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 | Possible UTI/Kidney Infection | About 4 hours after the 2nd dose, I experienced numbness and ache in my right leg and right wrist. I called the Doctor, who didn't seem too concerned, but told me I should stop taking Cipro as it sounded like I had a reaction to it. I stopped the Cipro, haven't taken any more for three days - but I'm still achy, have intermittent tingling in limbs/extremities, and just feel unwell overall. It seems to be getting worse in fact. I feel unsteady when I walk. Doctor said it could take 5 days or so for the Cipro to clear my system, and until that time, my symptoms will probably be with me. If my symptoms aren't better in 2 more days, I'm going back to the Doctor or maybe hospital. After reading all the horrific experiences other people have had, I'm now pretty scared. I'm sure that's not helping my symptoms either - it's all I can focus on and my anxiety is through the roof. I can only hope I'll start to feel better as time goes along. I've taken other antibiotics before, but I've never fel | There are many effective antibiotics out there. Please only take Cipro is there is absolutely no other alternative. | M | 32 | 1 days | 8/29/2009 | 1 | UTI / Kindney Infection | Numb, tingly, sore muscles, Uncontrollable shaking at night, Paranoia of dying, sever anxiety | Not for everyone. I have been off this medicine for a week already and the side effects haven't gone away. I fear that this is permanent damage done to my body and I'm only 19 !! I'm going to go to the doctor next week and get checked up. But until then I continue to feel like I have completely messed up my body from taking this medicine. | F | 19 | 1 days | 7/7/2009 | 1 | I posted several months ago and reported severe achilles tendon pain after only 2 doses. I still have achilles tendonitis 3 months from taking those 2 pills. Based on what I've read I have a great fear this will never go away. To the two posts below who had no problem with this drug, count yourself as lucky. (I hope you do not have an interest in the pharmaceutical industry.) I have to believe this drug has negative side effects for far more then the 1 in 400,000 claimed by Bayer. With the help of sites like this, word will spread and users will begin to know their inexplicable problems are the result of this drug. Had I not read the pharmacy warnings I never would have considered my heel problem was due to 2 pills I had taken that day and not some unknown physical action I had taken that day. The medical community needs to get off its high horse, wake up, and prescribe this drug only as a last resort. I miss being able to walk normally or run at all. | Do not take this drug. | M | 50 | 1 days | 7/25/2009 | 1 | Prostitas | Two weeks ago I only took 1 500mg pill and a hour later I had pain in both achilles tendons. I stopped taking the drug. In the following days I experienced tendon pain in my neck, shoulders, knees, wrists, and heels. My achilles tendon on my right leg produced bruising. I applied ice massage to my sore joints for the next week. I also experienced some mild dry eyes. After two weeks I am feeling better but still deal with mild tendon soreness. I am athletic but will not run again for probaly 6 months with the fear of a tendon rupture. There is no way to get this crap out of your system. I feel bad for the severe cases of "floxed" victims out there. Most people do not believe you and say "its old age". I beg to differ. The drug companies don't care. | I would try natural remedies or a different antibiotic. | M | 46 | 1 days | 7/27/2009 | 1 | prostatitis | Took one pill in July -Joints are still sore. | Here is some feedback on the side effects of Cipro. My joints continue to improve though my dosage was smaller then others I read about.I always stayed on my feet with very mild walking. Also walk down stairs backwards so it doesn't stretch the achilles tendon out. I have made bone broth which gives your body protein to rebuild tendons. Ice massage works well too. Stay away from aspirin and Ibuprofin as they restrict blood flow to the joints. Brocchli is a natural anti-inflammatory. I also stretch to keep things limber. Any questions please e-mail me. | M | 46 | 1 days | 11/6/2009 | 1 | UTI | Do Not Take This Drug!! Within only 2-3 hours after taking it, I developed severe tendonitis and my doctor took me off of it immediately. The pharmacist told me the drug is about to be recalled because of this. Ask for something else!!! Do not take it! This is pure poison! | There are far better drugs for treating UTI's than this awful thing. You are far better off with the infection than using this drug. Avoid it avoid it! | M | 44 | 1 days | 12/3/2009 | 1 | UTI | Intitial- Heart palpatations, chest pain, painful burning, felt like my skin was being ripped off, panic attacks, insomnia, bad dreams, joint pain, body pain, swollen eye, bad abdominal pains, gall bladder and appendix pain, diarehea, ringing in ears, head pressure, felt like I was going to puke if I was in sun, Turned into- traveling burning sensations, cold sensitivity, headaches, could hardly walk, everything hurt, eye kept swelling, ab pains, pain, pain, pain. Three months later- horrible body pains, diagnosed with rotator cuff tendonitis, achilles tendonitis, planter fasciitis. have tendonitis in