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 |
| 3 | bladder infection | At the beginning absolutely no systems. After about a week of taking the medication- I began to have pains around the shoulder and the exterior of my arms (especially on the left side). I took the medication for 14 days thinking that my arm was sore because of something else and now two weeks after taking the medication - I still have the pains in my shoulder from time to time. I started to read comments about the medication and I am starting to think that the pain that I have (since I did nothing to injure my arms) is from the cipro that I was taking. I was on 500 mg two times a day for 14 days. | F | 46 | 14 days | 2/9/2009 | 3 | sinus infection | My doc prescribed it for me for my sinus infection, I experienced some of the worse body pain I've ever had in my life. My neck and upper shoulders felt like there were two huge rocks fighting to get out. My fingers were popping and hurting at the joints. My ankle felt like something wanted to pop out of place when walking, muscles all over my body ached, not like the aching from working out, but from someone just punching the @!&! out of them for three hours. I'm 29 years old! Not to mention extremely dry skin and dry mouth. The pain and stiffness is virtually gone about 48 hours after coming off the drug. | It does do the job it's intended to do, no problem. My sinus infection was better in about 3-4 days and I haven't had any problems with that since. The side effects are monstrous though. I fancy myself having a tough mentality so it really has to hurt for me to be online searching about it and complaining about it in a post. If you're going to take it, expect a rough going, but expect it to work for what it was supposed to be fixing. | M | 29 | 14 days | 5/23/2009 | 3 | Kidney Infection | fever, cough, numbness in left side of waist, night sweats, weakness, loss in appetite. Not sure how many of these are related to cipro. | I noticed while taking this drug, my symptoms started getting worse since I first took them. Towards the last 4 days of taking this drug, I experienced the worst of it. I had a feeling it was this drug since about an hour after I took it, I either felt weak/dizzy, or major fever. Tylenol helps to correct this, although took an hour and a half. Not sure this drug cured my infection as I have slight pain in kidney still. | M | 21 | 14 days | 1/27/2008 | 2 | UTI and Kidney Infection | Immediate migraine, stiff neck, sore shoulders, upset stomach, gas. | I only took the Cipro because I do not know of any way to clear a kidney infection. I wish I knew of a better way because it's painful to endure the additional effects of Cipro when I'm already in pain from the kidney infection. | F | 36 | 14 days | 1/2/2008 | 2 | Kidney Infection | Headaches, dizziness, blurred vision, hair loss, soreness, tiredness. | If you can get your doctor to prescribe you a different medication do it! this medication made me feel worse than having the kidney infection and everyday I would have headaches with blurred vision and dizziness. This is the worst Antibiotic I have ever taken and will never take it again. | F | 33 | 14 days 500mg 2X day | 7/8/2010 | 1 | diverticulitis | Will finish my 14-day course this Friday. See my note re: Flagyl, which I am taking in combo with the Cipro. I do not like this medicine! I know it is the antibiotic of choice in combo w/Flagyl for diverticulitis - but it is a mean drug on your system. I make sure that I take a pro-biotic with this drug - still have abdominal pain. Not sure how I managed to have an attack of diverticulitis since I watch what I eat, and I am (or was) as regular as your alarm clock. Now, I'm in the bathroom all the time and believe my system will never be the same. Side effects: Dark & loose stools at least twice a day, NO APPETITE, CRAMPS... With diverticulitis you are supposed to "REST" your colon, but CIPRO I believe just makes it worse. I don't think this medicine will help at all. | VERY IMPORTANT TO TAKE A PRO-BIOTIC WITH THIS MEDICINE. | F | 49 | 14 days 500mg 2X day | 7/21/2010 | 1 | chest infection | Two years ago, my husband took this drug and immediately felt terrible, unable to function, tired all the time. He became increasingly depressed and paranoid, and has hardly left the house since. He is a completely changed man, unable to do anything. Our life together has been destroyed, he lives behind closed curtains in darkness and no longer gets dressed. Doctors call it agitated depression prescribe