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 | Pelvic Infection | Muscle weakness, tingling in hands, feet, legs. | All of these side effects started 1 week after finishing the medicine, and have persisted for a full month, with no signs of going away. | F | 33 | 3 days 500 mg 2X day | 7/5/2010 | 1 | food poisoning | Insomnia, Panic Attacks, Shortness of Breath, Tachycardia, loss of balance, fainting, angina...Initially went for food poisoning. After treatment w CIPRO had Shortness of Breath, back to ER. Rather than consider I was having a reaction to CIPRO, the Drs. put me through a lot of expensive tests to find a hole in my heart, which wasnt' there! I think that we should sue the hospitals. It is clear that they are benefitting from treating all of the "side effects" created by this drug. It is a cash cow for them. I hadn't been sick or to the doctor in years before this. Then I had to go to the ER 4 times in 2 months! Cha-ching! They have no interest in prescribing a less toxic anti-biotic! Someone at the top of these Corporate Hospitals has planned it this way! | 2.5 months later...The Insomnia finally stopped. Tachycardia much better..Still very short of breath. Can't walk for more than 3 minutes without having to sit down. Anyone else with Shortness of Breath? | F | 48 | 4 days 500mg 2X day | 7/3/2010 | 1 | UTI | Stiff neck, extreme fatigue, joint, muscle pain, headache, general malaise | Please DO NOT take this drug. I didn't make the connection immediately, but now I know what's causing pain in my elbow, fingers, calves, back, etc. My neck is extremely stiff. I am a very active, healthy 39 year old female and feel 90 at the moment. I've never experienced anything like this before. I'm concerned about the residual side effects. Why is this medication still being allowed to harm us? | F | 39 | 6 days 500 mg 2X day | 7/5/2010 | 1 | colitis | I started taking this drug and within 24hrs i started to feel like I was in a fog like I had taken too many decongestants. Nausea, lethargic, extreme fatigue, anxious, paranoid and my left shoulder and neck hurt so bad I can't turn my head. I am experiencing right calf pain and face pain. Burning headache like pins and needles in the top of my head. I have a weird sensation when I breath, like I'm taking in breaths of really cold air and it's numbing my airway and chest. I'd say it reminds be of flu symptoms but, I feel so bad right now I can't really compare it to anything. | Do not take this medication. Please whatever you don't give it to your children. You wouldn't want your kids to feel like this | F | 27 | 3 days 500mg 2X day | 7/19/2010 | 1 | UTI | stiffness and pain | The second day of taking cipro I was walking and a shot of pain ran up my leg all of sudden my leg went stiff. I laid down for the rest of the night and woke up the next morning with my leg still stiff. Everytime I try to straighten my leg to walk straight I have pain behind my knee and my leg remains feeling stiff. I walk around with a limp and now my doctor advised for me to discontinue cipro and gave me crutches. Now researching and reading about cipro I have told my loved ones never to use this drug. | F | 27 | 2 days 250mg 2X day | 7/20/2010 | 1 | UTI | Chills, fever, disoriented, confused, lightheaded, weak, LOW blood pressure and rash. | After a visit to the emergency room it was finally determined that I had a severe UTI. I did have chills, fever, and dizziness due to the infection. On the forth day after beginning the medication I went to my own doctor feeling no better. I am diabetic and my blood sugars have dropped more times than I care to count since starting the drug. My blood pressure which is normally 117/70 with medication is now 80/55. Although we were both concerned with this drop, I attributed it to being bedridden for a good deal of these now four days. Tonight after taking my scheduled dose I began to put two and two together after noting that my blood sugar dropped, I became even more confused, I tried a brisk walk to bring up the pressure but to no avail. So I did some research here and on other sites to find that the body aches, disorientation, confusion, chills, and low grade fever are due the the CIPRO. I have now developed a red rash all over my lower legs and have not been in the sun at all. I have also noticed decreased urine flow despite many, many glases of water and swelling of my feet and ankles. I have taken my LAST dose of this terrible medication and pray I suffer no long term affects. It didn't dawn on my own doctor who is an internist/cardiologist with many years of practice that my symptoms could be a reaction to medication...and even prescribed and additional five day regimen since I was not getting any better. | F | 65 | 4 days 500 2X day | 7/21/2010 | 1 | Kidney Infection | Pain, aching joints, heel pain, burning and tightness, sore/stiff neck & shoulder, right hip