BACTRIM Reviews (SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TRIMETHOPRIM)Average Rating: 1.9 (1902 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare BACTRIM with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR BACTRIM | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | Sinus Infection | None. | I didn't have any side effects from this antibiotic (thank God). Usually I have side effects from antibiotics. I am severely allergic to penicillin, so this is a great alternative for me. | F | 10 days 2X day | 4/27/2016 | 5 | Uti | Nausea, insomnia, shaking in the hands and fatigue. | It's clearing up my uti with minimal side effects. All antibiotics have nasty side effects so nothing abnormal about bactrim. | 10 days 2X day | 4/8/2017 | 4 | Baller infrction | Lost my taste bud | F | 1 days | 1/28/2017 | 3 | UTI | 800 1X day | 3/6/2015 | 3 | Prostatitis | Somewhat fixed the infection. But the side effects were terrible. I had to stop taking it. On day 3 I noticed my legs feeling numbness and pain in my hips. I continued to take it for another 4 days and decided to completely stop the end of day 7. I was supposed to take it for 14 days. I can't deal with the leg pain. | M | 7 days 2X day | 11/12/2020 | 3 | Prostate Infection | Anemia, Lowed my red blood count | Went to hematologist after being off it for 2 weeks and blood count was normal. The lower red blood count could be the reason for the fatigue a whole bunch of respondents mention. | M | 21 days | 9/26/2006 | 3 | Sinus Infection | Fatigue, Dehydration, Depression | Plan on finishing the course to clear a sinus infection. Had taken Levaqin in the past for Sinus Infection and experienced horrible psychological effects. Bactrim is better but I still feel sad and it makes me feel like no one likes me and nothing is worth doing. I have to remind myself all the time that its just the antibiotics and I will feel better after the drugs get out of my system. But still I want to call my mom every night and ask her to tell me everything is going to be ok. Drug seems to have cleared my infection. Did not experience any allergic effects. Needed to drink a lot of water. I doubled up on all of my vitamins including Cod Liver Oil. Antibiotics are rough and very depleting. Taking extra vitamins really helped to deal with the negative effects. This can be a useful drug if you really need it and don't develop allergic effects but don't expect a walk in a rose garden. | 14 days | 3/4/2008 | 2 | UTI | Flu-like symptoms: severe headache, muscle aches, low-grade fever, malaise. | I understand that flu-like symptoms can be an indication of a sensitivity to sulfa drugs. I will not be taking this again- we discontinued it and I began taking a different antibiotic for the infection. | 1 days | 7/13/2008 | 2 | I had an infected cut in my leg | It works very well but the side effects can be bad, I noticed a bad migraine the first day I took it and then persistent headache for the rest of the treatment | 10 days | 7/27/2016 | 2 | ea infections | 1 days | 6/19/2015 | 1 | Finger infection. | After 2nd day fatigue, trembling, my legs weak, but worst was the feeling of losing control, a type of anxiety. Spaced out. If you have a sensitive constitution say away. When will md's learn everyone is different? | M | 2 days 800-160 2X day | 7/18/2015 | 1 | Bronchitis | Chemically induced hepatitis. Bilirubin spiked to 11. Sick with all the symptoms of a viral hepatitis. | It took a nurse to figure out it was from this drug, after going through multiple tests ordered by doctors to find the answer of my liver problem. Started drinking ensure to wash the chemicals out of my liver. This occurred in 1990. The doctor was obviously not aware that blood liver tests are to be done every 7 days while taking this drug. Also did not recognise the adverse reactions was the drug. I was sick for 3 months. Long term damage is slow liver metabolism. This makes it hard for my liver to filter out medications which than build up. So I have to take half the dose amount of the adult dose on almost all meds. So I have become highly sensitive to meds. It also damamged the thyroid. | F | 30 days 3X day | 1/29/2016 | 1 | Preventative | I stopped this medication on the 4th day and im still Nauseous several days later...i feel short of breath, heart beating fast, insomnia, anxious, dizzy, muscle spasms, pain in joints. This is a horrible drug and should be taken off the market...going thru all of these symptoms in the middle of a pandemic is debilitating and stressful. | Please do not take this drug! | F | 4 days 2X day | 10/31/2020 | 1 | Sinus Infection | Itchy rash on hands and arms within 3 hours of taking 1st dose. I think I will discontinue the drug. | M | 1 days | 1/26/2009 | 1 | infected tooth | Very bad purple leasions(sp?)on my penis that will scar badly!!! Will never take again!!!! | M | 5 days | 6/8/2008 | 1 | Ear infection | Jitters, insomnia, lack of appetite | F | 7 days 2X day | 5/12/2012 | 3 | upper respitory infection | red red rash on cheeks and arms...looks like zits sort of | I will not let my daughter take this again | F | 1 | 3 weeks | 2/26/2009 | 1 | prevent UTI | My son was put on Bactrim October of 2006 at almost 3 months old to prevent urinary tract infections because he has some kidney problems. He NEVER slept. He was a baby, but after a month I asked his doctors, nephrologist, pediatrician and urologist if it could be the medicine keeping him up. Each said sleeplessness isn't a side effect. He would wake crying or screaming every night after 2 hours of sleep. I was told I spoil him, he is breastfeeding, he's just being needy, let him cry it out for hours. He cried, I cried, he never slept, I never slept. I tried probiotics, acid reflux meds, night time sleep medicine, finally after reading this page, after 1 YEAR of being on this medication, I stopped it and for the first time in his life, he is sleeping. He slept 10 hours in a row a week after being off this medicine. NONE of his doctors listened to me and my son couldn't say that he couldn't sleep. He is a new person, now maybe his kidneys will heal, now that he can sleep. | I feel like I was poisoning my son, giving this to him for a year. NEVER, EVER give this to a child. The worst thing that I ever did, I feel I failed my son. | M | 1 | 13 months | 12/8/2007 | 1 | Strep-Pnuemo bacterimia | Rash,liver failure, life-threatening hypotension, anaphalxis | My one and a half year old son was given this in place of a slight reaction he had to Vancomycin. It almost killed him. This stuff should not be giving to anyone unless as a last resort. | M | 1.5 | 2 days | 6/12/2008 | 3 | Infection in cuticle of great toe | On day five of the course of antibiotics my son developed watery diarrhea followed by a fever of 100.8 and extreme lethargy. He refused to eat supper and went to bed three hours early. He awoke with blistering hives around his mouth and vomiting. The adverse effects appeared to have mostly subsided around twelve hours after his last dose. | My son is allergic to azithromycin and keflex. Bactrim is a sulfa drug and can cause severe reactions in people with sulfa allergies. It appears my son has a sulfa allergy so his reaction to Bactrim may not be an accurate reflection of how you will react to Bactrim. | M | 2 | 7 days 2 tsp | 10/22/2015 |
BACTRIM (SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TRIMETHOPRIM): This medication is a combination of two antibiotics: sulfamethoxazole and trimethoprim. It is used to treat a wide variety of bacterial infections (such as middle ear, urine, respiratory, and intestinal infections). It is also used to prevent and treat a certain type of pneumonia (pneumocystis-type). This medication should not be used in children less than 2 months of age due to the risk of serious side effects. This medication treats only certain types of infections. It will not work for viral infections (such as flu). Unnecessary use or misuse of any antibiotic can lead to its decreased effectiveness. (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)