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 | Cystic Acne and Perioral Dermatitis | No Side Effects | Love this medication. After trying a few medications, this was the only one that was effective with no side effects. I am now 50 and have just started to ween myself off the medication hoping my skin does not break out again. 2 months with no medication and so far so good. | F | 50 | 22 years 1/2 1X day | 4/14/2016 | 5 | Sinus | if taken with caffeine drinks, the effects of caffeine seem intensified. | I've taken this drug for UTI and sinus infections over the last 20 years. It's always worked well for me, and no real side effects. Don't take with caffeine, and drink plenty of water. | F | 57 | 20 years | 7/16/2007 | 3 | post transplant PCP prevention | This medication was effective for its purpose...I rarely got Pneumonia in the 17 post transplant years that I was on the drug. Long story short, my doctors are on the brink of diagnosing me with drug induced lupus. I was ordered off the Bactrim after some alarming auto-immunity tests were run. Among the many positive test results were an ANA, DsDNA, and anti histone abs as well as the inflammation markers: westergren sed rate and c-reactive protein. Tests will be rerun in a few months to confirm the diagnosis. I will never take another sulfa drug again. I thought this drug was safe for me because I've been on it for so long, but I got a rude awakening into the reality of long term side effects. I was very lucky in that Lupus is treated with immunosuppressants and I was on said drugs for my transplant. So the one set of pills was treating two conditions (one of them I didn't even know I had). | F | 25 | 17 years 4X W | 1/1/2011 | 5 | My skin always hurts! Always! | None. Sunburn sometimes | About 25 years ago my skin started to always feel like it was on fire. My skin would always ache. My skin would always feel inflamed. I would ache all over. There is absolutely nothing to see. But it hurts! I've been to probably over 100 doctors. Pain cause depression, So I've taken many different types of meds for the depression. After about 10 years of pain, I was put bactrim to clear up a skin rash. Suddenly all my skin pain disappeared. The rash went away, but when I stopped the bactrim mu skin pain returned. Started bactrim back up, most skin pain disapated. Currently I take lyrica and the bactrim every day. Sometimes I take one bactrim, some times 2 daily. Believe me this drug works!!! No side effects. I love this stuff!! I was told by my dermatologist at Penn State Medical Center that bactrim has an anti-inflammatory effect on the skin. He said all dermatologists know this. He said it's a safe long term drug. He said it's no worse than taking a blood pressure pill every day. This is a Penn State doctor! This drug has given me hope. I've tried to stop it many times but the pain comes right back. I have no side effects except for sunburn sometimes. I have taken it for 15 years now. Can't live without it. Please don't encourage others to remove this drug from the market. It's not nice!!!! | M | 57 | 15 years DS 800-160 | 6/3/2018 | 4 | acne | No side effects. Most people can take this drug safely, and aren't coming to this website to list problems. The people listing complications are a small minority of those who don't react well to this generally safe drug. It's unfortunate, and you should not take it, but please don't call for a ban when most people can take it safely without any ill effects. I feel badly for those who have had problems, but for others it is a lifesaver and cheap to boot. | F | 53 | 12 years DS 1 pill 2X day | 6/12/2010 | 4 | UTI | "Bleached" skin feeling, vision impairment. | This medication is the only one the USED to solve my Chronic UTI problems. Now I fear that because I have used it for SO MANY UTI's that I have become resistant to it because this last round did not do much to help. It does have some strange side effects, but everyone reacts differently to most medications. I never developed a fever on this, but I did develop as strange feeling that my sking was burnt like I had been in a pool of bleach. Dry, cracking, and just, well "bleached" is the best way to describe it. My vision also suffered. | F | 29 | 10 years | 6/1/2009 | 1 | Fight kidney infection post-surgery | I took this medication for years as a child after having kidney surgery. Only recently have I learned that not only does bactrim kill bad bacteria, it decimates the good bacteria too. I have had frequent urinary tract infections (4 a year or more) throughout my whole life and I now believe it is because I do not have any good bacteria left in my UT to prevent infections. My UTIs have seriously decreased my quality of life, and as I've treated them with antibiotics so frequently, I have developed an immunity to so many medications that are supposed to treat the issue. | F | 35 | 8 years 1X day | 11/23/2014 | 1 | Acne | Stopped taking bactrim on my own in June. I have had severe anxiety and there are times that I feel like I am losing my mind. These symptons have lasted almost 2 months now, (the exact same time I stopped this medication), has anyone else had these symptoms after stopping this drug??? | Would NEVER use again. | M | 18 | 5 years 2X day | 7/18/2010 | 5 | Skin | I experienced no side effects. I've taken multiple times over my life, the first time for 3 years for Kidney Reflux, the second time just for my skin as prescribed by my dermatologist. It seems to be a very effective but gentle drug. | F | 23 | 4 years | 3/22/2009 | 3 | acneo | I took bactrim twice a day for about 4 years for acne and didn't experience any side effects. within a week of quitting, I was experiencing chest and body pains, trouble breathing, reflux symptoms, and insomnia. My face just recently broke out again but there's no way i'm starting bactrim again | M | 21 | 4 years 2X day | 12/24/2010 | 1 | Adult onset acne | Strange headache that felt like three things at once...first, a tight band around