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 | Infection and non union of left tib | Got diarrhea couple days in after taking Cipro. Still experiencing problems there. Restlessness and interrupted sleep and strange dreams. Nightly sweating and skin rashes. Ive heard you should not skip antibiotics and take full course or longer than required so that the infection doesn't return and develop resistance requiring more powerful stuff. Worried if i stop now the infection will return and and the bone wont heal. Wearing a ilizarov frame now if this doesn't work I will lose my leg and i don't want that to happen. | M | 29 | 2 months 750 | 12/10/2012 | 1 | Abdominal surgery | I am writing this on behalf of my wonderful, loving cousin, who was a great husband and father. He took his own life on Thursday, 5-31-07. | Avoid at all costs. There will be a special level in hell for big pharma. | F | 48 | 2 months | 6/5/2007 | 1 | Rosacea - red pustuals | Severe muscle, tendon, ligiment pain and swelling of feet, legs, and ankles, sleeplessness, anxiety, itching/tingling of forearm, blurred vision, ringing in my ears. | Was given Cipro by dermatologist for breaking out on my face from Rosacea. Had taken it before without severe side affects so I didn't realize it was the medication until I had taken it for 2 months. Extreme pain in muscles, tendons, ligiments. Difficulty walking, standing, sitting. Severe plurisy. Pain in every joint and muscle. Difficulty sleeping although exhausted. Face continued to break out. Swelling of ankles, feet, legs. Was told I had fibromyalgia and swelling was due to working outside in the heat. Was tested for blood clots in my leg. Stopped taking it and took prednisone for 1 week. This helped but only slightly. Went to Sports Medicine doc who got me off the Cipro immediately. Got a cortisone shot in my knee. He suggested water aerobics and after 6 months I am feeling so much better. I still have itching and tingling of forearm, but now doing workouts 5 days a week without pain. Will NEVER EVER use this drug again or anything in the same family of drugs. Have notified doctors and pharmacies to put this in my chart. | F | 61 | 2 months 1X day | 1/16/2011 | 1 | Prostatitis | Dr. put me on 250mg twice a day. Must say it helped with the infection. The side effects are AWFUL. For me, I can handle pain, but I cannot handle insomnia. Restless nights from the beginning. Terrible . No rest and trying to heal is the worse. Developed Neurapthy in Right foot and terrible aches in my low back and hips. Crap drug. If you can not use this drug, please I beg you to ask for something else. I stopped 3 days ago thinking insomnia would leave. No.deal. Worse now with anxiety attached. Makes.it hard to manage your affairs and work. | MAKE SURE TO ASK FOR OTHER OPTIONS BEFORE YOU SUBMIT TO THIS CRAP DRUG | M | 54 | 2 months 250mg | 9/13/2015 | 1 | pseudomona aeruginosa in my lungs | Always worked out at the gym.Did squats all the way down with bar bell.After taking ciproflaxin started having joint pain and tendinitis in my wrist and shoulder.Extremely painful.Was also prescribed by my pulmonary Dr Levoquin off and on for almost a year | F | 53 | 2 months 750 mg | 1/26/2014 | 2 | Prostatis | Burning muslces, insomnia, twitiching, muscle pain, and a freezing sensation around the nose and mouth caused by an interaction with Flonase. | DO NOT take this medication if you do not have to. It is almost worse than the disease itself. | M | 23 | 1 months | 5/16/2007 | 1 | food poisoning | Extreme weekness, to the point of being unable to carry school books or walk to my university classes, acompanied by full body pain upon movement. I can't drive safely. I can't work. Cipro made me into an invalid (temporarily?). I have to stay at my parent's house since I can no longer take care of myself. Were it not for them, I would probably become a street person or die. Cognition was also adversely affected requiring taking an "incomplete" on a final exam. My dad had to write this for me, since the tendons in my hands hurt too much to type. I am unable to walk more than to bathroom and kitchen. I went to a new doctor that has also had cipro posioning, and he gives me hope for a full recovery. I am loosing weight since I have little interest in food (hurts too much to walk to kitchen). To prevent pain, I remain bedridden and still. I am sleeping 16 to 18 hourse a day. I worry about my heart, but so far I haven't detected any arrhythmias. Tendonitis and joint p | I think cipro and perhaps all fluoroquinolone antibiotics (those that contain flourine as an active ingredient) should be taken off the market; since the side effects for me were totally disproportionate to the benefits gained, particularly in light of the fact (so I recently learned) that "food poisoning" rarely requires any drug treatment. I had a friend that was sick with food poisoning at the same time as me and she did not take any drugs and she is well now. Going to the doctor's office is like playing Russian Roulette, considering the variety of toxic drugs that they can dispense. I am totally frustrated with medical doctors and their posions, and need to find a good naturopathic physician to care for me. | F | 31 | 1 months | 8/24/2007 | 1 | Crohn's | Depression (I was also on prednisone which also has that side effect, and that probably made my depression a lot worse), Yellowing of skin, extreme sensitivity to sunlight, insomnia, fast heartbeat, muscle pain, extreme nausea (I was on a lot of drugs with this side effect; that probably made it worse) | My Crohn's symptoms only got worse while taking it. It can cause diarrhea that is watery or bloody. I wouldn't take it again. It doesn't seem safe to me. I think doctors need to do a better