LAMISIL Reviews (TERBINAFINE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 2.2 (1141 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare LAMISIL with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LAMISIL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Let me say that if you value your quality of life DO NOT TOUCH THIS DRUG. I was going to hold out on writing this review until I fully recovered, but I have no clue when or if I will. The first effects I noticed were strange, intense dreams and terrible fatigue in the mornings. Then I started to feel quite surreal like I wasn't here and got bouts of dizziness. After 6 days I stopped taking it and expected to feel better the next day. The next day I woke up and was even more exhausted and the dreams were even more intense. Terrible anxiety and irritability started and then the joints in my hands, knees and elbows began to hurt. | cont. Horrific insomnia then began and every time when I actually fell asleep I'd have disturbing hallucination type dreams and then wake up horrified to my core. The insomnia lasted 3 weeks, I also had crippling anxiety and depression, and debilitating fatigue and malaise. It's now been nearly a year and two months since the reaction and I've suffered a lot in that time. The anxiety, depression were terrible but have eased to a more acceptable level but can flare up. I have chronic fatigue that has improved to a degree but can still be pretty bad and I never feel rested when I wake up. I still have some joint pain in my hands. The worst ongoing side effect is probably the dreams. This drug is capable of warping your mind and what I experienced is like nothing I've ever known. Over a year later and dreaming feels like I'm going off to some insane, distant land, like another life. It can be incredibly frightening. If you're suffering a similar reaction hold out because things will ease given time but you need to find coping mechanisms like meditation. My intention is not to scare you, but others need to know the dangers of this horrible medication. I only took 6 days worth! | M | 24 | 6 days 250 MG 1X day | 1/16/2015 | 1 | toenail fungus | Severe rash in groin area, then entire body. Peeling skin. Fatigue. Liver damage. | Hoping to recover. Now 20 days off the stuff and symptoms continue. Only took it for four days. | M | 51 | 4 days 250mg | 1/13/2015 | 3 | Rash on neck and ears | 1 days | 1/6/2015 | 1 | Toenail fungus | After a couple of weeks I started to experience malaise, aches and just a weird mental feeling, difficult to describe. Shortly after that , still feeling bad, I had a pretty severe ache in my left arm. For some reason I kept going and made it to about 6 or 7 weeks when I lost my sense of taste. The only taste I have is a weird, bitter, salty sensation. Flavors of food is severely altered. I quit right away when that happened. Aches and pains are bad enough but losing the sense of taste is really depressing. It's been two weeks and it's still the same. I read all of the bad reviews before starting this "poison" and was very reluctant, yet my podiatrist told me I shouldn't worry about the reviews and take the meds. I really can't believe that so many doctors completely disregard how dangerous this drug is and still recommend it. There must be hella kickbacks for docs to sell this to patients.. I don't know. All I can say is, what ever you do.... DO NOT TAKE THIS‼️⚠️👎💀 | Terrible drug...poison. I'll take my chances with natural remedies. | F | 57 | 1 days 250 | 1/5/2015 | 1 | Toenail Fungus | Fatigue, Insomnia, Joint Pain, Vivid and Traumatic Nightmares accompanied by Excessive Cold Sweats, Bitter Taste in Mouth | It took a few weeks for me to recognize the pattern but shortly after beginning this treatment I found myself exhausted and in need of a nap almost everyday by noon. The last few nights I could hardly get to sleep but once I did I would wake up in the middle of the night drenched in cold sweat needing to change bed clothes several times a night and the dreams I have been having are horrific. I've been off of this stuff for 48 hours now and am hoping the residual drug exits my system ASAP so that I can sleep with some peace soon. Also noticed a new aching pain in my right elbow when I have had no recent injury or trauma in that area. Not worth it. Will live with the toenail fungus and seek