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55 People found this comment helpful

This medication works but I developed muscle and joint pains in both shoulders and neck area. More sever in the left shoulder.

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amlodipine besylate caused heart to throb, weakness, dizziness ... just another drug "pushed" by the legal "drug-pushers" ... doctors, pharmaceutical firms and their sexy representatives in their "tight

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John | 45-54 | Male | On medication for less than 1 month | Patient
2/28/2024
Condition: High Blood Pressure
Overall rating 1.7
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Went down to 2.5mg daily, worked great at first then a week later fatigue, blood stools ,

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Mrs cash |
1/21/2024
Condition: High Blood Pressure
Overall rating 2.7
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I have been on this medication for years last several months I’ve notice ! BRAIN ?? FOG BAD ! And my EYE ??? MUSCLE TWITCHING out OVE CONTROL , I take 10 mg , but I think ?? it’s TIME TO FIND SOMETHING ELSE !, it’s getting REALLY WEIRD ?? SIDE EFFECTS I DONT LIKE IT !!

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Marcia | 65-74 | Female | On medication for 2 to less than 5 years | Patient
1/21/2024
Condition: High Blood Pressure
Overall rating 3.3
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Extreme fatique, back and shoulder pain, weak muscles

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Tom | 75 or over | Male | On medication for less than 1 month | Patient
1/6/2024
Condition: Other
Overall rating 1.0
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This was a new doctor and he thought my bp medication was wrong--I took Coreg for 5 years and never had a problem..He gives me telmisartan and it goes up..I say put me back and he says lets try adding 5mg of amlodipine.. Its now the 3rd day I wake up at 4 AM and I can not walk to the bathroom..Knees and ankles feel frozen ..started to pee just as I crawled up to the bowl..I felt so bad I have never done this before...I did not go to him for a BP problem that makes me mad..

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OhioLiz | 65-74 | Female | On medication for 5 to less than 10 years | Patient
12/31/2023
Condition: High Blood Pressure
Overall rating 5.0
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This medication lowered my systolic blood pressure by 20 points, and has had no side effects for more than 5 years. It was prescribed after diuretics adversely impacted my sodium levels.

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Anonymous |
12/8/2023
Condition: High Blood Pressure
Overall rating 4.3
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Has absolutely lowered my BP but it has side affects. I have developed Tinnitus, muscle aches, and heavy tired legs. I wake with severe dry mouth every morning and a post nasal drip all day.

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catherineb | 55-64 | Female | On medication for less than 1 month | Patient
11/21/2023
Condition: High Blood Pressure
Overall rating 1.7
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thought I was suffering from onset of early dementia! forgetful, spacy, i.e. leave my wallet in the car only to have to run out from store to retrieve it (never ever did that before) getting ready to go somewhere will put down keys or phone and not remember where a few min later. only taken amlopidine for four days. FOUR DAYS.

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Kathywhatnot | 65-74 | Female | On medication for 6 months to less than 1 year | Patient
11/13/2023
Condition: High Blood Pressure
Overall rating 2.7
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T Amlodopine dehydrated you dry skin never had before what's worse it causes dry stools and constipation swollen feet and ankles at end of the day constipation causes hemroids mostly because it takes the water out of the stool bc you are always urinating dr won't listen to me so I'm cutting the dose to 5mg on my own Dr's get big bonuses for promoting these drugs lowers BP but ruins your body in the long run

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Ali1981 | 35-44 | Female | On medication for 10 years or more | Patient
11/5/2023
Condition: High Blood Pressure
Overall rating 5.0
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I have taken this for 12 years and it used to work but now it’s back to the drawing board finding another BP med works for me.

