CIPRO Reviews (CIPROFLOXACIN HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 1.6 (2014 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare CIPRO with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR CIPRO | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Possible UTI | After withdrawal: fever. I think cipro messes with your inflammatory system/immune system seriously. | DO NOT TAKE THIS POISON. Maybe taking anti-inflammatory supplements help for recovery, or not. | M | 30 | 2 days 250 1X day | 9/20/2011 | 1 | Prostatitis | Rectal bleeding and constant, MASSIVE panic attacks | Was supposed to take this drug for a month but six days was enough, simply have never had such constant, strong anxiety EVER in my life. Yep, rapid heartbeat, trembling ALL the time, even difficulty swallowing food for the first time in my life! Got to a point where I was having to lay down on the floor and was seriously thinking of getting myself sectioned because my brain was constantly full of the most horrible racing thoughts! Funnily enough, I quit yesterday (after eleven pills total) and today my anxiety level plummeted drastically. It was like getting home after taking a vacation in mental hell. Only plus point is that I never got any tendon issues. Yet. Fingers crossed I won't.....???? | M | 38 | 6 days 500mg 2X day | 10/25/2011 | 1 | PUO | insomnia, chronic tendonitis of both Achilles, planta facia, knees, elbows, wrists, thumbs and shoulders. | I am sure that this drug has it's place for some treatments, but it seems quite clear that it's use should be limited for last resort cases! I also think the medical community should be held responsible for the complete lack of how to treat the horrible side effects. As someone that has been "floxed", I have found no real help on how to reverse the terrible effects caused by this drug. Fortunately for me someone suggested prolotherapy to me and I am beginning to see remarkable results from the injections 2 months after beginning treatment. I would suggest that anyone in my condition seriously consider prolotherapy. It's not fun and it's not for needle phobics, but it's better than living with constant pain. | M | 41 | 8 days 500 2X day | 10/16/2011 | 1 | Epididimytis | At first numbness and tingling on the bottoms of my feet. Achilles tendon pain and calf pain. The bottoms of my feet feel like i am walking on stones, and now very severe neck and back pain. I can hardly walk much let alone go mountain biking, or to the park to play with my kids. This drug is a poison. This is by far the worst medical decision I have ever had. I hope the symptoms go away as a professional pilot I need to be able to support my family. Instead I may be disabled. Wow after 3 pills!!! Sure am glad I quit when I did. | M | 35 | 3 times 500mg 2X day | 10/8/2011 | 1 | Sinus Infection | Cipro cleared up infection but has caused 13 MONTHS OF PAIN in every joint and muscle. Wouldn't wish this pain on my worst enemy. | At first I presented with intense burning pain. Felt like a blow torch was burning my arms, legs and feet. Within an hour my heart was pounding painfully. When I tried to walk, my legs felt incredible weak--and as if there were tight bands at my knees and hips. Never had a problem falling to sleep. After Cipro Insomnia won't let up--I get maybe 4 hours of sleep on a good night. It's been 13 months and there are days when I need a wheelchair because my legs hurt so bad. Before Cipro, I used to work out everyday. Now I can barely walk. DO NOT RISK TAKING THIS DRUG for a simple infection. IT WILL RUIN YOUR LIFE. | M | 22 | 1 pill 1X day | 10/12/2011 | 1 | Clostridium Difficile | Produces powerful female sex hormones in men known as prostagladins. These cause gynocomastia and in some men sex change ideology and other problems. I don't understand how such a drug can be legal. It also causes psychosis and severe mental problems and in addition causes C. Diff. It is not a treatment for it. | M | 34 | 30 days 500 3X day | 7/16/2011 | 1 | Prostatitus | Anxiety. Muscle weakness to the degree that I could not walk. Joint weakness and pain. Emergency room diagnosis of Peripheral neuropathy. Extreme fatigue. Insomnia. Creaking bones. | I had taken CIPRO before without side effects. The toxicity can happen at any time. I am still feeling debilitating side effects 7 weeks later. | M | 58 | 3 weeks 500 mg 2X day | 8/2/2011 | 1 | Prostate | Torn calf muscle in left leg, tendons in right leg about to rupture, can't sleep, muscle twitching in legs, right shoulder pain in joint, all joints around body are cracking and popping, back ache, pain in right side of tummy. | Right leg in plaster, torn tendons and calf muscle,right leg very painful and feels like it is about to go the same. Muscle twitching and aching in legs, and shoulder pain like I have dislocated it. I can't sleep, bones and joints all around my body are crunching and popping. This all happened 2 weeks after finishing my dose. Just walking across the road and then pop my leg went. This should not of happened as I am a fit bloke who has calf muscles like popeye. My job involves climbing etc... No problems before hand ever. Now after 3months of taking this drug I am ruined. I feel that I have aged 30 years .currently having blood