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 | diverticulitis | started having severe sharp stabbing pains in wrist, shoulders hurt, hips and knees. feet so sore i can't walk. ankles feel broke. | i will never ever take this drug again. i hope i haven't done permanent damage. | F | 64 | 5 days 500 2X day | 12/16/2012 | 1 | UTI | Tendonitis in wrist, ankle, and elbows. Popping noise in knees and hips. Tingling, pin prick feeling in feet. Sore acquillies tendon and heels. Nightmares. Hamstring pain. Twitching of muscles in hip and eye. Knees hurt. Anxious and panic attack feeling. Symptoms stated at the end of taking meds. I contacted pharmacy to question why I wasn't told it was a "black box" drug. They said they don't usually pass that information along since my symptoms occur in only 1 percent of patients. The doctor didn't bother to tell me either. Now I am dealing with the after effects. Dr. Recommended I take NSAIDs for 3 days and I should be fine. If only that would be true. I'm very frightened that my life is forever changed with no cure. | Shame on doctors and pharmacist for not warning me and others like me. If I had been told this was a "black box" medication I would never have taken it. I've sent the clinic this website to inform them I'm not a rare (1%) effected by this poison!! | F | 58 | 5 days 500 2X day | 12/19/2012 | 1 | sinus infection, allergic to others | I went nuts! I thought I would kill myself I was so depressed and confused. Medical doc said it surely couldn't be the drug... but I got into a psychiatrist, describe the onset of situation and he laughed and said, get off the Cipro and never let them give it to you again. My husband takes it with no problems... but I will suffer through infections before I will ever take it again. | F | 58 | 5 days 1X day | 4/16/2013 | 1 | groin pain/infection | I was suppose to take Cipro for 7 days but discontinued after waking up to a stinging pain in my right fingers. It has been 2 days now and I feel the pain radiating to left index finger. I'm really scared after reading these comments. I thought this drug was designed to help me. I hope to God, it does not get any worse. | M | 25 | 5 days 500 2X day | 3/6/2012 | 1 | gastroenteritis (suspected) | Severe muscle weakness, fatigue, blurry vision, loss of appetite, dry mouth, muscle wasting, C. Diff overgrowth in colon causing a range of GI issues, back pain, racing heart, panic attacks, loss of coordination, loss of mental function, loss of memory, abdominal pain, insomnia, muscle twitching, muscle jerking, shaking, sensitivity to caffeine, sensitivity to alcohol | Was prescribed Cipro on April 20th, 2011. It is now Feb. 3rd, 2012 and I am still having severe issues. Interestingly my symptoms did not start until a couple months after taking the Cipro, which is apparently quite common with these drugs. I went from a very active, athletic 29 year old to a 30 year old who can barely leave the house some days. I am lucky to have a job that is not currently physically demanding and understanding coworkers, or I would be in a very difficult situation. It now requires all of my reserve of strength to make it through a normal 8 hour work day sitting at a computer, where before I could work 10 to 12 physically demanding hours. I have seriously thought I was on the verge of death a couple of times in the last few months, and I probably was. My doctors are unable to identify the cause of any of my symptoms and seem to be able to do nothing of any use to help. Do not take this drug unless it is a last resort, it just isn't worth it. It is unbelievable to me that this drug is as common as it is, or even legal. | M | 30 | 5 days unknown 1X day | 2/3/2012 | 1 | nail/finger tip infection | severe headache, throbbing pain (left side), then migraine, skin rash > had to stop it after 3 days; never had such a bad reaction to antibiotics in my life | F | 55 | 5 days 500 mg 2X day | 2/18/2012 | 1 | Sinus Infection | I took Cipro once in 1998 and had no issues that I was aware of. I took it again in December of 2010. Within days I was feeling joint pain all over my body. After day 5 I had a rash over my whole body. I stopped the medicine but it was too late. I developed drug induced hepatitis which i did not realize it for months. I experienced extreme paint in my joints and especially my hips. I was in bed in a lot of pain for a long time. I went to the ER but they were clueless of course. I finally got my primary care doctor to draw blood and my liver function test were elevated which is the only way it became obvious that I had gotten hepatitis from this drug. I can only imagine what the liver tests were right after I took the medicine. They were probably off the charts. Well the pain in my hips and joints subsided and I was thanking God that I was not permanently injured. Well a year later I started having the same pain in my joints again. My toes, finger joints and worst of all both my hips. | F | 52 | 5 days 1X day | 4/4/2012 | 1 | suspected infection | cipro destroyed my body. Its been over a year since I took it and I am still awful. the symptoms are too many for me to list here. very weak. | this drug ruined my life. | M | 29 | 5 days 500mg 2X day | 7/17/2012 | 1 | urinary tract infection | I had taken Cipro before so I didn;t expect any problems. Wrong! I had to go to the ER because I had uncontrollable diaherria, and could not stop vomiting. They said it was the Cipro. I can't ever take it again. What a nightmare | F | 61 | 5 days 500 mg 1X day | 5/15/2012 | 1 | UTI | nausia, vomiting, restlessness | This stuff made me sick as hell! I was so sick I couldn't do anything but lay around and hope to die. Missed days of school/work because I couldn't get up. Never taking this again! | F | 20 | 5 days | 6/4/2007 | 1 | uti ( I did not have) | at first lightheadness and headache for 12 hours little pimples inside mouth later rash headaches persisted even after discontinuing meds and now eye floaters. any part of your body that at one time had pain cipro reactivates it my knees that were painfree now hurt shoulder blade pain gone now back with cipro my left ankle pain cured now back no Doctor is aware of this and so far only one pharmacist admits to being aware of horrific side effects | Only one pharmacist that I told about my reactions was aware of such terrible side effects a patient called that had hallucinations but they did go away. I took 2 250 mg pills read comments and stopped was told by the nurse infection so took 4 days later 4 more dosages luckily called doctor on a sunday called back and was in office read chart and urine was negative and I had asked nurse if it was an infection and she said yes so doctor said it is a symmatic so you get on it evidently with out waiting for the test. I went to a retina group to check out my eyes and the Dr never heard of the reaction but did listen So I took a total of 6 of this dreadful poison.My physician said only gastrointestinal problems my rash on hands was so itchy and really red hands | F | 65 | 5 days | 6/11/2007 | 1 | diverticulitis | Severe muscle and joint pain ongoing, nerve pain ongoing. | Would never take again. | F | 50 | 5 days | 5/23/2007 | 1 | UTI | Swollen, painful joints. Rash. Nausea. | The greatest effect was to my knee joints. I still have some tenderness in those joints and it seems the range of motions is diminished. I usually practice yoga and had no problems with joints or sitting for long periods with my legs in Lotus position. Now this is extremely uncomfortable if not actually painful. It has been suggested that I have arthritis, however tests and xrays refute this. I doubt that arthritis comes on suddenly within 24 hours and gradually abates after the treatment ends! | F | 51 | 5 days | 4/14/2005 | 1 | Bactarial Prostatitis August 2004 | Brusing on legs,chest & arms. Unexplained rash which resolved and has not returned. Shooting and sharp ankle, foot and shins pain. Dull, aching chest pains. Mentally it made me feel quite goofy and depressed. Twitching in muscles of chest wall. Severe dry eyes (had to have tear duct surgery to increase tear production. Symptoms abated for approx. 3 months only to come back again recently this late February (of 2005). Presently am having severe sharp ankle and shin pains as if a knife is being ground in through my muscles and bones. Am unable to sleep due to the shooting pains that attack me at any and all times. Needless to say I'm am quite depressed over the state of my health. I had hoped that once the symptoms abated that they would resolve and never return but it seems that they are now cycling back. | My neurosurgeon has diagnosed me with Polyneuropathy and said that he has seen a number of cases such as mine all resulting from taking a Floroquinolone. They are poisons that should never have been invented and should have been taken off the market years ago. But, as usual, money is a powerful incentive for those in power. | M | 58 | 5 days | 4/23/2005 | 1 | UTI | You name it! These drugs are horrible and the worst side effects a lot more common than they let on. IF you have the bad effects, get ready for doctors to deny the cause being Cipro, and tell you there is nothing they can do anyway. Most tests are normal but the really weird ones. But it is a living HELL that just gets worse, new symptoms popping up months or YEARS later. I don't know what this drug does to people but it's devastating. If there is ANYTHING ELSE you can take, ask for it. I had racing heart, insomnia, terrifying dreams, waking nightmares, panic attacks off the charts (never before this!), incredible pain all over, weakness, extreme exhaustion, food reactions really bizarre, joints feeling like they could move backwards, achilles and other tendons burning and feeling very dry, extreme dehydration, nerve tingling/itching/buzzing. Too many almost to list! And I was healthy before. Now have symptoms almost like lupus! Which is a known effect of this type of drug (quinolones). Eye pain, metallic taste in mouth, unable to look at lights, dry eyes, dry rubbery skin, dark ropy veins appearing, it's a nightmare. Like I am now twice my age. | NINE MONTHS after stopping taking the Cipro, which I only took for five days (it's happened to people after ONE pill though), I still not only have symptoms but NEW symptoms. This has killed healthy cells in my body and attacked the thyroid, also shut down ovary function totally. I was basically healthy and tests show the difference from before & after Cipro. Sky high ANA, ENA and DNA antibodies and thyroid antibodies. EXTREME confusion and brain fog. Changed moods/personality. Can't handle stress at ALL now. Can't eat most foods, just organic fruits/veggies. Anything else and the intense muscle/joint/tendon pain comes back. Latest symptom is dark ropy veins appearing all over arms and body. Also, hands turning bony, I used to have pretty hands =( It is like all my tissue is atrophying. Elbow bones sticking out far, and elbow