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 | UTI | Many. Have posted them previously. | "I think people should understand that side effects happen-take it from someone who takes a lot of medication. It's just up to that person to determine whether the expected outcome is worth it." I think all of us (patients) realise that side-effects happen, but when doctors tell us they have never heard of ANYONE experiencing side effects, and offer no help at all despite the long list of side-effects mentioned on the packet, the outcome is definitely not worth it.....unless you have a PROVEN infection that would not clear up with weaker antibiotics. Most people who leave comments on here and have suffered severe side-effects have been given NO medical help to deal with them. The medical profession (and manufacturers of this drug) need to take precautions before dealing it out, or take responsibility for the damage that they cause. I am 6 months post-cipro poisoning, and the foot pain has got a lot better, but I now have knee swelling, clicking and pain. It feels like all the nerves, tendons, ligaments and joints in my body have been affected by cipro. Each morning I wake up wondering what will hurt today. I am grateful at least that I can still walk, and that the buzzing in my legs and chest have stopped, and that I don't feel like I am walking on scalpals anymore. Maybe one day the knees will stop hurting too. I was given cipro for a "suspected" uti, whilst in hospital, where I was unable to research the drug, and where I trusted the doctors knew | F | 35 | 3 days 500mg 2X day | 4/19/2010 | 1 | bladder infection | could not sleep,hard time breathing, chest pain, throbbing heart,cough thought i was having a heart attack | this crap should not be on the market i kick myself for taking it i should have known when pharmacy gave me 4 pges of reading meterial im still not sure of long term damage its been 2 days since i quit taken it and still not 100percent heart feels funny i was healthy and active before | F | 45 | 3 days 500mg 2X day | 4/17/2010 | 1 | Post surgical infection | Swollen tongue and difficulty swallowing, ringing in the ears then and general overall feeling terrible. Then the muscle aches, breast tenderness, and joint pain started. My skin burns and I'm depressed, more than just the pain should cause. I'm fatigued and tired but can't sleep. I hurt all over.I have spoken to so many people who have ruptured a tendon on this class of drugs that I am extremely fearful of all the pains in my wrists, knees, tendons, biceps, that I will rupture a tendon and have even more pain and medical issues. Oh yea, and a coated tongue. | After researching as much as I could find from medical journal excerpts, I am taking a multi-mineral tablet with calcium magnesium, a tablespoon of Milk of Magnesia during the day and Melatonin Snooze-in which is a blend of Melatonin with calcium magnesium and other herbs which really, really helps though it makes you sleepy if you take it during the day. Large doses of a high quality probiotic to restore my digestive tract and help heal along with Kumboocha, olive leaf oil, chondroitin/glucosamine, aspirin to help with inflamation, ice helps specific spots too, SAM-e for inflammation, joint, liver and depression. When I am not so fearful of tendon rupture, I will be making that appointment with the accupuncturist. But according to 1 study the majority of tendon ruptures occur between 2 and 42 days so I will be waiting 2 more weeks before begining even light exercise more than home maintenance. I also take a multivitamin, D3, and L-theanine. If you have learned anything else that helps I'd love to hear. I am taking the "keep moving" advice to heart. I am believing I am going to get better, lets stay positive! And warn everyone about flouroquinoline drugs. | F | 43 | 3 days 500mg 2X day | 5/10/2010 | 1 | UT infection | numbness in arm then leg then all over body. Extreme wrist pain then tendonitis all over my body. Eye floaters. | I WOULD NEVER EVER EVER TAKE THIS DRUG AGAIN. THIS IS PURE POSION. I took this drug for 3 days only 250 mg (1 pill a day). On the first day I started feeling numbness on my arm. Then I had pins and needles sensation all over my body. My doctor told me to stop after the 3rd day I made the connection. A month later I have tendonitis all over my body, eye floaters, and insomnia. I can't lift weights (I went from athletic to in the bed all the time)....DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG | M | 30 | 3 days 250mg 1X day | 5/11/2010 | 1 | UTI | 16-year-old daughter went to E.R. with symptoms of mono (after being exposed to mono). They couldn't find anything else, and decided she had a UTI and prescribed Cipro. That evening, several hours after taking first dose, she suddenly just started "freaking out" with elevated heart rate, anxiety, and every symptom that accompanies severe anxiety disorder. She has taken Cipro before, so we didn't suspect this. In the last month, she has been to E.R. 4 times (the one that prescribed the stuff clearly thought she was crazy), Cardiologist (said it was hormones), GP (said it was not hormones, as she checked them--could find nothing in her blood work whatsoever, and recommeded counseling). Have not done this yet, but GP did put her on Buspar and Atarax. Seems to be helping some, but she still basically doesn't have a life. She's 16, and it's summer. HOW MUCH LONGER?? After reading this, I'm convinced this is the problem! Is there any test that will determine for sure in th | There's got to be a