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 | Kidney Infection/UTI | excessive muscle spasms and pain, backache, pains in the arms. 4 mos later inchy tongue, easily bruises pain under arms, very transparent veins, itchy skin, difficulty swallowing, acne. | Don't take it. It is horrible, I feel like an old lady and am only 38 years old. | F | 38 | 3 days | 2/16/2007 | 1 | Food poisoning | dry mouth, bitter taste, severe joint pains, nausea, skin tingling on face, exhaustion | I would never take it again. I didn't even take half my presciption before i stoppped taking them. | F | 26 | 3 days | 3/17/2007 | 1 | UTI | Nausea, depression, unable to form clear thoughts, dry mouth, dry skin. Extreme anxiety. Unable to sleep. Woke up many times throughtout the night in a panic. Woke up feeling "hungover". Diarrhea. took it as prescribed, 1 tablet 2x's a day for 3 days. 500mg. Glad it is over...But Is till feel lousy today and not like my usual self. | Nothing seems to have changed. I still feel sick, but I'll go back to the doctor to see if it cleared up the UTI. | F | 48 | 3 days | 5/5/2007 | 1 | appendicitis surgery | unable to sleep, disordered thoughts, hallucinations, heat waves , sweating specially in the head, though feeling cold the rest of the body,pressure inside head. Took for 3 days and changed. Still feel terrified just remembering | My sister had disatrous experience too. I Took it directly in vein. Some people say it could be less aggressive if taken via oral. I decided not to run the risk and asked the phisician to change the drug. Still feel terrified just rememering those days | M | 50 | 3 days | 5/14/2007 | 1 | UTI | headaches, nausea, dizzy spells and blackout for a couple of seconds, gloucose levels elevated | I will never take Cipro again the side effects are worst than the sickness | F | 55 | 3 days | 11/14/2007 | 1 | Bladder infection | Severe headaches while taking it. Stopped less than half way through because of headaches. This was the first time in over thirty years in which I took an antibiotic. It is now 11 days later and I still have diarrehea and loose stools. I will literally chose death before I will take another prescription drug again. I have never in my life ever had anywhere near this severe a bout of diarrehea. I hope that the friendly bacteria has not been devestated enough that it will take me months or longer to rebuild and lead to other severe problems. It caused more problems than it solved. I took 500 mg for three half days. Never take this drug. If the company that developed it had any concern they would have developed a probiotic to take with it. | M | 60 | 3 days | 7/12/2007 | 1 | Suspected UTI post prostate surg | Took for 3 days - twice per day, when preliminary lab results indicated possible UTI. Stopped when UTI not corroborated. Horrible searing pain in shoulders developed a week after last pill. Who knows what else is in store for me! | Can't believe surgeon prescribed this stuff, it is DEVASTATING. | M | 62 | 3 days | 8/24/2009 | 1 | uti | I took 4 pills so far. I am not taking anymore. I felt my heart racing, loss of appetite, my fingers on my left hand were trembling. I feel sicker then I was in the first place. I had to come home to lay down. I feel like crap. Hopefully this will get out of my system soon. I am not taking anymore pills. I have 6 to go. I am going to throw them out. | This drug must be very strong. I was given 500mg twice a day. I was ok until today. The trembling started yesterday and this morning. I feel my absolute worse today. I took the 4th pill at 930am. It is now 324pm. I was going to the store. I wouldnt make it up and down the aisles. I also feel drained and tired. So I came home hoping I will feel better later. It is the worse side effects anyone can ever have. It appears to make you sensitive to the sun too. I also had burning in my stomach last night. | F | 50 | 3 days | 8/25/2009 | 1 | bacterial lung infection | After taking 5 doses of this toxic substance I experienced a partial rupture of my right Achilles tenden. This happened while walking across a parking lot - no strenuous athletic activity involved. After being in a cast/boot and on crutches for 2 1/2 months, a cortizone injection, and physical therapy, I still have nagging and sometimes intense pain in my Achilles as well as the surrounding muscles/tendons. I'm in the process of getting a second orthopedist appointment to determine what to do next, as I have been unable to walk normally for about six months now. | DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG!!!!!!! | F | 32 | 3 days | 7/30/2009 | 1 | UTI | Severe eye pain, headaches, nausea, fatigue, serious insomnia, depression, lack of motivation, blurred vision, spacy feeling, constipation, weird feeling of sickness in my body. After 3 days, I quit the medication. When I first started the medicine (500 mg 2 xs a day for 10 days), it was a Thursday afternoon. I did not fall asleep again until Saturday afternoon. I could not figure out what was happening to me until I googled side effects of