skin sagging. Like I woke up and someone 80 yrs old had traded bodies with me. FSH went up by *120 points* from taking Cipro. Had just had it tested the week prior. This drug should be pulled entirely or ONLY given for last resorts, NOT common UTI! Doctors themselves do not know how horrible this is and there is little way to prove it, how do you prove PAIN? Bone pain so bad in the beginning I thought I would pass out. Plus, thanks to taking this I can no longer take anything, since it effects even that. I have no idea why, but it does for many people. Can no longer eat nightshade vegetables, those increase the pain. Can no longer eat most fish/meat, farmers give Baytril which is a form of CIpro, to animals. Body goes haywire in CIpro victims if they eat that stuff. NINE MONTHS of my life taken up by this, too weak to do anything but sit or lay around, I try and walk when I can. Then I have to rest a few days. Peripheral neuropathy and have had days when I could not WALK at all. Had to use wheelchair at age 42!! Scared of future. DO NOT take this stuff if you have a chance not to - ask your Dr. for another type of pill, or go the natural route, if it is not life or death. Search online for more info. The quinolones are torturous. I still cannot sleep right. Now those dark purple veins everywhere - this is just ONE LONG NIGHTMARE since Cipro. | F | 42 | 5 days | 5/20/2005 | 1 | DIVITICULITIS/URINARY TRACT INFECTI | iT was pr;escribed for my mother-in-law by a doctor who would not even test her urine or her blood or for an impaction. She is now in a step down from critical care---every thing about her failed--we still dont know if she will live. Her allegies to this drug were well documented in her chart. | the symptoms started the second day--the doctor completely ignored the symptoms. It happened that Mother had an impaction and a fleets enema would have cured her. | F | 86 | 5 days | 1/29/2002 | 1 | UTI Infection | Feelings of fear and panic. Mild pain in chest. Slightly numb and weak legs at night more than a week after taking Cipro. I always sleep on an arm and subconciously do more so to protect myself from the UTI discomfort. Now wake up feeling like my arms are about to fall off they get so numb. Also have a metallic blood like taste in my mouth at nights. | The first doctor I went to did not diagnose a UTI infection despite severe pain in my right groin. On a second visit she finally thought to take a urine sample (but did not think to send it to the lab!) and prescribed Cipro. I visited another doctor who was very surprised this had be prescribed as a first resort as according to her Trimethaprim would usually be the first choice. This UTI infection is still not clear. | F | 41 | 5 days | 12/29/2004 | 1 | Possible food poisioning | 2 months after taking the meds, still having severe stomach problems and severe pain & swelling in the abdomen area and back. Dr. informed me that the his Asst. should not have given the drug after the original "food poisioning" symptoms started to go away. Now I have twice the problems and a number of CT & Bone Scans ordered. I'm sure the insurance co. will love this one! | F | 38 | 5 days | 4/23/2007 | 1 | urinary tract infection | Severe joint and muscle pains especially in lower back and thigh which began two weeks after treatment and have lasted more than two weeks after. Hurts to walk, to sit , stand, move. Also in knees and neck. Urinary tract infection appears to have cleared though. | I would seek a safer alternative if I had known this could happen. Read that it destroys cartilege in weigh bearing joints. | M | 60 | 5 days | 4/13/2004 | 1 | UTI | I had an extremely bad reaction but it is more common than you might think. The list of symptoms in the insert is all from people who took it after it went to market. What does that tell you. Your Dr. will not only not tell you about the side effects he or she will likely laugh or ignore you or ask if you need psych drugs. This is for real. They need to wake up. I had symptoms involving my nervous system, I had huge episodes of fear like I can't even describe - not panic, FEAR, and I was not a fearful person before taking this. I was a joyous person. I could not stop going to the bathroom but that phase was followed by severe dehydration which has continued to this day TWO YEARS or more later. I have dehydration and dry eyes all the time. I am not the same person I was. I feel this has aged me 20 yrs. I had the worst symptoms in the first year. At first I could not walk could barely tolerate the touch of a blanket. I could not open a bottle of water or open a package of food | AFter two years a lot of the symptoms have improved and I can walk normally but not as fast or long as I used to. At least I can appear normal. It has atrophied a lot of my muscles. I suspect it damaged my thyroid. What this does to people is so weird. Doctors will just test you for known illnesses and this causes things that are not known. If you have a bad reaction don't panic, you will need all your inner and physical strength to survive and go past this. It will take all your strength of mind. ABove all know that this is NOT YOU but it is a toxic poison that is wreaking havoc on your tissues and nerves. I found out that a lot of doctors are idiots. It will take a while for medicine to catch up to the damage it is causing with POISON PILLS such as Cipro and its sister drugs. How many lives have to be ruined before they listen?? | F | 42 | 5 days | 3/26/2007 |