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 | misdiagnosed pneumonia | Muscle weakness for 2 weeks. Muscle twitching ongoing a month, digestive issues.CAUTION TAKING THIS DRUG! FIND A ALTERNATE SOLUTION | F | 32 | 3 days 3500mg | 6/11/2012 | 1 | Non-existent stomach bug | fatigue, felt like I wasn't inside my own body, bruising in hands, random muscle and tendon pains, yeast infection. | The day after I completed my prescription, I had a migraine that lasted 24 hours, the most prolonged I've ever had. The first few days Cipro, I had weird aches/burning in my arms, legs, feet and hips. I NEVER have muscle pain. Muscle/tendon pain peaked a week after I started treatment and has started to greatly subside with random pains in calf, Achilles tendon, ribs and forearm. I have been off Cipro for 10 days at this point. As soon as I had read other reviews (just hours after taking my last dose), I immediately started flushing my system with distilled water and fresh squeezed lemon juice. I have also been taking L-Glutathione and glucosamine supplements for good measure and eating only unprocessed food. I'm too young for this ridiculousness. | F | 28 | 3 days 500 2X day | 8/7/2013 | 1 | My dog had bloody awful diarrhea | He was fine the first two days, diarrhea went away, and he was so happy tonight. We gave him his third dose and and 45 minutes later we thought he'd broken him toe. Acting like his foot was in pain. Then he got really lethargic, and out of nowhere started kicking his back legs and threw himself to the ground rubbing his face on the floor and trying to burrow. He couldn't get comfortable, kicking every 15 seconds, he looked like he didn't know where he was running from spot to spot around the living room throwing himself down and closing his eyes. I thought he was dying. He obviously had a serious reaction to this drug. We are terrified. Called the emergency vet, and they sounded like they googled the drug to see what they should say to us. Awful. They have NO clue. It has been 3 and 1/ 2 hours...... Our dog is still a little confused and unbalanced , pacing back and fourth between naps. Don't use this drug, human or animal. I don't know what we're gonna do. | M | 2 | 3 days 1000mg | 2/4/2012 | 1 | Uti | Severe neck pain, chills and fever w vomiting on first night. Numb ankles. Slight balance issues. After reading a lot of these reviews on here it scared the shit out of me so I stopped taking the drug. Initially my doc wanted me on it for 7 days. 3 is enough. | M | 31 | 3 days 500 | 3/1/2012 | 1 | UTI/KIDNEY INFECTION | Severe muscle pain in shoulders, knees, back and ankles; nausea, headaches, dizzy, lightheadness, weak,rash over chest, back and face, swollen/chapped lips | F | 38 | 3 days 500 MG 2X day | 3/2/2012 | 1 | Suspected UTI | Backache and chills on the first day; muscle soreness& weakness in arms, back, hips, legs, ankles, and bottom of feet. Felt like I had over-stretched. | An advice nurse called in a prescription for Cipro (which I had taken before and had worked on a previous uti) for what I thought was a UTI. I took the first dose and experienced chills, headache, and backache. When I called the advice nurse to ask if this was normal, she said that it sounded like symptoms from the uti and to keep taking the drug for the full course. I took a second does before going to sleep and when I woke up the next day, my left leg felt weak & jiggly. I walk between 4-7 miles a day, so I am in pretty good shape. I had done nothing the previous day to make my muscles act in this way. As the day progressed, my muscle aches worsened. I called the advice nurse yet again and asked if this could be the cipro. He said no, and to keep taking it for the full course or my infection would return stronger. I decided to google cipro + my symptoms and this site came up. I threw the rest of the cipro out and saw a doctor at the drop in clinic the next day, who told me that my infection was very mild and one that I could have easily eliminated by drinking lots of water and cranberry juice. She then told me that she didn't think it was cipro because these kinds of side effects only happen with people 65 or older, but hell, as soon as I stopped taking cipro, the symptoms abated. I'd avoid this antibiotic as much