... should talk to doc ASAP.
I was just recently put on Benicar HCT to go along with my Atenolol. My cardiologist ... took Micardis ) 1:00 120/70, 8:00 188/95. With the Benicar it is much more stable ( 125/70 - 135/77 ) and it...
... side effects. Did you have any side effects with Benicar ? I am so impressed that it worked for you in only...
... with my internist tomorrow. Is it possible that Benicar would have negative side effects? I was actually ... encouraged to read that Benicar can work when Diovan fails on this board. Please do...
... Hi again Sunny,
I just wanted to tell you that Benicar and Diovan are the same type of drug and I took Diovan ... no side effects. I went from diovan 160 on Fri.
to Benicar 40 on Sat. and didn't even know the difference. I...
... absolutely no side effects and only benefits with Benicar ...thanks for indulging me once again with you reassurance...
... research, however, I've read some great things about Benicar .
First of all, just to arm you w/info for the ... Irbesartan (Avapro)
Losartan (Cozaar)
Olmesartan ( Benicar )
Telmisartan (Micardis)
Valsartan (Diovan)
...
I believe that Benicar is the newest...at least as of 2003. Not absolutely ... newer than Diovan.
The antihypertensive efficacy of Benicar has been evaluated based on pooled data from seven ... in Europe (four centers), were designed to evaluate Benicar VERSUS 3 other ARBS.
Paraphrased QUOTE-"Olmesartan ... substantiated in direct head-to-head studies in which Benicar demonstrated significantly greater antihypertensive ... your doctor also about the possibility of a switch to Benicar .
Other studies have shown even greater efficacy...
... Hi Ginger, :)
I too was put on Benicar HCT. This is my first day to take it. I'm really hoping ... AM then about 4:00 it hits the roof.
What dose of Benicar are you on? Mine is 10/25
Cass :)...
... Hi Ginger, :)
I too was put on Benicar HCT. This is my first day to take it. I'm really hoping ... AM then about 4:00 it hits the roof.
What dose of Benicar are you on? Mine is 10/25
Cass :)
Cassiebel, ...
... Zuzu for your replies.
I have now been on 40/25 Benicar for a little over a week. The first couple of days ... back and try a clonidine in the AM and PM with the Benicar . I don't know if the spike was a clonidine rebound ... or what?
I have no side effects with the benicar but it doesn't seem too effective, either. My BP went ... talk about labile.
How long until the true work of Benicar shows up?
I'm a little less freaked out now then...
... starting a new drug. I have done very well on the Benicar 40/25
Wishing you the best
Cass...
... I take Benicar 20 mg without HCT. I have zero side effects. I run...
... I take Benicar 20 mg without HCT. I have zero side effects. I run...
... effect listed and some that are not. I just started Benicar /HCT - 40/25. It's the highest dose they make ( have ... hard to control HBP) I have 0 side effects from the Benicar
except for going to the bathroom a lot more.
Cass...
... Sandra,
For about four hours after taking Benicar , it is difficult to run because the heart is not working ... at optimal capacity. If you take Benicar at night, you should have no problem in the morning...
... which I was on since my stillbirth last September, to Benicar with Hydrocholithiazide in it.
Have any of you been ... input :)
Ginger
Ginger,
Yes I have been on Benicar Hydrochoithzide but my was 40, the only symtoms I...
... BP med seems to give me every side effect there is, Benicar included. I took 20mg Benicar and had heart palpitations...
... I might also add that the usual starting dose for Benicar HCTZ is 20/12.5..
As far as I know your dose of 40...
... thot that the lotrel was causing it and he put me on benicar 40/25.. After about 1 month i was still red and went ... reactive hypertension and he upped my medicine to benicar 40/25 and raised my toporol to 200 mg and started...
... not serious, but I don't think it's the Toprol or Benicar HCT.
Tell your cardiologist that 200 mg Toprol...
... first went in and my primary care doctor had put me on Benicar 20/12.5(htcz) that next day before I went in to try ... terrified to go back to the doctor. I'm not on the Benicar anymore. I was suppose to go back to my PCP and see...
... I had the same thing happen when a switched from Benicar to Diovan. The benicar the drop in BP happened (for ... didn't bother me so much cuz I was at 118/70 with the benicar and jumped to 135/83 the first days on diovan and...
... the wonderful world of ARBs and loving it. I was on Benicar for 4 mos. and did a 1/2 marathon in Jan. I did switch ... has less aches (like just getting old aches) which Benicar had on me. Ask the doctor about it. Warning though...
