PREVACID Reviews (LANSOPRAZOLE)

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PREVACID  (LANSOPRAZOLE):  Lansoprazole is used to treat certain stomach and esophagus problems (such as acid reflux, ulcers). It works by decreasing the amount of acid your stomach makes. It relieves symptoms such as heartburn, difficulty swallowing, and persistent cough. This medication helps heal acid damage to the stomach and esophagus, helps prevent ulcers, and may help prevent cancer of the esophagus. Lansoprazole belongs to a class of drugs known as proton pump inhibitors (PPIs).   FDA Approval Date: 1995-05-10 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)

  

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RATING  REASONSIDE EFFECTS FOR PREVACIDCOMMENTSSEXAGEDURATION/
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 5  Acid reflux I have experienced no side effects. If I take each day I don't have heartburn daily I would not be able to live a normal life if not for this drug M 54 3 years
30 1X day
4/16/2011
 1  nausea & vomiting SEVERE headache,dizziness,vision changes My son was having nausea/vomited once a week or every other week. His pediatrician put him on prevacid and now he is suffering from severe headache, vision changes, dizziness, and cannot function. He hasn't been to school in a week. We've been back to the doctor twice and specifically asked if these could be side effects from the prevacid and she acted like I was a moron. "No no we give prevacid all the time." Took him to the eye doctor. Two days ago I called the doctor back and said you HAVE to give him something for this headache. They told me to take him to the ER which I did. After describing his symptoms they immediately did an MRI. Negative (thankfully). I just found this web site and after reading through here and about the many many people who got severe headache from this drug I told him do not take your pill this morning. I now strongly believe that it is totally the prevacid that is causing these headaches an pray that he feels better very very soon (like today would be great.) I've been with the same pediatrician for 24 years but I will be changing doctors now. I would appreciate it if people would contact me and tell me how long after stopping the prevacid it was before their headaches went away. M 13 20 days
30mg 1X day
4/13/2011
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 5  Acid reflux None Prevacid is the only thing that worked for me. I can eat anything. Now taking generic Lansoprazole and it works just as well. M 65 11 years
30 1X day
4/5/2011
 1  gerd anxiety attacks - dizziness/light headedness - nausea will never take these again terrible nausea F 63 6 days
20 1X day
3/30/2011
 1  GERD Severe stomach pain, gastritis, anxiety, depression, dizziness, joint pain, insomnia, and low libido. Probably a lot more but these were the worse side effects. Pure hell to get off. I can't believe this is a legal drug. Doctors worship this drug.I was put on this drug to help me function throughout the day. Folks God gave us stomach acid for a reason. The lack of stomach acid is the issue not too much stomach acid. The doctors will tell you that it is all in your head but folks listen to your bodies. What you are experiencing is real. I believe later on in life there will be many people with cancer because of this drug. I wouldn't give this drug to my dog. Why did I keep taking it. Well I was diganosed with a small segment of BE of which they later reversed. Nevertheless I was scared because of the possiblities of it turning into cancer. For about a year I have had aweful side effects from this drug. Stomach pain was horrific. I kept taking it because I thought that it was my GERD. I was to scared to stop taking it because the massive rebound effect. Well the pain became so severe that I just quit taking it. Well the pain went away. Now I will have to suffer from the acid for about 6 weeks. The doctors made me feel stupid when I mentioned this to them. They said that this drug wouldn't cause these pains. Well they are wrong. Listen to your bodies. Feel free to e-mail me. M 40 1 days
30 2X day
3/26/2011
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 1  acid and the food would not digest blurry vision/vaginal itch went to the doctor not a yeast infection/ I used be very energetic now i have to take lots of breaks,constant fatigue. Muscle pain on my back behind my heart. weird never had that before. I exercise alot and i am in pretty good health other than my stomach digestion which started when i was in my 2os. Now this crazzzzzy side effects. When I was younger I loved to eat taco bell and all kinds of fast food. Then i would go to sleep after eating. Before allowing my body to digest any food, maybe thats what started it all. I use to take pepcid ac for years until that stopped working. Then I started on the prevacid it works great on my stomach as soon as i take it i feel a relief. . I dont feel a ball in my stomach any more. However, the side effects are horrrible and today is the last time that i will be taking this pill the side effects are terrible. I knew something was wrong but i could not pin point until i decided to look up prevacid side effects and i saw everyone elses comments. F 39 1 years
15 mg 1X day
3/14/2011
 1  H Pylori On prevpak for h pylori, suppose to take for 14 days, but stopped after day 6. On day 3 started feeling wierd pains in my arms and leg muscles, some tingling in my hands. Called my doc on day 4 about pain, he stated not the Prevacid and to see my GP. Trust your body and yourself, not your doc. I had a similar incident with Flagyl about 5 months ago, kept telling docs and they kept telling me to take and ended up int he hospital. Has anyone else had these pains and if so how long until they resolve? Tx M 47 6 days
30 mg 2X day
3/11/2011
 1  Nausea, hiatal hernia, GERD I am still having muscle pains in both legs and the achy feeling woke me up out of bed again afer the pain pill ( had to take oxycodone) wore off at 2 AM. I walked around and stretched my legs as well, and they still ache. It has been almost 48 hrs since my very last dose. Thankfully no more severe headaches. I just started taking aloe vera juice, inner fillet, to help my condition, mixing it with some pomegranate juice. I am feeling better GI wise, drinking more fluids to try to flush this Prevacid out of my system. My myalgia ( from the drug) has not gone away yet. *Oh and I eat bananas and have adequate potassium and other mineral intake. F 55
30mg 1X day
3/10/2011