taking Cipro. This medicine will really mess up your body. DO NOT TAKE IT. I have decided to use a home remedy for my UTI by taking apple cider vinegar with honey twice a day, fresh ginger tea, plenty of water, and hot water and lemon every day. I have healed myself of many minor illnesses at home by focusing on my healing and eating natural things. CIPRO is a killer and is very toxic. | This is the WORST medication I have ever taken. It makes you feel SICK and much worse than you did before taking the medicine. It is a feeling that you have been poisioned or drugged. I am very disappointed that doctors would prescribe this medication to patients. If they knew what people felt like after taking this DRUG, they would be ashamed. Cipro should be taken off the market. I | F | 38 | 3 days | 7/12/2009 | 1 | UTI | headaches, dizziness, tiredness, and horrible kidney pain | My UTI was not in my kidneys so this pain came directly from taking Cipro. It was horrendous. I didn't even find this website until I was researching online about kidney pain as a side effect of taking Cipro so being a hypochondo was not the issue. I never have side effects with any kind of medicine but I will never take this one again-and next time I will check this website before taking anything ever again-now that I know it exists. | F | 27 | 3 days | 8/22/2009 | 1 | Bacteria in Gut | Ultra anxiety, not being able to sleep, raw sore throat, restlessness, can't sit still for long. Upper right side back tingling, hard to catch breath, cough. Shoulder and upper back stiffness and discomfort. Depression. Sinus draining worse. But at least, no diarrhea. | I had a choice of medication and thought this would be easier than Amoxicillin. Don't think so now. Doctor told me to stop after 6 doses. Hope the infection is gone and if not will NOT use this one again. I took this drug about 9 years ago without any problem. Something must have changed in my system. | F | 68 | 3 days | 10/8/2009 | 1 | Suspected bladder infection | Side effects in the order they appeared after taking Cipro for 3 days (500mg twice a day): Aches and pains in my arms, sudden very sharp pains in heels, freezing yet clammy feet, buzzing feeling in feet, weak ankles, shooting pains in feet ankles and calf muscles, cold sweats at night, waking up in the night with numbness in fingers, sharp pin prick pains in chest and jaw, tightness in chest, very thick sticky sweat on face and hands, pain in heels and arches of feet when standing (later diagnosed by GP as plantar fasciitis), freezing hands, prominent veins appearing in arms,hands and legs...... | I had already taken Amoxycillin for 7 days, Keflex for 6 days with only temporary relief from what seemed to be a bladder infection. I ended up in hospital with excruciating lower abdominal pain. All tests were negative for bacterial infection, but they still put on cipro. They'd also given me morphine and a muscle relaxant intravenously, followed by the cipro 4 hours later, along with a cocktail of pain killers, (dihydrocodeine, tramadol, some sort of ant-sickness tablet) and they wanted to give me ibuprofen, but I happened to refuse that one on the grounds that I'm asthmatic. I didn't read the leaflet accompanying the cipro tablets until day 3 of treatment, which mentions not to take it with muscle relaxants, ibuprofen and many other drugs!! I do not know if Cipro alone caused my side effects, or the cocktail of drugs they pumped me with, but the most upsetting thing for me is that there was no sign of bacteria (or anything else for that matter) in my urine or blood samples, so I don't understand why they treated me with such a toxic drug. I was sent home with a 10 day supply of Cipro, but stopped taking it the following day when the foot pain started. My GP said I should stop reading about side effects and that she'd NEVER HEARD OF ANYONE HAVING SIDE-EFFECTS to this drug. I went back a couple of days later in worse pain, and at this point the GP said "Well, the PEOPLE WHO I HAVE SEEN WHO HAVE HAD SIDE EFFECTS TO THIS DRUG have gone one to recover, eventually" | M | 34 | 3 days | 11/25/2009 | 1 | UTI | Hell. | I second the comment about the FDA. CIRPO does destroy lives and it happens way more often then people think. PLEASE REPORT IT TO THE FDA. You can also do it online at medwatch https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/medwatch/medwatch-online.htm. JUST DO IT. I know 4 people including myself who have had their lives seriously altered bu this drug. They claim it is rare - no way! | M | 43 | 3 days | 11/15/2009 | 1 | UTI | 6 months out and I still have foot, ankle and knee pain and some neuropathy in my feet. I had 4 months of utter hell following 5 250mg doses of this drug. Damage to my vision and several tendons/joint is long term. | You would be well advised not to take this drug unless you hve no other choice (e.g., you will die or have lifelong problems due to the infection). Beware of other similar antibiotics. The Dr. refered to Levaquin as a more mild anitbiotic. It will do the same things to you. If