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 | unconfirmed UTI | Please report adverse reactions @ www.fda.gov/Safety/MedWatch/HowToReport/default.htm Reporting these reactions may be the only way to make the FDA aware of how dangerous this drug is. | M | 34 | 1 weeks 500mg 2X day | 6/22/2011 | 1 | Cipro is TOXIC | Crippled & unable to work all thanks to CIPRO. | Cipro is an absolute POISON and Bayer should be ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES FOR POISONING PEOPLE FOR PROFIT. There are other ways of making money BAYER!!! | M | 34 | 666 days | 1/7/2010 | 1 | Crippled by Cipro? Join us (if you're physically able) on Tuesday May 7th, 2013 for the first ever Cipro/Avelox/Levaquin Victims Rally in Washington DC. Rally begins at 11am in front of the U.S. Capitol Building (West Front--Grassy Area 1). Victims and their loved ones will also be meeting with multiple Congressmen throughout the day. Just look for the people in wheelchairs! | We're pissed & we're not gonna take it anymore. BAYER: WE'RE COMING FOR YOU!!! | 666 days 1X day | 5/2/2013 | 1 | Prostate issues | I took Levaquin and ciprofloxacn about 4 years ago for my prostatitis on and off for about 1 year from July-2006 to June-2007. All together I took the stuff for 122 days total. Only warning I was told about was ruptured Achilles tendon which I didn't develop so I didn't link my other problems to the drug and kept taking it because it did help my severe prostate pain. I noticed aches and pains in all my tendons muscles and after a few years has passed the pain has continued. I feel like I an old man and it takes much time to even get out of bed or up out of a chair and moving. The bottoms of my feet are so sore I can hardly walk at first. Calves down to my heals are sore. Shoulders, and elbow tendons sore and Back of Neck and back too. Both Biceps near elbow and up as well as back of elbow. Feet from heal to toes hurt including tops of feet. Wrist fingers thumbs and back of hand bother me. Maybe I should just say I hurt all over except my face and eye lids. Forearms are also sore. | I also noticed ringing in my ears when this all started too and it never goes away. Just walking up or down steps and I get and hear threads in my knees tearing followed by pain which seems to get better in time only to happen again. Example, all I need to do it put pressure on my elbow to turn over in bed and I hear and feel threads tearing again in my elbows and shoulders. My tendons are still brittle and have reoccurring Tendonitis from the doses I took and It was 4 years ago. I ache so bad I can't sleep nights and took so much aleve and other over the counter pain meds my stomach is upset to the point I am sitting on the toilet about 10 times a day. I had 45 codeine pills for a sinus surgery I had in 2009 and taking one of those before bedtime at least allowed me to sleep some. Codeine is the only thing that takes the edge off the pain. I have also developed depression. I have always tried to stay active and now I don't do a lot of what I used to enjoy. I feel like I'm stuck in the body of an 80 year old man the last 4 years. This stuff is really nasty and needs to be pulled from the market. | M | 50 | 122 days 500 to 750 1X day | 12/14/2011 | 1 | BOILS | DOCTOR KEPT GIVING IT TO ME OVER & OVER WHO KNEW IT CAN CAUSE HOLES IN UR COLOR- BET PATTY DUKE HAD HEAVY DUTY ANTIBIOTICS B4 THE SEPSIS | GO FIGURE ;O | M | 40 | 100 days 2X day | 4/2/2016 | 3 | Mycobacterium abscessus infection | severe neck muscle spasm/pull so severe that for two days I had to stay in bed with my face in the mattress, the pain disabled me totally. Pain in the leg joints and arms so severe the walk to the bathroom was awful. It was not subtle. | I had to take the drug because I wanted to keep my foot. It was a bad infection (three intravenous drug treatments three emergency room admissions, four weeks in hospital, private infection room where everyone had to wear protective clothing Including food service. Six moths on clarithromycin. I took cipro both orally and intravenously. It was one drug of many. Amikacin, tigercylin, cipro, and many more the infectious disease doctor really had to work to contain the infection. Stepping on a nail is not a minor thing. | M | 61 | 90 days 2X day | 6/25/2015 | 1 | UTI | I took cipro 2x500mg initially for 14 days for a UTI, during which time my only problems were tiredness, night sweats, nausia and diarrhoea. The cipro seemed to clear up the UTI but the problems only started a few days after ending the course. I could not urinate, ached all over felt depressed and had severe diarrhoea and prostate / rectal pain. I was referred to