CIPRO Reviews (CIPROFLOXACIN HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 1.6 (2014 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare CIPRO with similar:
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| 3 | UTI Cystitis | On day two i had severe muscle pain in my thighs, particularly in the quadriceps. I got them massaged, that made them feel better. However the pain went away after the third day, despite the fact that I continued the Ciprofloxacin. Ive read some reviews and it seems that this drug is causing crazy side effects in certain people. Thank God none of them struck me. Ive also noticed though that most of the people that experienced the side effects were older than me. I'm 26, male with a healthy life style. | It wasn't really that bad for me. Reading most of the reviews in this blog I feel i've been lucky not to be effected so adversely as some of the other users. There was slight muscle pain on two, but it went away. HOWEVER as soon as I completed my prescribed dose ( 7 days, 500 mg x 2), my symptoms have returned. I felt almost completely cured while I was on the dose. Now that i've stopped taking, basically because i've finished my prescription, my symptoms have re-appeared. I'll consider trimethoprim or an alternate this time, this decision is influenced by the reviews you guys have posted. Better safe than sorry, i'll avoid it. | M | 26 | 7 days 500 mg 2X day | 5/15/2011 | 3 | Severe Pouchitis | Taking for pouchitis. The only side affects I have experienced are insomnia (I guess there could be worse things) and minor joint pain if I take the drug for more than 1 week. | It may surprise many, but I've Cipro on and off for over 15 years. Aside from insomnia if you take late in the day the drug has actually helped me. I don't feel taking any type of drug is a good thing (esp a super drug like Cipro), but for my condition it has been the only thing to work. I do occasionally have joint pain. But can't really point to much else. Although after reading your posts I will definitely take a closer look. I've turned 40 this year so need to make sure I'm building a healthy body going into my 50's. The bottom line is most physicians don't really know what they are prescribing. So it is our job to do the research and make the decisions. The Internet makes it very easy. So everyone considering taking this drug do you research. | M | 40 | 8 years 500 mg 2X day | 5/31/2011 | 3 | Sinusitis and lung disease | I am in the 4 th day and I have serious side effects like: dizziness, numbness, light headedness stomach pain and poor memory...I feel like i had smoked a joint | I have taken many antibiotics before like: co-amoxiclav, cefalexin, cefuroxime(my favourite), doxycicline and 2 others i don't remember.I went to my doctor because i have a terrible cough and sputum....She consulted me and asked me if i have any atibiotics at home, and i said I have Cuminol(cipro)(I've got 20 pcs from my a relative).She said it is good, and I started to take it.On the 3 day afternoon i started to feel dizzy and lightheaded.....I will never take this againe | M | 17 | 4 days 500mg 2X day | 6/24/2011 | 3 | UTI | I am on the first day of this medication and I already feel nausea and fatigue. I slept over 10hours and am still tired and lightheaded. The last medication did not completely cure my UTI but had much better side-effects. I hope this kills the infection before it dills me. I will have to tough it out for another 9 days. | M | 56 | 10 days 500 2X day | 6/22/2013 | 3 | Mycobacteria infection | Disorientation, anxiety, tremors, insomnia, joint pains, visual disturbances, escalated heart rate. | Most of the side-effects subsided after the first week on the drug and was at their peak on day 5. The only thing that has remained are the joint pains. The 3rd day of after being on Cipro I drank coffee and enjoyed tobacco at work. The caffeine and nicotine did not metabolize in my body due to the Cipro, and I spent a whopping 60 hours without any sleep at all. Package instructions had no mentioning of caffeine or nicotine. Taking 0.25 mg of Clonazepam helped on the tremors and the anxiety, and essentially enabled me to sleep, but enforced the disorientation. The combination of antibiotics seemed to help against the infection, however not clear how much can be subscribed to the Cipro (the other drug