Talk:Olmesartan

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can you eat grapefruit with this medicine? ˥ Ǝ Ʉ H Ɔ I Ɯ (talk) 04:35, 9 July 2018 (UTC)


 * I do. I've been on it for two years. Just make sure you eat some foods high in potassium (oranges, orange juice, tomato juice, bananas) to keep your potassium levels up because Benicar makes you pee a lot —Preceding unsigned comment added by Special:Contributions/ (talk)

Olmesartan (an acid) and olmesartan medoxomil are different compounds and they should have their own pages. Olmesartan medoxomil is ester prodrug of olmesartan that is an acid.--Tanevala (talk) 10:22, 2 April 2014 (UTC) CELIAC Disease Warning Reports involving Benicar diarrhea problems suggest that the symptoms may not appear until months or even years after an individual first uses the drug. Therefore, if longer studies had been conducted the drug maker could have discovered the connection and provided warnings for consumers and the medical community much earlier - See more at: http://www.youhavealawyer.com/blog/2014/03/28/benicar-diarrhea-problems/#sthash.IxGPpe2m.dpuf — Preceding unsigned comment added by Notadr (talk • contribs) 20:08, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Confusion between the drug and the pro-drug
I don't have access to reference 1 to check, but I think that the Chembox is showing the data for the prodrug Olmesartan medoxomil, and the lede also begins with the name of the prodrug (vs the title which is for the drug). While the information is all useful there needs to be clarity about what the principle subject of the article is and better clarity about when the prodrug is being discussed vs the drug. --The chemistds (talk) 09:41, 12 May 2014 (UTC)