a urologist and was found to have a slightly enlarged prostate he prescribed cipro 2x500mg for another 70 days after STI tests all proved negative. During this second course, things got no better and a few weeks after, things were much worse !. Now I had lost my appitite, losing 3 stones in weight, nausea, constantly tired, depressed and had constant lower left abdominal / rectal pain, stomach cramps, back ache, groin pain, pain in my left leg with cramps. I was unable to walk any distance or sit down for more than a few minutes without pain, I have constant wind and am unable to hold a full bladder and often feel the ungent n | This was the first time I had taken anti biotics for 20 years and apart from the UTI, I was fit healthy and active. three years ago I competed in offroad motorcycle trials, but now I struggle to get up from a kneeling position, and have no energy. I feel I am not the same man since taking the cipro, and sometimes wonder if I will ever live a normal life again. Its been 7 months now since taking cipro, during which time I have had lots of tests, scans and blood tests all negative. I have become intolerant to dairy, spicy food and white bread and have had to completely change my diet which now includes daily cranberry juice and pro biotic drinks. It is only now after 7 months that I can even sit at my computer for a couple of hours, but only because I am constantly taking strong painkillers all day, being in constant pain from my lower left abdomen / rectum. Lying down improves things and I never wake up in a morning in pain, which increased throughout the day, depending on what I eat, being worse between 3 and 10pm. I didn't realise an anti biotic could do so much harm, my whole life has changed and I have been left depressed and bewildred. People should be warned of the dangers of cipro, I would like to see all doctors take an 84 day course, and see how they feel !. Some days I feel so low that if I still had my Sako rifle, I could quite happily put the barrel in my mouth and pull the trigger, Thank You Bayer !....... | M | 44 | 84 days | 5/8/2009 | 1 | jaw bone infection | 3 months after stopping Cipro, side effects have worsened. Am having severe peripheral neuropathy (leg, arm pain), tendonitis in both ankles, eye pain, severe anxiety during "attack". Can't eat any meat, soy, sugar, tea, coffee, chocolate - all seem to make symptoms worse. Symptoms have worsened since first stopping taking medicine. NEVER TAKE THIS DRUG!!!! | Don't ever take this drug. It has caused me so much grief. I was completely healthy beforehand, and never had any problems with anxiety or panic or any muscle, joint or leg pains. Now, they are all a problem and getting worse, months after I stopped the medication. DO NOT TAKE!!! | F | 53 | 75 days | 11/11/2008 | 5 | POSTOP INFECTION | THE ONLY SIDE EFFECT WERE UTI, WHICH PROBIOTICS TOOK CARE OF AND ITCHING. | I HAD MAJOR SURGERY IN NOVEMBER AND WAS HOSPITALIZED 4 TIMES. NOTHING CLEARED UP THIS INFECTIO9N. I HAD DRAINAGE AND NO ENERGY. I WENT TO A WOUND DOCTOR AND HE HAS ME ON CIPRO. NO MORE DRAINAGE AND TONS OF ENERGY. I REALLY FEEL THAT THIS DRUG SAVED MY LIFE | F | 63 | 60 days 500MG 2X day | 6/10/2010 | 4 | acute bacterial prostatitis | Some CNS stiulation. | 750 mg 2 X daily. Helped a great deal. | M | 61 | 60 days | 1/5/2008 | 1 | infection on colon | severe pheriphal neuropathy | F | 80 | 54 days 1X day | 12/2/2011 | 5 | Prostate Infection from Bioposy | No side effects | I read this site and said holy crap-- took it for 45 days and I'd say ZERO side effect OTHER than clearing up my infection !! YEA !! | M | 64 | 45 days 500 2X day | 8/31/2010 | 2 | Prostatitis | None whatsoever, but Cipro did not help my Chronic Prostatitis, if that's what I have. | Reading all the comments, for several medications, and finding the majority alarming whatever the medication, I start suspecting that a) either this is because the nasty side effects are real but only the minority who experience them write comments while the vast majority of people are doing fine or b) the people writing these nasty comments hold a major grudge againts the pharmaceutical companies - and believe me, I don't hold the pharmaceutical in very high regard. | M | 55 | 45 days | 11/12/2007 | 2 | Prostatis | I took the meds for 45 days. Stopped back in April. To this day, I have never been the same. I can't say with a degree of certainty that my health issues are all related to cipro. However; reading everybody comments, their is a lot of similarities. All my bones ache, tingling in my head, my knees always feel cold and hurt, now even my fingers and feet hurt. I had a sore throat for 7 months. A