Benicar (olmesartan medoxomil) is a medication used to treat high blood pressure, so it makes sense that when people taking the drug start experiencing chronic diarrhea and other gastrointestinal symptoms, neither they nor their doctors suspect that the drug could be to blame. If it happened immediately after starting the drug, the correlation … [Read more...]

Benicar (olmesartan medoxomil) is a popular blood pressure medication sold by Daiichi Sankyo, Inc. It has been linked to a rare and severe gastrointestinal disorder called sprue-like enteropathy. The disorder can be life-threatening. It is often misdiagnosed as Celiac disease because it has similar symptoms including chronic diarrhea. Olmesartan is … [Read more...]