different solution. This time it didn't even cure the bladder infection. She had to go on Bactrim. By the way, GP muttered under her breath that this was not supposed to be given to anyone under age 18. | F | 16 | 3 days 500mg 2X day | 6/7/2010 | 1 | UTI or kidney infection | After 2nd day and 3rd day had sleepless nights, felt agitated (prev. anxiety diagnosis). Leg cramps kept me awake too. On 3rd night when I did get to sleep woke up suddenly in the middle of the night with a headache and nausea. (I have other reactions to medication and when it happens I often get a headache in the back of my head on the right side when it is due to a reaction, as in this case). I didn't take it today - 4th day, which is good because after being up for about 3 hours felt sudden nausea and diarrhea. I tried to tell the doctor I couldn't tolerate it and should have trusted myself. | I have a metabolism mutation - P450-CYP2D6 and have found I'm affected by other metabolizing methods. The patient information provided with the drug implies there is minimal liver effect. The truth is that it is a significant inhibitor to CYP1A2, and also inhibits CYP3A4 a major processing pathway. The result is major for someone like me who is a poor metabolizer. | F | 56 | 3 days 500 2X day | 6/14/2010 | 1 | bacterial infection | Heart rhythm disturbance, sickness, headache, dizziness, mental fog, horrednous migraine | 6 weeks on I now have very very painful muscle pain in neck, shoulders and generally all over, painful heels, feet, ankles, shoulders, knees, disgusting metallic taste in mouth which won't go away, nightmares, had a spell of acute anxiety and panic, headache. | F | 57 | 3 days 500mg 2X day | 2/16/2010 | 1 | UTI | Previously posted many side effects | Could the person who just posted about having relief from the foot/heel/muscle pain after 6 months please contact me and let me know if you took anything or changed your diet to help? I have been left with sporadic severe muscle pain (especially in my back/shoulders), that can last a day or two and then suddenly disappear, and continuous foot/heel pain, especially when I stand up having been sitting a while. They just feel stiff and painful most of the time, but loosen up a bit after walking for a while. I took Cipro for 3 days (500mg twice a day) from 21st October, so it's been 3 and a half months, and I am still in pain.....though having said that it is a LOT better than it was. I no longer have shooting pains in my arms/legs/feet....but I do still have buzzing sensations and some numbness in my fingers at night. This had previously gone away, but came back again. | F | 35 | 3 days | 2/3/2010 | 1 | UTI | Joint stiffness/weakness - mainly in ankles, toes, wrists, fingers and knees. Achilles heel tendons constantly feel strained. Joints feel like they creak and pop so much more now. | I still had two more days of my prescription left when I called my doctor after feeling some joint stiffness. He said to stop taking the meds and pop 800 mg of Advil! Like that would fix the damage. It has only been a week since I stopped, but I am feeling the limitations. I'm scared to exercise in case a tendon tears or severely hurt my joints further. Who knows what will happen? It is like Russian Roulette. | F | 30 | 3 days 500 MG 2X day | 2/8/2010 | 1 | UTI | Fever, nausea, achilles tendonitis | I really, REALLY wish I had read this stuff before taking the medicine, because then I never would have. It gave me fevers of almost 102 degrees, achilles tendonitis in my right leg, and it didn't even completely clear up the UTI. I had to follow up with 3 days of Bactrim, which I should have just taken in the first place. Please do not take Cipro for anything if you can help it. You will regret it. | F | 29 | 3 days 2X day | 3/2/2010 | 1 | UTI | I don't even know where to start with my anger towards Cipro. Seven years ago was the first time I took this and ever since have suffered from some tendonitis and joint inflammation throughout my body. I have had three surgeries to helped make it tolerable to walk. Although they helped the tendonitis it would just move somewhere else. Three weeks ago I was prescribed this for another UTI. Regrettable, I didn't read all the fine print and assumed my doctor would have the sense to know the dangers of prescribing this drug for minor UTI. The second and third day I had a headache. After my 6th pill I could not walk. Of course, I still thought it was this mysterious disease that no doctor in seven years could diagnose that caused my ankle to swell up and my entire leg to ache like it was pinned under a boulder. I googled cipro side effects to find out about my headache and well that just opened Pandora's Box. Everything I read was answers to my questions and problems for seven years. Unfort | I have found some relief drinking IONIX Supreme from Isagenix. I have spent thousands on trying to find solutions. If you haven't started your cipro prescription, DON'T! Call your doctor and find something else. | F | 40 | 3 days 500 2X day | 2/26/2010 | 1 | uti | extreme anxiety, weird hopeless despairing feelings, flu-like symtoms, terrible gas, dizzy, light-headed & increased volume of urine | I was prescribed cipro last march for c-diff from augmentin and experienced these same symtoms but believed they were caused by and related to my illness (bronchitis & then c-diff). After taking it a 2nd time and experiencing the same, there's no doubt of the culprit. Worse, I've had lingering bouts of vertigo and am now prone to panic attacks. It did effectively treat both