... I run and take an ARB. I use Benicar . Very effective and it only affects your running for...
... I have been on Benicar for 4 mos and it was great, but I switched to Diovan ... runner and I do get a little bit of back ache with Benicar , but I still managed a 1/2 marathon 2 months ago....
... having with Clonidine, the Dr changed he clonidine to Benicar 20mg plus keeping the norvasc 10mg. The Dr told me ... other day for 2 weeks. This is my fifth days on the Benicar and it appears not working at all. Here are my average ... to side effect.
- 160s/80s P90s - Norvasc 10mg + Benicar 20mg. No side effect.
It appears my BP is actually ... a bit higher on Benicar , is this possible? I noticed my heartrate is higher...
... Ask To Try. I Have Read Where Some Take Diovan And Benicar . I Am Open For Suggestions. What Would You Do? ...
... I take Benicar 20mg. The only noticible side effect is that if you ... notice that it slows you down a bit. I have taken Benicar for a year now and am running in the Tybee half marathon...
... produced horrendous side effects for me.
Apart from Benicar and Diovan, there are other choices such as the newer...
... The "ARB"'s like Diovan and Benicar have virtually no side effects. I am not sure if they ... will notice that Zuzu the famous takes Diovan. I take Benicar ....
... HCT tons of side effects. I'm on diltiazem 360mg and benicar 20mg.No real side effects- I run a 1/2 marathon and ... blocker and I swear by ARBs(especially diovan and benicar ). Diltiazem will lower your pulse (mine is resting...
... I haven't taken it but I take benicar (another ARB). Avapro is a little more powerful than ... diovan and benicar (lowers BP more) and from what I have read has little ... or no side effects (or similar to diovan and benicar )....
... the HCT and a whole host of side effects. He added Benicar to the diltiazem and I qickly dropped the 120/70 sometimes ... knocked out the 3M half marathon in Austin. I've been on benicar now since Dec. and the only side effect I've had is...
... thing they put you on in the Marshall Protocol is Benicar . Benicar will immediately lower your d 125 in half ... cannot handle zithromax at the time you start taking Benicar . As a matter of fact, most of the antibiotics then ... is monumental. So, they pulse antibiotics and the Benicar also helps buffer the herxing.
So, once my three weeks...
... point I was taking 5mg Prednisolone a day and 10mg Benicar . I have recently started taking Benicar at very high ... and ALP 158. Bilirubin is 8. Do you think that the Benicar (an ARB) is to blame or the worsening of my sarcoid...
... December and I just can't get rid of it. I am taking Benicar and Toprol XL. Could it be either or both of these ... started on Toprol XL. Can't recall when I started Benicar but was changed from another drug to Benicar sometime...
... December and I just can't get rid of it. I am taking Benicar and Toprol XL. Could it be either or both of these ... started on Toprol XL. Can't recall when I started Benicar but was changed from another drug to Benicar sometime...
... I have been taking Benicar HCT (diaretic) for hypertension for a full year now...
... Sam -
This is what I hear. :) I am hoping that Benicar HCT is the cause of all my Lupus like symptoms. I...
... a bit better. Still....
Upon reading over the Benicar HCT consumer pamphlet, it does clearly state that ... me and he feels that I should go back to the plain Benicar and when I see him on the 4th I will start the process...
... Friday but I wanted write an update. I stopped the Benicar HCT last week and have not had any of my Lupus type...
... azithro already)
This may prohibit me from adding benicar and flagyl to my IV ceftriaxone. Well, benicar in ... on it. Problem is, don't know if my doc will okay benicar since my bp may already be borderline low.
Any...
... adding in flagyl in a couple weeks and slowly adding benicar to see how I tolerate it....
... found a doc in Nov 06; he started me on Minocycline, Benicar , and Vitamin-D3(2000IU/day). I had a bad reaction ... was on 500mg Cefzil 2x/day. He also started me up on Benicar , initially 30mg/day, later upped to 80mg/day.
After...
... needing an agent to kill borrelia when it is encysted. Benicar , which I'd only associated with Marshall protocol ... obviously a cephalosporin. Interesting that you took D3. Benicar made me think of the Marshall Protocol, but obviously...
... needing an agent to kill borrelia when it is encysted. Benicar , which I'd only associated with Marshall protocol ... obviously a cephalosporin. Interesting that you took D3. Benicar made me think of the Marshall Protocol, but obviously...
