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 | hematuria(possible uti) | insomnia after three days. lasted 4 months. tingling in feet, hands, and wrists. felt like needles sticking. tendinitis in my elbows. elbow to finger tremors(lasted a few days). stumbling speech. muscle spasms. shaking hands and feet. loss of balance. stomach cramps. diarrhea. general upset stomach. | I was on cipro, 1000 mg, for 14 days. I felt like I was going to die. I read most of these reports from other people. It didn't help. I would like to tell anyone who is experiencing the same thing. It will get better. I did. Don't overload yourself with appointments, medicines, and specialists. Your symptoms are most likely due to your side effects. It takes a very long time to heal, but you do heal. Trust your body. I felt it was a slow crawl, but I eventually got there. About 4 months. I feel normal now. No issues. | M | 42 | 14 days | 8/20/2008 | 1 | Prostatitis | Ankle and Knee pain. Extreme pain in calve muscles. Legs too stiff to walk. Pain in fingers. Nausea, dizziness and extreme fatigue. | Took 500mg Cipro XR for 9 days for Prostatitis. After 7 days my legs were so stiff I could not walk. My Urologist took me off the Cipro nearly 3 weeks ago but I am still too weak to walk. I called Bayer Canada and asked for help with the side effects but they have NO information or treatments. This drug should not be used except as a last resort. | M | 45 | 9 days | 8/27/2008 | 1 | UTI | a big rash, muscle aches, extreme tiredness | I will never take this garbage again that's for sure. | M | 24 | | 6/15/2009 | 1 | Epididymitus, UTI | I took ciprofloxacin for 14 days twice a day as a result of an UTI after having an STD and this medication has completely ruined my life. I only found this website as a result of looking for help because this ciprofloxacin medication made me think I was dying.I have had horrible diarrhea, my wrist and muscles still twitch, extreme exhaustion, horrible lower back pain, really bad chest pain and my ankles feel weird.In addition, I almost failed a semester in college because I could not focus and have never been suicidal. I use to wander how some could be suicidal but this medicine caused me to have suicidal thoughts. It was only God that brought me through it. It has now been 2 months and the aches come and go but now I have the sudden onset of horrible chest pain at times. I really am tired of feeling this way and this site provides comfort to me as I know that this not just my body responding this way but there are others. Hypochondria, definitely not!!! Anyone who says that we are hav | Please do only take this medication as a last resort. It WILL change your life and maybe its God's little way of reminding usto not be so promiscuous yet saving us from infection. Please pray for me and all others as I pray that these symptoms do leave one day. | M | 22 | 14 days | 7/2/2009 | 1 | urinary infection | crippling pain, unable to walk. after 10 days of cipro, I had achilese tendonitis, plantar facia (bottom of feet) pain, shoulder pain with 2 rotator cuff tears. | I took this medicine in 2006 and had shoulder surgery about 8 months later to repair torn tendons. I had to see a foot specialist (to no avail), now in 2009, both shoulders have rotator cuff tears so I'm looking at surgery again, my feet still hurt daily as does my left elbow. I have a technical job that does not relate to the kind of tendon problems I had and still have. Personally this drug is a nightmare, if you happen to be alergic to it, not everyone is, and it does clear up infections very fast. there is one thing that is evident though, there is no time limit on the injuries you can have from this medicine. | M | 55 | 10 days | 6/5/2009 | 1 | urinary infection affecting PSA | My right arm is sore at the shoulder joint. In fact half my right arm turned blue and black down to the elbow. Experienced constipation on and off, and some blood and itching at various times coming from anus. Naseau various times. | My PSA was up to 4.6 and Dr had mentioned I seemed to have some infection in my urine sample. Agreed to try to knock out the infection by taking cipro for 30 days, twice a day and try another PSA. My PSA was normally around 2.5 to the highest of 4.6, this week it tested at 8.6. I quit taking the 2 pills a day after 2 1/2 weeks, and finished up the other 1 1/2 weeks with 1 pill a day. Have an appointment with him today, and we are going to have a little chat. Never will agree to this medication again. | M | 61 | 30 days | 5/7/2009 | 1 | Clinical depression, a constant pain in my legs, nausea. | I agree with the guy who said let's have doctors who say this is safe take this stuff. This is an evil drug. Only a moron would say this is drug is safe to use except in a severe emergency, only a complete and utter immoral moron. | M | | 5/14/2009 | 1 | Prostate surgery | Neck spasms, severe pain in knee, chrondrocalsenosis, shoulder pain, loss of range of motion. | I have been on pain medication for several months. I have lost musle mass, and can't sleep one my left side. This has been going on now since July 29th. 2008. There are now signs things are getting better. Don't take this