High Blood Pressure
"Losartan gave me painful backaches and pretty severe swelling in my hands and feet.  Because of this, I had to take a potassium supplement for the backache and then hztc for the fluid retention.  I do not like having to take two medications to control the side effect of one medication.  Those issues got under control, but now it has given me chronic diarrhea so I have to switch.  All that aside, Losartan does control my blood pressure very well, and I&#039;ve had issues with Norvasc, Lisinopril, Bystolic, and Clonadine.  Maybe I&#039;m sensitive.  If you have hard to control blood pressure, this might be a powerful drug that will work for you.  I ended up in the ER once with 220/150 (on Norvasc) and Losartan HCTZ got me in control really quickly."