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 | stomach infection | i felt i was on some Drug like meth or LSD .. the first 2 days after taking the drug I felt better ,but I lost appetite the 3rd day and felt light headed as if I'm drunk,hallucinations,panic attacks,anxiety,sevre gastric problems. | Well this drug is the worst I could ever have,I'm a tough guy and never had any problems untill I took this peace of crap,I was not knowing the side effects and blindly took this drug,and now I get light headed after having any dairy products,fullness in the stomach,cant concentrate,light headed ,dizzy feeling most of the time..its been 3 weeks and I just had 4 pills of 500 mg..darn I wish I knew how powerfull this drug is..I'd prefer to go with the ilness rather then going back to cipro. | M | 24 | 2 days 500 mg 2X day | 9/24/2010 | 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 | 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 | UTI/Prostititis | I had been subscribed Cipro several times 8 years ago for UTI/Prostititis issues. I had some side effects back then but never associated them with the drug. In June of this year, I was once again perscribed Cipro for Prostititis. On the second day, I experienced significant and severe abdominal cramps and spine pain. I stopped taking it. My doctor then put me on doxycycline and an NSAID (Nuproxen) I found out that was the worst thing anyone can do, from additional research it maximizes the side effects of Ciprofloxacin. Three months after taking the last pill, I have had it all: Joint Paint, Tendon Pain, Cartilage and Tendon Popping, Insomnia, Myalgia type pains and sensations, Eye Pain, Headaches, Muscle Weakness and Stiffness, Numbness & Tingling, Tremors & Twitching, Cold Hands & Feet, Burning Sensations and the list goes on & on.... | If anyone has had success in detoxifying from this poison, please post what has worked for you. I pray that I can pull through this. Please, Please, Please......ONLY TAKE THIS IF YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT.... THE RISKS ARE TOO GREAT !! | M | 50 | 2 days 500mg 2X day | 9/17/2010 | 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 | 1 | UTI | Joint pain, numbness, tingling, and weakness | This medicine ruined my life. After just 3 doses I could barley walk. It's been six months and the doctors still don't know what's wrong and deny this drug had anything to do with the weakening of my joints. I was healthy and active before this. I hope my future isn't in a wheelchair. | F | 22 | 2 days 500mg | 1/8/2017 | 1 | UTI | On 2nd dose felt some neuropathy in lower legs but was busy so shook it off. Thought it was from another reason. 3rd dose 1/2 hr after taking while driving felt a wave of terror come over me. Had to make it through a traffic light while asking my kids in the back seat to pray for me. Thank The Lord I was picking up an older daughter who could drive. Thought it was just a wierd occurrence but decided to goggle and found this was not unusual to have this reaction. Thought I could use mind over matter, proceeded to go on a 6 lane rd only to have it strike again. I lumped out of the car and told my daughter to drive. I huddled in the passenger seat, younger daughter called an ambulance which my daughter cancelled bc there was an urgent care center around the corner. I had these episodes about every 15-20min apart. They hooked me up on a heart monitor and while lying down watched my heart rate spike to over 150. They wanted to give me Xanax or some other drug and I refused. That was all I needed, to have another drug reacting to this one. This was terrifying, humiliating and potentially deadly. I was headed to go out on the highway. What if this happened there? What if I didn't have the ER there? When I was released, noticed as I would try to rest, the drop off where your body goes to relax into sleep was a trigger to a less intense attack. So the drug cos win all around, antibiotic, anti anxiety meds and now sleep meds. I'm not taking anything. This junk was distributed by Dr. Re | Save your sanity, take amoxicillin, Augmentin etc. and drink lots of 100%Juice Cranberry at first sigh of UTI then u won't need meds! I ran out and didn't catch it in time... | F | 49 | 2 days 500mg 2x | 6/6/2016 | 1 | Staph Infection | When I took this I was a healthy, normal 21 year old. Took this for a staph infection in my