Clonidine for High Blood Pressure User Reviews (Page 5)
Brand names: Catapres, Clonidine ER, Catapres-TTS, Kapvay, Duraclon, Nexiclon XR
Clonidine has an average rating of 5.8 out of 10 from a total of 97 reviews for the treatment of High Blood Pressure. 40% of reviewers reported a positive experience, while 37% reported a negative experience.
Reviews for Clonidine
- Dory...
- Taken for 2 to 5 years
- July 16, 2015
"Weight gain, anxiety, blood pressure not improved."
- Anonymous
- Taken for 1 to 2 years
- June 16, 2017
"Tingling, burning in toes with swelling, Leg discomfort were major complaint , particularly on left side."
- GmFay
- Taken for 1 to 6 months
- May 6, 2015
"Makes me dizzy, unsteady on feet and sleepy. Little to no effect on lowering my blood pressure. Before I started taking meds my diastolic was 80 to 90 now it's 100 and above."
- DeepS...
- October 4, 2009
"Works well for blood pressure but a side effect I experience is that it makes me very short tempered. I could become a middle linebacker."
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- Lily
- Taken for 6 months to 1 year
- October 2, 2022
"Clonidine helped my blood pressure but what a price to pay when I started seeing demons. I stopped the clonidine and the demons stopped."
- Anonymous
- March 16, 2010
"It makes my eyes very dry but I sleep very well when using it."
- high...
- March 16, 2009
"This medicine is not reducing my diastolic pressure as I feel it should. It is still averaging over 100."
- Stephen
- Taken for 1 to 6 months
- May 26, 2022
"Makes me dizzy. I have fallen several times in the last three days.q"
- fuzzi
- Taken for less than 1 month
- August 10, 2017
"just started using it."
- Anonymous
- February 25, 2009
"It works fairly well"
- Anonymous
- February 28, 2009
"Good"
- Marie
- Taken for less than 1 month
- December 30, 2021
"It made me cough. I took Alavert for the cough. I woke up, hard time breathing, my mouth and throat were so dry my tongue was stuck to the roof of my mouth. All swollen, thought I would die."
- Timothy...
- Taken for less than 1 month
- April 19, 2022
"This gave my husband a stoke he was hospitalized, his diagnosis is submissive aphasia it messed up is speech understanding and walking,"
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"Tendon problems back of calves and my heels are in pain so I can't walk well. Does the blood pressure ok."