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 | Sinus problems | Severe dry mouth, lack of appetite (didn't eat for 3 days), stomach ache, diarhea, depression. I only took this for 3 days and it was hideous. | This medication made me extremely depressed and moody. I've never had depression in my life. I missed 7 days of work just from the side effects not the actual illness being treated. NO GOOD | M | 38 | 3 days | 4/2/2008 | 1 | UTI | Confusion, palitations, headache, shortness of breath, joint and tendon pain, cervix pain, bad mood and depressive symptoms, CNS issues, dizziness and severe fatigue. Not even feeling confident that the UTI is cured. I feel helpless here! | (500mg twice a day for 3 days)I spoke with my doctor and my pharmacist and was told the half life of this drug is such that it clears the system in 24 hours. I am over 24 hours past that time and I am still having problems. Reading the posts about how it worsens and can last years is making me very unhappy!!! I cannot walk without feeling my tendons ache and I pulled a tendon in my thumb just untying a shoe lace. I would not recommend this family of medication to anyone EVER for any reason. Pharm. told me they have never had anyone with my side effects and that tendon ruptures are seen in less than 1%. Why do I not believe that I am all THAT special?! | F | 52 | 3 days | 1/29/2008 | 1 | UTI | Still having side effects (muscle aches & joint pain)3 years after taking 3 does of CIPRO!! Saw 13 different specialists for numerous other problems!!! To the person that wrote about "serum sickness"-- Thanks! No doctors seem to recognize that CIPRO could cause problems in healthy people. | Here are articles on serum sickness I found helpful. www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=171716&blobtype=pdf www.healthatoz.com | F | 53 | 3 days | 2/13/2008 | 1 | Anxiety, numbness in hands, chills, insomnia, drowsiness, nausea, loss of appetite, stomach cramps, just feeling like I'm going to die!!!!! i experienced this after just 2 500 mg pills. | This is terrible. DO NOT TAKE THIS POISON. THE SIDE EFFECTS ARE TERRIBLE. | F | 24 | 3 days | 3/14/2009 | 1 | UTI | After being on the medicine for only 3 days, I developed strong muscle pains and weakness in my legs. I also started having mild burning sensations in my lower back. It was not uncommon for me to experience muscle pains but after even after being off the medication for nearly 2 weeks, I'm still experiencing problems. The pains got so bad one night til I thought about going to the Emergency Room. | Do not take Cipro. | F | 40 | 3 days | 3/10/2009 | 1 | uti | sweating, bad stomach pain, nausea. | I've taken cipro several times and had no problems with it-took a 250 mg last night(at around 10pm)woke in the middle of the night with stomach pain, woke up with it worse and now nauseous and sweating. i definatly recommend eating with it, even though it says not to. | F | 28 | 3 days | 6/7/2008 | 1 | UTI | Extreme nausea, liquid stools (not helped by Immodium) and severe gout in right foot.I thought symptoms were from Uristat I was taking for bladder discomfort. On the 8th dose of Cipro symptoms worsened and I felt really, really bad. After looking up side affects, I immediately stopped the Cipro. Today the doc has prescribed Macrobid as I still have UTI symptoms. Hope it works without all the sides. | F | 45 | 3 days | 5/27/2008 | 1 | Sinus Infection | tremors in hands, mild hallucination, heavy chest, mania, difficulty breathing and swallowing, headace, dizziness, mild nausea, occasional lethargy, jolted with cafeine,(should avoid that according to the label) trouble concentrating, blurred vision, panic attacks. Symptoms began with first dose and increased to third dose, then stopped taking. | If you have bad symptoms, don't wait, request another antibiotic from your physician, if possible. This drug is half ciproflaxin (antibiotic) and dexamethasone (steroid) | F | 35 | 3 days | 9/18/2008 | 1 | UTI | Within the first hours of taking the first pill, I experienced dizziness,fatigue,and nausea. The next day, I experienced extreme pains in my stomach and nausea with the first pill, the second pill at night made me feel as through my throat was tightening up. I'm currently on my third day of the medication and it seems to work very well, but horrible side effects. | F | 18 | 3 days | 10/1/2008 | 1 | Urinary tract infection | Discontinued taking after only 3 days because of severe muscle/tendon pain in thumb, shoulders, arms, and hips. It has been 1 month - still having the pain, although not as severe on most