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| 1 | Arthritis | After taking 2 doses of the 75 mg I became very dizzy for a few hours and then got a terrible headache. I have not had problems with other NSAIDS in the past but this one was just awful. | F | 41 | 1 days | 12/9/2009 | 2 | anti-inflammatory for back pain | I took 1 pill in the evening and the next day I took a total of 3. The following day when I took the morning pill I had a slight headache most of the day. By 4 PM, I had the worst headache I ever had in my life. The med helped bring down the back inflammation, and the pain in my back was gone...but the horrible headache kept me from taking any more. | I was given a demoral shot in the ER on a Friday night and I slept most of Saturday away. Every time I work up in the first 8 hours, my headache was still there. | F | 49 | 3 days | 8/5/2009 | 1 | don't remember | After 2 full days of use, I got a 'headache'(BEYOND description) so bad I had to go to ER. I really thought my brain had swelled and was trying to get out of my skull. I told Dr. in ER it was the medicine. He said I had a 'migraine' and it couldn't be the drug. I don't know what they shot me up with but it reversed the problem quickly | Stay close to a hospital when and if you take this drug! | M | 37 | 2 days | 6/26/2009 | 3 | Gout | After taking Indocin 25 mg 4x day for first 3 days I experienced severe swelling of my legs and feet, headache, dry mouth and rapid heartbeat. I immediately stopped taking Indocin and side effects began to lessen. | M | 54 | 3 days | 4/17/2009 | 4 | Gout | It was great at stopping the Gout in my foot, but there were occasional scary side effects. I don't know for sure what the triggering mechanism is, but every once in a while, about 2 hours after taking one 50mg cap, I would get a strange feeling, like I was buzzed, but not in a good way.. then the adrenalin would kick in and my heart rate would skyrocket. I tried not to think about it, but the wooozie feeling kept coming and going, and finally disaperas after about an hour. I strongly believe there is an adverse reaction to caffine. | I do not take the drug unless Gout is present. Usually once to three times a year | M | 48 | 11 years | 1/27/2009 | 5 | Pain in joints thru out body | No side effects at all. | I have been told by some doctors that taking indocin for a long time will damage my kidneys. I tried to stop taking indocin and within three days it feels like i am falling apart. my back feel like it is breaking in two. i have scoliosis and arthritis in all of my joints. I have cut back to 40 mg a day, taken with breakfast, and that amount works just fine. I tried six other anti-inflamitories over the years and they did not work for me. At 67 years i can still climb trees to hunt deer. without indocin i would be finished. | M | 67 | 7 years | 1/10/2009 | 4 | I had Eyeritus | I started taking indocin SR 26 years ago. I experienced problems with my stomach and then switched to indomethacin and those problems went away. However, now, 26 years later (actually the past several years) I've had a constant ringing in my ears and I'm gradually loosing my hearing. I've been studying the Polish language and my lack of hearing's been a problem. I got hearing aids and they don't help that much - especially when there's "cross-talk" going on. | I take 50mg each night and it's important to take it with milk or food. Another problem that's developed over the past several years is a loss of my "singing" ability. My voice has gotten raspy and singing has become more difficult. All that to say that I need to check with my Doctor to see if there's something else I can use. In the past there has been no other meds that have helped like Indomethacin. If I discontinue taking it, after 3-4 days my whole body begins to stiffen up - my muscles cramp to the point that I can't sleep - or hardly walk. | M | 56 | 26 years | 8/26/2008 | 3 | Gout | Took care of the gout w/i 2-3 days but experienced some stomach cramping (no big deal) but the worst of it my skin aches. I noticed when showering, the water pressure hurt me - as I started to rub those areas I realized quickly that every inch of my body hurt to the touch. As I'm typing this, I can hardly move my right arm as my shoulder is extremely tender. I was taking two 75 mg daily. I'm not taking any more. | M | 49 | 1 weeks | 4/18/2008 | 1 | Gout | I take indocin occasionally to treat my gout flare ups… never again! For the last week or so I’ve been taking 1-2 pills daily for a recent gout flare-up and suddenly had a very scary side-effect. The bottom line was I though I was loosing my mind. So much so my wife had to take me to the emergency room. It was so bad that I had an MRI done to rule out a stroke! The