anti-pyschotics - all useless. Could this be due to cipro toxity? Can anybody help, please? | Also caused insomnia, shaking,/ Has ruined his life. | M | 58 | 14 days 250mg 2X day | 7/20/2010 | 1 | epididymitis | loss of breath, lack of sleep, sweats, trouble swallowing at one point, aching joints, aching tendons, anxiety, nausea. | i went to an urgent care to get a diagnosis of my pains and it was an infection in my testicular area. the doctor gave me cipro just like that. the first day i took the antibiotic, i felt completely fine. until the days went by and i started feeling all the weird side effects. i have to take this for 14 days and it's only been 6 so far and it feels like hell. i've been freaking out about these side effects. it seems like i have symptoms of cancer, but i don't know yet, so i need to get a check up on what is going on with me, cause i didn't feel like this until i started taking this antibiotic. if anyone has felt this before just let me know via email, it would be greatly appreciated. | M | 19 | 14 days 500 mg 2X day | 7/6/2010 | 1 | chronic prostatitis/epididymitus | I had ringing in my ears instantly from taking this. After about 10 days my tendon in my left foot made me hobble around for a further 3. I had wierd feelings in my face also. The thing is, I've stopped taking this atrocity yet still have tinnitus after 14 days cypro-free... I have no idea how long this could last for, if it will cease or remain? The body is the best healer. Don't blindly accept consultants/doctors/surgeons ideas like I did. Do the research, get the perscription in a 'just incase' mind set and always seek alternative therapy. My condition lessened from items considered folk remedies or illegitimate according to Western medicine. Remember its all a business to them. In this case the antibiotics did absolutely nothing to help me. | Just don't. | M | 22 | 14 days 750mg 3X day | 10/21/2010 | 1 | Reaccuring Prostatitis Infection | Extreme unbearable headaches, abdominal organ inflammation, joint pain and skin rashes. This is definitely poison people, please stay away from this drug. | I was first prescribed Cipro in March of 2010 for 10 days which did not clear up my prostatitis infection, then I was prescribed Levaquin for 14 days. No extreme side effects until I was prescribed Cipro again in April and May of 2010. I immediately got very sick after taking Cipro for two days, extreme headaches and very bad abdominal pain. As of this date I am still dealing with the side effects of this poison. | M | 46 | 14 days 500 2X day | 9/27/2010 | 1 | Diverticulosis | I have been having pain for the last 4 days in my left leg. It is excruciating at times and didn't realize it was because of the Cipro until I read everyone's comments. I don't recommend this medicine to anyone because you will feel worse than you did before you took it. I will NEVER take this medication again. | F | 53 | 14 days 500 mg 2X day | 9/21/2010 | 1 | lower UTI infection | Weakness,I could not stand up more than two weeks. Swollen throath,large red rash on face, blisters, hallucination, headaches, and disorientation. The lower UTI came back. | They sale and they get money. We give money and we get more sick. Where is the consumer protection? We should to sue them. | F | 57 | 14 days 500 mg 2X W | 5/9/2010 | 1 | Epididymitis | Central Nervous System excitation, Chronic Insomnia, Fatigue, Brain Fog, Eye Pain, Eye Photosensitivity, Plantar Fasciitis, Knee Pain, Dry Mouth. I took this drug one year ago, many symptoms have gone away but a few still persist to this day. | This stuff is evil poison. I was a perfectly healthy young man before taking this drug. I have had all sorts of medical tests to rule out other possible causes. This class of antibiotics are very dangerous and should only be used in cases of life threatening infections. I just hope to fully recover someday. | M | 25 | 14 days | 1/31/2010 | 1 | bacterial infection | Approximately 5 days after commencing taking the drug my knees, elbows, hips, ankles became very sore and painful. It was extremely painful to get up and down. The symptoms over the following 3 days got worse and I was extemely fatigued all the time. Pain at night was worse, especially in the shin area. I stopped taking the drug after the 8th day. After 6 weeks the pain remained and I felt like I was cripled. I finally made an appointment with a naturopath who ran blood tests and put me on Ligaplex II, magnelevures (the naturopath understood about Cipro poisoning. I also staring taking flaxseed oil and