User Reviews for Benicar oral

no adverse side effects and B/P stabilized.

Too expensive. Too many side effects.

This med has worked very well with little side effects. I experienced brief dizziness for two weeks, but nothing else. With weight loss, I have been able to reduce my dosage from 40 mg. to 20 mg.

I've been taking 20 MG for about 9 months. My BP is normal now. Experienced dizziness for the first few weeks but it went away. Used Lisinopril before this and it lowered the BP, but gave me a cough. Benicar does not. Benicar is more expensive.

This medication has done wonders for my blood pressure. Oppose to other med's I've tried this has shown results. My blood pressure is now normal.

I use this along with Amiodipine to control my Blood Pressure.

In early July 2006 at age 45 I was diagnosed with Hypertension. One of my BP readings before going on 20mg Benicar in August was 144/108. In Sept it was down to 118/86. In March 2007 my reading was 120/74. Recently I had a reading of 132/86. Overall I feel fine, no side effects. I feel it is working well. The Dr even said that they've been very happy with how this drug has worked overall with patients, great success rate with lowering BP.

This drug made me extremely nauseous. Could not stay on it. Quit after 2 days

For my borderline hypertentsion, I've been prescribed 10mg of Benicar per day, so I split the 20mg tablet. From my periodic blood pressure checks it keeps my pressure in satisfactory stable level.

40mg worked well, but only when Coreg/carvedilol 6.25 (twice a day)was added. My blood pressure dropped dramatically.

The 20mg/day worked like a charm. The price was high so I asked for 40mg tabs -then I split the tabs.

my blood pressure is still high 180/90

Really, I'm writing to let people know that unless they have a DOCTORATE in Medicine be id cardiovascular, cardiopulmonary, pulmonary, or general medicine, they shouldn't decrease their medications on their own. If your doctor doesn't listen to you, then keep stressing to him/her what ALL of the symptoms are. If you're not telling them EVERYTHING then they can not accurately diagnose a disease or condition. If you can't remember then keep a symptom journal of what happened a certain day, and if you feel like being extremely accurate, put in times like when you took your medication(s) then any symptoms/side effects later on. If you give a generalization of "an hour" or "two hours" when it was only 40 minutes, it would make a difference in the diagnosis. The patient probably said too long of a time had passed for the doctor (who is really really smart and knows a LOT about medicine) to have connected the two. If a more accurate time had been given, then there's no doubt in my mind that the doctor would have connected the side effects and the pill. Why do people think they're so much smarter than their doctors when a doctor doesn't know what you're feeling and is relying on repsonses from you to make a decision about the probablility of a condition. DOCTORS ARE SMART, BUT THEY ARE NOT PSYCHICS!Read More Read Less

The daily dosage recommended by my cardiologist was extremely high (40mg) and has caused me to have severe problems such as: 1. Plunging Blood pressure readings (70/50) during only minor excertions (such as petting my dog). 2. Severe dizziness and inability to breathe). 3. Unable to stand and fainting. The doctor denied that the medication he prescribed was the cause of my problems and gave me all kinds of tests for equilibrium and stress. They all proved negative. While he was scratching his head, I (on my own) reduced the daily benicar dosage to 5 mg and added 4 mg of cardura. This was 6 months ago and I can now do almost any task without any problems.Also my blood pressure averages 140/80. By the way, my wife has the same problems with the same doctor and drug but has only changed her doctor so far. My experience tells me that the drug can be effective if the dose is kept very low. Read More Read Less

Induced an alergic reaction. I broke out in hives.