natural remedies. This stuff is poison to my body. Would not recommend. | M | 45 | 23 days 250 1X day | 12/30/2014 | 1 | Toenail fungus | On the day before Thanksgiving when I was baking sweet potato pies for the dinner I was hosting the next day, I lost my sense of taste. I was using the same foolproof recipe and the pie filling was so bland that I thought I had bad potatoes. I even threw out a bottle of lemon extract because it smelled weird. I was about to throw the pie in the garbage and then I let my husband taste it. He said it was good. Everything I cooked tasted awful to me and I had to use my husband and son as tasters. It quickly dawned on me that it must be the terbinafine because I remembered reading a few comments about the loss of taste when I researched the drug. I panicked, got depressed and very anxious at the thought of hosting a dinner where the food would not be food. How could I adjust the seasonings if I couldn't taste the food??! I am so disappointed that neither the physician nor the pharmacist told me about this side effect. The emphasis was only on the liver. The thought of not having | I am trying to keep this all in perspective and will make the most of not having a taste for good food. This is the first time I ever lost weight during the Thanksgiving weekend!! | F | 59 | 35 days 250 1X day | 11/30/2014 | 1 | Yellowing toenails | After 30 days started to lose my taste, thought I was getting a cold. By the end of 6 weeks I could taste Nothing. Everything felt like dirt or cardboard in my mouth. This lasted for 3 months, I Lost 25 pounds from not being able to put Any Food in my mouth...EVERYTHING was Gross! My toenails cleared. NOT WORTH 3+ MONTHS OF H€££! | ONLY GIVE THIS MEDICATION TO YOUR WORST ENEMY!!! | F | 61 | 6 weeks 1@day | 11/28/2014 | 1 | Onychomycosis | Many side effects, the worst of which has been loss of sense of taste. | In terms of side effects, there is not a way to know if you will have an adverse reaction before beginning treatment. Losing your sense of taste is devastating and occurs with enough frequency that it is not worth risking, especially given lack of hard data about when, or even if, you will recover the sense. I believe the risks far outweigh the benefits of this toxic medication. Other commenters have indicated they would rather live with the fungus than with losing one of their senses. | F | 47 days 250 mg 1X day | 11/26/2014 | 1 | Nail fungus | In the beginning I was dizzy and nauseated. Lasted two weeks. Then around day 27 I began getting the most intense stomach cramps, couldn't eat, and also had diarrhea. Dr told me to discontinue. | No nail improvement thus far. | F | 28 | 1 months 250 | 11/25/2014 | 2 | toenail fungus | Annoying skin rash and itching on neck, chest, back, arms and legs, but not on face, scalp, abdomen, buttocks, hands or feet. No other side effects. | I have had fungus in five toenails for a few years but Lamasil was too expensive. I took the generic equivalent (terbinafine) from Walmart for the prescribed three months with no side effects, but also no improvement. Two years later, a new doctor suggested I try it again, this time from Walgreens. No side effects or improvement for 6 weeks, but then rash and itching for the next 5 weeks. I will endure the last 2 weeks to give it a chance. I hear it works well in most cases, but so far I am disappointed. | M | 62 | 90 days 250mg 1X day | 11/23/2014 | 1 | nail fungus | Loss of taste ,depression | After taking 32 days loss of taste and horriblesalt water taste in mouth. Been off the drug for 28 days still living this nightmare. Cannot understand why I was not warned about this side affect. How long before taste returns. My advice would be to never take this medication. Not worth the anxiety and depression not having taste. | F | 68 | 1 months 250mg | 11/23/2014 | 1 | Toenail Fungus | Digestion Problems, Nausea, Diarrhea, Anxiety, Depression, | Have been on the medication for a while and would go through on & off anxious and depressive symptoms. Kept taking the medicine because I could see new nails coming in and could tell that it was working. Eventually my anxiety and depression got so bad one day I met with my doctor and was told to get off the medicine. Have now been off the medicine for the 6th day and the symptoms have finally gone away. What I thought and went through