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 | Muscle spasms, weakness in left leg, pain in knee, burning and numbness on right side of body, | Do not take this drug! If I had known about the side effects ahead of time, I never would have taken Cipro. I took 3 pills and ended up in the ER. It has been over 2 weeks since I stopped taking Cipro and I am still having pain in my left leg and calf. It feels like Sciatica. | F | 40 | 1.5 days 500 MG 2X day | 11/30/2011 | 1 | suspected diverticulitis | Guys dont take this im 23, now I feel like a 70 year old woman.. Im have the weridest pains in my legs, hips, groin, back and this is 2 weeks after quiting, its like more things keep popping up!!!! Im not even sure what my original problem was. I am getting weird chest pains, and my heart does weird things now : ( please take that stuff back!! | I quit taking it after the 4th night, before that I was actually breaking the pills in half because 750 MG is a lot for a small person like me, when I call the pharmacy/doctors I was BLOWN OFF, dont count on someone helping you if you get bad side effects to this. i had panic attacks and couldnt sleep :'( please im still suffering effects from this drug find something else its worth spending a little extra money to get another brand. I hope I dont get worse.. | F | 23 | 4 days 750 2X day | 12/2/2011 | 1 | UTI/Sinus Infection | I rated this below and said don't read the negative comments. If you think it, you will have it, but I just have to say something about this drug. AWFUL.... AWFUL .... AWFUL .... Fatigue, pain in my left ankle tendon, headaches, insomina, ANXIETY, dry mouth, just not a good feeling. | I made it through five days and that was all I could handle. | F | 41 | 7 days 500 2X day | 11/15/2011 | 1 | UTI | Anxiety, irritability, depression, severe insomnia, cognitive impairment, racing heartbeat. | WARNING: Avoid taking Cipro if you are prescribed Cymbalta. These two medications cause a SEVERE INTERACTION, resulting in worse physical, cognitive & emotional health. Potentially, the two medications may result in suicidal tendencies and emotional instability. Regardless of what your doctor or pharmacist say, they DO NOT always know what is best for you. I learned the hard way, almost lost my life to the doctors negligence and I'm so very grateful the Lord spared my life. | F | 47 | 10 days ? 2X day | 11/13/2011 | 1 | urinary tract infection | on jan. 24th, 2010, i went to the e.r. with pain i had never experienced so bad in lower abdomen, i was diagnosed with u.t.i. and given an rx for cipro 500 mg. twice daily. i got very paranoid, especially when i tried to sleep and thoughts of jumping off my 3rd floor balcony, i was crying, had no idea until later this may be related to the cipro i was taking, i also had/have sudden, severe muscle loss and soreness all over body that was unexplained until i started researching online. i also had my ring finger and little finger tingling and numb, went for e.m.g. and was told i needed elbow surgery but i decided not to have it. i was told i had ulnar tunel syndrom and it was severe but i decided to try b vitamins, the e.m.g. guy said it might help but mine was pretty bad but i did not want to have surgery so i tried it and it got almost all the way better. i wish i had known about cipro side affects, i have no idea what other affects this stuff had on me, i know i do not feel like | F | 57 | 7 days 500 mg 2X day | 11/12/2011 | 1 | Hot Tub Folliculitis | Severe GI Tract Inflammation, Kidney Pain, Vomiting, Lack of Appetite, Possible Others | Prescribed for Hot Tub Folliculitis (a skin rash caused by topical contact with contaminated hot tub water). During treatment, I had severe lack of appetite (not lack of hunger, just recoil at the thought of eating no matter how hungry), and various symptoms that would be presumptuous to blame on the meds. Since stopping Cipro (2 days), I’ve had severe GI tract inflammation to the point it’s painful to lie on my stomach to sleep (I can’t sleep on my back; no sleep either) and a dull ache/burning sensation in the kidneys similar to that I get when I drink too much soda, but not in that it sometimes gets worse (presumably dependent on what I’ve consumed). After 1 day of self-treatment with acidophilus and magnesium, I’ve finally had a day of loose bowel movements after at least two with none and my appetite is back, but I still can’t eat much because the GI tract inflammation is still in full force and I’m afraid to go back to any ignoramus that would prescribe this for a SKIN RASH! I didn’t know what it was until now, but even my friend’s husband said “CIPRO? OMG, that’s for life or death treatment!” I hope and pray I don’t develop the long term effects some have posted here, but even if I don’t, what I’ve already experienced is completely unacceptable results for having been treated for a skin rash!! I should have been prescribed a topical antibiotic, not this horror! | F | 37 | 7.5 days 500 2X day | 11/2/2011 | 1 | suspected UTI | I took this stuff twice before over 10 years ago with