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I was first prescribed Candesartan just as I retired 5 ...

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I was first prescribed Candesartan just as I retired 5 years ago when I was 58 and found I had type two Diabetes. Within three months my GP was treating me for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome . Although I had questioned and thought about the range of medication I was taking for for my diabetics (Mostly prescribed by the then Diabetic Clinic) I simply went along with what I was told I needed.

I regularly talked to my GP about about my aches and pains, raging headaches, constant flu like symptoms together with a total lack of energy lasting up to six months each time. After two years all sympathy and understanding for my condition dried up. I stopped going to the GP except for Annual Diabetic check ups and just suffered it.

By February 06 things had got so bad I did the dumbest thing and started to consider suicide. Family and friends had given up on me. A typical comments would be 'What you really need is a good walk'. ' Stop just thinking of yourself'. All this when I could hardly walk across a room.

In August my local GP practice decided to change the usual Candesartan brand for a cheaper alternative but they failed to add it to my repeat prescription. I did not notice the tiny tablet was missing for three weeks but magically I had never felt so well. When I suggested to my wife that I would like to redecorate the lounge she almost choked in surprise.

Never realizing what was really happening I restarted taking the generic Candesartan. Within two weeks my condition returned and was worse than it had ever been.

The Bomb dropped!!!

I didn't speak to my GP I just stopped taking the drug as I had to find out if I was right. Within a week my life improved beyond all recognition. I went to my GP and we have agreed to dispense with what I consider has destroyed my retirement for five long years.

Five years of feeling so unwell you stop living your life! Not expecting to live much longer! Sitting down to write your last thoughts to your family and feeling you have somehow failed them by becoming a recluse and not fit enough even to leave the house.

How do I feel now? Well, I feel very angry that I have let this happen to me. I want to shout at those who's job it was to make me better yet their good intentions were making me ill. I feel I want my five years back.

It also feels WONDERFUL TO BE ALIVE

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    On re-reading the above message. I think I ought to make it clear that the real reason it was never noticed that I was particularly allergic to Candesartan was because I started five different types of medication basically altogether after the Diabetes diagnosis. Yet though I constantly complained of feeling ill for years no one ever suggested looking at my medication. This included my GP, Three Doctors at the Diabetic Clinic or the two specialist I saw twice (one privatly).

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    I would like to than Alan Smith for reassuring me that i am not going strange, i was perscribed Candersartan for high blood pressure only 3 months ago and already in that space of time my life has become unimaginable, generally people think if you are perscribed medication by a doctor it surely must make you better and not feel worse, not always the case for each individual,i have suffered from terrible headaches and joint pain not to mention the fatigue which has made life pretty miserable when you cannot do what you would like from day to day. I have stopped my medication and made an appointment to have it reviewed with my doctor, thanking Alan once again after reading up about candersartan that i wasn't wrong after all and would like to wish him good health for his future retirement years.

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    [quote:70c2463ef5=\"P. \"]I would like to than Alan Smith for reassuring me that i am not going strange, i was perscribed Candersartan for high blood pressure only 3 months ago and already in that space of time my life has become unimaginable, generally people think if you are perscribed medication by a doctor it surely must make you better and not feel worse, not always the case for each individual,i have suffered from terrible headaches and joint pain not to mention the fatigue which has made life pretty miserable when you cannot do what you would like from day to day. I have stopped my medication and made an appointment to have it reviewed with my doctor, thanking Alan once again after reading up about candersartan that i wasn't wrong after all and would like to wish him good health for his future retirement years.

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