as possible. | F | 40 | 3 days 250 Mg 2X day | 3/3/2012 | 1 | UTI | -joint pain - black stools - abdominal pain - skin rash -fever -low blood pressure - extremely fast pulse rate -nausea -loss of appetite | F | 45 | 3 days | 3/22/2012 | 1 | Kidney infection/UTI | On day one I had no side effects. Day 2, underneath my armpit began to hurt, like I had hurt a muscle. I didn't think anything of it. Day 3, when I woke up my right shoulder was in excruciating pain. I can not raise my arm above my head or write on a chalk board ( I am a teacher). I am 31 years old and have never injured my shoulder and have done nothing recently to injure it. It even urts to breathe. I am no longer taking Cipro. How long does this go on? Should I call me Dr? I keep seeing where Dr's are denying the drugs side effects. | Don't take this drug. | F | 31 | 3 days 500 mg 2X day | 3/20/2012 | 1 | UTI | I developed severe bilateral ankle and Achilles pain and tenderness within 3rd dose of taking this poison. It has been 3 months and I continue to have severe bilateral Achilles and ankle pains, I can't walk more than a few steps without annoying pain. After 11 weeks off of this poison I developed episodes of panic attacks. I had absolutely NO medical or psychiatric illness. I am writing this note to see if I can prevent another victim. The side effects from CIPRO is straight out of hell! The experience is a horror movie. I have had broken bones before and those were nothing compAred to this. | M | 43 | 3 days 500 mg | 3/31/2012 | 1 | Lung infection | Petechie rash (redpinpoint spots from head to toe), nausea, loss of appetite, night sweats, black stools, abdominal pain, erratic vital signs | F | 45 | 3 days 500 mg 2x | 4/12/2012 | 1 | infection from a bug bite | wow now I know and understand what I am experiencing while taking this drug! I woke up this morning felt like I was having a nervous breakdown, I was very anxious and having the worst panick attack I experienced tingling sensations in my legs and stiffness in my back, shoulders and neck it was the worst I figured it had to be the medicine because it was not until I took it that I would experience these symptoms, well after 3days of this medicine I took myself off of it....I'm a strong woman of faith I woke up this morning feeling like I was about to loose my mind,I begin to pray and God gave me peace I promise u .....for those whose experiencing this your not loosing your mind, your not crazy,,, its an attach from this Demon called Cipro but God is greater and more powerful than this drug and can heal u from it's affect as he has for me!!!!! you are not defeated by this drug!!! take your life back,pick yourself up and live!!!!! | F | 41 | 3 days 500 mg | 5/22/2012 | 1 | uti | horrible rash that returns after steroid treatment to make the rash go away is finished | 3 days 2X day | 6/18/2012 | 1 | UTI | Within two hours of the first pill my throat began to hurt. The next day my throat and tongue were completely swollen. On the third day my lymph nodes were swollen and sore to the touch. I am unable to eat solid foods as it is tremendously difficult and painful to swallow. | F | 34 | 3 days 2X day | 6/18/2012 | 1 | sinus infection | after 3 days, had the following symptoms: tendonitis in all ankle, shoulder and knee tendons. knees, shoulders and ankles dislocating. paroxismal supraventricular tachycardia. phototoxicity. sleeping 14hr per night. clonus. peripheral neuropathy. tinnitus. venus insufficiency. bulging arteries. no appetite. inability to tolerate simple carbohydrates. skin aged 30 years in 6 weeks. lost 30 lbs in 2 months from muscle-wasting. CNS processing difficulties. severe anxiety. | after 8 months, developed jaundice and a kidney stone. I have been told i will die from liver toxicity due to Cipro, unless medical care can save my liver. although all my symptoms appear in research literature, that I subsequently read after being harmed, the medical community refuses to acknowledge Cipro toxicity. when i told my doctor my side effects, he said I didn't need Cipro anyway; and it couldn't possibly cause all these problems. This is a lethal drug. should not be prescribed except for life and death bacterial infections. | F | 62 | 3 days 500mg 2X day | 8/28/2012 | 1 | Salmonella