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 | Kidney Infection | *Extreme gastric upset* leading to permanent damage since 2007. Tremors, sluggish, fever. | I was prescribed this drug when I arrived at the walk-in clinic, clutching my side in pain and peeing blood. I was happy to get on the road to feeling better but was I sure in for a surprise. The 'cure' was far worse than the problem. My knees sometimes bugger up, but what really erks me is the gastric issues I have had ever since taking this poison. My mother, a nurse, put me on acidophilus bacteria which helped a lot, but many years later I still suffer gastric issues like nausea/acid reflux ever since Cipro. It's hard to find a doctor who will hear my plight, but I am very certain Cipro did something to me. I had a gut of steel before taking this atrocity. Yes, let's feed people Fluoride! Great idea! | F | 24 | 4 days 1X day | 9/15/2010 | 1 | U T I | After my fourth dose I woke up in the middle of the night and my legs felt like sausages numb and swollen. Tendons became tight as if they were goint to rupture 2 days later I got a burning sensation on left side of head wich caused electrical heat sensations down my arms spine and up my head. I had short memory loss fatigued malice every tendon and joint hurt I wanted death to come :( | It will be a year since I took cipro October 9 2010. I can run again 20 miles a week I weight train again and gained back my muslce and lost body fat. I look good again NO thanks to any doctor. I will run a race oct. 31 (again) after all the pain and suffering my heart and prayers go to all of you. I wiil run my race and hate cipro all the way.And love God for the woderful body he gave to repair itself. [email protected] | F | 44 | 2 days 500 2X day | 9/30/2010 | 1 | Kidney infection | Severe leg cramping, headache, random pain all over my body. Instant migraine w first dose at ER. | ER still recommends I take it despite side effects. | F | 42 | 1 days 500 2X day | 10/5/2010 | 1 | Inflamed Uterus | When I first started taking Cipro, I felt so sick to my stomach, I couldn't eat. Then I started having ankle and knee pain. Second day I was on it, i fell down the stairs for NO reason. weeks after taking it, my ankle pain has gotten worse and i feel is down in my foot. | F | 22 | 10 days 500 2X day | 10/6/2010 | 1 | UTI | I took the 1st dose with breakfast & it made me nauseated. So I decided to take the 2nd dose w/o food to see if that would be better. It wasn't. It gave me an upset stomach also. The second day I noticed that my rt. achilles started aching as well as my rt. heel. Then gradually all the muscles in my body started to ache. My head felt as if it was spinning & gonna blow up. I was still nauseated & started feeling anxious for some reason. I called the Pharmacist after the 4th day & he told me that it was normal for Cipro to cause joint pain because it softens the cartilage? WTH? & not to do any strenuous activity & since I was nearly 1/2 way through my treatment to just keep taking it. Well I was supposed to take it for 10 days & only lasted 7. It's been about a week since I took it last & the stomach pain have since gone away but my whole body/muscles ache & I have excruciating pain in my right foot.My heel & achilles is jacked! The advice nurse to | I will NEVER EVER take this med EVER again! Nor will I recommend it to anyone I know. | F | 34 | 7 days 750 2X day | 10/6/2010 | 1 | Bladder Infection | Horrific graphic real nightmares. Restlessness and anxiety. | I will never take another drug again without reading the warning signs first. I have been awake all night and have experienced 7 - 8 horrible nightmares, night sweats, anxiety and restlessness. This drug is not for me. | F | 50 | 2 days 500mg 2X day | 11/19/2010 | 1 | Cough, upper resp infection | I am in tears reading these posts. I never would have thought the swelling in my legs would have been caused by this until today. My left leg is slightly swelled as well as the ankle but my right leg looks like the michellin man's leg. Literally bulges....my ankle is completely swollen to where I can barely move my foot. I really hope that since I finished it this morning that this will go away. I can't believe I was this stupid to keep taking it. | Avoid this medication at all costs...read everyone's posts! | F | 41 | 10 days 500 2X day | 11/21/2010 | 