and ankles. Blurred vision and headache....i'm sure there will be more to follow :( | runner who can no longer run. was prescribed Cipro last week, took all but the last 4 of 20 pills. first noticeable symptom was the headache, then the heel pain... more symptoms as the days have gone by. basically everything hurts... feels like i ran a Marathon yesterday, but i haven't been able to run all week...it hurts just to walk. going to the Dr. at 2:15. not sure if there's anything that he can do, but i want it on record. | F | 45 | 10 days 500MG 2X day | 7/22/2010 | 1 | UTI | extreme nausea, dizziness, ear pain, weird muscle pains, spike in anxiety/depression, joint pain | The day after I began taking Cipro, I started feeling very nauseous. I was sick to my stomach for about 80% of the time while being on it, even throwing up. I also experienced dizziness and pain in my inner ear, so I thought I had an ear infection. I have been off for several days now but am still having side effects. I had joint pain in my knees and shoulders shortly after taking it and it's still there. I also am still having an odd sensation in my arms, almost like my muscles are fatigued and hurt, like I have been working out at the gym recently, but I have not. I'm very upset the doctor prescribed Cipro to me, because I had an existing anxiety issue and cardiac problem that I've been doing well coping with, and I informed the doctor of that. Shortly after beginning Cipro, my anxiety spiked and my heart began racing despite medicine to help it. I'm still nauseous despite being off the drug for several days, and hoping it subsides soon. It's hard for me to even sit up w/out being sick. This drug appears to have cured my UTI, but I recommend it only as a last resort. I had a different antibiotic for a previous UTI with no side effects (can't remember the name) and I wish they would have given it to me again. | F | 22 | 7 days 500 mg 2X day | 7/21/2010 | 1 | diverticulitis | Will finish my 14-day course this Friday. See my note re: Flagyl, which I am taking in combo with the Cipro. I do not like this medicine! I know it is the antibiotic of choice in combo w/Flagyl for diverticulitis - but it is a mean drug on your system. I make sure that I take a pro-biotic with this drug - still have abdominal pain. Not sure how I managed to have an attack of diverticulitis since I watch what I eat, and I am (or was) as regular as your alarm clock. Now, I'm in the bathroom all the time and believe my system will never be the same. Side effects: Dark & loose stools at least twice a day, NO APPETITE, CRAMPS... With diverticulitis you are supposed to "REST" your colon, but CIPRO I believe just makes it worse. I don't think this medicine will help at all. | VERY IMPORTANT TO TAKE A PRO-BIOTIC WITH THIS MEDICINE. | F | 49 | 14 days 500mg 2X day | 7/21/2010 | 1 | infection | Full anaphylaxis. Within 15 minutes of taking my first dosage, my throat was almost totally closed off and the paramedics and firemen are my heroes. I took this drug for a bladder infection and I took one pill. My eyes totally swelled shut, my lips were so swollen they were out to my nose. I received massive doses of steroids, epinephrine, and Benadryl. The doctors commented if my mother would have driven me the ten minutes to the hospital instead of the paramedics (who were able to give me medication) I would not have survived. Be aware if you have known allergies to medications when you start a medication you have never taken before but especially this antibiotic | F | 30 | 1X day | 7/23/2010 | 1 | Bladder Infection | Worst experience of my life. I got off it after day 2 due to panic, anxiety, throbbing, felt like i was on caffiene x about 100 times that, could not sleep at all for 2 nights because I was so anxious, and worst of all the leg surges in my right calf muscle. And, 2 days later I'm off this and I'm still getting these horrible heat surges in my right calf muscle. I feel like someone was trying to poison me by me taking this. Stay away from this drug if you can, not worth it to chance this horrible state I'm in. | Stay away. It is the worst experience of my life. Worse than giving birth. | F | 36 | 2 days 500MG 2X day | 9/16/2010 | 1 | Kidney infection/stones | Terrible headache and body aches | Feel lucky that I stopped after 2 doses | F | 43 | 1 days 500mg 2X day | 9/7/2010 | 1 | HORRIFIC MISTAKE | CIPRO DESTROYS LIVES! | WE CANNOT ALLOW BAYER AND THE FDA TO CONTINUE CRIPPLING UNSUSPECTING PEOPLE WITH THIS POISON! IF YOU ARE SUFFERING FROM ANY OF THE NUMEROUS DEVASTATING SIDE EFFECTS CAUSED BY THIS POISON, YOU ABSOLUTELY MUST FILE A REPORT WITH THE FDA! YOU CAN DO THIS BY CALLING 800-FDA-1088 OR ONLINE AT: www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/medwatch/medwatch-online.htm. BAYER MUST BE STOPPED!!! EVERY REPORT HELPS TOWARDS GETTING THIS TOXIC TRASH YANKED OFF THE MARKET AND (GOD