no issues. I took it again 3 years ago and had alot of the same overwhelming issues other people have described. From what i have read, this stuff does cumulative damage that can be insidious depending on your tolerance for this drug. Those with a low tolerance are the lucky ones because they get the reactions so they stop taking it before it has the chance to do permanent damage. For anyone reading this....look up other anitibiotics besides quinolones on this web site.....how many of them have 1300 responses, mostly scary onces that are practically consistant person after person? There are other safer antibiotics so even if you don't beleive anybody on here, the bottom line is it is not necessary for you to take this stuff....you can take something else that is safer. For me it took about a month for the intensity to start settling down and about 4 months for it to go away all together. That's considered a mild reaction in com | F | 45 | 3 days 500 mgs 2X day | 11/11/2011 | 1 | Possible GI infection | Approximately six hours after taking the second dose, I attempted to stand. I was unable to bear weight on the left leg. By the next morning, I'd lost complete range of motion in both legs and within a week I was in a wheelchair. Almost seven months later I am still unable to walk without using a cane or walker, and am only just now experiencing achilles pain. Other side effects include extreme short term memory loss, brain fog, peripheral nervous symptoms such as numbness and tingling in hands, feet and scalp. Anxiety and depression have joined in, either as a side effect or a result of the above. This is the first time I've rated a drug and only the second time I've reviewed anything online. I wish someone had warned me as we are warning you. Unless faced with death, I will never take this poison again. Know your facts. Do your research and be your own health advocate. I guarantee you that the pharmaceutical companies are NOT looking out for you. | F | 48 | 2 days 750 mg 2X day | 11/23/2011 | 1 | bladder infection250 | tendinitis in shoulders & hips-trouble sleeping | F | 59 | 3 days 250mg 2X day | 11/23/2011 | 1 | Sinusitis | Dizzy and Faint Feeling, Red Rash on Stomach, Tingly Right Hand, Horrid Yeast Infection with a blistering lesion on the front of my vagina. | This has been the worst medication experience I've ever had. I felt like I was given Herpes only to find out I'm having a bad reaction to the medication. I'm in so much pain I can barely walk. This drug should be taken off the market. It ruined my neither regions. | F | 28 | 10 days 500MG 2X day | 11/30/2011 | 1 | suspected urinary tract infection | DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG, ABSOLUTE POISON!!! 11 months later and I am still experiencing daily side effects from Cipro. I was prescribed it for a suspected urinary tract infection. I took my first dose before bed and woke up 2 hours later in such pain I could barely move. Excruiciating low back pain, leg pain, basically head to toe pain uncomparable to anything I had ever experienced. Followed up with my doctor the next day who encouraged me to finish my 10 day round of Cipro, ensuring me that the symptoms I was experiencing were due to my suspected UTI - Could not have been more wrong! Finished the Cipro and have been dealing with the aftermath of being poisoned by this terrible drug ever since. I am 24 years old and wake up feeling as though I'm 100 and spend each day in some degree of pain. Joint and muscle pain in my arms, legs, neck and shoulders. I never had any of these issues before taking Cipro. I advise everyone to NOT take this drug or any drugs from the floroquine family of antibiotics. Just Google 'cipro is poison' and read the thousands of horror stories victims have posted as their lives, like mine, have been forever changed from Cipro. | F | 24 | 10 days | 2/15/2012 | 1 | finger infection | Numbness &tingling in both legs&feet | F | 47 | 10 days 50 | 11/21/2011 | 1 | UTI | stomach aches, wost of all psychological, turned my husband from a smart, chairman of a large committee, to a crying imbicele who could not even tie his own tie. | When white cells still tuned up high, given another dose 1 x 500 twice a day, ended up crying in office, told he has depression, given anti depresion drug, not catching on that this was all caused by CIPRO. An so mad will contact lawyer. | F | 69 | 10 days 500 2X day | 9/4/2010 | 1 | Sinus Infection | Slight nausea without food, anxiety/depression, painful UTI and yeast infection symptoms | I was prescribed multiple rounds of Cipro for sinus infections. Each time I took it, I would end up with symptoms of a UTI, after which I was given another antibiotic, and then ended up with a yeast infection and would need a 3rd round of different medicine. I took probiotics with all of these, but my body is so out of whack now. The last dose (round 4) of cipro has given me severe symptoms of both UTI and yeast infection at the same time, so painful that I cannot urinate and have trouble sitting down. My OB-GYN found no trace of infection