ALLOPURINOL Reviews (ALLOPURINOL)Average Rating: 3.0 (212 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare ALLOPURINOL with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ALLOPURINOL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 2 | Gout | Brain fog, headache dizziness and fatigue | Will request my physician to take me off. | M | 43 | 2 weeks 150 1X day | 7/7/2016 | 1 | Kidney stones | Dizziness, diarrhea, chest discomfort, personality changes (depression), increased passage of kidney stones, a little numbness in my foot, and toe pain | Taken off the medicine by my doctor due to a reaction (primarily the dizziness). | F | 42 | 5 days 200MG 1X day | 5/5/2016 | 4 | Gout | Itching all over body. Headache on left side of head. Sharp pain above temple for a few minutes. Brain fog. | M | 69 | 1 weeks 100mg | 4/8/2016 | 4 | Gout | Fatigue, neuropathy, muscle pain in lower extremities, anxiety, "brain fog" | Not sure if allopurinol has any connection to my symptoms | M | 70 | 7 years 300 mg | 2/25/2016 | 5 | Gout | None | F | 74 | 1 years 100 mg | 1/29/2016 | 5 | Gout | No side effects | It works and I'm pain free. | M | 43 | 2 years 300 | 12/13/2015 | 1 | high uric acid | Started taking it for 2 wks and my kidneys started hurting so bad nearly had to go to the er, stopped taking and a few days later my kidneys still hurt, never again, citric acid, helps to lower uric acid with no side effects, just check it out on the internet, it works. | Never take this medication unless you have good kidneys, it'also known to give you joint and back pain. | 59 | 10 days 100 | 11/25/2015 | 3 | Gout | Started it 7 weeks ago but was on 300mg came off it after a week due to side effects. Aches foggy etc. bad idea to stop it. Resulted in a massive painful gout attack for 6 weeks. Tried everything my uric acid level was stuck at 9-10. I went on NSAIDs twice for relief then a course of oral steroids. My uric acid level was now 9. My doctor put me back on alpurinol 100mg and within 3 days pain subsided from a 8/9 to a 2. I took colchicine for the first 2 days and stopped due to stomach problems.i only take alpurinol now and am going to stay on 100mg for two months then going for a blood test to check my uric acid level again. If not much or no improvement I may increase it under my doctors supervision to 200 mg a day then same again after 2 months etc...I also have cut out bread with wheat in and cereals and now have low gluten free bread and cereals. This has helped my attacks I believe and the pain. | Makes me tired for a while after taking... Colchicine only controls the pain but will do nothing at all to lower uric acid levels. Only allopurinol can lower levels | M | 53 | 7 days 100 | 10/22/2015 | 2 | Gout | Major headaches within 4-5 hours. | M | 71 | 10 days 100 2X day | 10/9/2015 | 1 | Gout | Every Since ive been taken Allopurinol i now have a real burning sensation under my toes and now my fingertips are numb | i hope I don't have permanent nerve damage | M | 44 | 2 months 300 | 8/25/2015 | 2 | Dr wrote my prescription | Left ankle so painful and feels like someone is sticking needle repeatly this is all day relief when I wake up next day in the morning then it starts 2hrs later its horrible | F | 52 | 2 years 100mg | 8/4/2015 | 3 | Gout | I was diagnosed with gout 20 years ago my doctor at the time only gave me anti inflammatorys no mention of allopurinol.I sympathise with anyone who has had the experience of gout. | i have good days and bad days with it very tired some confusion depression itching difficult to sleep you just don't feel yourself my doctor told me very little regarding the drug I thought I would take it and my gout would disappear I have had gout constantly since taking it a month ago in various areas but after reading some reviews it sounds like it's a normal occurrence I shall percievere. | M | 50 | 1 months 300mg | 8/2/2015 | 1 | for my gout | Diarrhea, nausea. The worst is the muscle pain. Neck chest, back, sides, waist. Tired and weak. | F | 57 | 2 days 100mg | 6/6/2015 | 2 | 1 days | 6/5/2015 | 1 | gout attack | gas tank is always full! don't know another way to describe it. today is the 14th day and I'm now experiencing another gout attack I was under the impression that this is a front line defender to wort off a new attack. | M | 66 | 2 weeks 100mg 2tim | 6/2/2015 | 1 | Gout | Severe leg cramping causing calf strain, fatigue, mania, gout episodes, problems urinating, constipation, confusion, sleepiness, and so many other side effects, I just quit it cold turkey, and felt great the next day. | The drug has so many numerous side effects, I do not recommend it for anyone who experiences the rare side effects of most prescription drugs like I do. I will take my chances on the gout episodes rather than feel sick, foggy, and crampy every day of my life. The leg cramp made me almost drown while I was swimming, and the pain in my calf from the cramp is still severe after 5 days. | F | 62 | 2 weeks 300 MG 1X day | 2/22/2015 | 1 | Gout | Weight gain, lower back pain, sore feet and ankles. | After 5 weeks pain and burning in feet and ankles was making walking difficult. I decided I would rather deal with gout a couple of times a year!! These side effects were worse. | F | 65 | 5 weeks 200 mg | 2/14/2015 | 1 | severe gout | Itching, anxiety, depression, fatigue, loss of apatite. | Started on 100mg and old feelings of anxiety reappeared put it down to stress, increased dose of allopurinol to 300mg & severe depression kicked in these pills are not for me, stopping them immediately and going back to doctors for help with this depression. | M | 36 | 2 months 300mg | 1/28/2015 | 5 | gout | None | Inexpensive | M | 49 | 30 1X day | 12/16/2014 | 1 | syndrom of a gout attack | very low blood pressure, fever, dizzy, very tired dry mouth and headache, diarrhoea, red blooders and blisters all over her body. itchiness, disoriented. | My Mom took the medicine for round about 3 weeks. She got it from her doctor shortly before she left on vaction. The doctor described to her because of a kind of gout attack although knowing that she had kidney and liver problems. 21 days after she took it, we picked her up at her vacation and brought her straight to the hospital. They did not immediately know what it was and medically malpracied her, another 20 days later SHE WAS DEAD. She died of an over reaction of Allopurinol on the so called LYELL SYNDROM. She died an awful dead as her body was burned for more than 70% outside and her whole muscosa dissolved in her mouth, her throat, her vagina. She should have never taken this devils medicine. | F | 75 | 21 days 300 1X day | 8/31/2014 |