MACROBID Reviews (NITROFURANTOIN; NITROFURANTOIN, MACROCRYSTALLINE)Average Rating: 1.7 (1815 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare MACROBID with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR MACROBID | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | After bladder surgery | severe itching several days after taking Macrobid after my bladder surgery. It did prevent infection after my surgery...but the itching it TERRIBLE! | I took this for 12 days after leaving the hospital and my itching started 4 days after finishing the medication. My itching started on the palms of my hands and the bottoms of my feet - then to my scalp and the rest body. I never itch in all areas all at once but will itch all over my body. I have been using Bendryl spray during the day and pills at night - it makes me very sleepy but I don't itch at night. This has been going on now for 5 days. I go back to my doctor tomorrow to see what can be done about this ! | F | 47 | 12 days | 4/20/2008 | 1 | Uti | Headache, body aches, chills, joint pain, sore throat, mid and lower back pain, bladder aching, nausea, lack of appetite, neck ache. | Took 2 pills, felt like I was coming down with the flu and called my GP who then switched my prescription to cipro. Still feeling very fatigued and achy. | F | 47 | 7 days 100 mg 2X day | 5/30/2013 | 1 | Uti | Itching,my hands and feet are the worse. My eyeballs even itch. Went back to urgent care today and they told me I need all kinds of test and itching over your entire body is a warning sign of some awful disease's.(cancer to name one). Gave me steroids for the itching.not helping yet. Came home in shock and found all these post. Never knew I was taking medicine that can and does damage your body. I don't understand why this drug is on the market. This is insane. I really hope someone reads all these posts before making the same mistake the rest of us have. It's been 4 days since this started and no relief in sight. I just hope it doesn't get worse. PLEASE DON'T TAKE THIS POISON !! I know I never will ! | F | 47 | 10 days 100 mg | 2/16/2013 | 1 | uti | weak, tired, severe headache, severe body aches, dizziness, nausea, ringing in ears, chills, hot flashes, rash, indigestion | Macrobid cured the uti. I didn't experience any problems until my last day taking the med. It has been 5 days since I finished and I still feel lousy. My doctor said this could continue for some time until the drug is completely out of my system. I did take this med once in the past and had no problems, but because of this severe reaction my doctor absolutely will not prescribe it for me again. I can honestly say I have never been sick like this before. If these are the side effects, I can't see how it is still prescribed. | F | 47 | 7 days ? 2X day | 8/24/2011 | 1 | Positive UTI | After taking Bactrim for 5 days & I still had the UTI, my urologist prescribed the Macrobid. After my very 1st dose of Macrobid, I began to experience dizziness, nausea & felt very sick. After I went to bed, I woke up with painful leg cramps, numb hands and I felt nauseated. Altogether, I took Macrobid for 3 days, but I was so sick that I had to discontinue this drug. | RED ALERT: Macrobid caused a serious increase in fibromylagia pain. I began to encounter much worse fibro pain throughout my body, including locations that I NEVER hurt before. The worse thing about Macrobid is that this drug can cause CONTINUED NEGATIVE SIDE EFFECTS EVEN WEEKS OR MONTHS AFTER YOU DISCONTINUED THE DRUG!!! I'm still experiencing excruciating leg cramps, nausea, dizziness, heart palpitations, hurting all over, worse fibromyalgia pain and I'm not even taking this drug any longer! This antibiotic should be REMOVED from the market, but the watchdogs who are supposed to be protecting the consumers are the very culprits looking to make BIG BUCKS in the pharmaceutical industry!!! Do yourself a favor, don't walk, instead RUN, as fast as you can away from this drug!!! | F | 47 | 3 days 100 MG 2X day | 7/22/2011 | 1 | cystitis | Update on my symptoms: After 2 days I woke in the night feelong like someone had stuffed a golf ball down my throat - very painful and swollen. I was completely exhaused and very pale. I slept for 26of the next 48 hours. The doctor did not know if it was a reaction to the antibiotic. He told me to take antihistamine. I did not take them. They just mask what is goin on . I wanted to know what was going on in my body. I was not ill - flu, toncilitis etc. I am 47. I know how my body reacts to illness. This was something new. It is hard to describe but I felt poisoned. I could not face alcohol, rich food anything that would put an extra load on my struggling body and SO exhausted. It took about a week for the symptoms to come under control (regained some energy, throat much less swollen, dont