you took this and had no problems, a warning for you: everyone has a limit to how much lifetime exposure to flouroquinolines they can take before these horrible events start to occur. Once they occur, there is no going back. Injurys to soft tissues like tendons are very stubborn and even worse, the drug changes your body's ability to heal the damage it created. IT IS NOT A SAFE DRUG. | M | 42 | 3 days | 11/3/2009 | 1 | fever/diarrhea | Took 3 days several days later had left ankle pain and swelling, and sore achilles tendon. Went back to the doctor ankle the size of a grapefruit and starting to get soreness in my right foot. Doc said cellulitis and prescribed Keflex. Three days later went back in because my right foot was swelling badly although left foot swelling was down pain the same. Now I'm on prednisone and wear compression hose and my right knee is swelling. Docs are acting like they want to call it RA but after reading this I know it's from the Cipro. I took it for three days and have been out of work three weeks and counting. | I just turned 46 but I am very healthy. I build large barns and buildings all by myself for a living. I am lucky to be able to feed the chickens now. The compression hose work well for helping the achilles tendon, without them it hurts continually with them on it is bearable. Soaking in warm water with epsom salts gives temp relief on the pain in my feet. | M | 46 | 3 days | 10/25/2009 | 1 | colon infection | tendinitos, joint pains, muscular aches, incredibly horrible back aches, just gets worse is not gettng better after 6 wks | POISON DO NOT TAKE THIS AWFUL DRUG | F | 52 | 3 days | 12/30/2009 | 1 | UTI/Kidney Infection | Dizziness, drowsiness, back pain, flu like symptoms, paranoia, depression, joint paint, headaches, chest pain, stomach cramps, gas, stomach aches, nauseau, severe decrease in appetite | I was diagnosed with a UTI/Bladder infection that had rapidly spread to the kidneys and had gotten pretty severe. My doctor gave me this. I've been taking it for about three days, and when i don't take it immediately after waking up, my symptoms of the UTI come back even worse than before, leading me to believe this medicine is doing nothing. I can't eat, I keep having terrible nightmares, my emotions are terrible, and I'm paranoid beyond belief. I thought it was something wrong with me and I was getting sicker, but come to find out after reading so many reviews, this medicine is the chief cause of it. I'm constantly tired on it, insecure, completely paranoid, horribly depressed, with mood swings that make me feel like some sort of caricature of bipolar disorder. What's even worse is that I had to reschedule a MAJOR exam because after I take this, I don't even fell well enough to walk and can barely manage to read or write a coherent sentence for almost two hours! After reading these reviews, and realizing that some people have these permanently, I'm going back to my doctor and demanding a new prescription, and reporting this drug to the FDA. It's horrifying to think that these sorts of symptoms are common, and yet doctors still so readily prescribe it! | F | 22 | 3 days | 12/10/2009 | 1 | suspected kidney infection | nausea,headaches,dizziness,paranoia,EXTREME anxiety of the EXTREMEST kind,panic attacks, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, heart racing, etc... the list goes on | It is now 2 weeks since I took my last CIPRO. I have taken them 4 times before over the last 3 years thanks to my GP who refuses even now to admit that there are any serious side effects.I am in England in the UK and not the USA like many posters here. Unless you have taken CIPRO then you can never,never understand what they do to you and your body and mind. I have been to hell and come face to face with the DEVIL himself thanks to my GP and the pharmaceutical companies and Government policies. If you read this before taking a pill then please stop right now and throw them away because any infection is far better than what you will go through. If I had to make a choice right now between a CIPRO and an injection of heroin off the streets then I would opt for the heroin without any doubt or faltering in making the correct choice. These drugs are worse than any street drug that a scumbag drug dealer peddles in dark alleyways. I am taking each day at a time now and thanks to God have now stopped having the horrible negative thoughts that have overwhelmed my life for the last 14 days. I still cant go upstairs without getting out of breath or having aching bones, but thanks to a good friend have started a de-tox and i pray to the good Lord that in time i may be normal again. DO NOT TAKE CIPRO UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES..PLEASE DONT.I CANT REALLY SAY ANY MORE | M | 31 | 3 days | 12/5/2009 | 1 | UTI | Depression, thoughts of suicide. | Wow, now that I see the other comments I'm amazed anyone is prescribing this drug. Of course, if anyone is, I'm not surprised my doctor is. She's pretty much in big pharm's back pocket. | F | 44 | 3 days | 12/8/2009 |