days. The pain has also moved in to my jaw (TMJ area). I was a very active, pain free person prior to taking this medication. I feel like I've aged 50 years overnight. | This medication is TOXIC!!! It should be taken off the market! | F | 48 | 3 days | 4/5/2009 | 1 | UTI | This drug is awful. My last dose was 2 weeks ago and it has been hell. I only took it for 3 days, and I've experienced panic attacks, numbness in my cheeks, severe fatigue. I've been tested for everything under the sun and it all comes back negative. Finally, an internist said it must have been the Cipro. I've seen that the fatigue has gotten somewhat better. Now, my knee seems to hurt. I was wondering how long it has taken any of your symptoms to subside. What a horrible way to end the summer! Please e-mail me: [email protected] | F | 23 | 3 days | 8/17/2008 | 1 | UTI | Severe eye pain, headaches, nausea, fatigue, serious insomnia, depression, lack of motivation, blurred vision, spacy feeling, constipation, weird feeling of sickness in my body. After 3 days, I quit the medication. When I first started the medicine (500 mg 2 xs a day for 10 days), it was a Thursday afternoon. I did not fall asleep again until Saturday afternoon. I could not figure out what was happening to me until I googled side effects of taking Cipro. This medicine will really mess up your body. DO NOT TAKE IT. I have decided to use a home remedy for my UTI by taking apple cider vinegar with honey twice a day, fresh ginger tea, plenty of water, and hot water and lemon every day. I have healed myself of many minor illnesses at home by focusing on my healing and eating natural things. CIPRO is a killer and is very toxic. | This is the WORST medication I have ever taken. It makes you feel SICK and much worse than you did before taking the medicine. It is a feeling that you have been poisioned or drugged. I am very disappointed that doctors would prescribe this medication to patients. If they knew what people felt like after taking this DRUG, they would be ashamed. Cipro should be taken off the market. I | F | 38 | 3 days | 7/12/2009 | 1 | bacterial lung infection | After taking 5 doses of this toxic substance I experienced a partial rupture of my right Achilles tenden. This happened while walking across a parking lot - no strenuous athletic activity involved. After being in a cast/boot and on crutches for 2 1/2 months, a cortizone injection, and physical therapy, I still have nagging and sometimes intense pain in my Achilles as well as the surrounding muscles/tendons. I'm in the process of getting a second orthopedist appointment to determine what to do next, as I have been unable to walk normally for about six months now. | DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG!!!!!!! | F | 32 | 3 days | 7/30/2009 | 1 | Bacteria in Gut | Ultra anxiety, not being able to sleep, raw sore throat, restlessness, can't sit still for long. Upper right side back tingling, hard to catch breath, cough. Shoulder and upper back stiffness and discomfort. Depression. Sinus draining worse. But at least, no diarrhea. | I had a choice of medication and thought this would be easier than Amoxicillin. Don't think so now. Doctor told me to stop after 6 doses. Hope the infection is gone and if not will NOT use this one again. I took this drug about 9 years ago without any problem. Something must have changed in my system. | F | 68 | 3 days | 10/8/2009 | 1 | UTI | headaches, dizziness, tiredness, and horrible kidney pain | My UTI was not in my kidneys so this pain came directly from taking Cipro. It was horrendous. I didn't even find this website until I was researching online about kidney pain as a side effect of taking Cipro so being a hypochondo was not the issue. I never have side effects with any kind of medicine but I will never take this one again-and next time I will check this website before taking anything ever again-now that I know it exists. | F | 27 | 3 days | 8/22/2009 | 1 | uti | I took 4 pills so far. I am not taking anymore. I felt my heart racing, loss of appetite, my fingers on my left hand were trembling. I feel sicker then I was in the first place. I had to come home to lay down. I feel like crap. Hopefully this will get out of my system soon. I am not taking anymore pills. I have 6 to go. I am going to throw them out. | This drug must be very strong. I was given 500mg twice a day. I was ok until today. The trembling started yesterday and this morning. I feel my absolute worse today. I took the 4th pill at 930am. It is now 324pm. I was going to the store. I wouldnt make it up and down the aisles. I also