job about informing patients about side effects. That's their job. | F | 20 | 1 months | 7/14/2008 | 1 | UTI - Helicobacter Pylori | Tendonitis, twitching, burning all over , joint pain, visual impairment, tinitus , stomach disorders , headaches , chest pain | This is a pernicious drug, do not take it, whatever the doctor says. It has ruined over 3 years of my life | M | 65 | 12 weeks | 2/2/2009 | 1 | Bartonella henselae (tick disease) | Muscle, tendon, bone(?) pain all over body. (7 out of 10 level) Lessening of mental acuity. Started right after first day, continued to get worse (for 6 weeks) and has not let up to any substantial degree even almost 2 months stopping. This is a VERY serious drug with long lasting sequelae for many people! Think twice. Then think again. | There are many class action suits filed against this drug, esp. after the anthrax scare. You can google it and find many serious allegations about it. | F | 9 weeks | 12/19/2005 | 1 | Acute diverticulitis | Within hours of the first dose, I had severe pain in the left elbow. The physician who'd prescribed the drug told me that it couldn't possibly be drug-induced. Within weeks, I suffered from debilitating joint pain in tendons of both elbows and right wrist. Off work for four months. Two years later, pain is manageable but not fully resolved. | Product appeared to be effective for the purpose it had been prescribed. | M | 51 | 8 weeks | 4/24/2009 | 1 | Prostatitis | severe aching in wrist,ankle and knee joints; numbness in fingers and toes Also-Nausea throughout the course of taking this stuff | ----active and work out on regular basis--seems to have made pain worse while taking this garbage. Will side effects go away? | M | 48 | 7 weeks | 11/22/2004 | 3 | pseudomonas aeroginosa | slight dizziness at times, random pains all over my body, arthritis type symptoms in my knees. (Pain, limited ability to bend my knees, crunching sounds in my knees, and swelling) | I have been off the Cipro for a few weeks, but still experiencing bad knee problems. My doctor says I have osteoarthritis and doesn't think it's related to the Cipro, but I have never had ANY problems with my knees until I took Cipro and suddenly woke up one morning and could barely walk. I KNOW it's Cipro related. | F | 54 | 6 weeks | 5/10/2008 | 1 | prostate infection | Insomnia, tendonopathy, tinnitus, ssuicidal thought, peripheral neuropathy, digestive problems, vision problems, heart arrhythmia . | M | 38 | 6 weeks 500 | 2/16/2014 | 1 | prostatitis | I still have knee pain and kind of swelling one year after discontinuing the medicine. It is ruining my life. | M | 31 | 6 weeks 500 2X day | 6/13/2014 | 1 | prostatitis | Insomnia, nausea, panic attacks, anxiety, severe brain fog, chest tightness, itchy/tingly scalp, dizziness, itchiness, dry burning eyes, tinnuitis | Should be a last line of defense drug. If your on your death bed dying of infection, maybe you want to try it. I suffered for years and still suffer today with symptoms that are very slow to disappear. The drug is truly pure poison. I wish I had read these warnings years ago. Take them very seriously. | M | 49 | 6 weeks 250 2X day | 4/26/2016 | 1 | infected appendix | burning pain, almost like electric charges down both sides of my legs--found out later was nerves. I had serious plantar fascitis after as well, which is also tendon problem but not sure that was caused by cipro. The burning pain has gradually gone away but 6 years later I still have symptoms | Might work for many but patients need to be aware of side effects. My doctor said it would go away but 6 years seems excessive and I still have symptoms | F | 60 | 6 weeks | 7/13/2006 | 1 | Chronic Prostatis | Auditory Hallucinations, Delirium of Guilt, Thought broadcasting (Feeling that my thoughts are being broadcasted on TV) Running commentry of my thoughts being given by people around me, Feeling of not trusting others, suspicious of close relative poisoning me, feeling of hidden cameras monitoring me, feeling that your coleagues are in league to harm you. | TOXIC PSYCHOSIS OR CIPROFLOXACIN-INDUCED ACUTE PSYCHOSIS IS KNOWN TO OCCUR IN WHATEVER PERCENTAGE, BUT WHEN IT OCCURES TO YOU PERCENTAGE DOES NOT REALLY MATTERS. I WAS WRONGLY DIAGNOSED AS SCHIZOPHRENIA AND WAS UNJUSTLY TREATED WITH VARIOUS ANTIPSYCHOTICS AND ECTs FOR 6 WEEKS UNTILL I RECOVERED BY STOPPING ALL MEDICATION. | M | 45 | 6 weeks | 7/8/2007 | 1 | urininary tract infection | severe bilateral tendinitis; Residual muscle pain and weakness--is the latter a side effect? | F | 6 weeks | 1/1/2002 | 1 | Pseudomonas Aeruginosa | This is the worst thing that has ever happened to me. I had surgery and a piece of a drain tube was left in. My doctor went back in to take it out and told me 5 days later he didnt know what type of infection I had but put me on a drug that should take care of it. I told him if he didnt know then send it off to the center of disease control and it came back as pseudomonas aeruginosa. I didnt know what it was, my mother was with me and my doctor put me on 1500 mgs. of cipro for 5 weeks. I kept asking him why I felt like I was so tired, why my legs hurt, when I would get my energy back??? It's been a year and a half ago and I'm 39 years old. I had my own business for 15 years before this, I played tennis, rode jet skis, snow skied, danced daily and was a massage therapist as well as a single mother of a 5 and 15 year old. I have closed my business now. I still hurt all over, blurry vision, no energy, my joints pop and crack. I have never felt this bad in my life. This drug took my life | Your life can get worse, no matter what you do.... Do not take this drug. Find another doctor if yours perscribes this for you. | F | 39 | 5 weeks 500 3X day | 1/8/2013 |