the back of my neck/head. Second, a constant shrill noise in my left ear that increased in intensity over the months, and a roaring sound in the other ear. This part would never respond to any kind of medicine. Plus the throbbing part of a headache that would respond to medicine. Also had occasional flu like symptoms, extreme fatigue, sudden urgent diarrhea, vertigo, dizziness, joint and muscle pain from the waist down, nervousness, and depression. Gained about 20 lbs. from lack of activity while this ill. | I had been taking 1/2 of a tablet of bactrim for about three years with no problem what so ever for the acne. Some of the symptoms were present for years and were basically written off by my doctors. Then last March 9th, I woke up one morning with a headache and it would never go away. I described those same symptoms to countless doctors this year..primary care doc, ENT, Sinus Specialist, neurologist, dentist (for tmj), dermatologist who prescribed the bactrim to begin with, chiropractor, eye doctor, otoneurolgist, and a pain specialist. Most pushed me out the door to the next doctor or just stared at me like a doe in the headlights when I told them what was going on. I lived with this from March 9th to mid December of 2006. Not one doctor mentioned the problem was more tinnitus than headache. I finally figured it out on my own. I can't tell you how many hours I spent searching the internet and finally used a different keyword with headache...squeal. That's what finally took m | F | 52 | 4 years | 12/23/2006 | 5 | Wegener's Granulomatosis | very few side effects all manageable with pro-biotics | This drug is saving my life and keeping my disease in remission without having to take chemotherapy. | F | 42 | 3 years | 3/12/2009 | 5 | Acne | Nothing, Ance is gone!!! | I love bactrim. I have been taking this drug for years to help with my ance and when I take it twice a day it works! I do not get heachache ever, I rarely get sick, and I take it twice a day everyday. This drug will not do the same thing for every person, of course this will have different side affects for different people, but I would recommend this drug to anyone looking to get rid of their acne | F | 21 | 3 years 2X day | 5/23/2010 | 5 | Cystic Acne | None that I have noticed. | I have been taking for 3 years, and it has completely stopped the cystic acne growth. If I go off it, the acne comes back. For anyone with cystic acne, I would recommend this drug. | F | 19 | 3 years | 12/10/2009 | 1 | acne | DEHIBILITATING ANXIETY, very hard to breath, slight confusion, headache (feels like brain hurts/is throbbing), feels like it is uncomfortable to think, sometimes my face feels hot, heart feels like it is pounding really hard, depression, stiff neck,loss of appetite (and when i do eat i get a stomach ache), only feel good when I lie down,COFFEE MAKES EVERYTHING WORSE | I took this drug for THREE YEARS before any side effects showed up. One day I just felt horrible, I felt like someone drugged me and very anxious. I would have episodes where I felt like I was going to die/atleast pass out. After stopping it for almost two weeks now the episodes have become less severe, but I still feel the symptoms pretty strongly, although not as strong as when I was still taking it. I changed nothing in my diet or lifestyle, and took no other medicines that might have caused this to happen. It just took a long time for my body to develop this (allergic?) reaction. PLEASE, DO NOT TAKE....I DO NOT WANT ANYBODY ANYBODY ANYBODY ANYBODY TO FEEL THE THINGS I FELT ON THIS DRUG. PLEASE... | F | 18 | 3 years | 9/16/2009 | 5 | acne | mild gastrointestinal disturbance, sun sensitivity | M | 22 | 2.5 years 800/160mg 2X day | 2/7/2010 | 5 | prevention of uti | Mild sensitivity to sun | I have taken bactrim ds on and off for about 2yrs. Prior to this I would have uti's more often than normal (sometimes up to 6 per year). My doctor prescribed bactrim as for as a preventative, suggesting I take one every time I have sex (and take the twice a day dose for a week if an infection did develop). This has worked very well, and I only developed one UTI since (after going OFF of my doctor's suggestions for two months). Additionally, I have found that my acne clears up when I take bactrim. | F | 26 | 2 years | 8/21/2005 | 5 | Adult Acne | Diarrhea, joint pain | Awesome treatment for acne. I have taken bactrim DS for two years (with regular monitoring of blood cell counts) and it worked wonderfully. My acne scars even faded away naturally. I recently switched to a new dermatologist because I have relocated. He refused to prescribe bactrim to me and asked me to take adoxa (doxycline) and all of the acne problems came back. Then he recommended Accutane, which I have refused. I guess it's time to find a new MD. | F | 31 | 2 years | 8/28/2005 | 2 | Acne | intense stomach pain(like extreme gas pains), severe heart burn i have been taking Bactrim for about two years now, because it works wonders on my acne. i never put the stomach pain together with the medication because when i talked to my doctor about the pain they said my stomach wasnt digesting my food correctly and recommended fiber. taking fiber did nothing. but then i went off of the medicine for a few days and the pains (which i get daily to the point of missing school and work at times) completely disappeared. | though my acne goes away when taking this drug i cant handle the pain in my stomach. | F | 19 | 2 years | 6/17/2008 | 4 | Acne | SHORTNESS OF BREATH. I have difficulty breathing normally at times throughout the day. I also have trouble falling asleep. Since I have been on bactrim, I have broken out in hives twice; could have been a reaction to something else. | After trying 4 other antibiotics for my acne, Bactrim has been the only medication to help clear it up. My skin is noticably better, and the side effects arent as bad with Bactrim as with others. | F | 19 | 1.5 years | 4/19/2006 |
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)