bad pressure in my upper rib cage for months. I have been in for test after test from MRI in brain, where they found 10 .5mm specs (don't know what they are)but was recommended to be tested for MS (WHICH I WAS AND RESULTS ARE NEG) to complete CDC blood work, scans for my rib cage area, can't find anything. For the throat, went to a Ear/Mouth/Nose specialist, camera down my nose to the vocal cord, no growths. Doc thinks I have Gerd in the Throat, so I have been on acid reduction meds for months. Now...I have a scheduled appointment to get a PH signal test where they insert some devise in me for 24 | M | 44 | 45 days | 10/18/2007 | 1 | Prostate Infection | Heart palpitations started 5 weeks in. They as well as extreme light sensitivity in my eyes, comes and goes in cycles of months or weeks, for almost a year now. | This "medication" is a serious human poison, evidenced by the hundreds of online complaints from people who have suffered greatly from the side effects. | M | 42 | 45 days 1X day | 6/24/2012 | 5 | bacterial infection for 6 weeks | I passed a kidney stone & had severe nocturnal itching in both shoulders for months after usage. drove me nuts!!! brilliant pharmacist cured me with Orthomega capsules (Omega-3 fish oil) I thought he was silly, but now I'm a believer. Cipro likes to settle in joints. Some people after 2 years are still having what I had!!! | Make sure you drink TONS of water and if you develop the itching, take the Orthomega 3 times a day. It really works. | F | 53 | 42 days | 8/27/2006 | 3 | UTI/Kidney Infection | Continued pain in my right kidney, shooting pain in my left arm, pain in my toes, overall pain in my stomach, left kidney, weight loss, depression, anxiety, morbid thoughts, lethargy, sleep disturbance | I had a UTI that lead to a kidney infection. My doctor prescribed a 7 day course of Ciprofloxacin which I dutifully took. It cleared my kidney infection, however, I still continued to have pain the right kidney. I tried to go back to work, experienced acute pain. Since then I have started to have all the pain noted as side effects and it continues. It wasn't until I stumbled across this last night that I actually began to think that it is the Cipro. I have now been off work for nearly two months. I am a shadow of my former self. I don't have energy to do anything. I'm a single mum and struggle to care for my two young children. God knows what I would have done if I hadn't had a loving family around me. I go to bed at 8pm every night, and wake up every morning feeling worse. I'm probably going to lose my job, which I loved, because I just can't work. I had a ultrasound scan yesterday that came back as clear which has made me feel like I am going mad and all this is in my head. If this is true, I cannot believe that we can be prescribed a drug that can cause more harm that the original illness for which it was intended. Please email me with comments. I've been prescribed a further 5 weeks course of this product and I stopped taking it last night when I read all your comments. Whoever started this thread, I thank you so much. | F | 40 | 42 days | 12/3/2009 | 1 | Possible UTI | Pain in feet, fingers, back, neck, shoulder, electrifying feeling in heels. Like being charged with a car battery. Red eyes, inability to walk very far, like maybe 50 yards. It's been over a year and still suffering the same issues and not getting better. Only can rest in bed as even sitting causes pain after awhile. Standing worst of all. My ear sometimes feels stuffed and I hear heartbeats in it. I have issues sleeping, terrible depression, feelings of suicide. I take medication and have sensitivities I never had before, etc... | I never knew I would have such viscious side effects... This is probably a drug that is less safe than bath salts. I would rather inhale bath salts for 35 days than take this drug. I think it would be safer. | M | 37 | 35 days 500 MG 1X day | 10/11/2014 | 1 | prostites | pain in shins and bones dry skin | hope someone can help me i been feeling miserable since taking this drug. my doctor insists it cant be the cipro and its all in my mind. been having severe bone pain in arms ,hands itchy dry skin, pain in bottom of foot. pain in lower legs and shins. very depressed. is this cipro or am i going out of my mind ?? someone please help i keep being told its not the cipro if any info please email me [email protected] | M | 41 | 34 days | 4/9/2007 | 5 | Epididymtis | I had pretty agressive muscle stiffness in my back, thighs, and arms for a couple of days, but it subsided. | Other then the temporary muscle stiffness and pain, it's been a good drug. | M | 33 | 30 days | 3/8/2006 |