best way for me to describe it; after I take the drug I feel dizzy then a few days into the medication I started feeling depressed and then a few days after that I became totally confused, delusional and depersonalized to the point where I thought I was going out of my mind! | I WILL NEVER TAKE THIS DRUG AGAIN! | M | 7 days | 3/24/2008 | 4 | Severe Hypnic Headache | Constipation, bloating, prolonged nocturnal sleep, excessive dreaming | I take Indocin s-r exactly two hours before bedtime to try to prevent hypnic headaches which occur like an alarm clock when I go into rapid-eye-movement (REM) stage sleep. At 4:38 in the mornings I would awaken with excruciating pain as though my head would explode, worse than any migraine I have experienced. I tried all the regular migraine drugs including triptans, hypnotics/sedatives, narcotics, and nothing helped one iota. A headache specialist properly diagnosed the hypnic headache and put me on Indocin SR. I awake with a mild headache still during some nights or in the AM, but I cannot tolerate two Indocin SR's at night (Stomach upset). I am truly grateful for this medication and for my physician who diagnosed this very rare type of headache. | F | 51 | 5 months | 3/2/2008 | 3 | Arthritis | None! | I was thrilled when I woke up the first morning after starting Indocin and found that after 3 years of arthritis pain, I was pain free. About one month later, I had a Kidney stone attack and had to go to the ER. The ER doctor was amazed that I had been put on Indocin since I was also on Coumadin. He told me that first thing in the morning, I was to call my GP and inquire as to the adviseability of being on Indocin while taking Coumadin. When I saw the GP, he canceled my Indocin that moment. If you are on Coumadin, check with your GP before starting Indocin. I was told it could precipitate large scale bleeding that might not be reversible in time. | M | 66 | 30 days | 2/23/2008 | 5 | Occasional gout | None, but you must take this medication with food otherwise it will irritate your stomach. | I have occasional bouts of gout and within a couple of hours of taking indomethicin the symptoms are all but gone. For me it works great. BTW, I know some think this is an old wives' tale but black cherries, lots of them, along with the indocin is great for gout. | M | 57 | 2 years | 11/17/2007 | 2 | Polyarthritis | One day I felt very dizzy, kind of spacey, and felt like I was going to go crazy. My work called 911 and I was taken to the hospital. They said I had a panic attack. Since that dreadful day, I have had panic attacks every day, along with dizziness, a floating-type of feeling, and heightened sound (like I was going to freak out from the noise). Was recently diagnosed with underactive thyroid, so the doctor's said this panic was a side effect and put me on Seroquel and Xanax. This didn't make sense to me and I still had these feelings, so I did some checking online and found this site and was AMAZED at the similarities in my symptoms from everyone. I am now off the Indocin, and have not had ANY panic whatsoever! Thank you for everyone's input, as this really helped me!! | If you are feeling CRAZY for some strange reason while you are on this medication, IT'S NOT YOU.......IT'S THE DRUG!! | F | 42 | 3.5 months | 11/6/2007 | 3 | Cluster Migrains | The only thing that I have noticed is a short term memory loss which comes and goes. | Seems to take care of about 80% of the migrain and reduces the pain so that it is tollerable but still there. | M | 54 | 2 weeks | 4/24/2007 | 4 | gout | loose stools at 3x per day level when having an attack...may not be the medication...maybe from the strees of the attack | works for me | M | 58 | 2 years | 4/9/2007 | 3 | rheumatoid arthritis | slight dizziness or off balance, depersonalization, mild heartburn | Initially i was put on prednisone to take with the onset of a flareup. This did not help so I was put on indocin. While this medication helps with the severity (sometimes) of the pain, the number of flareups are just as many and last just as long, as many as three times a month lasting four to five days. | F | 44 | 12 months | 12/7/2006 | 1 | Indocin Linked to Stevens Johnson Syndrome | 6/30/2006 | 5 | Gout | Depersonalization, dizzy, out-of-body feeling. | I generally use traditional NSAIDS when I feel a gout attack occuring - but if I get full blown flare they dont do the trick and I resort to Indocin. I dont like using the Indocin -but it does the trick really well and fairly quickly. I use it as an option of last resort. I really respect this drug - and hate it. Damn you Indocin - why cant you be easier to use! | M | 47 | 15 months | 5/27/2006 | 1 | Gout | I have rare and brief bouts of Gout periodically and have used