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Mayra | 55-64 | Female | On medication for less than 1 month | Patient
10/31/2023
Condition: High Blood Pressure
Overall rating 1.0
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This medication gave me edema, rash, neck pain and stiffness. My carotid artery was enlarge and lumpy. My tonsil hard as a rock and had difficulty breathing. Very tire bed rid, fever and inching. Stopped medication and my tiredness and breathing problems stopped leg edema and rush clear after a week. The neck stiffness, inching, face redness and carotid artery enlargement and lumps clear after a month. Although some inching and heat rush on my left side of my neck is still a problem, but not as bad as when my neck was hard as a rock.Read More Read Less

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Cindy | 55-64 | Female | On medication for 1 to 6 months | Patient
10/26/2023
Condition: High Blood Pressure
Overall rating 1.7
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While hospitalized for a broken hip and semi-hip replacement surgery the general medicine doctor responsible for my care thought my 10 MG 2X a day lisinopril medicine was not controlling my blood pressure well enough. He increased lisinopril to 40 MG once a day and added the drug AMLODIPINE 5 mg 1X a ady.Within 2 days I was experiencing uncontrolled movements head and body twisted, turned from side to side, arms bent flailing around, hands clenching and unclenching, arms and hands twitching, back and shoulder muscles tightening and twitching. I also started showing symptoms of manic behavior. Racing thoughts, I felt like my mind was racing 1000 mph, faster than normal nonstop talking, no appetite, excessive energy (a great feeling when you are confined to bed after hip replacement surgery).Due to nursing staff shortage on floor and physical therapy being short staffed also, even when I could have been mobile with a walker no one had time to spot me (walk along side of me) to prevent falling. I was not sleeping at all not eating much of anything so sometimes I felt light headed and weak. All of this after breaking a hip and finding out that the fracture occurred because I have metastatic breast cancer of the bone. Those 2 health conditions made eating healthy and well, plus getting good sleep and rest very important for my well-being. Lack of sleep alone for days can lead to hallucinations and psychotic episodes. The doctor who prescribed amlodipine besylate for me knew I also suffered from Parkinson disease. Diagnosed in fall of 2013 and taking medicine that controlled all symptoms (the main symptom of my Parkinson disease is tremors in my left hand and arm with a little shortening of my gait). Although I have been diagnosed for 10 years I have experienced little progression of symptoms and no change in medication or increase in dosage in 4 years. Yet the doctor at the hospital blamed all of the uncontrolled movements along with all the manic behavior on my Parkinson . The hospital doctors were very concerned that all the twisting, turning and bending of my torso could dislocated my new hip replacement since the movements were uncontrolled and there were certain positions I was not allowed to do like get closer to my hip than 90° or sitting upright in a chair, could not allow my leg or foot to turn inward both of which could occur with the contorted movements my torso was making. The doctor decided that he would recommend giving me an entire extra dose of my Parkinson meds between normal doses. It may have lessened severity of movements for 1-2 hours but they came back stronger. Which led to more Parkinson meds. I left hospital after about 9 or 10 days as they were trying to discover what type of metastatic cancer I had. I was sent to inpatient rehab for physical and occupational therapy to learn how to do certain things and strengthen muscles to protect my bones weakened by cancer and get stronger to undergo cancer treatments. AND THE WEIRD MOVEMENTS AND MANIC BEHAVIOR just increased. I asked every doctor, nurse, I came in contact with even reached out to my neurologist office to help me figure out what was causing this and to stop it. After 6 weeks I got to come home, I had been looking into all the drugs I was taking at the time checking every resource for side effects and possible drug interactions. I found 1 drug that did list many of my symptoms as rare side effects but both doctor and pharmacist agreed not likely the cause since I had been on this drug since 2013. My sister and I were discussing it on night. She said think when you first got these weird symptoms when was it and what changed around that time. I said the doctor increased my lisinopril dose and started giving me AMLODIPINE. my sister agreed that she thought it started then too. She said at Doctors appointment next day to tell doctor this again and suggest you go back to taking only medication I was taking before symptoms except to keep 40 MG lisiRead More Read Less