tests, had blood clots in leg, 1inch deep tear in muscle and tendons damaged etc... Not sure what future holds, And how long before pain in tendons in good leg subsides. My advice to anyone about to take this drug.......please try something else unless you really need this drug. Your doctor or your employer will not believe you when you tell them that a pill you took for a week or two as crippled you. It has been 3 months since I took the drug and it has not got any better yet. Not quite sure how I am going to do my job on return to work......yes this pill is life changing. | M | 43 | 10 days 500 2X day | 8/17/2011 | 1 | Prostitis | Wow!! 63 year old male perscribed this drug for prostitis. I run 3 miles every day on tread mill @ 25:30 three mile. Have never been sick, never any pain. With high PSA and negative biopsy of prostate Dr perscribed this med. I am a paramedic. I have been on the medication for 2 weeks 500 ml x2 no problems. Then yesterday I thought I might have gotten a Charley Horse in middle left calf. Read about Cipro but didnt see any real severe problems until now day 2 I cant walk on my left leg. I have iced it and still severe muscle pain. Today I was doing my normal 3 mile run 7 MPH on tread mill and pain was so severe I had to quit. As a former Marine I have never quit. Now after reading all of what you have had to say I would say I am concerned to say the least. I have no other side affects. This page was difficult to find. I have looked on a lot of web sites and found nothing like this..Thank you for your comments..I hope we all get better... | M | 63 | 30 days 500 2X day | 8/14/2011 | 1 | UTI | COMPLETE AND UTTER DESTRUCTION OF MY ENTIRE BODY. I am now a cripple thanks to CIPRO! | I took Cipro for less than a week back in 2009. It wasn't until nearly two weeks AFTER I'd stopped that my body (which had always been in INCREDIBLE SHAPE) started to literally fall apart. Within 24 hours of it starting I could no longer walk. Two years later, I am still unable to walk. I live in bed 24/7/365. Job: GONE. Car: GONE. Credit: RUINED. Independence: GONE. Future: GONE. Mobility: GONE. You cannot even begin to imagine the HORRORS this poison has caused me, and continues to cause me every minute of every single day! Just because you've taken Cipro "successfully" before does NOT mean you can take it again safely! This stuff can turn on you at any time! POISON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Warn everyone you know!!! Doctors never warned me this could happen to me, and now that it has they refuse to believe that Cipro was the cause! Bayer and the FDA should be sued into bankruptcy over this horrific life-destroying poison! | M | 32 | 6 days 500 2X day | 8/19/2011 | 1 | misdiagnosed with diverticulitis | Softening of all joint cartilage and horrible pain in all joints. Cannot walk anymore and am totally bedridden. | It has been two years since my doctor poisoned me with Cipro in Hampton Rhoads, Virginia. Apparently, Bayer had sent a black box warning on this poison but my doctor did not tell me about this warning. I hear that there is a former Bayer Sales rep that is bragging that she increased sales of cipro/avelox from $800,000 to $3.5 million from 2004 to 2008. However, there is no way this area has seen this type of increase in population/patients. Apparently, most of the doctors in this area are pretty corrupt (taking free stuff from Bayer) and deciding to go with the more toxic fluoroquinolones rather than staying with safe drugs such as Zithromax. | M | 55 | 7 days 500mg 2X day | 8/26/2011 | 1 | UTI | Started having issues of fatigue within 1 day. Did not feel right, depressed, not wanting to move off couch. Then the real fun started when my right hip started aching. Got so bad I could not lift right leg. Getting in an out of a truck was pure hell. Took this from 6/28 to 7/5 told doc about pain they told me to keep taking it till finished, which I did. | still having hip pain and shooting pain down my leg. somewhat better but not completely 100% It's now been 2 months and I'm wondering when I will be normal again. DO NOT TAKE CIPRO!!! | M | 49 | 7 days 500 2X day | 8/31/2011 | 1 | Prostatitis | Pain in both achilles. Tendon pain in left arm. Pain across top and back of shoulders and in the back and left side of my neck. Pain in left shoulder joint which seems to be getting worse. Pain in both legs. Pain in left knee. Pain in lower back and at top of inner thigh. Feelings of hot patches in legs and feet which come and go. I feel hot then cold. | I only took 6 of these! From what I have read i am worried this will be permanent. I am fit and exercise several times a week, cycling, running, circuit training and weights. I am afraid to go near any of this in case i rupture a tendon or muscle. Really scared of this. This is not a safe drug and i am sorry i ever took it. | M | 40 | 3 days 500 MG 2X day | 8/31/2011 | 1 | inner ear infection | Red rash under my left eye. And a little on the right eye.I was using cold compresses.Itching. I had an itch on the side of my face and it made my face with a break out in a rash.My friend is a pharmacist and told me to take Benadryl 3x per day,every six hours. Still itchy. | Run as far as you can if your dr is going to prescribe this