thighs, arms, painful burning in skin, food sensitivities, bouts of insomnia, feels like I can't get blood to my arms and feet, finger tips hurt, headaches, weird rash. Do NOT take this. I can barely walk some days. I am in pain and cry all the time because of the pain. | www.fqresearch.org/ medicationsense.com/fluoroquinolone.html I had reoccuring UTI's and took this drug several times in two years. this last time, I took one and was severely poisoned. I was an otherwise active and healthy professional women. I ran 2 miles and did yoga almost everyday. This has been the most frightening experience of my life. Do NOT take this. Eat organic. It is also given to farm animals despite regulation. Take D-mannose, Cranberry Supplements for UTIs. Go to naturopath instead. Do not poison yourself. | F | 35 | 1 days | 12/12/2009 | 1 | for a sinus infection | aches and pains feeling really wierd. I have high blood pressure and it went down to 80 over 60 and even lower for several days. | I would never take it again for anything. I think it should br banned. | F | 66 | 1 days | 9/14/2008 | 1 | prescribed for a stomach pain | After taking just 2 pills on the first day, 4/20/09, I began to feel pain in my right heel. Now, just 4 days later, I can't lift my foot due to the pain in my Achilles tendon and essentially I can't walk. I looked at the Mayo website and there is no mention of these bad side effects for Cipro. How can that be? Why is this information being withheld? The medical profession and the FDA should be ashamed. Those at Bayer who work to perpetuate the deceit should be arrested. For those monitoring this site I hope you can sleep at night because your contribution to society is ruining people’s lives. Someday there will be a moment where you look back on your life and assess how you did. For doing this you will have failed. Is it really worth the money? | M | 49 | 1 days | 4/24/2009 | 1 | kidney infection | i took it for a day and started to get horrible achilles tendon pain, joint pain, feeling jittery. then developed a horrible red rash all over my body. AFTER ONE DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! i was then given septra. which i thought would be better, but i read it's pretty much almost the same thing? and i heard that's no good either and has tons of side effects as well! i'm really scared! i'm nursing my achilles tendon. I CAN BARELY BEND MY ANKLE! AFTER ONE DAY!! (i'm only 24) | F | 24 | 1 days | 6/22/2009 | 1 | UTI | I have numbing in my right arm loss of use of it as well. i took 2 doses ....called the doc he stopped it right away. I had never had anything like this before. I am a normal 36 female this drug scared the crap out of me I was think stroke. | Dont take this drug after ready the FDA warnings its true the benefits dont come close to the risks I have now for a week had to deal with using my left hand not my right just want to be back yo normal now!!!!!!!!! | F | 36 | 1 days | 7/13/2009 | 1 | Sinus infection | Strong anxiety. | I switched to this drug after having anxiety effects with Keflex. The first dose felt like I drank a strong cup of coffee, the second dose caused powerful anxiety and I had to stop. | M | 45 | 1 days | 6/21/2008 | 1 | UTI | Just coming out of a reaction this minute..5 hours ago I felt funny, 30 minutes ago i thought i was going to DIE. I had shooting feelings throughout my nerves, I was freezing, I was unusually scared and worried feeling. Nauseus, jaw pain and upper back pain. | NEVER TAKE CIPRO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IVE LEARNED ALOT ABOUT IT IN THE PAST 10 MINUITES AND THEN FOUND THIS SITE. I WANT TO CHOKE MY DOCTOR. IM RELIEVED EVERYONE KNOWS HOW I FEEL. IM STILL SCARED TO FALL ASLEEP AND HAVE NIGHTMARES LIKE PEOPLE ARE SAYING. | F | 21 | 1 days | 2/21/2009 | 1 | Possible intestinal infection | Insomnia, stomach upset, restlessness, night sweats, diarrhea | I was prescribed Cipro after a stool test came back positive for two possibly pathogenic bacteria. After the first pill (500 mg, with food) I felt flushed and ill. The second increased the flu-like symptoms. That night I experienced severe night sweats, anxiety, restlessness and fits of depression. (Somewhat like an overdose of hydrocortisone.) I didn't get to sleep until 3AM, and then only slept for 3 hours. I didn't take any Cipro the following day. After several bouts of diarrhea, the malaise passed off. I believe that what I experienced was essentially an allergic reaction, but there are aspects of the side effects which lead me to believe that Cipro can be neurotoxic (night sweats and anxiety). I would not recommend this drug to people with allergies, compromised immune systems, IBS and related intestinal disorders, or to people who are sensitive to stimulants. | F | 55 | 1 days | 7/3/2008 | 1 | travelers diarrhea | nightmares, paranoia, anxiety, depression, tight chest, increased heart rate, achy joints, dry eyes, intercranial pressure, tinnitus, dizziness, extreme fatigue | I took one dose of cipro, and I feel like it is one of the worst mistakes I have ever made in my life. I never have nightmares, and I actually typically enjoy my dreams because they are so pleasant. Within a 3 hour time period I had about 5 dreams in which I was unable to talk, and woke up screaming. Eventually I sat in my bed for 2 hours, fearful to get up, and