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Kat | 35-44 | Female | Patient
10/18/2023
Condition: High Blood Pressure
Overall rating 1.7
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I’m so glad I found this site! For two months or more I’ve been in and out of the ER and docs saying I’m fine and nothing is wrong while I feel like death and can barely walk through a grocery store without feeling so ill. Left side numbness and tingling like im having a stroke, headaches, insomnia, depression, chest pain. I’ve been taking this for at least two years and never would have guessed it was the med until I decided to do some research and really figure out what is wrong if docs say im fine. Stopped taking it just this past Monday and added in vitamins, including magnesium. My BP is lower than it was when on it and I’m already starting to feel back to myself slowly. Don’t take this med. it has ruined my life for the last few months mentally and physically! Thank you to those that shared so I knew I wasn’t alone in this.Read More Read Less

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Jean | 65-74 | Female | On medication for 6 months to less than 1 year | Patient
10/17/2023
Condition: High Blood Pressure
Overall rating 1.3
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The worst medication you can take. dry skin, bad depression, headaches ,back and shoulder pain. Tiredness. Etc. doctors never believe you have these symptoms

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AlexS | 35-44 | Male | On medication for 1 to 6 months | Patient
10/8/2023
Condition: High Blood Pressure
Overall rating 2.7
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Have slightly elevated BP 140/85. Took 5mg for 2 months with no reduction in BP. Even after adding a diuretic. I had achy legs (like growing pains) and acne. Both side effects started about 3 weeks after starting and abruptly stopped when I discontinued.

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Frustrated | 65-74 | Female | On medication for 1 to 6 months | Patient
10/4/2023
Condition: High Blood Pressure
Overall rating 1.0
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Have had side effect issues with different blood pressure medications but Amlodipine has been the worst. Almost constant heartburn and GI issues, constant tinnitus, headaches, brain fog, muscle aches, palpitations, and crushing fatigue. I know that this drug works well for some people so can’t say don’t try it, but, has made me so ill that I will say don’t wait too long to get off of it once the side effects begin. They get worse as time goes on and it has a long half life so will take awhile to feel better. Took a couple of months to get my doctor to hear me but he’s now weaning me off of Amlodipine and has prescribed Spironolactone. Amlodipine did a mediocre job of managing my blood pressure so overall not a good medication for me. Read More Read Less

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Torture | 45-54 | Female | On medication for 2 to less than 5 years | Patient
9/10/2023
Condition: High Blood Pressure
Overall rating 1.0
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Don’t take this med It is poison. I was never sick with any of this before taking it now I am off of it for almost 3 days and 70% of the side effects are gone. I took it for three years of pure torture. I started the blood pressure med amlodipine, 5 mg because I had hypertension and I had side effects immediately they have lasted for three years straight. The first side effect was a hard time breathing the list is so long, wheezing daily, tinnitus, made my Tourette’s worse, swollen tongue every day numb face, numb tongue, lips swollen and numb, eye site issues felt like somebody was stabbing me in my eyeballs , stroke like symptoms daily, my tongue turned white (48 hours off med today pink tongue is back) ear pain, shoulder pain, neck pain, extreme tiredness and heart beat crazy,nerve pain, severe hot flushing of the skin, severe stabbing random pains all over my body, brain fog where I could barely remember anything, slow like a sloth, static electricity in my brain, when I stood up, heavy arms and legs neuropathy in feet,dizziness, severe lightheaded, could barely function,severe stomach pain, severe back pain and kidney pain,severe fatigue,depression and made me cry, headaches severe itching all over my body, sometimes with hives or without hives, severe itching of the vulva (LS)and perinium area which was diagnosed by biopsy, it ate my gums away to were My nerves in my teeth are showing,swollen gums so I’m possibly losing all my teeth now, severe dry mouth eyes and nose like the Sahara desert and severe nausea,insomnia, severe anxiety and panic attacks.Shaking and severe high blood sugars 350-560 daily after taking it. I have tingling and all my nerves throughout my body. I feel like I’m in fight or flight and fighting for my life every time I take it. It makes my blood pressure go so severely. High I can barely stand. It has never lowered my blood pressure not at all. I think it causes gout. I have severe pain in my bones and my muscles, and it feels like my ligaments are rubber bands, and in so much pain. Severe muscle twitching, and my muscles, feel like they have wasted away in my body. It’s still causes a hard time breathing like I’m running a race just being upright walking. It causes sinus issues to were It feels like my nose is closing up and my throat. One thing I can mention as I had a biopsy done on my vulva area and I was diagnosed with Linchin sclerosis and the second biopsy right next to it said, allergic reaction to oral medication. So cardiologist said quit the medication back in February but I stayed on it because it did help my palpitations at first it made me have weird, crazy palpitations in the middle of nowhere huge palpitations and severe chest pain but then it made my palpitations better 2nd year. so I started sweating so severely and I couldn’t function, and I felt like I wasn’t going to make it much longer. so I went to the store and I felt like I was going to pass out constantly on the medication that was one big issue and it wasn’t because of low blood pressure. My blood pressure was severely high when this was happening and I just decided to finally quit it. I am over two days off amlodipine already and already 70% of the side effects are gone . Tomorrow at 12:30 PM will be three full days off of the medication. There is way more side effects but I figured there’s no more room to write it here. If you have any side effects, get off the med because it just gets worse. I feel like they know this drug is poison and they don’t care. Read More Read Less