Indomethacin on those occasions to stop the pain. I rarely take more than a total of 2 (50 mg ) caps in a day because the discomfort appears to disappear fairly quickly. Today something horrific occurred. This morning shortly after taking 1 (50 mg) cap I started to feel very strange and went into a full blown panic attack, thinking I was having a nervous breakdown. I was unsteady on my feet, trembling, had dry mouth and actually thought I was losing my mind. I was about ready to call an ambulance because I thought I was incapable of caring for myself and might do something real crazy; I was scared. I went walking, thinking that would help as I was incapable of sitting with my mind in such complete disarray. I had trouble dialing my mobile phone but finally contacted a British doctor, who was an acquaintance of mine, and he wanted to see immediately whereby he promptly gave me a valium, which I could not even take out o | After the Valium, I was able to nap for about 2 hours and felt almost like myself again; 6 hours later I almost back to my normal self again. Needless to say, I won't be taking this drug again. | M | 75 | 15 times | 4/14/2006 | 5 | gout in big toe | No negative side effects. Definitely have to drink a lot of water to help clense your body, otherwise I would get dry mouth at night. After a few days, the painful gout would go away. | Gout in my big toe is one of the most painful things I have ever had. Indomethacin was a savior. | M | 28 | 10 years | 7/25/2005 | 3 | arthritis | I also have many flare ups in my joints. They are very painful but not as painful as when I have my gout attacks. These happen usually a few times a year. My doctor gave me Indocin, and I take this with a meal and avoid lying down for about 2 hours. Recently I was hospitalized for bleeding in stomach (ulcer). The cause was from taking this and Aspirins. | M | 59 | 6 months | 5/25/2005 | 3 | arthritis | Feeling of heartburn in stomach. Recently I was hospitalized for bleeding in stomach (ulcer). I was told NOT to take Inocin and aspirins anymore. | My doctor gave me Indocin, and I take this with a meal and avoid lying down for about 2 hours. I also have many flare ups in my joints. They are very painful but not as painful as when I have my gout attacks. These happen usually a few times a year. | M | 59 | 6 months | 5/25/2005 | 1 | Misdiagnosed as arthritic | Extreme dizziness, depersonalization, depression, loss of appetite, and, ultimately, an auditory hallcuination. | F | 50 | 30 days | 3/24/2005 | 5 | severe chronic headach | Dizziness, Depression,Fatigue, Increase of Appetite. | This is the Only medicine which is effectivw on my severe headach. | M | 50 | 15 years | 1/17/2005 | 5 | Chronic Paroxysmal Hemicrania | lightheaded feeling for about an hour a day. Also not sure if this is causing me constipation or if it's the Prevacid I'm also on. | I have now gone 140 days with out ANY head pain from my CPH. THIS IS A MIRACLE DRUG. I LOVE IT!!! | F | 23 | 4 months | 10/4/2004 | 4 | hemicrania continua | At doses above 150mg/day my varicose veins were more painful and my skin became very dry. | This has greatly relieved the daily headache and all but eliminated the severe episodic headaches. I take 150 mg divided into three doses. I am very careful to take it with food and so far have not suffered any gastric upset. | F | 53 | 4 years | 4/19/2004 | 3 | arthritis | headache, flare of crohn's disease due to impact on stomache | went on after VERY bad flare and worked but caused flare of crohn's | F | 27 | 3/23/2003 | 5 | 6/25/2002 | 5 | FOR MY ARTHRITIS | HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE, HOLDING IN FLUID | I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT THIS..I HAVE TRIED ALL OTHER ARTHRITIS DRUGS AND I AM IN SO MUCH PAIN THAT I WOULD RATHER DIE THAN GO OFF THIS DRUG..SO AS OF TODAY I HAVE GOT TO WATCH ALL MY SALTS SO I CAN STAY ON THIS, THE DOCTOR DOESN'T LIKE HOW HIGH MY BLOOD PRESSURE IS..140/100..BUT WHEN YOU ARE IN THAT MUCH PAIN YOU WILL DO ANYTHING TO STAY ON IT, SO I HOPE STAYING AWAY FROM SALT WILL HELP. THE WAY I TAKE IT HAS NEVER HURT MY STOMACH. ALWAYS EAT AT LEAST A PIEACE OF BREAD OR SOMETHING, DRINK ABOUT 80Z. GLASS OF MILK AND A 20 0Z. BOTTLE OF WATER WHEN YOU TAKE IT. THIS WAY IT STAYS OFF YOUR STOMACH LINNING. THIS IS THE ONLY DRUG THAT I HAVE FOUND THAT WORKS FOR ME. AND I HAVE BEEN ON EVERYTHING.. | F | 45 | 3 years | 1/27/2002 |
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ratings: 5-Very Satisfied: this medicine cured me or helped me a great deal. 4-Satisfied: this medicine helped. 3-Somewhat Satisfied: this medicine helped somewhat. 2-Not Satisfied: this medicine did not work to my satisfaction. 1-Dissatisfied: I would not recommend taking this medicine. |