was not worth finishing out the final days. I had not ever felt these anxious and depressive feelings before taking this medicine. I would definitley recommend taking an alternative option. | M | 23 | 55 days 1X day | 11/21/2014 | 1 | toenail fungus | I have been off of the medication 94 days and the sense of taste has nearly returned to normal. None of the foods taste "bad" any more and my weight has returned to normal. I would say that the return of my taste sensations are 95% back to normal. Although the bad tastes are no longer present, I don't think that my tastes are as "keen" as they should be but the improvement has been steady and for that I am grateful. Hang in there folks, it seems that the tastes will return but that it just takes time. In my case, the healing time was nearly twice as long as the time that I was on the medication. | M | 64 | 63 days 250 mg 1X day | 11/16/2014 Patient History | 5 | Fungal Toenails | Loose stool, Headaches | I've had fungal toenails for over 10 years now, (believed to have gotten the infection from my father, who had awful feet) and at the age of 27 decided enough was enough. It wrecked my self esteem and I couldn't bring myself to wear sandals in the summer or get in the pool with friends because of how ugly my feet were and talk about a relationship killer. I had become skilled in filing them down and painting them so that on a quick glance you couldn't tell what my nails suffered from, but I couldn't do it anymore and decided the risks were worth it so I asked my doctor to put me on the treatment. I was so scared and read i think every review on the internet, fully expecting to have all the bad side effects like liver failure and loss of taste. I feel I have gotten lucky !!! My DR put me on a 3 month treatment, but I did my own sort of pulse method with one week on, one week off. So far out of 2 of the 3 bottles, I see pretty pink nails coming up even on my big toe which I was the most concerned about! It's working a LOT faster than I thought it would especially because my condition was so severe and toenails grow extremely slow, seemed even slower on the medication. The only side effects I have experienced so far is loose stool (tmi, but for the sake of the review I'm being honest) the entire time i've been on it and some really bad headaches. I chose to take my pills at night so that I'd hopefully sleep through most of the side effects, but would wake up each morning with a | F | 27 | 90 days 250 1X day | 11/15/2014 | 2 | toenail fungus | First days were ok but after 7 days I was feeling awful-achy muscles&joints,pains everywhere,lower back pain,v.strong headache,feeling sick and very dizzy.I had 2 glasses of wine in my second week of treatment and I wondered if alcohol+lamisil mix made me so unwell..stoped alcohol and still taking lamisil and Im feeling fine.cant see any improvement on my toenail but will continue for next 2 months unless liver function test(5 days time) shows any changes.. | F | 34 | 3 weeks 1x 250 mg | 10/28/2014 | 1 | Fungus toe | Started with massive headache after day 2, then elevated fever + continuous massive headache + beyond fatigue. Was literally paralysed in bed. Even moving in bed was extremely difficult not to say the least. Felt like poison. Unreal. | M | 38 | 5 days 250 | 10/28/2014 | 1 | white spot due to fungal infection | My white spot has become more visible | M | 21 | 6 days 1% | 10/22/2014 | 1 | Fungal infection | I had extreme stomach cramping and chills and body aches. | M | 40 | 6 days 250 mg | 10/17/2014 | 1 | Toe Nail Fungus | On the 7th day my face started breaking out around both sides of my nose. I am not prone to acne, but thought maybe it was something I ate. By the 13th day my entire face was broken out. My forehead had dots all over it and there was a butterfly type rash on my face. I think this pill stressed my liver out and it was unable to filter toxins out of my blood stream, so the body did it the next best way, through the skin. I had no appetite while on this pill and I would get waves of nausea throughout the day that came and went. | DO NOT TAKE THIS PILL. It's poison for your body. | F | 30 | 14 days 250 mg 1X day | 10/6/2014 | 1 | Toe fungus | Loss of taste after 30 days of use. can't taste anything! It's been 3 weeks and no taste. Horrible nightmare!!!! | F | 40 | 5 weeks 120 mg | 10/5/2014 |