WILLING) LEGAL JUSTICE FOR THE NUMEROUS PERMANENTLY DISABLED VICTIMS! | F | 40 | 1X day | 9/25/2010 | 1 | Presumed UTI | Extreme Achilles tendon pain, left leg worse than right. Had to crawl for two days and then on crutches for two weeks. | I previously posted but was unable to get back in to edit my post. It has been about six weeks and I have now recovered. I still have some stiffnesse in my left Achilles, but am able to get around. Dealing with trying to rebuild muscle I have lost from not being able to exercise. PLEASE DON'T TAKE THIS DRUG UNLESS YOU ARE ON YOUR DEATH BED! It works well for some people, but the side effects for the people who have them are devastating. | F | 36 | 11 days 500 2X day | 9/20/2010 | 1 | Diverticulosis | I have been having pain for the last 4 days in my left leg. It is excruciating at times and didn't realize it was because of the Cipro until I read everyone's comments. I don't recommend this medicine to anyone because you will feel worse than you did before you took it. I will NEVER take this medication again. | F | 53 | 14 days 500 mg 2X day | 9/21/2010 | 1 | Sinusitis | Side effects came after course of drugs done in other words, way too late - severe and crippling pain in hip all the way to ankle - spontaneous tendon rupture, bruises appear out of nowhere on my legs - 2 seizures, never had a seizure in my life except for 25 years ago coming out of anesthesia - first 6 hours of the day agony, may have 2-3 hours a day ok, with heavy doses of pain killers and ibuprofen. Absolute poison. Unacceptable level of risk. Not living in fear, but it is always on my mind - will I have another seizure? Or rip other tendons? Will I need surgery, a hip replacement, what could possibly come next? | These side effects have been going on for almost a month. This drug has changed my life - I can no longer do stairs, no way lawn work or housework without risking tendon tears, never mind the pain - wondering how much longer I can make it into work. Clinical doses of Ibuprofen seems to help some, but not without narcotics. I am almost past the "I can't believe it" stage and am entering the angry stage. I see my doctor in a few days - the same one who prescribed it. I am not holding my breath that he will admit to knowledge of the effects - wouldn't that be a liability on his part? All I want and pray for every moment of every day is for this nightmare to cease. | F | 52 | 2 weeks 500 mg 2X day | 9/22/2010 | 1 | UTI | Rash on entire body, migraine headaches, insomnia, shortness of breath, tongue swollen, loss of smell and taste, pains in legs and feet | I feel like I was poisoned. My entire life has changed and I'm hoping to feel normal again one day. I have lost in excess of 10 pounds, my muscle tone is all but gone, my skin is extremely dry, I have absolutely no energy - just making a bed exhausts me. Everyone tells me it can't possibly be because of the Cipro because it is completely out of my system by now. I am starting to feel like a hypochondriac. I was a fit 63 year old and would not hesitate wearing shorts but within the past few weeks my muscle tone has diminshed so badly that I look 10 years older than I am and would not be caught dead in anything that revealed my arms and legs. | F | 63 | 3 days 250 MG 2X day | 9/30/2010 | 1 | Falsely prescribed for mycoplasma | Memory loss, total muscular and tendon pain, gi issues, food allergies, rashes, hair fell out, brain fog, overwhelming fatigue, anxiety only took 8 pills and life forever altered | https://catherineadeleblog.wordpress.com/ | F | 18 | 4 days 500 | 12/24/2017 | 1 | UTI | Horrible stomach cramping, nausea. | It's been over 2 weeks now and I am still experiencing the bad gastrointestinal side effects. I will never take this drug again. | F | 59 | 5 days 500mg 2X day | 9/26/2010 | 1 | kidney infection | extremely itchy rash all over my body, nausea, anxiety, dizzyness, muscle and bone pain/soreness | I was not eager to call the doc after having been in the ER and pumped full of approx 4-5 antibiotics, sent home with one, then called and told to stop the current (5th or 6th antibiotic) and take cipro, but on the 3rd day I could no longer stand the rash and aforementioned side effects. Kaiser's phone doc (kaiser is the worst) instructed me to stop taking it immediately and take benedryl, no mention of how bad/sick I would feel and for how long. I am now 14 days of the cipro and still not feeling 100%. my boyfriend became so worried by my lingering symptoms he insisted i go back to see a doc in person and when i did, not only was i not told about what symptoms i might be still experiencing, the male doctor told me i must be depressed, and, 'well, you look good!'gee thanks for your blatant disregard and unprofessionalism. i guess the drug companies really are paying the physicians to shut up. btw, i am a psychologist. | F | 42 | 3 days 500 mg 2X day | 9/17/2010 |