feel poisoned, cyctitis symptoms gone, itching down to a lower level). It has now been nearly 2 weeks and I am nearly back to normal. A few times a day I feel a bit itchy but nothing that interferes with life. Good luck with your symptoms - especially those of you that have had much worse reactions than mine. | F | 47 | 50mg 1X day | 1/2/2012 Patient History | 1 | UTI | I was first prescribed Cipro XL and started with hives and a heavy feeling in my chest. Went back to my doctor and she prescribed Macrobid. I took one capsule as soon as a picked up my Rx. That night I started to experience flu-like symptoms... Fever, chills, entire body aches, and very weak. Woke up the next morning feeling the same body aches but with pains in my neck and stomach...I took my second capsule of Macobid with a glass of milk to coat my stomach and went to work. Needless to say I was back home in bed within 4 hrs. I called the pharmacist and told him about my symptoms and he said it was the infection working it's way out of my system and to continent to take it...if I felt the same after 72 hrs then contact my doctor...I believed him...but now that I've read the horror stokes from this website, there's no way I'm taking any more!!! My God, why is this allowed to be prescribed?? | F | 47 | 1 days 100 mg | 3/2/2012 | 1 | bladder infection | I took it for 3 days, 12/22/11 and it has been over 2 weeks and still have side effects. Started w/ rash all over 4 days after taking. Severe pain in back of head and neck. Every joint hurt, swelled. Fever. Felt extremely sick. Chest still hurts. The worst is the numbness in my hands. Can't sleep at night for pain in hands. Numbness in feet too. What a nightmare. Doc says it can't be from med, yeah right. Thank God for people writing in and telling or I wouldn't know what caused it. But I still have extreme headaches everyday, afraid it set off something permanent. | F | 47 | 3 days 100 2X day | 1/9/2012 | 1 | UTI | Severe Headache, Neck pain, joint pain, nausea, dizziness, severe chills without fever REALLY BAD STUFF! | I wish I had read the comments before I started taking this drug! When I read many of the comments which stated "Felt Like I was going to Die" I used those exact words while I was experiencing my 'side-effects' of this horrible drug. I too agree that the commonality of side effects are too many to be allowed on the market. I will be calling the FDA to lodge a formal experience - as I hope future readers of these posts who also experience such side-effects. This is the only way to get drugs like this off the market as soon as possible. I lost an entire week of work and family. It literally left me in bed for 6 days until the effects started to wear off after I stopped taking it. I am currently effected with dealing with an itchy body (no rash)…Benedryl doesn't seem to have any effect on it at all… Will probably have to go on Prednisone. | F | 47 | 4 days 100mg 2X day | 2/12/2010 | 1 | supposed UTI | After 2nd dose experienced chills, extreme headache,fever of 104 degrees and inability to take deep breaths without coughing which landed me in ER | I was given for a UTI because Levaquin was not working on the type of UTI I had. After 2nd dose, I expereinced chills, extreme headache and finally fever of 104 degrees which landed me in ER. ER doctor ran a few tests and I told him I thought I was having an allergic reaction to the drug but he said that Macrobid did not cause these side effects although the paperwork that came with the drug clearly stated it did. He suggested a spinal tap for meningitis and I had 10 minutes to decide and then he would discharge me because there was nothing else he could do. I told him I wanted a second opinion and I wanted to call my family doctor. He kept checking back on me (obviously the ER was not very busy)every few minutes finally said "Times up we are sending you home" When my doctor did call she agreed that I was right in saying no to the spinal tap. I went home with the vicadin rx which I took to the pharmacy. Decided not to take anymore macrobid that day and the next day I felt a little better but still bad so I thought maybe it was not the drug. 3rd day took one pill in am and another at night. A few hours later fever started all over again reaching 103 in a few short hours broke early in am and went to primary care around 10:00. Primary care thought it might be a pulmonary embollism since I had surgery a month ago so I was sent to ER again (different hospital). Ran more tests but came up with nothing so after about 5 or 6 hours sent home but this time a new R | F | 47 | 7 days 100 mg 2X day | 4/4/2010 | 1 | UTI | I developed a cough, then it went into my chest with body aches and fever, i was confined to my bed very weak, lost 10 pounds, and i had severe lower back pain right above buttocks. | F | 