to you.I am also allergic to sulfur and penicillin | M | 48 | 5 days 500 MG 3X day | 9/5/2011 | 1 | UTI Infection | I think I have most of them. Heart arrythmias, digestive problems, blurry vision, tinnutus, tendonitis, body & hands tremors, muscle twiches, muscle weakness, brain fog, severe pain, breathing difficulties, insomnia, depression etc. | I was given this in IV form. In a cruel twist of fate, I took cipro for 1 day and had immediate bad reaction, burning pains on my shoulders and back. I went to ER with these symptoms and they didn't make a connection with the drug. They then proceeded in giving me even more in IV form and another 3 weeks in oral form. I started getting the really serious symptoms aprox a month after finishing the dose. I'm really angry and upset, I wish this world wasn't such a sesspit of evil scum who'll hurt innocent people for the sake of profit. The whole thing is just immoral, this drug should be removed immediately. | M | 45 | 500 MG 1X day | 4/27/2011 Patient History | 1 | Suspected infection | Broke out with hives like i was having a severe case of the Chicken pox this stuff is extremely dangerous please please please reconsider | M | 44 | 2 days 750 mg 2X day | 4/29/2011 | 1 | virus | I took Cipro in 2009 & had shooting pain like electric shock in legs. Two months latter my right arm felt like it had been broken. This lasted for months. Strange rash, bad taste in mouth. | Thought I was over the effects of Cipro. I didn't list all of the side effects, now my finger joints are painful for over two months now. It seems the vibrations from a hand grinder set it off. Also can't sleep well. Always thirsty & I feel tired & weak most of the time. Cipro should be off the market by now. | M | 53 | 10 days 500 1X day | 5/16/2011 | 1 | Epididymitis | Superficial muscle spasms which I would qualify as low level peripheral neuropathy. Low level pain in knees, ankles. | The warning leaflet was interesting: Tendon ruptures in the elderly. Seeing this drug is fluorine based and that fluorine and any chemical containing fluorine is HIGHLY toxic I did some research. Thank Heaven Almighty for the internet. Thank all you brave people victimized by this drug for posting your comments on the internet. I took this drug 1.5 days. After swallowing the last pill it occured to me I MAY have been poisoned by this drug back in 92 making my life a living hell of malise, uncontrollable migratory muscle spasming and weakness-and set the stage for tendonitis and knee meniscus breakdown years later. Within 1/2 hour of taking the last pill I slammed milk, 200mg zinc and 150 mg magnesium to block absorption. I made the doctor switch me to doxycycline. Two days later I am still having superficial migratory muscle spasms but the joint pains have stopped. If I had done the full 14 day cycle I dare not think what could have happened. I cannot afford to be an invalid at 41 with a family of 5 to support. The drug works very well at killing offending bacteria but the cost is not worth it. I'll suffer a painful prostate and testicle for a month while slower working doxycycline does its thing. I pray for each victim of flouro-drug poisoning and pray the people promoting this drug will develop a conscious. | M | 41 | 1.5 days 500 mg 2X day | 5/16/2011 | 1 | following minor surgical procedure | Full Recovery from cipro toxicity after 1 year and 3 months. Side effects included muscle stiffness and pain, joint pain continuously, delirium for 1 month, insomnia for one week until I took Ativan (which I became dependent on and eventually tapered off with the help of Point of Return), brain fog, depersonalization(2months of it), anxiety, panic attacks (for about 4 months) and jock itch. | Two days following the 750mg a day dose, I began to experienced cipro toxicity and was rushed to the hospital; over the course of 8 months I was in and out of the hospital with multiple tests and exams. I was given Ativan in the beginning and became dependent on the medication. I took a product available at Point of Return's website called "Support" along with their other products promoting glutathione which I've read is the best thing you can do when you've become intoxicated from Cipro; alternated Support with Immonocal at times. I also took Jigzaw magnesium which is supposed to bind to the cipro and dispell it out of the system. For the first year and 2 months, could not do exercise without extreme pain in back and neck. It was then that I looked into Atlas Orthogonal Chiropractic and along with tapering off the medications, I am now 100% recovered. I will never take this medication again and always warn others of the potential dangers of this drug. It should be banned. | M | 33 | 5 days 1X day | 4/24/2011 | 1 | UTI (Suspected, not verified) | GI Problems, Joint problems, Tendon problems, Joints popping everywhere, Insomnia, Anxiety, Depression, Hair loss, skin differences, sore/swollen throat, tinnitus, eye floaters | THIS DRUG SHOULD BE BANNED FOR MINOR INFECTIONS. Do not take this drug unless your life depends on it. My life has been severely altered -- I do not have the perfect health I once had. I am still dealing with all symptoms and its been THREE MONTHS since I took the drug! | M | 24 | 3 days 250MG 2X day | 5/7/2011 |