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 |
| 4 | Kidney infection | I had severe urinary complications. Doc gave me the meds, took it that afternoon and felt very nauseaus and had runny stool. The second day I still had runny stools, and bad anxiety and fatigue. THE EFFECTS OF THE UTI ARE JUST AS BAD, PERHAPS SOME OF YOU FELT THE NASTY EFFECTS OF YOUR INFECTION FROM THE GROSS BACTERIA. | I dislike meds, but am quite grateful that my trips to the toilet every 30 seconds to pass a drop of urine in agony is over now. People have really exaggerated on this commentary. Sounds as if they took the leaflet and copied all the side effects. | F | 37 | 7 days 1000mg | 3/23/2016 | 4 | Complicated UTI | Increased anxiety, feeling of weakness, unable to concentrate and very tired but it did help after cefuroxime 500 mg BID for a week before this didn't. | I had a urethral abscess which I drained but developed a bad infection which spread out to the bladder. Imagine your nether parts swollen, your bladder full yet unable to urinate! It's the worst situation ever! I was on cefuroxime 500 mg/BID which I knew didn't work. What's wrong with Dr.s nowadays, I had to insist on a different ATB and thank God Cipro did the job! By day 2 I was able to pee again and the pain subsided a great deal... | F | 40 | 7 days 500 mg 2X day | 4/17/2016 | 3 | infection in toe ulcer | Fever. Lethargic. Increased appetite. Headaches | Want to just lay around . Can't focus on my tasks. | F | 72 | 10 days 1000MG | 3/8/2016 | 3 | UTI | Bloating, heart palpitations ( probably due to bloating) Insomnia, loss of appetite, fatigue | Cleared UTI- but rough on GI tract | F | 48 | 5 days 500 mg bid | 5/31/2019 | 3 | for cellulitis in lymphedema arm | I have lymphedema in one srm from breast cancer surgery & node removal & occasionally havr cellulitis and I have taken Ciprofloxacin 500mg before without these awful side effects and it always cleared up the cellulitis. This time I was very sick from ciprofloxacin, extreme weakness, vomiting, very low blood presdure, dizziness, nervousness. I will never take this drug again, and I agree that a class action lawsuit should be filed against the manufacturer. | F | 68 | 5 days 500 mg | 5/4/2015 | 3 | Uncomplicated Lower UTI | As always with taking Cipro I start getting dizzy and heart palpitations, anxiety, and a mild head ache. Very thirsty all the time, and very hungry. Some muscular-skeleton pain especially in legs. Gas | A lot of people have been commenting about cipro being taken off the market. Cipro is one of the only broad spectrum antibiotics I can take. It gives me side effects but overall it does its job, and relatively quickly. It was approved for anthrax inhalation in 2004 I believe, and to battle such an illness you have to be strong. These complainers obviously haven't taken the Malaria pill. There's on for you, if you can keep it down long enough for it to worm that is. Overall a very safe drug to take because it's half life is 12 hours so it'll be out of your system quickly. | F | 23 | 3 days 500 mg | 7/6/2015 | 3 | UTI | Chills/shakes, dizzy, sleepy, retained water, thirsty, blurry vision. | Helped take my UTI pain away in less than 24 hours, but by it being strong enough to do that it came with strong side effects. Be prepared to take time off! | F | 28 | 7 days 500 | 3/29/2015 | 3 | kidney infection and uti | I took cipro 1000 mg daily for 10 days for a severe kidney infection. Saved my life! But had temporary weird joint crackling. 4 months later took it again for a uti, 500 mg daily for 3 days. Cleared up the uti but this time I have mild nerve damage; tingling left hand. Its unknown if it will resolve itself. | F | 30 | 3 days 250 | 4/23/2014 | 3 | Had colon surgeries | Peripheral Neuropathy, loss of teeth, thyroid disease, falling, numbness, vaginal pain, blurred vision, dizziness and nausea. heart palpitations. | F | 45 | 3 years 1po2x 2X day | 12/11/2014 | 3 | UTI | I was prescribed this drug for a UTI. I had taken it in the distant past for sinusitis with no problem, and this time, I had no major problems until Day 6, aside from some minor dizziness here and there. On Day 6, though, I suddenly developed heart palpitations, accompanied by profuse sweating (while shaking like a leaf), and numbness/tingling in my left foot and left hand. Scary stuff! I have two pills left as I was supposed to