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 | Cellulitis infection in leg | First, I'd like to point out that the drug had no effect whatsoever on the infection - I had to go to another full course of antibiotics to kill that off. I took this medication the first full week of January this year. Skin rash, tendonitis in ankles, kness and shoulders, gout outbreak in 5 or 6 joints at once and depression for the first couple of weeks. Since then, skin rash has abated but I've still got problems with gout breakouts (and I am watching my diet so it's not because i'm misbehaving) and tendonitis - these things seem to come and go with no warning. Also, lacking energy and a general body ache. Does anyone have any idea how long these effects last? | I would like to treat the prescribing doctor to a large suppository of Cipro for his efforts. | M | 59 | 7 days 500mg 1X day | 3/29/2010 | 1 | prostatitis | Muscle aches all over body especially in back. Bad to mild headaches. Joints a bit stiff. A bit depressed and hard to concentrate. | I am glad that I found this site. I thought my muscle aches and headache were due to me being sick. Now, I am pretty much assured they are coming from Cipro. I took 3 doses and after I had the bad headache, I was lucky to find this site. I stopped taking them immediately. I am hoping that only taking 3 doses will allow me to recover quickly. The doc. put me on another antibiotic for the Prostatitis. I hope the muscle aches and headache go away soon. | M | 39 | 7 days 500 mg 2X day | 2/10/2010 | 1 | UTI | Felt like my chest was tight, heart beating too hard and fluttering. Felt like I was overdosed on caffiene, shaking, trembling, both freezing and overheated. Honestly felt like I was just going to die. Most horrible feeling ever. Muscles/joints started aching and hurting. Stomach was so upset I barely wanted to eat anything. That was after just two days. I never want to take this drug again. Still not back to normal. | F | 36 | 7 days 250 2X day | 10/19/2010 | 1 | possible diverticulitis | Horrible joint pain, especially in both knees and both ankles. Right foot is now totally numb due to a dead ligament killed by cipro. Now I have horrible pains in both of my shoulders and elbows. Completely bedridden now. | The doctors are absolutely horrible. Totally dishonest. They tell me it's in my head. The doctor that originally prescribed me this garbage totally denies its a side effect. I keep asking them if it is so safe why don't they take this crap. I thought doctors were upright now I know most are totally morally corrupt. I've tried almost ever supplement known, Ginkgo, Bilberry, NAC, Vitamin C, undenatured collagen - nothing works. Now trying Chlorella but it prob. won't work either. Any ideas? It's been 14 months since I got floxed and its still getting worse. | M | 54 | 7 days 500 2X day | 10/22/2010 | 1 | uti | too many to mention, nausea made me lose forty pounds in four weeks! anxiety attacks make you feel like the world is ending, severe insomnia for two weeks (lost normal ability to sleep since then, 8 months ago) chronic fatigue ( you will feel like a truck ran over you) you will never be able to eat normal food again (antibitotics in meat and poultry) THE LIST JUST GOES ON AND ON, nightmares when you do sleep, DOCTORS wonīt beleive you and they may add to the injury by prescribing other drugs for the side effects which will worsen your condition possibly leaving you in a wheelchair for life, | This drug is genocide, the people who say they donīt have side effects is because the side effects come weeks or even months after you finish the drug, you will never be the same again, you risk losing your job, family, mind, everything, do you want to take that risk? look for an alternative, one pill is all it takes and you will never be the same again! this is not a drug, it is hell in a pill! | M | 48 | 7 days 500mg 2X day | 11/3/2010 | 1 | UTI | I took the 1st dose with breakfast & it made me nauseated. So I decided to take the 2nd dose w/o food to see if that would be better. It wasn't. It gave me an upset stomach also. The second day I noticed that my rt. achilles started aching as well as my rt. heel. Then gradually all the muscles in my body started to ache. My head felt as if it was spinning & gonna blow up. I was still nauseated & started feeling anxious for some reason. I called the Pharmacist after the 4th day & he told me that it was normal for Cipro to cause joint pain because it softens the cartilage? WTH? & not to do any strenuous activity & since I was nearly 1/2 way through my treatment to just keep taking it. Well I was supposed to take it for 10 days & only lasted 7. It's been about a week since I took it last & the stomach pain have since gone away but my whole body/muscles ache & I have excruciating pain in my right foot.My heel & achilles is jacked! The advice nurse to | I will NEVER EVER take this med EVER again! Nor will I recommend it to anyone I know. | F | 34 | 7 days 750 2X day | 10/6/2010 | 1 | Rx | Life destroying pain and disability. I went from playing tennis 664 games per yer and playing in a rock band to not being able to move for 3 months. Couldn't work, wanted to die, slept 17 hrs a day and not good sleep either. Permanent nerve damage in my feet, brain fog. Ever bad thing you read is true! DO NOT TAKE!!!! | Doctors will tell you it is safe. IT IS NOT!! YOU WILL WISH YOU WERE DEAD!! Do research. It destroys collogen, damages mitochondrial DNA, Tendonosis, Permanent Neuropathy, it was originally created to be chemotherapy. IT IS POISION!! Doctors will have a life long patient after you take it. You have been warned!!!!! | M | 45 | 7 days | 12/24/2017 | 1 | Kidney infection/UTI | Completely crippled, hell on earth. | I was incredibly healthy before I was POISONED by my doctor with this trash for a simple UTI. I am now a cripple. Seven days worth was all it took. I cannot tell you the HORROR this has caused me and my family, and it never ends. I have lost everything (except for my infection! It didn't even work for that!) and I hope to see the day Bayer gets their @ss sued off for the absolute devastation this poison has caused me and countless others. Shame on this country for allowing such poison to be used on unsuspecting victims. I will warn everyone I come in contact with NEVER to take this "drug" until the day I die, which at this point I pray will be soon. | F | 35 | 7 days 500 2X day | 8/28/2010 | 1 | Minor UTI | Permanent damage to my vision (nowhere on the warning label!), soft tissue and joint destruction making it nearly impossible to walk, skin issues, tinnitus, pain in my teeth!!! | This is not a drug, this is murder in a pill. DON'T DO IT! | M | 45 | 7 days 500 2X day | 9/26/2010 | 1 | suspected kidney infection | PANIC ATTACKS...ANXIETY..ATTACKS OF DOOM AND FEAR..I WAS IN HELL | I took cipro over 9 months ago and thanks be to god, things are slowly getting better now. I am still not the same person and am not sure if I ever will be again and to be honest, nobody understands what this drug does unless they become a victim as well. My only advice is to eat as well as you can, rest as much as you can, take daily magnesium supplements, folic acid( this one is a MUST as it helps to rebuild the damaged cells), and also vitamins. My GP tried me on various antidepressants and they made things FAR WORSE. Valium did help, but you gotta be careful not to get hooked. All in all, things get better VERY VERY slowly, so hang in there and just try and be positive, though I know from experience that it is easier said than done. If anybody wants a friendly chat then email me on [email protected] Do not use the links as they dont work! God bless you all | M | 37 | 7 days 1X day | 9/26/2010 | 1 | Infection | Permanently disabled me! | One week on this poison and my entire life ended. Can't walk, can't work, I now live in bed. HORRIFIC that the FDA would allow this nasty substance to be marketed and given out as a medicine! Absolutely horrific. If you have had an adverse reaction to this poison you MUST file a report with the FDA or else Bayer will only continue to cripple people for profit. THIS HAS TO STOP! | M | 39 | 7 days 500 2X day | 9/10/2010 Patient History | 1 | UTI | extreme nausea, dizziness, ear pain, weird muscle pains, spike in anxiety/depression, joint pain | The day after I began taking Cipro, I started feeling very nauseous. I was sick to my stomach for about 80% of the time while being on it, even throwing up. I also experienced dizziness and pain in my inner ear, so I thought I had an ear infection. I have been off for several days now but am still having side effects. I had joint pain in my knees and shoulders shortly after taking it and it's still there. I also am still having an odd sensation in my arms, almost like my muscles are fatigued and hurt, like I have been working out at the gym recently, but I have not. I'm very upset the doctor prescribed Cipro to me, because I had an existing anxiety issue and cardiac problem that I've been doing well coping with, and I informed the doctor of that. Shortly after beginning Cipro, my anxiety spiked and my heart began racing despite medicine to help it. I'm still nauseous despite being off the drug for several days, and hoping it subsides soon. It's hard for me to even sit up w/out being sick. This drug appears to have cured my UTI, but I recommend it only as a last resort. I had a different antibiotic for a previous UTI with no side effects (can't remember the name) and I wish they would have given it to me again. | F | 22 | 7 days 500 mg 2X day | 7/21/2010 | 1 | UTI | DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG! I experienced severe pain and was diagnosed with fibromyalgia after a week on Cipro. I dealt with painful vulvodynia for six months after taking Cipro. Two years later, I have developed tendonitis. I feel poisoned. | F | 42 | 7 days 1X day | 8/1/2010 | 1 | Kidney Infection? | Panic / anxiety attacks, high heart rate, suicidal thoughts, general body/muscle/joint