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Anonymous | On medication for 6 months to less than 1 year |
8/17/2023
Condition: High Blood Pressure
Overall rating 2.0
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Do not take this poison! This is not "medication." Ever since I've been on amlodipine I've had nothing but bad side effects. This "medication" has triggered my sinuses, made my ears ache, gave me pain in my left shoulder and neck. I woke up with extreme dry mouth one morning. It gave me nasal congestion. I have loss of appetite and it worsen my anxiety. This "medication" as well as Telmisartan are horrible. I do not recommend either of them. If your Doctor put you on either of these "medications" have him or her to change it immediately. Read More Read Less

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Mv1959 | 35-44 | Male | On medication for 1 to 6 months | Patient
8/8/2023
Condition: High Blood Pressure
Overall rating 3.3
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Lowered bp but quite a few symptoms . Took at night before bed to avoid symptoms. Initially woke up me with heart beating super fast always around 3 . Sweaty. Went away after two weeks . Other symptoms : ear aches/ head aches( short quick lasting less than 5 seconds ) /neck would hurt / teeth ( gums would hurt ) then go away and still super tired and couldn’t think ( brain fog )

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Derek | 65-74 | Male | On medication for 1 to 6 months | Patient
8/5/2023
Condition: High Blood Pressure
Overall rating 2.3
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Started to take 5mg of amodipine in may this year, it was good for the first week then the side effects started to kick in . Heart pulpitations so bad alongside extreme tiredness and body aches i thought that i would persevere and i changed the time of day that i took it . Most of the symptoms went but i was left with brain fog and tiredness that can only be discribed as extreme . I then had a telephone call off my GP stating that the dose should of been 10 mg . I have never felt so ill all the earlier symptoms but 20 times much worst and now i have anxiety and depression and pains in my kidneys . The GP put me back down to 5mg but will not change the medication. My stomach feels burnt inside and my joint are terrible . I am cuting my intake down to 2.5mg with a view of weaning myself off this awful medication. i Had none of these conditions prior to taking Amodipine .Read More Read Less

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Truckee, CA | 65-74 | Female | On medication for 1 to less than 2 years | Patient
7/31/2023
Condition: High Blood Pressure
Overall rating 2.0
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Extreme side effects, including dizziness, headaches, angina, heart palpitations, flushing with red ear syndrome (something I had never heard of), and swollen tongue.

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