in my system, yet the pain continues. I expressed my concern before taking this medicine to my doctor and he insisted it was the only way to fix my sinus infection. I am now in more pain and sicker than I started. I have begun alternative treatments of Chinese herbs, acupuncture and significantly adjusting my diet and lifestyle to cleanse my system and get better. It has been 5 days and the improvement is just slightly beginning to show. In the long run, I will likely never take antibiotics again. I feel betrayed by my doctor for not knowing the research behind this medicine or the side effects, and for prescribing it so many times so carelessly. | F | 29 | 10 days 500 2X day | 9/5/2010 | 1 | UTI | CIPRO is a drug that has caused me severe abdominal and iam only on day3< I didnt have any abdominal pain with the UTI before taking this drug. This medicine seems somewhat toxic as if i took something that isnt right at all. | F | 46 | 10 days 500 mg 2X day | 8/28/2010 | 1 | appendex | nerve damge in both my legs, numbness, pain fells like im being socked all the time | i would not ever take it again or tell anyone else to. | F | 42 | 2 weeks 500mg 3X day | 8/31/2010 | 1 | kidney infection | Day 5: Woke up with racing, palpitating heart; tingling in calf muscles; feeling like I was going to pass out. Day 8: Severe episode of nearly passing out (while driving!), tingling in calf muscles, weakness in legs, racing/palpitating heart. The documentation says these are serious side effects that require immediate medical attention. Went to ER; changed Rx to Keflex. Cipro side effects continued every day, sometimes better, sometimes worse, so much that my primary care physician sent me to the ER for a second time in 8 days. No one could do anything other than tell me to drink lots of fluids. Have been on at-home heart monitor for the last month. Heart rate spikes any time of day or night as high as 120 bpm and stays there for hours. Try sleeping with that. Five weeks after taking my last pill of Cipro, the heart irregularities are easing somewhat, although a new development is that my calf/heel muscles have been tight and burning, to the point of needing to use some ice. Restlessle | Before taking Cipro, I was extremely healthy and a frequent exerciser. It has taken more than a month out of my life (so far) and cost me more than $8,000 in ER bills, not to mention time lost from work, family, exercise, and everything else. I will NEVER take this drug again and will tell everyone I know to stay away unless they have absolutely no other option. It is unconscionable that the manufacturer has no antidote or treatments for the known side effects. The FDA warning to seek immediate medical attention is a joke when doctors have no idea what to do. | F | 46 | 8 days 500 MG 2X day | 8/25/2010 | 1 | UTI | Extreme body pain, tight muscles, restlessness at night. Interestingly, it was only on this go-around with Cipro that I was able to confirm what has been going on in my life for the last 2 years...since the last time I took Cipro!!! After being healthy, pain-free, and active for 60 yrs, I suddenly had horrible flu-like body pain, especially my knees and feet. Have not be able to comfortably wear most shoes (I used to wear heals almost every day and LOVED shoes) and on some days, walking is almost unbearable. I developed intense itching all over and have had to take a daily antihistamine ever since. I work full-time so the impact on my life has been tremendous. As I previously mentioned, only until these symptoms were exacerbated with this round of Cipro did I "connect the dots"!!! I checked my records and sure-enough, Cipro is when this all began!! I have clear recollection of a conversation with my Dr two years ago about how I was feeling and he TOTALLY laughed and sco | Cipro took care of the UTI but at what "cost"?... the side-effects are life-altering. | F | 62 | 5 days 250mg 2X day | 8/26/2010 | 1 | Kidney infection/UTI | Completely crippled, hell on earth. | I was incredibly healthy before I was POISONED by my doctor with this trash for a simple UTI. I am now a cripple. Seven days worth was all it took. I cannot tell you the HORROR this has caused me and my family, and it never ends. I have lost everything (except for my infection! It didn't even work for that!) and I hope to see the day Bayer gets their @ss sued off for the absolute devastation this poison has caused me and countless others. Shame on this country for allowing such poison to be used on unsuspecting victims. I will warn everyone I come in contact with NEVER to take this "drug" until the day I die, which at this point I pray will be soon. | F | 35 | 7 days 500 2X day | 8/28/2010 | 1 | uti | day one was great. Woke up and touched my foot to the floor and knew something was wrong. Took a total of 4 pills. Pharmacist told me to stop- and call doc. I went straight to the health food store and will cure my uti with herbs and cranberry juice. In the meantime, what to do but pray about my sore foot and ankle. NEVER again. | F | 54 | 2 days 500mg 2X day | 8/18/2010 |