1 | UTI | I have been on it for four days and so dizzy. Feel like I'm walking on air but most of all as a recovered attack feelings like coming off meth. Ringing in my ears all day and kind of a static in the ear.At least I'm not crazy.. Called my doctor and stopped it immediately. | Does anyone know why that happens with this medication? | F | 33 | 3 days 250MG 2X day | 11/22/2010 | 1 | uti | joint pain, abdominal pain, nausea, general sadness, trouble sleeping, tingling in the face,lips,hands. Weak all over and feeling much worse than before taking the medication. | The overall feeling of restlessness is almost unbearable. Sleep deprivation and insomnia coupled with joint pain and discomfort. After reading all the posts on this site all my symptoms from taking this medication have been validated. Please warn anyone seeking a medical need for antibotics to steer clear of Cipro. | F | 37 | 3 days 250mg 2X day | 11/26/2010 | 1 | UTI | Muscle and joint pain, exhaustion, yeast infection | Have taken Cipro twice and been experiencing excessive and at times, extreme, muscle and joint pain. I will barely work out or go for a walk, and feel like I've run a marathon or been hit by a truck. EVERY DAY I am sore and excessively achy in my whole body, particularly my feet and calves. After coming to this site, I realize it's from this horrific drug. I will never take a drug again without fully researching it. Good luck to everyone. We are all living this nightmare and I feel everyone's pain. I have been feeling this way for a year. | F | 28 | 5 days 500mg 2X day | 11/28/2010 | 1 | diverticulitis-bowel perforation | While taking: nauseous, throwing up. was hospitalized and given the drug intravenously for six days, had to finish treatment orally thereafter, had to lie down (with a bucket nearby) after taking it. | At the end of the treatment, I started getting continuous pains from the top of the hips &lower back traveling upwards thru the left or/& shoulder bones & radiating in upper arms, could not sit, could not sleep- Dr.felt that it was a myalgia, suggested a rheumatologist,I was upset. Strangely enough,the same thing had happened to my best friend last year! I asked her if she had taken Cipro before it occurred, her pharmacist confirmed it. Presently,she is finishing up a one year prednizone treatment program! I have osteopenia & while treated with cipro, had to give up calcium supplements/ dairy prod. or anything fortified with calcium because CALCIUM COUNTERACTS THE EFFECTIVENESS of Cipro, so, I self prescribed: 650mg of calcium, 200 I.U. of D3 (cholecalciferol)needed for calcium absorption & 200mg of magnesium with breakfast-200mg of magnesium with Lunch- 650mg of calcium, 2000 I.U of D3, & 200mg of magnesium with dinner.Each Day the pain receded by 2 or 3 hours; by the fifth day, as unbelievable as it is, I was free of pain! If you try it,reduce the magnesium as soon as you feel better as it is not recommended to take over 200/300mg per day. I am back on my usual intake: 650mg of calcium a day, 2000 I.U. of D3 & 200mg of magnesium at dinner time, it relaxes my muscles & may be tendons?& helps me sleep.Calcium helps in neutralizing Cipro's action & magnesium relaxes muscles. Do check with your pharmacist to make sure that it is OK for yo | F | 68 | 19 days 500mg 2X day | 11/29/2010 | 1 | skin infection | Started to have digestive pain and reflux, then sore throat, then chills, achiness in body, felt like a bad flu, nauseated | This is poison. I was supposed to take this for a week and after reading other posts regarding other people having the same side effects I stopped taking it and woke up the next day feeling normal again. Just a litte weak from not being able to eat because of feeling nauseated all the time. DO NOT TAKE THIS, IT IS POISON. | F | 46 | 7 days 2X day | 11/30/2010 | 1 | uti | tendonitis everywhere, muscle twitches, anxiety, insomnia, popping joints... Insomnia was gone in 48 hrs. The moderate muscle/tendon pain went away after 2 weeks but flares up randomly here and there. My joints pop 8 months after taking 2 of the cipro pills. Every joint I have is creaky and pops so loud. The only thing that helps is magnesium. Cipro interferes with your body's ability to use magnesium. My symptoms have slowly morphed over time. I hope in another year I'm symptom free. Fingers crossed. It's a slow recovery. And