I know there is an amazing army of people on this forum and I am looking for your thoughts and ideas.
Here is my T story:
I was on Diovan for about 15 years, I am 44 now, when my insurance company forced me to move to the generic Valsartan, and one year later my body started to reject the Valsartan. I was having pains all over my body, chest pains, back pains, leg pains, feeling of inflammation, and then it got really bad with a few hallucinations where I would wake up in my back yard staring into my wood fence. My BP was generally fine with the drug all this time, but I got so scared and my doctor put me on Benicar.
My switch to Benicar started rough, but it was probably related to getting all the Valsartan out of my system. 4 months after starting Benicar, no more side effects but I got a painful kidney stone which cost me 10k to get removed. 2 months later I started to develop symptoms of Celiac Disease, so what needed to be a dark color was now white. I stopped drinking yogurt and wheat products and have not has the 'white' return;
Slowly still recovering from that kidney stone month-long event in late 2016, and about a year into Benicar (not generic), I am just sitting on the couch and Tinnitus shows up full blast and has not gone away in 3 months. My Resting BP is stable at low ~120s / Low 70's. I don't know if the tinnitus is related to the Benicar, but I am now having hyperacusis, so a microwave door, driving, or water running causes me to feel like things are too loud.
I am now having trouble having conversations, listening to music, or even TV due to the hyperacusis. I am putting cotton in my ears for 80% of the day and while driving which helps.
My doctor and I have agreed that I should see if another med helps reduce the Tinnitus, and so I have an order in for Cozaar (brand name) to see if it will make a difference. Although I know Cozaar is on the list of drugs which are ototoxic, but the generic form of this drug appears to have more claims of ototoxicity.
I have never had so many major issues come about when taking a medicine, so I am thinking Benicar might be related. I take a generic vitamin pill, some Omega-3 fish oil, and some red yeast rice for minor cholesterol.
I am going back to reading instead of noise making activities, but this is also hard because I lose my concentration because of the T.
Small note: Sometimes, my T becomes pulsating, like a heartbeat, when I goto the bathroom, or try to lift something heavy. Also, If I turn my head, I feel a slight pain maybe muscular and this will increase the T, but go back down to normal T once I turn my head back to center.
Perhaps the Benicar, but I still will randomly have days where my face feel a little swollen, and other days my legs. This tends to go away if I have a light workout at night.
I just don't know anymore. My Cozaar should be here in a couple of days.
Here is my T story:
I was on Diovan for about 15 years, I am 44 now, when my insurance company forced me to move to the generic Valsartan, and one year later my body started to reject the Valsartan. I was having pains all over my body, chest pains, back pains, leg pains, feeling of inflammation, and then it got really bad with a few hallucinations where I would wake up in my back yard staring into my wood fence. My BP was generally fine with the drug all this time, but I got so scared and my doctor put me on Benicar.
My switch to Benicar started rough, but it was probably related to getting all the Valsartan out of my system. 4 months after starting Benicar, no more side effects but I got a painful kidney stone which cost me 10k to get removed. 2 months later I started to develop symptoms of Celiac Disease, so what needed to be a dark color was now white. I stopped drinking yogurt and wheat products and have not has the 'white' return;
Slowly still recovering from that kidney stone month-long event in late 2016, and about a year into Benicar (not generic), I am just sitting on the couch and Tinnitus shows up full blast and has not gone away in 3 months. My Resting BP is stable at low ~120s / Low 70's. I don't know if the tinnitus is related to the Benicar, but I am now having hyperacusis, so a microwave door, driving, or water running causes me to feel like things are too loud.
I am now having trouble having conversations, listening to music, or even TV due to the hyperacusis. I am putting cotton in my ears for 80% of the day and while driving which helps.
My doctor and I have agreed that I should see if another med helps reduce the Tinnitus, and so I have an order in for Cozaar (brand name) to see if it will make a difference. Although I know Cozaar is on the list of drugs which are ototoxic, but the generic form of this drug appears to have more claims of ototoxicity.
I have never had so many major issues come about when taking a medicine, so I am thinking Benicar might be related. I take a generic vitamin pill, some Omega-3 fish oil, and some red yeast rice for minor cholesterol.
I am going back to reading instead of noise making activities, but this is also hard because I lose my concentration because of the T.
Small note: Sometimes, my T becomes pulsating, like a heartbeat, when I goto the bathroom, or try to lift something heavy. Also, If I turn my head, I feel a slight pain maybe muscular and this will increase the T, but go back down to normal T once I turn my head back to center.
Perhaps the Benicar, but I still will randomly have days where my face feel a little swollen, and other days my legs. This tends to go away if I have a light workout at night.
I just don't know anymore. My Cozaar should be here in a couple of days.
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