probiotics. It is now day 4 on the supplements and I am starting to feel a little better- can't wait for another two weeks of taking the supplements. Prior to taking the supplements I was in excellent health and exercised several times a week - I can no longer exercise, have gained weight and have become depressed. I am really hoping the supplements work | This stuff is poison | F | 65 | 14 days 500 mg 2X day | 1/26/2011 | 1 | diverticulitis | When I take cipro it causes lower abd cramping and severe bloating. Stomach and lower abd ached and had to lay down to get relief. Felt horrible all over | Feel worse after taking this medication. Will not take again! | F | 84 | 14 days 250mg 2X day | 3/13/2011 | 1 | UTI | I went to the doctor because I had some discomfort in my neither region, he said I probably had a infected prostate and needed to get on medication ASAP. Doc is a professor at a highly regarded medical university so I trusted him. After 3 days on Cipro I started getting the side effects, pain my arm and wrist and numbness. I was also weak in the knees and ankles and had difficult time walking. I stopped taking and called the doc, who seemed to brush off these side effects and told me I should continue unless I wanted to go on something else. If he had shown some concern, I would have requested to switch drugs. I don't even know if I had UTI because the culture came back negative. It's been 4 months and while I can walk again, my left arm/hand are in constant pain and discomfort. I'm 30 years old, recently married, and a programmer. I'm devastated, the side effects of this drug is worse than the initial issue. | I told my doc, the pharmacist, nurse, ER doctor and nobody believes cipro does this. They brush it off as something else.. well, I've never HAD any issues like this and they started shortly after taking cipro. If cipro doesn't do this, why are so many people who went on it experiencing the same problems? Cipro has ruined my life! I want my life back! I just moved to a new city and mostly stay indoors because of pain. | M | 30 | 14 days 500 2X day | 5/27/2012 | 1 | Epidydimitis | Sever cramps, tendon rupture | After taking cipro for about 10 days, I began to develop serious side effects. Interestingly, the pamphlet with the medicine did not note these side effects, but the National Institute of Health does! So I kept taking it and taking it, until I ruptured multiple tendons trying to lift my 2 lb. bookbag. May have interacted with medicines unlisted officially. | M | 19 | 14 days 500 2X day | 10/23/2011 | 1 | Possible Prostatitis | Excrutiating pain in lower calf muscles of both legs, redness in eyes, pain in goin area radiating down my inner leg to knee, and popping of knee joints in both legs. I wake up every morning with burning in my achilles and after any exercise my calf muscles still twitch for hours. | This drug is absolute poision. There is a black box warning, but the only advice I got was to "drink water and aviod the sun". I run and exercise daily....or I used to. I was running, after a week on Cipro and had what I thought was a cramp in my right calf. I walked home and did not run for a week. The next time out, I felt like someone had stabbed me in both calf muscles. I walked home again and could hardly walk at al the next day. I consulted my physician and this was the first time I found out about the problems with this drug. I had already completed the 14 days. His advice, "don't run for 4 to 6 weeks". I stopped running for 4 weeks and the harsh pain in my calf muscles subsided...they still twitch. I ran "one time" and I now have pain all the way down my inner thigh and my knees pop. It's been 6 weeks since I took this drug and I don't know when I will ever be able to exercise again. I've worked out for most of my life and I've dealt with sports injuries. This is not a sports injury. It is crippling. I have consulted two other physicians now and all of them tell me that they "think" my symptoms will eventually go away. I hope so. By the way, it turns out that I didn't have an infection at all. | M | 53 | 14 days 30 Mg 2X day | 10/25/2011 | 1 | Bladder Infection | Migraines, mouth sores, nausea, stomach cramps, dizziness. | F | 37 | 14 days 500 mg 2X day | 7/7/2011 | 1 | A supposed infection | Initially: Anxiety, depression, trouble breathing, diarrhea, fogginess. Later: Anxiety, depression, trouble breathing, diarrhea, joint pain, deep muscle pain, insomnia, numbness, chest pain, | DON'T TAKE IT. See http://www.fluoroquinolones.org/ | M | 33 | 14 days | 7/6/2007 |