47 | 6 days 100 2X day | 9/4/2010 | 1 | "supposed" UTI | Shortness of breath, lethargy, heavy eyelids; tightness of chest | I was released out of the hospital Sunday and took first pill that evening. I arrived from St. Lucia (the Caribbean) on Thursday then went in to the hospital Friday and was confined for fever and chills. I have a kidney transplant thus the concern. Was cared for by nephrologists. I had experienced UTI before and know the difference of what I have vs. what I had. I know this is not UTI... but was prescribed Macrobid anyway, inspite of having no growth in the culture. Now, on my third day of taking Macrobid, I am itching and now have burning sensation peeing... is this now as a result of a supposed cure for UTI, now induced by the drug, Macrobid? This should be called Morbid!!! I have to psych myself before taking each pill as it's so potent, inspite of food and milk as suggested. | F | 47 | 3 days 100mg 1X day | 7/14/2010 | 1 | UTI | Worst I have felt after taking a medication...nausea, high fever, dizziness and could not walk, shooting pains throughout body especially in chest, all joints sore, neck, back, worse than any flu I've had..didnt work for me at all | F | 47 | 7 days 100 2X day | 7/3/2011 | 1 | UTI | I woke up on New Year's Eve with a bad rash all over my body. My face was swollen and I felt very fatigued. On New Year's day I started with severe headaches and that lasted for 3 days. I also experienced gas and bloating. I have never had an allergic reation to any type of medicine or antibiotic. This was my first time on Macrobid. I have advised my doctor and my pharmacist to make sure that I will never be prescribed this again. I have been miserable since New Year's Eve and is worse than the UTI! | F | 47 | 2 days 100 MG 2X day | 1/4/2011 | 1 | UTI | Loose and numerous stools. Night sweats. Sleeplessness. Sore throat. Headache. Sick, sick, sick! Felt like I was going to die. Thought I had cancer from all the symptoms. Yuck! | There must be better alternatives. | F | 47 | 10 days 2X day | 10/16/2010 | 1 | UTI | At first ,very bad headace,bloating,could not sta awake,very sore muscles,at later all this and rash on the palms of my hands | I would never take this med again,it's not worth all the pain it caused | F | 47 | 8 days 100mg 2X day | 11/14/2010 | 1 | UTI | Sore throat, nausea, fever, dizziness, muscle and joint pain. Most alarming pain is in the stomach/pancreas area. | I am stopping the drug NOW. Macrobid has been linked to acute pancreatitis and I am now symptomatic. The UTI improved immediately, but I will never take this drug again. In pain and worried that I will require hospitalization for pancreas problem. | F | 47 | 2.5 days 100 MG 2X day | 1/27/2017 | 1 | UTI | Within an hour I was covered in hives and itchy all over, my thrust swelled and had trouble breathing. My chest felt heavy. | I used my epi pen (I carry it for food allergies) and took benedryl but still needed to go to hospital and had to take steroids and liquid anti biotic. Terrible e oeriebceb | F | 47 | 1 days 30mg | 6/22/2017 | 1 | UTI | I finished the 10 day script and two days later severe chest and back pain hit me. I was treated at the ER with IV steroids and other drugs to combat hives. My skin was swollen, itchy and burning. I have had extreme fatigue and have been living life in a fog for 10 days now. I cannot lie down to sleep since the pressure in chest is so pronounced. I have been sleeping in a sitting position for over a week. Inside of my chest feels like I have had an horrid chest infection and when I eat the pain becomes unbearable in my chest. | This drug should never be prescribed and should be removed from the list for UTI treatment. After 10 days I still had an the infection and I now have to try and recover from a severe drug reaction which is extremely worse than the UTI. | F | 47 | 10 days 20 mg | 5/28/2018 | 1 | presumed UTI | Initially bright red itchy rash on lower legs & pelvic pain. After a few days pain spread from pelvis down thighs and legs overnight. Next day, severe pain of legs and headache, went to ER. They felt it was vaginal infection plus UTI, so prescribed Macrobid again. I only continued to feel WORSE, severe burning leg pain, needed help in and out of bed, severe migraine, nausea, vomiting for a couple days. I had no idea why I felt this way, full body aches, flu-like symptoms. | I stopped taking the Macrobid after the second time around, 4 days worth after reading about possible adverse reactions. Went to primary MD who agreed it was probably the Macrobid that caused inflammation of the nerve endings. 3 weeks later I am still in pain, groin and bottom mainly, plus numbness of that area & have had difficulty urinating! I am going for an MRI this week. HORRIBLE MEDICATION, DO NOT TAKE!! | F | 47 | 4 days 2X day | 4/24/2018 |