bladder. Took it and had to be hospitalized for three days. Peripheral neuropathy has stuck around 8 years later. Also had to deal with additional side effects like tinnitus (constant ringing in ears) and different health issues. If you have to take this medicine, please make sure you go over the potential side effects with your physician/pharmacist. Very important to talk about what peripheral neuropathy symptoms are before they get worse with this medicine. Physicians/pharmacists might blow you off but all I have to say is, web search neuropathy and cipro. It happens more than people think and I'm living proof. | F | 29 | 2 days 2X day | 5/24/2016 | 1 | uti | aching and swollen joints, all over body pain, fatigue,felt like worst flu ever with the body aches. | Ended up with knee surgery for infection after they drew fluid off knee, 2 months of being bedridden due to all the swollen joints. | F | 51 | 2 days 30 2X day | 4/20/2016 | 1 | Uti | Flushing in face horrible stomach ache body aches very dizzy generally unwell very sick | F | 62 | 2 days | 3/18/2016 | 1 | UTI | It’s been two years since I took Cipro for an uncomplicated UTI. At first, my symptoms were extreme anxiety/panic disorder, fibromyalgia like pain especially in my legs, joint pain,severe brain fog, loss of appetite, palpitations, high blood pressure, rapid heart beat, POTs, extreme fatigue, food/drug sensitivities, As time has gone on, hair loss, migraines, OCD and crazy anxiety, depression lingers, I was diagnosed with a heart regurgitation on top of POTs. Pots symptoms have dramatically lessened since diagnosed, although my heart beat is very erratic. I’ve been able to start working out again recently. My Food sensitivities have lessened. I can eat without fearing a reaction now. I was 25 when I was poisoned by this drug. I was a healthy young mom who loved CrossFit and whitewater kayaking. Was I genetically predisposed to this? I’m not sure. But I do know I wouldn’t gamble on it if I were given the chance again. If my doctor told me the warnings, I wouldn’t have taken it. There are plenty of other antibiotics out there. Choose another one over this one. | Don’t risk a reaction. Avoid completely. Because ominlike other antibiotic reactions, these can be disabling and permanent. | F | 27 | 2 days | 11/11/2019 | 1 | UTI, Diverticulitis | Dizziness, irratable, tendon pain in the arch of my feet, wrist and sides of my neck. Severe sharp pain in upper left abdominal area under my ribs and left boob, pounding headach, whites of my eyes turned orange and hurt, had to keep them shut to keep the light out. Chest pain and rapid heart beat. Severe irratablity, started talking to myself and seeing things out of the corner of my eye that were not there. Most of the time I was freezing cold with short periods of getting super hot then back to freezing cold. Unable to sleep, which was horrible because I just wanted to sleep until these symptoms passed. I have been 100% non functional since taking this medication . It also gave me diahrrea and painful rotten egg gas. | F | 59 | 2 days 500 | 3/29/2019 | 1 | Cellulitis | Everything listed under warning! I have finally (after 3 weeks) started being able feel somewhat normal. I still have a constant metallic/bitter taste in my mouth, even water is a struggle to drink because it tastes so bad and I still have "pins and needles" in my feet, hands and back when I walk. Considering where I was and where I am now, I am SO happy. I just wish I was how I was before I took cipro... Just please use caution when using cipro. Know the possible side effects and at the FIRST sign stop use. My mistake was that I didn't listen to my own body (I knew better:( ) | Horrible, nasty, evil, definitely should not be given out easily. | F | 41 | 2 days | 6/23/2018 | 1 | For a kidney infection | Severe headache severe confusion extreme weakness | I ended up in the emergency room due to the side effects of Cipro | F | 60 | 2 days 500mg | 12/26/2021 | 1 | prostate pain - NO INFECTION!! | this may seem like an exaggeration but 2 pills of cipro taken 10 years ago RUINED MY ENTIRE LIFE FOREVER. I have since had severe tendon pain to the point that I cannot exercise or even walk more than 10 minutes at a time, joint damage, head pressure, nausea, tinnitus, floaters in my eyes, and frequent migraines. I am only able to work part-time and I feel miserable 24/7, like a