used was clarithromycin). If it is possible to avoid continued use of Cipro, I will do it, however need to await for cultivation results. | M | 38 | 4 weeks 500 2X day | 11/8/2012 | 3 | prostatitus | Confusion - brain fog - some indigestion, swollen knee, joints cracking - especially fingers, wrist and arms - red skin on face, pee a lot, reduced taste sensation. Seemed to clear prostatitus though. | M | 40 | 3 weeks 500 2X day | 2/28/2012 | 3 | Amoebic dysentry | During my 10 days cipro i've got fingers joints pain & morning stifness close to rheumatoid artheritis but it was'nt that Still i feel muscle fatigue after 4 months which is unexplained for me What i really need to know is it possible to diagnose cipro toxcity in the laboratory analysis? Or it depends on clinical symptoms? Is there any cure to stop that? When i search on internet Nothing appear except megative ideas and pessemist views We really need helpfull informations from experts | M | 30 | 10 days 500 | 8/8/2013 | 3 | Infection and non union of left tib | Got diarrhea couple days in after taking Cipro. Still experiencing problems there. Restlessness and interrupted sleep and strange dreams. Nightly sweating and skin rashes. Ive heard you should not skip antibiotics and take full course or longer than required so that the infection doesn't return and develop resistance requiring more powerful stuff. Worried if i stop now the infection will return and and the bone wont heal. Wearing a ilizarov frame now if this doesn't work I will lose my leg and i don't want that to happen. | M | 29 | 2 months 750 | 12/10/2012 | 3 | epipdidimytis | No side effects. Just sweat a lot. No joint pain calfs are a little sore probably from running and down the ladder at home depot lol seems to be helping my nut.. So far so good | M | 20 | 6 days 2 | 12/8/2012 | 3 | Prostatitis | Anxiety, lightheadedness, dizziness, itching, tingling in face, feeling hot, eyes feel "buggy", extreme spacy/foggy/trance-like feeling, inner vibrations, etc. | I have recurring UTI's and have been on both Cipro and Levaquin before including the new Cipro "timed release" tablets. this time around I'm on day 3 of taking 500mg of Cipro twice daily and already the anxiety, extreme mental fog and all of the other symptoms are really beginning to hit me hard. I just hope I can last another 23 day on this stuff!!!. | M | 44 | 3 days | 3/13/2007 | 3 | UTI?, Hepatitis, epidydimitis? | Dizziness,eyeballs were sore,shortness in breathe,mouth peeling,joint pain(knees)pain in my kidney, testicle, and upper back, i also experienced a burning sensation in my pelvic girdle. It did clear up the jundice and/or bladder infection. | My side effects were not severe at all and if i had to i would probably take it again. but i dont want my body to become immune to antibiotics! it won't be my only means of recovery. | M | 24 | 2 weeks | 10/14/2007 | 3 | Prophylactic for prostate biopsy | Mild nausea, tender lower stomach, after 5th day lower lip became grossly swollen. | Hard to tell if you are allergic until you take it. | M | 63 | 5 days | 7/20/2005 | 3 | Bacterial Prostatitis | This was a milder attack than the first and was on the mend before I started Cipro (2 days after first symptoms). By day four the obvious signs of prostatitis had abated, apart from the odd twinge. However, I had a set of other symptoms this time that were familiar from my first brief acquaintance with Cipro: dizziness on waking (dismissed as BPPV last time), tachycardia (my usual pulse rate is very slow), my first ever faint (on a treadmill just after I finished a run), periodic shortness of breath, difficulty clearing my chest, anxiety & nervousness, sleeplessness, night fevers, depression, sadness, pessimism - all the sort of stuff that it is easy to write-off as typical, post-illness. However, after 10-days this time I got back to exercise by taking long walks and a few days after that I took my first easy run. I was aware of the possibility of Achilles tendon rupture by now and had discussed it with the last doctor, who said it was a risk of all drugs in this class but mostl | This is my second encounter with Cipro. I had it for a week six-months ago when I reported an initial bout of prostatitis to the doctor. Subsequently, a specialist put me on doxycycline (and 400mg ibuprofen) for a month. Seemed like an odd