... was over, he starts me on an interesting regimen of Benicar (to reduce the inflamation so the abx could get at ... low onVit-D) and Cefzil. I was to start to take the Benicar but no abx. Interestingly enough, I started to get ... spots during the period when I was ramping up the Benicar and NOT on abx (he later said that he thinks the Benicar ... 2x/day Cefzil
500mg/day Tindamax
40, then 80mg/day Benicar
4000 IU/day Vitamin-D3
tons of acidophilus tabs
Fungal ... consistenly high. He also believes that the Vit-D3 + Benicar combo helps reduce the inflammation that the cyst...
... Tindamax (500mg /day), Cefzil (2x500mg /day), and Benicar (worked up to 3 x 10mg /day, now being increased to ... antibiotics. You have to keep the Vit-D levels up, and the Benicar regimen seems to help with both reducing the inflammation...
... recently), along with 6g fish oil, Tindamax, Cefzil, and Benicar . It's been working out WELL so far, albiet slower ... antibiotics. You have to keep the Vit-D levels up, and the Benicar regimen seems to help with both reducing the inflammation...
... low. What is CD 57, what does that mean? What is Benicar ? I seem to have so much to learn.
Good luck to...
... low. What is CD 57, what does that mean? What is Benicar ? I seem to have so much to learn.
Good luck to ... to be closer to 200. Under 60 is a real concern.
Benicar is a blood pressure medication that is being used ... body - BEFORE I started antibiotics but was on the Benicar ).
One school of thought is the Marshall Protocol...
... recently), along with 6g fish oil, Tindamax, Cefzil, and Benicar . It's been working out WELL so far, albiet slower ... antibiotics. You have to keep the Vit-D levels up, and the Benicar regimen seems to help with both reducing the inflammation...
...Benicar is a blood pressure pill. Why did your doc put you...
... [QUOTE=Yourtroubl;2967419] Benicar is a blood pressure pill. Why did your doc put you ... too. But its not happening. I am at wits end.
Benicar is a Blood pressure med. but is used in the Marshall ... Protocal because Benicar has the the ability to block the type of inflammation...
... but tolerable. I was so sick as soon as I took teh BEnicar teh pain melted away! Now it comes in teh form of ... may be more open to it than other drs. Also without Benicar in the MP many wont herx much or at all with ABX alone...
... to calm down. After that, he started me on low dose Benicar (slowly ramped up from 5mg a day to 3 x 10mg a day ... which is my current maintenance dose).
The Benicar is interesting because it reduces tissue inflammation ... only the immune system but antibiotics as well. The Benicar reduces the inflammation, allowing the spirochetes ... symptoms were starting to return. He put me on the Benicar and poof, I started to have a few spots, but only ... a few. He is theorizing that the Benicar may be having some sort of effect on the spirochetes ... is no real proof of this.
After a little while of Benicar only, he started me up on 100mg Minocycline, this ... it's job, killing the cyst form.
I'm currently on Benicar 3 x 10mg/day, 500mg Cefzil 2x a day, Tindamax 500mg...
... Did you also take Benicar? Benicar is in a class of medications called Angiotensin Receptor ... Blockers or ARBs for short. Benicar 's primary use has been to treat high blood pressure...
... protocol but doesn't use most of it.
My LLMD uses the Benicar to reduce tissue inflammation, but lower doses (I ... to hide from the immune system/meds. Certainly the Benicar seems to help me with not only the cytokine effects ... we were seeing some die-off of the Lymes with ONLY Benicar while I was off all abx (I was seeing reddish spots ... very beneficial.
The only problem I had with the Benicar was that my insurance didn't want to pay for it, insisting...
... Bill. I appreciate it. Are you still taking the Benicar ? How long have you been in treatment? How long were...
... Bill. I appreciate it. Are you still taking the Benicar ? How long have you been in treatment? How long were ... other people are doing.
Thanks
Yes, still on the Benicar 3x10mg per day. I've been on the Benicar/Cefzil combo...
... has really stumbled on something huge and powerful - Benicar makes teh ABX WAY stronger than all my many IV's!...
... supplements?
Thanks
My LLMD has me on a regimen of 30mg Benicar , 500mg Cefzil (similar to Ceftin), Vitamin-D supplementatio ... n (was very low) and 500mg daily Tindamax.
The Benicar and Vit-D reduce inflammation so the abx can get to...