take this for 7 days, but I will not be taking them! | I never read the side effects when I am prescribed a drug, because if something occurs I want to rule out the psychosomatic. So I had no idea, until I developed major symptoms, of what the known side effects even were. I immediately checked, though, and lo and behold, everything I experienced is listed. Thankfully, I didn't get the muscle pains or permanent muscle damage that some others did (at least not yet). Hopefully, 6 days was long enough to cure my UTI. | F | 56 | 6 days 500 MG 2X day | 11/25/2013 | 3 | uti | back pain. am also taking pills for acid reflux. not given indication not to take them. read all these comments. really worried. will report back after a 10 hour flight i have to take this afternoon. | F | 63 | 4 days | 11/10/2009 | 3 | UTI | OMG. the first round nothing then i got another UTI within a month and i started really feeling awful. Nasea, light headedness, super thirsty but not relieved by drinking water. So tired and just a weird "out of it feeling", shakiness and finally metallic taste in mouth. I decided to stop taking it completely and detox. I also feel like i have dead energy meaning flat feeling. hard to describe but not good. | F | 40 | 7 days | 11/20/2009 | 3 | kidney infection | too sick to separate from illness | cleard infection in 24 hours | F | 51 | 10 days | 11/8/2009 | 3 | UTI/Kidney Infection | Continued pain in my right kidney, shooting pain in my left arm, pain in my toes, overall pain in my stomach, left kidney, weight loss, depression, anxiety, morbid thoughts, lethargy, sleep disturbance | I had a UTI that lead to a kidney infection. My doctor prescribed a 7 day course of Ciprofloxacin which I dutifully took. It cleared my kidney infection, however, I still continued to have pain the right kidney. I tried to go back to work, experienced acute pain. Since then I have started to have all the pain noted as side effects and it continues. It wasn't until I stumbled across this last night that I actually began to think that it is the Cipro. I have now been off work for nearly two months. I am a shadow of my former self. I don't have energy to do anything. I'm a single mum and struggle to care for my two young children. God knows what I would have done if I hadn't had a loving family around me. I go to bed at 8pm every night, and wake up every morning feeling worse. I'm probably going to lose my job, which I loved, because I just can't work. I had a ultrasound scan yesterday that came back as clear which has made me feel like I am going mad and all this is in my head. If this is true, I cannot believe that we can be prescribed a drug that can cause more harm that the original illness for which it was intended. Please email me with comments. I've been prescribed a further 5 weeks course of this product and I stopped taking it last night when I read all your comments. Whoever started this thread, I thank you so much. | F | 40 | 42 days | 12/3/2009 | 3 | UTI/kidney infection | brain fog, horrible headache, abdominal pain, dizziness, extreme tiredness, extreme depression and feelings of hopelessness | I'm a kidney transplant patient and have taken cipro on and off for years. I've probably had it 4 times this year alone, and this is the 2nd time with horrible side effects...so bad that I thought my kidney was rejecting. It is only because of the holidays and hospital beds being full that I'm not hospitalized. A friend researched side effects and told me about the tendonitis associated with Cipro and transplant patients. I then started researching and found this site. These symptoms are right on. I don't know why I'm impacted differently now. I was supposed to be on it for 4 mo, but quit last night after seeing this site (12 days). Already my headache is better, and I'm hoping to see the other side effects disappear as well. When I first started this, I spent 3 days in California. I was in such a fog I barely remember the trip. It seems more like a dream than an actual event. I might try it again, as it does eliminate the infecion, but would definitely stop at the first sign of symptoms. Levaquin has also worked for me, but insurance doesn't want to pay for that anymore. Not sure how the public option will impact our choices of antibiotics, or we'll all be paranoid schizophrenics from being on these meds :-) Also read Cipro was shipped en