the c-diff and uti but at what cost?! | F | 49 | 3 days 500 mg 2X day | 3/7/2010 | 1 | UTI | I took 500 mg twice daily for 3 days but had to stop due to the adverse effects. Severe tendonitis in elbows, wrists, fingers, legs - pain from heels all the way up into my back. Muscle Stiffness all the way through the legs, couldn't walk. Sore tongue, mouth and throat - taking oral supplements that I have always tolerated brings on burning and soreness in the mouth/throat so that I have had to stop them. One week after taking the cipro out I had night sweats that lasted for 10 days. The tendonitis is still in full force 7 weeks later and no idea how long it will last. | I had no idea that so many others had these reactions - the adverse effects must be much higher than 1 in 10,000. I will be filing an adverse drug report to make sure the FDA include this in the statistics and would urge others to do the same. I have been very grateful for support from the Fluoroquinolone Antibiotic Victim Community (FAVC)group at http://noquinolones.proboards58.com/index.cgi. I will definitely never take a fluoroquinolone again and would advise anyone thinking of taking them to steer well clear and find an antibiotic that does not ruin your life. | M | 36 | 3 days | 11/17/2008 | 1 | UTI | Flu like symptoms, cold chills, bone aches, headache, stomach upset, sleepiness and fatigue. | About 6 weeks later I was in the hospital with renal failue in both kidneys! The interaction of the Cipro with anti acids seems to be the only thing we can track back too. I was in the hosptial for 11 days and 6 months off work. I still have some permenant damage from this and will probably end up back on dialysis. Aside from controlled high blood pressure and gerd I was a perfectly healthy person until the Cipro and now I will never be that person again. | F | 52 | 3 days | 11/27/2008 | 1 | sinus infection | I experienced severe muscle pains and cramps in my legs after only 3 days of use. I stopped taking Cipro and saw a doctor. I was flat on my back for 5 days before I could walk again. I've developed tendonitis problems in my wrists and foot. | This is a dangerous drug which should never be used for mundane infections! It should be a drug of last resort. | F | 54 | 3 days | 5/4/2009 | 1 | UTI | After just 3 pills I noticed itchy bumps on my legs after getting out of the shower. I called the doctor who prescribed Cipro for my infection and she said it would probably be fine if I finished the pills as I only had 3 left. I finished them and broke out in hives on my arms as well. I also had a hard time falling asleep because of severe anxiety over the next few days. But the following mornings it was terribly hard waking up and getting out of bed. The rash has gotten much worse over the last week and is now horribly red, dry, and still driving me crazy with scratching. It seems worse after eating meat, and also itches worse at night. I also have lost all my energy and I've become much more worried about things since taking Cipro. | Through reading another woman's comments about her expirience with this terrible drug I highly reccomend that you do some research on Serum Sickness. Most of the info I've looked up so far says that taking a course of steriods may help with some of the symptoms. I will continue to do research and will post any helpful findings I come across on this sight. This is a scary drug! Please post any treatments you have found and help others to get some relief. | F | 29 | 3 days | 12/4/2008 | 1 | Infection urinary | Tendons stifness and hurt all the time,burn sensation, feeling cold like having fever, tremors especially in first hours of sleep,anxiety, constantly thinking of death,tirdness | I took Utinor which is part of the cipro family, do not take this medicine as it will destroy your life, I used to play soccer and go running, it seems my football days have come to an end, I would like to know how long will symptoms take to go, anyone knows? | M | 29 | 3 days | 12/18/2008 | 1 | Prostatitis | chest pain, racing heart, heart palpitations, trouble concentrating, difficulty with hand-eye coordination, strange dreams or nightmares, anxiety, depression, joint and ligament pain, pain in fingers, | I was prescribed Ciprofloxacin to treat a prostatitis infection that isn't even existent (turns out I have nonbacterial prostatitis and my doctor STILL wants me on an antibiotic) I only took 6 or 7 pills before I started having side effects bad enough to look them up online. After glancing at the horror stories for a few hours I decided I had taken my last dose. Still having intermittent nausea, heartburn, and skipped heartbeats 2-3 months after last dose. My advice is to avoid this drug. | M | 22 | 3 days | 12/29/2008 | 1 | UTI | headaches, nausea, dizzy spells and blackout for a couple of seconds, gloucose levels elevated | I will never take Cipro again the side effects are worst than the sickness | F | 55 | 3 days | 11/14/2007 | 1 | vaginal bacterial infection | 250mg twice a day for 3 days. large amounts of loose stool. anxiety, depression, inability to function. plan on staying bed the entire duration of medication. | The side effects are horrible. I was afraid to eat because i'd crap 3-5 times a day. I couldnt go to class, or do any type of work. no focus. afraid to drive. also, it made me paranoid and anxious. emotional, hopeless feeling. i took it for 3 days, and side effects lasted a few days after completion of medication. I would not recommend this drug unless there was no other option. | F | 27 | 3 days | 3/14/2008 |