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the pills are too large and bitter

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Sharon | 55-64 | Female | On medication for less than 1 month | Patient
8/31/2023
Condition: High Blood Pressure
Overall rating 2.3
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Started taking this due to high blood pressure, had been on clonidine 0.1 when blood pressure goes over 160. New doctor decided to change it, well that was a big mistake. I had chest, jaw, arm pain, I could hear and feel my heart pounding, developed stomach an abdominal pain after just one dose. I wouldn't recommend this drug to anyone. I was told by the doctor's office to keep taking it, ain't no way. I will go back on the clonidine. It made me sleepy, but I would rather deal with that then to feel like I'm having a heart attack.Read More Read Less

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Joycetta Hayes | 55-64 | On medication for less than 1 month | Patient
12/14/2019
Condition: High Blood Pressure
Overall rating 1.0
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I been taking hydralazine 50 mg for about three days, and today I decided to stop taking it because of the sever pounding of my heart, pain all through my body, headaches, lack of strength, lost of appetite, and weaknesses. I am out of work until Monday and one thing I know is there is no way I could work with all that going on in my body, today I was able to sit up without feeling so weak and go to the bathroom and back to my room without feeling like I was going to pass out all because I did not take any of the hydralazine today and I felt a big relief.Read More Read Less

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Peanut | 55-64 | Female | On medication for less than 1 month | Patient
10/6/2019
Condition: High Blood Pressure
Overall rating 1.7
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It probably does reduce my blood pressure but i completely loss any energy i have. I can tell to the second when it takes effect. I messed with it for a week, almost lost my job, and fractured my elbow. Dreadful stuff, but yeah my blood pressure sure went down.

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FEDup | 65-74 | Female | On medication for less than 1 month | Patient
8/5/2018
Condition: High Blood Pressure
Overall rating 1.0
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Heart palps,very rapid pulse after having taken this drug for one day.It is 50 mg.Doctor prescribed it for me for 3x daily plus one more if I felt I needed it.Pain in chest,dizziness, intense headache that last a full day after stopping taking it. I will never,never take this drug again. Thought I was having a stroke or heart attack.

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tj | 75 or over | Male | On medication for less than 1 month | Patient
9/13/2016
Condition: High Blood Pressure
Overall rating 1.0
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medicine caused headaches,heart pounding,loss of appetite ,nausea

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KTCOMBA | 55-64 | Female | On medication for less than 1 month | Patient
9/9/2015
Condition: High Blood Pressure
Overall rating 1.0
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I only took Hydrazaline for only one day 50 mg 4 times a day. I was on Clonadine a week prior to the office visit and my Doctor took me off and gave me the Hydrazaline. After one day on this medicine my heart was pounding and beating irregular, I had pain going up my arm to my jaw and the nausea was overbearing. While in the hospital, I was offered a 10mg dose of Hydrazaline thinking that maybe this would work, but I had the same effect of the medicine as if I had took the 50mg. I ended up staying in the hospital for 6 days, almost lost my kidneys from all the trauma that was done to my internal body from this medicine. This medicine should not be on the market. Read More Read Less

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Anonymous | 65-74 | Female | On medication for 1 to 6 months | Patient
8/5/2013
Condition: High Blood Pressure
Overall rating 4.7
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jack | 75 or over | Male | On medication for 1 to less than 2 years | Patient
6/13/2013
Condition: Chronic Heart Failure
Overall rating 5.0
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Caution | 65-74 | Female | On medication for less than 1 month | Patient
4/12/2012
Condition: High Blood Pressure
Overall rating 1.0
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I started hydralazine 50mg twice a day on 3/29/12. I already take lisinopril 40mg once a day and HCTZ 12.5 once a day. I was taking Amlodipine Bysalate 5mg but the doctor took me off that when I started the hydralazine. Within 3 days my heart was pounding so fast I couldn't lie down and had to sit up all night. I took my blood pressure and it was up to 195/77 pulse 91, the highest it's ever been. I ended up in the emergency room for two nights. My blood pressure shot up to 225. They had to give me all kinds of heart tests and finally changed me from Hydralazine to Metoprolol Tratrate 50mg twice a day which brought my blood pressure down to 120. I would not recommend Hydralazine to anyone.Read More Read Less

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amojjo | 75 or over | Female | On medication for less than 1 month | Patient
3/10/2010
Condition: High Blood Pressure
Overall rating 1.0
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I'm currently taking several blood pressure medications among them Apresoline. I started this medication about 2 weeks ago. 50 mg. 3xdaily. I could not tolerate it due to pounding heart and discomfort. My doctor reduced the dosage to 1/2-50mg. 3x a day. I continue to have heart pounding. It is effective in reducing my b.p. quickly. I am going to have heart sugery for a valve replacement. This Apresoline concerns me. I'm also taking Norvasc, Tenormin, Lasix, Tekturna, Klor-con. I don't believe the Apreoline is worth the suffering it causes.Read More Read Less

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Terry | 65-74 | Female | On medication for 5 to less than 10 years | Patient
9/30/2009
Condition: High Blood Pressure
Overall rating 1.0
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I was given Hydralazine for high blood pressure and within a year, I experienced joint and muscle pain, out of control high blood pressure and systemic lupus erthymatosis. I asked my doctor if the medication was causing all of my symptoms and he said "no, it was a good medicine". I suffered for 7 years with lupus until I finally found another doctor who did the ANA blood test and found out about the lupus. It took almost 9 months to get a negative ANA test for the lupus but I still have lingering pain from the lupus years later. This medication should be taken off the market immediately. The doctor didn't listen to me when I said I was hurting all over. He indicated I "need attention". He's no longer my doctor.Read More Read Less

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virginia | 65-74 | Female | On medication for 6 months to less than 1 year | Patient
8/18/2009
Condition: High Blood Pressure
Overall rating 2.0
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the pills are too large and bitter

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Anonymous | 55-64 | Female | On medication for 5 to less than 10 years | Patient
1/19/2009
Condition: High Blood Pressure
Overall rating 4.7
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Anonymous | 55-64 | Female | On medication for 1 to 6 months | Caregiver
11/6/2008
Condition: High Blood Pressure
Overall rating 1.0
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My sister had a very bad reaction to this medication. It caused a medication induced lupus condition which put her in the hospital for 2 weeks and in intensive care for one week. The doctors concurred that it was the medication that had an adverse reaction to her. She may have been the one person to have this reaction but I would not take the drug after seeing what she's gone through.

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