pain, nausea, vomiting, | I am 30 years old,and I took Cipro on 4/20/2010 and I thought that I was going to die. It is now June 2010 and I am battling extreme morning nausea and dizzyness, every morning since taking this drug. It has gotten so bad that I am afriad to go to sleep at night, just because I know what will await in the morning. From what I read, this drug messes with the brain and enzymes, screwing up cognitive judgement and sensory reactors in the mind, and I can believe it! This drug is posion and should never be taken. I feel like I am 60 yrs. old as I walk thru the house and knees / ankles popping and cracking. It has been alittle over 2 months and hopefully I will be able to rid these symptons sometime | M | 30 | 7 days 250mg 2X day | 7/2/2010 | 1 | Prostatitis | Hip aches, calf and foot pain, muscle twitching | Never really added it up, but after the foot pain increased recently, I started searching for side effects of Cipro and found thousands of negative comments. Fortunately, I don't have as severe of symptoms as some here, but enough to be concerned. My feet ache very bad since taking Cipro, but isn't debilitating. Any suggestions on what to take to flush and renew? Probiotics and Omega 3 seem to be popular. Hang in there, pray, believe and exercise. | M | 39 | 7 days 250mg 1X day | 6/30/2010 | 1 | UTI | Tingling in face, hands and feet,rash, tendon in left hand and right knee sore and strained.Really very uncomfortable. | I took this for a week about 1 week ago and felt horrible the last day and day after I finished the medicine.Symptoms went away very quickly and now have returned a week later.I am worried if this is permanent. | M | 48 | 7 days not sure 2X day | 7/8/2010 | 1 | UTI | EXCRUTIATING PAIN TO JOINTS!!!!! | I cannot bend my knees, can't even get up from sitting position. After trying desperatly to figure out why my right wrist and fingers were hurting so much, I blmed it on my job (an RN), but when the pain started to spread throughtout my other joints (knees, opposite wrist, toes -yes, even those) I went online suspecting this drug and BINGO, I read all the comments here and made the connection, it is this drug, as I realize all the symptoms started right after my second pill, and have gotten worse to the point that I cannot bear weight on my extremities, suport my body on my hands to even get out of bed, and writing is just horrible. I'm only 32 years old, feel like 90. The sad part is, joint pain is only slightly mentioned on the medication sIde effects, BEWARE! | F | 32 | 7 days 250 mg 2X day | 7/14/2010 | 1 | UTI | 2 days after stopping Cipro, woke up with severe spontaneous swelling, about 8" long and 2" wide, down front of rt. leg, to the right of the bone. Painful to touch. I knew I hadn't bumped it, so as it was the 4th weekend, and my doctor unavailable, went to local "walk-in" clinic. Didn't know what it was, but suggested I go to ER if it developed redness. Late that day I had bright red area 1" x 4" down center of swelling. Went to ER. I mentioned that I'd recently been on Cipro, and could that have caused this. Didn't know. Said it might be a hematoma and may bruise. Said to ice it and take Tylenol for pain. Diagnosis: Spontaneous ecchymoses. Now it's 9 days later, swelling is still there, but a bit less, leg has alternately turned blueish red, below area of swelling, and as I write this my foot is now swollen and black and blue. I am a very active 72 year old who has never had anything like this in my life. After reading all these posts, I wil | Why is this drug being given if there are so many people with side effects, one more devastating than the other, and these are only the ones we hear and read about. | F | 72 | 7 days 250 2X day | 7/10/2011 | 1 | Prostate pain | I am 20 months out now and, among countless other Cipro-induced horrors, I still cannot walk. I doubt I'll ever be able to walk again, as my legs and feet are utterly destroyed. I'm only 30 and prior to this had never had ANY problems of this sort--I was incredibly active and healthy. Cipro has cut my life incredibly short. All the little things you take for granted? I can't do those things anymore. How I've made it this far without ending my own life is beyond me, but every SINGLE day I am severely tempted. The things this horrific poison can do to your body and your health are beyond your wildest imagination, and your absolute worst nightmares. Don't trust doctors to tell you the truth about this poison--they're in Bayer's back pocket and even docs cannot fathom what this crap is capable of doing to the human body. Warn everyone you know to stay AWAY from all quinolone antibiotics! We are being POISONED and the government doesn't give a f---!!! | POISON: RUN!!!!!!! | M | 30 | 7 days 500 2X day | 6/7/2011 | 1 | Uti | Urinary retention, pain in toes, legs, ribs, lightheaded, vision problems, constipation, insomnia, bad taste in mouth | Would not ever recommend this ever! Did the trick but not worth it! | F | 22 | 7 days 500 mg 2X day | 6/23/2011 |