zombie from the walking dead. I would not wish this hell upon anyone. Except the people who made this poison - there's a special place in hell waiting for them | DO NOT TAKE DO NOT TAKE DO NOT TAKE | M | 46 | 2 days 1X day | 1/9/2022 | 1 | UTI | Took it for a UTI. My PCP prescribed it for me to take it 2x daily 500 mg per tablet for 10 days. Did work a little bit the 1rst day but made my entire body hum with pain and had the runs and couldn't sleep due to nausea and bad dreams. Took the next dose the same time next morning. After a couple of hours l started getting aches in my shoulders and bad stomach cramps. Called doctor abd he told me to stop taking the Cipro. So l did. Still full of aches and my UTI is still here and now l am just drinking alot of water and cranberry juice. Maybe sometime down the road he'll prescribe another antibiotic wthout the horrid side effects of Cipro. I akso wonder why he prescribed such a drug in the first place to a type 2 diabetic knowing it's side effects. I would not recommend this drug to my worst enemy!!! IT NEEDS TO BE TAKEN OFF THE MARKET AND ONLY USED FOR DIRE SITUATIONS!!!! ASAP! | F | 60 | 2 days 500 mg 2x 2X day | 4/27/2021 | 1 | Infección respiratoria | Fluoroquinolonas asesinos perfectos, ningun examen ni prueba médica diagnóstica daño evidente por fluoroquinolonas, es el crimen perfecto, Nadie le creerá, sencillamente todo el mundo pensará que se volvió loco de la noche a la mañana..... Estará solo en el mundo luchando con la esperanza de que su organismo se regenere por si mismo del daño celular. | Me pregunto cómo es posible que en ningún examen médico se pueda demostrar la evidencia de la toxicidad devastadora producida por estas sustancias ( fluoroquinolonas) y si habrá otros medicamentos que actúen de esta forma. Da terror que esto siga en el mercado. La realidad supera a la ficción. | M | 44 | 2 days 500 mg 2X day | 2/14/2021 | 1 | Diverticulitis | I took 4 pills of cipro, over a month ago. It was supposed to be a 7 day course of it, but it took only 4 pills to completely cripple me. I have been living on the couch, intense pain from my foot tendons, and all kinds of messed up sensations in my hands and feet. From everything I read, this may or may not be permanent, I may or may not rupture my achilles just by walking, I may or may not rupture my aorta... and I won't necessarily know if I escape THOSE side effects for a few years. Because I reacted at all, I'm a ticking time bomb for all of it. I have no words to describe how terrifying it is to live like this, I am so depressed, so frustrated, and so ANGRY. When I reacted, they shrugged and changed me over to Augmentin, which worked fine with NO side effects. If that was an option, there's NO REASON I should ever have been prescribed this poison. It's black boxed in the US, Health Canada has strong warnings for it, you're only supposed to be given it in extremely dire situations | This is an absolutely hellish drug that ruins lives and should only be used in life threatening situations. | F | 40 | 2 days 500 mg 2X day | 4/22/2020 | 1 | suspected sinus infection | TWO PILLS. That is all it took. Please, do not take this horrible antibiotic or any other one in the Quinolone family, ever. You think you have taken it successfully in the past so you should be fine in the future? Me too. You think people writing here had other health issues that contributed to them being affected by it? I thought that too. I had NO HEALTH PROBLEMS PRIOR. I also successfully took Cipro in the past. I have been dealing with nerve pain, burning, tingling all over my body, insomnia, muscle pain, tendon pain, what feels like bone pain, hair falling out, peripheral neuropathy, intense fatigue (crazy intense, like a flu), and more. Don't do it. There are other options out there. I was affected twice. The first time it took 6 months to nearly heal. Thankfully. This second time it is 9 months. I won't ever be the same as before, but I'm doing pretty good now. I don't want people affected by the antibiotic to think they are a hopeless case...it is not hopeles | PLEASE TAKE OFF THE MARKET ASAP. I was not warned. How are there black box warnings on an antibiotic and the patient isn't warned? How? | F | 39 | 2 days 1X day | 1/13/2019 | 1 | GALL STONES | EVERYTHING NEGATIVE! CHANGED MY LIFE TOTALLY!!!😡 | HATE IT!!! THROW IT AWAY!!!! | F | 50 | 2 days 500 mg | 11/25/2015 |