feel drained and tired. So I came home hoping I will feel better later. It is the worse side effects anyone can ever have. It appears to make you sensitive to the sun too. I also had burning in my stomach last night. | F | 50 | 3 days | 8/25/2009 | 1 | Suspected UTI post prostate surg | Took for 3 days - twice per day, when preliminary lab results indicated possible UTI. Stopped when UTI not corroborated. Horrible searing pain in shoulders developed a week after last pill. Who knows what else is in store for me! | Can't believe surgeon prescribed this stuff, it is DEVASTATING. | M | 62 | 3 days | 8/24/2009 | 1 | Suspected bladder infection | Side effects in the order they appeared after taking Cipro for 3 days (500mg twice a day): Aches and pains in my arms, sudden very sharp pains in heels, freezing yet clammy feet, buzzing feeling in feet, weak ankles, shooting pains in feet ankles and calf muscles, cold sweats at night, waking up in the night with numbness in fingers, sharp pin prick pains in chest and jaw, tightness in chest, very thick sticky sweat on face and hands, pain in heels and arches of feet when standing (later diagnosed by GP as plantar fasciitis), freezing hands, prominent veins appearing in arms,hands and legs...... | I had already taken Amoxycillin for 7 days, Keflex for 6 days with only temporary relief from what seemed to be a bladder infection. I ended up in hospital with excruciating lower abdominal pain. All tests were negative for bacterial infection, but they still put on cipro. They'd also given me morphine and a muscle relaxant intravenously, followed by the cipro 4 hours later, along with a cocktail of pain killers, (dihydrocodeine, tramadol, some sort of ant-sickness tablet) and they wanted to give me ibuprofen, but I happened to refuse that one on the grounds that I'm asthmatic. I didn't read the leaflet accompanying the cipro tablets until day 3 of treatment, which mentions not to take it with muscle relaxants, ibuprofen and many other drugs!! I do not know if Cipro alone caused my side effects, or the cocktail of drugs they pumped me with, but the most upsetting thing for me is that there was no sign of bacteria (or anything else for that matter) in my urine or blood samples, so I don't understand why they treated me with such a toxic drug. I was sent home with a 10 day supply of Cipro, but stopped taking it the following day when the foot pain started. My GP said I should stop reading about side effects and that she'd NEVER HEARD OF ANYONE HAVING SIDE-EFFECTS to this drug. I went back a couple of days later in worse pain, and at this point the GP said "Well, the PEOPLE WHO I HAVE SEEN WHO HAVE HAD SIDE EFFECTS TO THIS DRUG have gone one to recover, eventually" | M | 34 | 3 days | 11/25/2009 | 1 | suspected kidney infection | nausea, chest pain, difficulty breathing, couldnt walk, panic attacks, suicidal thoughts, self harm thoughts, thought i was dying | I cannot believe this is an antibiotic!! I have been taking for 3 days 250mg twicw daily and have been to hell and back. I took it a year ago and had similar thoughts but never connected it to cipro. until I have just been to the same dark and scary place again. DO NOT TAKE IT BECAUSE IT WILL MESS YOU UP | M | 37 | 3 days | 11/28/2009 | 1 | Prostatits | Autoimmune vascular neuropathy. Tendon destruction. | It's been at least a year since I've last taken Cipro. Like the product insert says, severe, irreversible neuropathy is among the possible side effects. Just imagine burning, temperature-induced pain in all of your extremities. The research I've read on Fluoroquinolone toxicity, describes an autoimmune, Raynaud's-like, vascular condition that chokes off blood to peripheral nerves-- hence irreversible nerve damage and occasionally, severe pain. Damage to tendons may follow a similar pathogenesis. My self-experimentation with vasodilatory substances, including Niacin (flushing type), Ginkgo, and topical Rogaine, have effectively brought this disease-- yes, this is a disease despite what doctors may imply-- to tolerable levels. It is still extremely inconvenient, however, as it is not my only underlying health condition! The lack of post-market research into fluoroquinolone side effects means that there is little your doctor can do to recognize or treat this condition. Steroids have been proposed as a treatment to many-- but with existing tendon damage this is kind of a bad idea. For the legal sake of this excellent website, I am not a doctor, and these statements have not been evaluated by any governmental medical body. | M | 31 | 3 days | 11/24/2009 |