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 2  DIagnosed with acid reflux I have been waking up and running to the bathroom with loose stools, have headaches and ringing in my ears. Was on Prilosec prior for about a week and had severe cramping and diahreah everything I ate seemed to go right through my system was told Sulfa in meds which I do not tolerate well woke me up in the middle of the night, after reading all this took my last one this AM - going to see how I feel and go back to pepto bismol and OTC stuff. I think every Dr who prescribes a drug should have to try it out first - nothing like a voice of experience! F 51 14 days
30 1X day
2/25/2011
 3  Reflux Esophagitis Irregular bowel movements. Constant diarrhea or constipation. Hip bone pain that stopped after taking prevacid. Possible eosinophillic/allergic esophagitis because it showed up on tests after being on it. Feeling strange/depersonalized at times. Sometimes I would get headaches. Helped relieve heartburn and acid reflux symptoms. Opened up my esophagus so I could eat more food. But I cannot deal with the side effects so I went off it and searched for alternatives. F 14 6 months
30mg 1X day
1/17/2011
 4  GERD I developed Shooting pain in My Laft Calf muscle for no reason. After day 20 the shooting was more frequent. It happend both during rest and walking. It was excrusiating pain (I am Neurologyist, God I even did nerve conduction test on my left leg, I checked my leg for DVT and all were normal). I finally and reluctantly stopped prevacid and after 2 days the shooting pain stopped. This was the only problem I had with prevacid but for people that have no problem with it, prevacid is one of the greatest med available. M 44 25 days
30 mg 1X day
1/15/2011
 1  heart burn acid reflux (pregnant) Blurry vision, spacy unfocused feeling, my mouth tastes like pennies, stomach cramps.Side effects stopped immediately after stopping medication works well on acid and heart burn definately not worth the side effects. F 33 6 weeks
15mg 2X day
1/6/2011
 1  GERD Just about every side effect people listed. This drug was TERRIBLE. (also Kapidex). Thought I was going to die on those. I will NEVER take those again. Prilosec was kinda bad too because of crazy joint pains and dizzyness but NOTHING compared to prevacid. Also tried other PPI's. Nexium gave me the least side effects out of all the PPI's. M 30 1 years
20 1X day
12/29/2010
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 1  Acid reflux, acute gastritis, duode Started taking 30mg of prevacid per day, and noticed stools were getting softer, looser, then got severe diarrhea every day for a few hours from early a.m to mid morning mostly. The stomach cramps that accompanied the diarrhea were horrible to say the least. I went to a new GI and she told me to up the dose to 60mg per day since my GERD was not resolved with 30mg. Besides the diarrhea, I felt nausea either way. Now I feel like this drug may have caused Colitis. I have mucus in my loose stool as well as tinged with blood. My intestines are inflamed and sore and not very happy--to say the least. I now need a colonoscopy. I stopped the Prevacid today and am very cautious and afraid the reflux symptoms will come back with a vengeance, but I will call this new doctor on Monday (today is Saturday) and ask for Aciphex in the interim until I figure what natural course to take. I was on Aciphex years ago and never had diarrhea like this before. Gotta be this drug doing this diarrhea for 2 weeks now. Hoping it goes away tomorrow. F 58 45 days
30mg 2X day
12/11/2010
 3  gerd Slight stomach pains and unpleasant feeling of being drugged. More difficult to think. Maybe a smaller dose would be appropriate. M 80 10 days
15 1X day
12/2/2010
 1  GERD anxiety, anxiety attacks, dizziness, headache I have been off of the medication for a little over a week now and I am still feeling the anxiety almost all day long. I was wondering if anyone could help me figure out how long the drug takes to completely leave your system. M 24 3 weeks
15mg 1X day
11/26/2010
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 3  GERD, hiatal hernia While it helped my pain and probably the GERD, it also caused major stomach upset when I had to take the high dose for 10 days. I had to refrain from eating if I was going anywhere that I might not be near a restroom. Once I reduced the dosage to 30 mgs once per day, it got a little better, but still have the stomach upset which is just driving me nuts. I think it helps some, but I think I am going to have to find something else that is not as tough on my stomach. I took Prilosec and it made me itch like crazy after being on it for 30 days. I will never take that again! We need something that will help what we take it for, not give us more side effects that we don't already have to deal with. F 57 10 days
30 2X day
11/20/2010
 2  GERD Headache, "spacey" feeling, anxiety, sleeplessness My Dr. had me try Pantaprozole (sp?) and that gave me a rash, heart racing and very scary anxiety. I stopped that for a week then he had me start Prevacid 15mg. I was a bit scared as the Pantaprozole really did a number on me. I took Prevacid every morning as directed, by the end of every day my head hurt so bad. I had a hard time keeping focused on anything, concentration was waaaaaaaaaay off. I don't know why science keeps making meds that people can't even FUNCTION on. It seems like allot of people here had the same experience I am having. So, that is it. I am done. No more of this stuff it's scary. F 44 2 weeks
15 1X day
11/18/2010
 4  Stomach pains Turned my teeth yellowish I've had stomach aches, and Prevacid has helped them. The only thing I don't like is it turns my teeth a yellowish color, but I have no other side effects. F 11 3 months
30 MG 1X day
11/4/2010
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 1  LPR Extreme. explosive, watery diarrhea. The diarrhea started after taking it for a month - it got so bad that I was afraid to not be near a bathroom. At night I would wake up and go about every hour. At first I thought I had a virus but after 10 days and then the stomach aches started, I knew it had to be something else. I had no fever or other symptoms and it finally dawned on me that the only thing new in my life was finding out I had silent reflux and started taking this drug. I stopped taking it 2 days ago and the diarrhea has stopped. Now have to ask the dr what I can take because I'm never taking this again. F 64 50 days
30 mg 1X day
10/28/2010

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