour my right shoulder started to hurt again. That's when I searched for the side effects and found this site. I did not take a third dose as my shoulder has now been hurting for almost 30 hours. Within the last week, I have done a lot of research on the effects of taking estrogen. I had previously attributed my headaches and subsequently feelings of high anxiety to my uncontrolled blood pressure, but now feel this was due to the estrogen. I am now in the process of weening myself off of the estrogen and am hoping that my blood pressure will go closer to what was normal for me. I'm also looking into using herbal medications and have already started with dandelion root since I can't tolerate diuretics. | F | 52 | 2 days 50 MG 1X D | 4/26/2010 | |
| 1 | High blood pressure | Early stages of pneumonia. | When I wrote my first entry it was in the early morning and I had been hurting for almost 30 hours. When I woke-up a few hours later, the pain in my back had worsened and now had migrated to my chest and my right arm was slightly numb like when you barely hit your funny bone in your elbow. I had talked to a different doctor than my usual doctor and told her of my symptoms and that they were getting worse. She didn't appear too concerned and told me to take something OTC for pain. I had had a collapsed lung 12 yrs. ago and the pain was similar to that. I also wondered if I was having a heartattack. I decided to go to the hospital. Luckily I was admitted to the cardiac unit and they did several tests and after giving me a CT scan of my chest using a dye, it showed that I was in the beginning stages of pneumonia. I found a UK site which lists pneumonia as being a very rare side effect of Cozaar. So please, if you have severe muscle pain in your back, ask your doctor to order you to have a CT scan using the dye and make sure that you don't have pneumonia. This ia an extremely dangerous drug that should be taken off the market. Right now, I'm very scared and I'm hoping that this is all that will happen to me. | F | 52 | 50 MG 1X D | 4/29/2010 | |