masse to the Gulf War and our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. If it has anywhere near these side effects, I imagine it is creating all sorts of havoc with paranoid soldiers with guns. Scary thought. | F | 57 | 12 days | 12/28/2009 | 3 | Bladder Infection/ UTI | Extreme dizziness/vertigo, nausea, stomach/abdominal pain, knee pain, severe back pain, anxiousness, nervous/jittery feeling, chills then hot flashes, feelings of being "out of it," migraines | I was prescribed 500 mg/every 12 hours for 7 days. I took the entire prescription, but will NEVER take this again- the only reason I finished the entire course was because I was afraid of what other antibiotic I would get prescribed. I started getting syptoms day 1 about 6 hours after I took the first dose. The dizziness was horrible and would come in waves. The whole room would spin for about 20 seconds every few hours. I would get nauseous and this, coupled wit the dizziness, made it difficult to work and to pretty much do anything else because I never knew when another dizzy spell would hit me. I felt "out of it" and was having terrible back aches and migraines. I'm a normal, healthy 28 yr old and have never had any of these issues before so I know they were related to taking the Cipro. I would never take this again. I took my last does this morning and still don't feel back to myself. I'm hoping as it gradually leaves my body I will begin to feel like myself again. I felt like the Cipro was poisoning me... I would recommend any other antibiotic before this one again......The only reason I gave it a "3" rating is because it cleared up my UTI. | F | 28 | 7 days | 12/26/2009 | 3 | UTI | Lethargy, dizziness to the point of nearly blacking out, achy bones, depression? | I have nearly finished my prescription. In the pamphlet given to me by the pharmacy, there was a listing for mood changes. Had been feeling tired and dizzy, but am taking other medications with those same side effects so did not think to connect it. After taking my second to last dose, am now feeling achy, like all my energy has been sapped, and want to cry for no reason. Since it's a pretty sudden onset, I'm loathe to call it depression. But I feel suddenly sadness, despair, and hopelessness. Unsure if it could be the drug. But have no other reason to feel this way. | F | 31 | 6 days | 12/9/2008 | 3 | surgery | TO THE PEOPLE WHO WERE HARMED BY CIPRO: You have fluoride poisoning. It is reversible, there is a detox you can do. This class of antibiotics floods your body with fluoride. Fluoride builds up in your system over time and ruins your bones, joints, and muscles. | If you have chronic pain or tendonitis after taking this medication, you will have to clear it out of your system. Use 1/8 tsp. boron powder (borax) and 1/8 tsp. raw sea salt in a glass of water to chelate the excess fluoride daily. | F | 23 | 10 days | 1/28/2009 | 3 | UTI | Horrible nightmares, slight muscle achiness, fatigue | Seemed to work pretty well but the nightmares were so bad I didn't want to fall asleep. I recommend not taking this medicene too close to bedtime and to report any symptoms of reaction immediately. I will not be taking this again, the nightmares were just too much. | F | 32 | 3 days | 12/29/2008 | 3 | UTI | dizziness, light headed-ness, stomach/abdominal pain/cramps, light headaches, nausea, paranoia, bloated, blurred vision | I was given Cipro instead of Sulfa because I had an severe allergic reaction to that medication after having UTI for the first time about a month ago. It did get rid of my UTI though. I am more concerned with the side effects (which I hope it's from CIPRO). After taking the first pill, a little later, I felt dizzy and sleepy. I felt fine after that. After taking all the doses, 2 days later, I woke up with horrible stomach pain/cramps...Especially above the belly button. About a day later, I am feeling recurrent abdominal/stomach pain..but more in the abdominal area. If it usually evident (hurts more) when I push down. I am concerned because I am having side effects AFTER taking all the doses. I was really worried until I came across this website when some people had abdominal pain too. I would rather have these side effects than something worse. I would also feel dizzy/light-headed once in a while. Sometimes, after I eat, I feel extremely bloated. | F | 17 | 3 days | 6/24/2008 |