Poisoning | After my first dose, I began to get a severe pronounced headache, only on one side (the left, & low by the base of my skull). I thought it was just another symptom of the Salmonella poisoning, since the nausea had finally subsided after 4 days. The headache throbbed, and got exponentially worse within 24 hours (after only 4 doses), but I "toughed" it out assuming it would subside by the next day. It did not. I got no sleep, & counted the minutes until my husband got home from work the next day so he could drive me to the emergency room. I thought I was having a stroke or aneurism. Right before we left the house, I took my 6th dose of Cipro. They gave me a CAT scan & did bloodwork to test for stroke, meningitis,etc. Nothing showed up. I asked the doctor: " Could it be the Cipro? I read it is given to people exposed to ANTHRAX !" He said, maybe...and then said I could stop taking it if I wanted to. I did. They sent me home with an RX for narcoti | CIPRO maims, kills and debilitates thousands of people in the USA each year. It is a BLACK BOX DRUG (severely dangerous, and requires labeling as such on the dispenser box-which patients never see!)...and when taking it with Ibuprofen (or any other NSAID), it's toxicity is heightened. DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG...EVER. | F | 55 | 3 days 250 mg 2X day | 10/4/2012 | 1 | UTI-KIDNEY INFECTION | On day 3 of taking CIPRO I had no strength in arms and legs, bedridden for 24 hrs. Fever of 100.5, headache, body aches similar to the flu, nausea, dry heaves, weird sensation on outside of my vagina. | This was my first time taking CIPRO. I am going to my doctor to report the side effects. I will not take it again. Thank God the strength in my legs returned after 24 hours and fever and nausea subsided. A headache, stiff neck, back pain remain, weird sensation outside of my vagina.... I am writing this at the 48 hour marker of being off CIPRO. I bought FLORA or Udo's Choice Probiotics to battle yeast infections. I pray for it all to clear up in a day or two. | F | 36 | 3 days 500 2X day | 7/6/2012 | 1 | UTI | I feel awfull to weak to even get out of my bed my boyfriend has had to practically carry me to the bathroom and I have no urge to eat anything I have a fever of 102.5 and none of this started untill after ciprofloxacin | F | 18 | 3 days 250 | 2/1/2013 | 1 | UTI | Massive anxiety and panic attacks, slight tremors in head and ringing in one ear. I do not have anxiety normally and I developed severe anxiety shortly after taking one pill. It took me a couple days to figure out it was antibiotic. I thought I was losing my mind. The last 60 hours of my life have been pretty horrible. I hope I recover very quickly. | F | 41 | 3 days 500 mg | 2/1/2013 | 1 | diverticulitis | 2 hours after taking the fourth 500mg pill (3rd day) I started having really bad shoulder pain and forearm swelling/pain. I had some shoulder/forearm pain the night before, but never thought it was the Cipro. Now I know it is and stopped taking it. Did some research and found I could be doing serious and permanent damage to my tendons/muscles. Wonderful! | I will never take this drug again. It would have to be a life or death situation | M | 40 | 3 days 500mg BID 2X day | 1/11/2013 | 1 | Kidney infection/UTI | Woke up with tenderness and pain in my right knee and in the ball of my left foot, extending into my middle toes, also some lower back pain. I'd been resting for the past two to three days so injury(ies) were out of the question. Nearly 24 hours after my last dose, my knee continues to swell and I can barely walk. | My doctor didn't think it was the CIPRO until I read the text off the Rx info sheet to her, both the 'Caution' and 'Side Effects' paragraphs, so she changed the Rx. Tucked near the end of the 'Caution' paragraph is mentioned the possibility of tendonitis and joint pain 'in the elderly' especially if they're on steroids. I'm a very young 49 year old and avoid prescriptions and over the counter meds unless absolutely unavoidable, yet my knee looks like softball. I feel no kidney pain anymore but at what cost? I can't move. Just seven doses of CIPRO did me in. Add my voice to the others' on this website: Cipro IS poison. Beware. | F | 49 | 3 days | 8/24/2005 |