choice, given that a month of Cipro is emerging as the UK "gold-standard" for ABP (and the ibu combo is frowned on). However, he knew I ran - about five miles almost daily... This time round I had a urine sample analysed by a clinic immediately, which identified an e-coli infection. Yet another doctor agreed that a month of Cipro made sense to try and eradicate any prostate infection. I also requested Ibuprofen again and reluctantly (risk of fits with Cipro) received a scrip for a two-week course. I might add that a PSA test that I was grudgingly granted first time round had come in at 17 (should be below 2), which had prompted the first doc (who had, naturally, assumed that I had anything but prostatitis) to do a complete 180, send me | M | 48 | 30 days | 1/31/2007 | 3 | possible prostatitis | First few days all body felt uncomfortable: abdominal pain, liver part pain, nausea.On sixteenth day I took the Ultrasound exam it reveals that liver enlargement and kidney archs which were never occured before. | I had no idea about this side effects when I took this medicine.I called the doc and told him the side effects of the medicine. But he insisted that I should take all dose (28 days: it seems that this is the recommened dose for prostatitis). But with the consideration of the side effects and the possibilities of growth of another group of bacteria in my body I decided to stop using the cipro: Because the body is mine not the doctor's. If I do not take care it who else will? Special recommedation: just be very careful when choosing the antibiotics. It can do good but it can do harm too. The bad side effects could appear years later. | M | 38 | 16 days | 12/30/2004 | 3 | staph infection | Chest pain/tightness. Muscle tightness, hypertension, muscle fatigue, irritability. Stopped at day 4 of 7 day prescription due to severe pain in left hamstring, burning & tightness. | M | 33 | 4 days | 8/15/2007 | 3 | urinary tract infection | light headed sometimes confused. Problems to sleep at night. Achiles tendons are painfull. I used to be a very active person. However I had to stop all physical activities like jogging or working out at the gym for fear of pulling of breaking a ligament. Had to stop caffeine as is seems to combine with the drug giving me even more joint pains. The general feeling is a lack of energy and a difficulty to concentrate. | I must admit that it did cure my symptoms. But the side effects are terrible | M | 46 | 9 days | 9/6/2007 | 3 | Prostatitis | dizzyness,insomnia,muscle weakness,fatigue,intestional discomfort | seems to have taken care of the e-coli infection | M | 51 | 28 days | 12/5/2007 | 3 | Kidney Infection | fever, cough, numbness in left side of waist, night sweats, weakness, loss in appetite. Not sure how many of these are related to cipro. | I noticed while taking this drug, my symptoms started getting worse since I first took them. Towards the last 4 days of taking this drug, I experienced the worst of it. I had a feeling it was this drug since about an hour after I took it, I either felt weak/dizzy, or major fever. Tylenol helps to correct this, although took an hour and a half. Not sure this drug cured my infection as I have slight pain in kidney still. | M | 21 | 14 days | 1/27/2008 | 3 | prostate infection | I had extreame dry mouth and wierd dreams after 15 tablets taken | I am put on the new 1000 mg and I am hyper sensitive to drugs. This pill only gave me dry mouth (which might be the cipro or it might be acid in my stomach causing it). I wouldnt suggest taking it long term but taking it 2 weeks especially less then 1000 mg shouldnt be an issue. | M | 26 | 15 days | 2/1/2008 | 3 | prostatitis | I took the 1000mg extended release tablet once a day in Feb. 2008 for 10 days. After reading this site I was almost afraid to take cipro. The only side effect I had started on day seven when I got the stomach upset and gastro problems common to most of these broad spectrum antibiotics that knock out the digestive bacteria in your guts as well as the targeted bacterium. Symptoms went away two days after I finished the ten day course of treatment. | Unfortunately, it did not stop my prostate pain, but my doctor suggested that it was just a shot in the dark and often antibiotics are not the solution for prostate pain and he has scheduled further testing. | M | 10 days | 2/29/2008 |