| Re: Cozaar Info
I took Cozaar for 13 days. I now have permanent damage to my knees, upper arm muscles, hands & fingers from the extensive drug induced lupus reaction from this drug. My blood count dropped & it took 2 yrs to get back to normal. It took me about 4 months to be able to start walking the length of my driveway whereas I was walking 2 miles a day. It did nothing for my b/p.
One man's meat is another man's poison certainly applies to these b/p meds. A drug can look really good until it gets out into the general population where many new reaction can take place. Apparently we all have different ways of metabolizing meds & there is no perfect way of assessing this before hand. Mayo Clinic does have some tests for some drugs that may be able to predict if a particular drug will work in a particular patient.
Luckily, Cozaar is one of those drugs that can be stopped suddenly without rebound hypertension (when one's b/p goes higher than it was before taking the med). My first symptom was very painful wrists which was dismissed as arthritis. I had not had any previous symptoms of arthritis or wrist problems. The key here is getting a new & unusual symptom for which there is no explanation. Fam
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