drug. I took it for four days at 500mg. I am recieving shots in my shoulder and neck of anti inflams and cortosoids. This has been a awful experience. Medical people have NOT been helpful. Just give pain pills for the most part. They don't believe me. | M | 61 | 4 days | 4/21/2009 | 1 | Acute diverticulitis | Within hours of the first dose, I had severe pain in the left elbow. The physician who'd prescribed the drug told me that it couldn't possibly be drug-induced. Within weeks, I suffered from debilitating joint pain in tendons of both elbows and right wrist. Off work for four months. Two years later, pain is manageable but not fully resolved. | Product appeared to be effective for the purpose it had been prescribed. | M | 51 | 8 weeks | 4/24/2009 | 1 | prescribed for a stomach pain | After taking just 2 pills on the first day, 4/20/09, I began to feel pain in my right heel. Now, just 4 days later, I can't lift my foot due to the pain in my Achilles tendon and essentially I can't walk. I looked at the Mayo website and there is no mention of these bad side effects for Cipro. How can that be? Why is this information being withheld? The medical profession and the FDA should be ashamed. Those at Bayer who work to perpetuate the deceit should be arrested. For those monitoring this site I hope you can sleep at night because your contribution to society is ruining people’s lives. Someday there will be a moment where you look back on your life and assess how you did. For doing this you will have failed. Is it really worth the money? | M | 49 | 1 days | 4/24/2009 | 1 | UTI | I took cipro 2x500mg initially for 14 days for a UTI, during which time my only problems were tiredness, night sweats, nausia and diarrhoea. The cipro seemed to clear up the UTI but the problems only started a few days after ending the course. I could not urinate, ached all over felt depressed and had severe diarrhoea and prostate / rectal pain. I was referred to a urologist and was found to have a slightly enlarged prostate he prescribed cipro 2x500mg for another 70 days after STI tests all proved negative. During this second course, things got no better and a few weeks after, things were much worse !. Now I had lost my appitite, losing 3 stones in weight, nausea, constantly tired, depressed and had constant lower left abdominal / rectal pain, stomach cramps, back ache, groin pain, pain in my left leg with cramps. I was unable to walk any distance or sit down for more than a few minutes without pain, I have constant wind and am unable to hold a full bladder and often feel the ungent n | This was the first time I had taken anti biotics for 20 years and apart from the UTI, I was fit healthy and active. three years ago I competed in offroad motorcycle trials, but now I struggle to get up from a kneeling position, and have no energy. I feel I am not the same man since taking the cipro, and sometimes wonder if I will ever live a normal life again. Its been 7 months now since taking cipro, during which time I have had lots of tests, scans and blood tests all negative. I have become intolerant to dairy, spicy food and white bread and have had to completely change my diet which now includes daily cranberry juice and pro biotic drinks. It is only now after 7 months that I can even sit at my computer for a couple of hours, but only because I am constantly taking strong painkillers all day, being in constant pain from my lower left abdomen / rectum. Lying down improves things and I never wake up in a morning in pain, which increased throughout the day, depending on what I eat, being worse between 3 and 10pm. I didn't realise an anti biotic could do so much harm, my whole life has changed and I have been left depressed and bewildred. People should be warned of the dangers of cipro, I would like to see all doctors take an 84 day course, and see how they feel !. Some days I feel so low that if I still had my Sako rifle, I could quite happily put the barrel in my mouth and pull the trigger, Thank You Bayer !....... | M | 44 | 84 days | 5/8/2009 | 1 | diverticulitus | toes on each foot became numb and pins and needles sensitive to cold and sometimes burning. A couple of weeks later anxiety, nervousness and fatigue | It seems that doctors are still unaware about the side effects.Two months later my feet still bother me and my anxiety is a daily event.Not as many side effects as many but still quite bothersome. Let me hear of your recovery times. | M | 51 | 5 days | 5/5/2008 | 1 | prevent possible infection | tinnitus, insomnia, loss of appetite, extreme fatigue, severe depression that has not stopped almost 2 years after taking Cipro. See deathbycipro.wordpress.com | M | 54 | 5 days | 5/8/2008 | 1 | UTI | Ear ringing, red face, numb face, numb arm, joint pain, insomnia, feeling of death. | First use was Jan 2008 for UTI, then Feb 2008 for UTI, and then March 2008 for Prostate Biopsy. Doctor did not correlate symptoms to drug use, but prescribed Lorazepam for anxiety. Re-prescribed in Aug 2008, turned beet red and sweating, and stopped use and finally found this site. 1 year later, I still have red face, ringing in ears, and now have a recent hernitated disk. | M | 51 | 30 days | 3/24/2009 | 1 | Prostatitis | Severe pains in hands and feet. Joints/tendons damaged - Thumbs almost useless. Never had problems until took these drugs. Weeks after stopping taking the cipro the pains are not subsiding | Do not take this drug!! Wish I had never had it. It took just 11 days to ruin my joints/tendons. How can something this toxic and damaging be approved for use? | M | 43 | 11 days | 3/23/2009 | 1 | after surgery | gloom and imminent doom | Other people I have talked to have had the same problem. Why is this fact so hidden? I have never experienced such a problem in my life. | M | 65 | | 3/19/2009 | 1 | ear mastoid | side effects just found this out,,in 2000 i had to take cipro years after taking cipro this poison.. oral & 10 days intervenes,,,i live in so much pain ..elbows knees neck all my body & most of all my MIND,, yes it did cure my mastoid but was it the right drug to give me,, i though after being poisoned by cipro i was just getting old & that part of life,,((I was so wrong)),,cipro is why,,i have read most of all the experiences with cirpo,, no one seems to have taken as much cipro as I've had mass amounts of it total saturated... total poisoned from it..since i had cipro my elbows & wrist had been operated on..i was misdiagnose because of cripo,,my doctors did know my pain was cause from cirpo neither did i..also for the last 6-years I've had cortisone shots & cortisone pills for the pain. i am total shocked from what i have read,, only in life or deaf situation should cipro poison be used.. | WARNING do not take this poison cipro only if your life is on the line side effects pain rest of your life FDA needs to band cirpo from the public again only if your life is on the line | M | 50 | 2 weeks | 7/18/2008 | 1 | Urinary Tract Infection | Partial Seizures (Can't drive anymore because of this as they can occur at stop lights), Severe Anxiety, Panic Attacks, Ulnar Neuritis, Peripheral Neuropathy, Tingling in back/legs, Hip pain, Floaters, Severe Abdominal Discomfort, Numbness in Hands, Neck Swelling, Problems Focusing and Concentrating, Inability to think complex thoughts, Short term memory loss, Inability to feel emotions(Love, Happiness, Joy, and Satisfaction Feedbacks Do Not Register), Depression, Depersonalization(Constant Out of Body Feeling), Insomnia, Altered sleep state with vivid dreams that my brain wants to classify as real memories, Increased Tinnitus, Dry Eye, Dry Mouth, Conscious moments feel like dreams, Tingling in left hand, Night Sweats, being shocked awake by panic when trying to sleep, sudden drops in blood pressure, vision blurring, photophobia, rectal spasms, fibromayalgic symtoms, pain on touch in legs, no longer have any sex drive, loss of ability to experience sexual pleasure, heart palpitations, | November 12, 2007 will most likely be my last normal day of existence. I was having UTI symptoms so I went to the doctor and was prescribed 250mg tablets of Cipro to be taken twice a day for two weeks. Immediately I started feeling sick and started having severe stomach pains. I wanted to stop taking it but my sister convinced me that I should take them all to kill off the infection. I took 27 of the 28 pills given. My body started to tank very quickly. Its been eight months since cessation and the doctors have no answer except I must be crazy because in their minds they are always right and no antibiotic can wreak havoc on a system after this long. Cipro is in the class of fluroquinolones and is NOT an antibiotic, it is a chemotherapeutic agent that stores itself in fat cells and when it is released, binds with proteins in your blood and causes damage to any system it comes in contact with. I was perfectly healthy and enjoying college life before taking this pill, and now there are da | M | 23 | 14 days | 7/27/2008 | 1 | UTI | Numb hands&feet, pins and needles. Blood circulation problems in hands&feet & extreme pain after taking the antibiotic. Extreme anxiety, panic attack at end of treatment. Tinnitus, headaches. Long lasting effects (until now): lightheadedness, mild ataxia, lack of short-term memory memory, persistent fatigue. I was young, perfectly fit, and a long distance runner. I totally lost my endurance. I train but I get nowhere close to my level of performance before treatment. Pain in joints and tendons. | It has been six month since the end of treatment. I am slowly recovering. Most notable change during these six month: anxiety has mostly disappeared while joint problems have considerably worsened. Hopefully it will resorb eventually. These side effects are not that frequent (maybe 5% of patients or less), but now I know they are very serious and can last for months or years. I experienced 1 month of hell and 5 month of purgatory. To avoid permanent damage: use quinolones only if ABSOLUTELY necessary. Start with low doses the first two days, and stop immediately if any the classical side effects appears (peripheral neuropathy, CNS disorders, joints and tendons pain). | M | 27 | 7 days | 8/22/2008 | 1 | Prostate | Shoulder joint damage,stiff neck,breathing hard, tirdness, Shoulder pain, Kidney pain,pain in legs, Lower back and abdominal pain. | Do not take it. | M | 57 | 30 days | 3/30/2009 |