afraid to go back to sleep. Once I was able to get out of bed, once the sun came up, I had to leave my house because I was afraid to be inside. But I couldn't go far because I was afraid my house would catch on fire. Despite the fact that I knew the feelings I had were not real, I could not fight them. I have never had any kind of psychotic episode before, and typically have extremely low levels of anxiety and no depression. | F | 22 | 1 days | 12/1/2008 | 1 | prostatis | stiff neck, pain in ankles, and wrists, ringing in ears,seeing things burning eyes clicks and pops!! | you guys are scaring me!!! i took 2, 500 mg of cipro. the first one wasn,t bad, felt like it was working. after the second one ,all the pain started, i stopped taking them , and decided to read the paper it comes with . i had all the symptoms. i only took 2 pills, but i still have a stiff neck. i,m not sure if it was a good idea , but i flushed myself with sea salt. i feel alot better , but still feel symptoms. i searched the site to see how long cipro stays in your system, because it say not to mix with magnesium. guess it don,t matter now does it. | M | 39 | 1 days | 11/18/2008 | 1 | Travelers Diarrhea | After treating travlers diarrhea with otc Immodium AD, I went to the doctor and they prescribed Cipro. 2-3 hours after 1st dose, I had a migraine headache, nausea, muscles aches and dry mouth. I took some tylenol and that seemed to work, so 12 hours later I took my 2nd dose of 500mg (10 pm). 3 hours later at 1 am, I awoke with severe migrane, muscle cramps, chills, nausea, dry mouth and anxiety. It was impossible to get comfortable. Sitting, laying, or walking provided temporary relief so I had to rotate throught different positions every few minutes. At 2 am I started voimitting and that lasted for about 1 hour. At 3 am I was able to swallow an excedrine migrane pill and keep it down. I laid on the floor and rotated through different positions to deal with cramps and mucsle pains. Things started to get better by 3:30am. I got up at 8am with the start of similar symptons and took 2 more excedrine migraine pills again. By 9:30 am I was feeling okay. Last bowel movement was mor | This was a horrible experience. None of these symptons were present prior to taking this drug. I plan to discontinue the drug immediately. Something is wrong with this drug | M | 47 | 1 days | 4/20/2008 | 1 | Kidney Infection | Tingling, facial numbness, little bumps on hard and soft palate of mouth, malaise, feeling of 'not being there', pain in left heel ( heel, aching), feeling of 'looseness' in left knee. | First dose, I had just had the tingles, the numbness, the bumps and the malaise. Didn't want to take second dose but it was too late to get in touch with a doctor. Second dose brought on the rest. Called doctor in morning because I refused to take a third dose. Am now on Augmentin for a 14 day run rather than the 3 days Cipro would have needed. | F | 23 | 1 days | 3/22/2008 | 1 | Ear Infection | Within a couple hours of taking the first 500 MG pill on Feb. 26, 2008, I experienced a never-before-felt sense of disconnectedness. True mental cloudiness. There, but not there. Major cognitive disruption; things wouldn't, and don't, register. Now, I am someone who is very intellectual, who lives inside my head, so to speak. I am one to notice the most subtle of changes; this was not subtle at all. I stopped after one 500 MG pill, but the mental cloudiness has remained more than a week after. Who knows what else will happen. | There is no way the manufacturer of this drug is unaware of the damage this inflicts upon those who take it. They should be financially destroyed for this, but alas, we live in a world of complete corruption and wickedness. | M | 28 | 1 days | 3/6/2008 | 1 | bladder infection | IT’S NOT IN YOUR HEAD. THIS CAN CAUSE AWFUL SIDE EFFECTS. I went to urgent care today and received CIPRO for a bladder infection. I had had a bad reaction to an anti-biotic a year ago, but couldn't remember the name (turns out that it was CIPRO). I started taking CIPRO again, today, and felt AWFUL after the first dose and realized that these were the same horrible symptoms that I had had the year before with the same anti-biotic (which I stopped taking immediately at that time). I called the doctor at urgent care as soon as I started feeling these same symptoms today. He told the nurse to tell me to keep taking the CIPRO - that the symptoms weren't from the drug, that it couldn’t cause these symptoms so quickly after the first dose. I asked to be changed to a different anti-biotic and he wouldn't do it. He said that that it must be something else, I wouldn't be having the symptoms so soon after taking the drug. I told the nurse on the phone that if he didn't change | These are my symptoms within one or two hours of taking CIPRO: muscle aches, diarrhea, nausea, fatigue, depression and a feeling of horrible malaise. All that I could do was lie on the couch and feel crappy. The doctor made me feel like it was in my head and that I was a big baby. Thanks for everyone's comments. We really have to fight for our well-being, listen to our body wisdom and demand a good quality of life for ourselves. . I haven't felt this terrible in a LONG time, and I feel very angry that the doctor was so callous to my suffering. | F | 57 | 1 days | 1/5/2008 |