I'm 23 and was in great shape before taking it. | GET MAGNESIUM and take it every day. If I miss it for 2 or 3 days, my joints pop more, I get really tight muscles, muscle twitches, and even a lump in my throat and trouble swallowing. Magnesium is the only thing I have found to help. Take it easy on the exercise, your joints are weakened and will wear down quicker. | F | 23 | 1 days 1X day | 11/14/2010 | 1 | UTI | I think I managed to get 2 pills in me before I ended up at the ER due to red blotches all over my body and horribly swollen & painful joints (knees/ankles especially). It was twice as bad from the time I left my house to the time the doctor came in the room. I couldn't even walk by then. Never had any type of reaction to an antibiotic like this before. | This happened quite a few years ago, and they put me in the hospital and tried to come up with some other reason for all my symptoms, but I was fine the day before I started taking this medication, and finding this web site has confirmed my belief that it was *all* coming from the Cipro. Never had an issue like this since. | F | 32 | 1 days 2X day | 11/4/2010 | 1 | bronchitis | Paint travels from left neck, right shoulder and recently left, wrists (incapacitationg hands)and left ankle. Pain cannot be controlled with two hydrochodone 750, every four hours.....only the edge of pain is releived enough to keep from going to hospital. | I was dancing four nights a week, playing cards three to four times a week and keeping a spotless home. I am bed ridden except when hydrochone is taken. Must start Navigator with a pair of pliers, cannot lift most pillows, difficulty trying to wipe in bathroom, pain is worse than child birth, vision changes, foggy thinking and pain changes places to hurt....involving two to three places at a time. This has ruined my life. | F | 70 | 5 days 500 1X day | 11/4/2010 | 1 | persistent, undiagnosed diarrhea | hands began itching within a few hours of taking the first dose. After the second dose developed hives which lasted about 1 week. Itching was severe and I had to wear gloves in bed to keep from scratching. Dark areas on the skin persisted for another 1-2 weeks. | I've had "NO CIPRO" put on my medical charts with every one of my physicians and dentist. I will never take this drug again and understand the reaction could be worse next time if I do. | F | 66 | 1 days 500 mg 2X day | 10/31/2010 | 1 | diverticulitis | After taking cipro for three days I felt a stabbing pain in my right knee.I have been unable to walk since then without severe pain.It has been seven months now and I am no better.This medication has ruined my life.My husband says he sees severe depression since this treatment. | This medication should be taken off the market. | F | 68 | 3 days 500 2X day | 11/2/2010 | 1 | UTI | Neck pain after initial dose. Nausea, stomach cramps and rash on arms, chest and face after 2 doses. I also experienced anxiousness, and feeling "blue" for a couple of days after stopping med. | F | 45 | 2 days 35mg 3X day | 10/12/2010 | 1 | toe infection | I didn't have side effects as long as I ate prior to taking the pill. | NOW, 6 weeks after taking CIPRO I've been experiencing muscle cramps and popping in my joints. I'm not able to do any strenuous exercise because of my toe issue (still burning pain in my toe) so I know my muscle pain isn't exercise related. It just occurred to me that my pain is likely an extended effect from the CIPRO. I would caution anyone thinking of taking this drug. I would not have taken it had I known then what I know now. | F | 53 | 10 days 2X day | 10/12/2010 | 1 | UTI | Started with lower back pain thinking I slept wrong. By day three my knees tripled in size looking like pumpkins. My foot looked like Frankenstein huge swollen and bruised. The pain was outrageous. I was given pain meds and anti-flammatory medication. Nothing touched the pain. I’ve had my knees drained, shots in my foot, xrays, pain medication given out like candy. I am now crippled and bed ridden. I have a cane and wheel chair. I have missed work for 2 weeks now. The pain has now moved up to my jaw. This condition has made me feel sad and depressed. | I was healthy, active, walked everyday but now I cannot stand. I am in severe pain. I am very depressed. I just hope and pray I get better. | F | 40 | 3.5 days 500 MG 2X day | 10/9/2010 |