ARTHROTEC Reviews (DICLOFENAC SODIUM; MISOPROSTOL)Average Rating: 2.7 (182 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare ARTHROTEC with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ARTHROTEC | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | osteoarthritis of my thumbs & back | This medicine completely relieves my thumb pain, and really helps with my back pain. BUT, it makes my stomach hurt soooo bad that I'm not sure what is worse. I only use it when my thumbs hurt so bad I want to cry. Then I put up with the stomach pain. It also give you diarrhea but I can handle that. | F | 52 | 3 months | 12/8/2002 | 5 | Sore toe | No side affects | This pill works like magic to releive my arthritic pain! I don't take it regularly, only when required - approximately once per month. | M | 55 | 3 months | 9/28/2003 | 1 | for arthritis | I developed severe abdominal pains, severe welts all over my legs from feet up to knees, swelling of throat, rapid heart beat and headaches. | F | 65 | 20 days | 10/31/2004 | 1 | sore toe | I had diarrhea, severe abdominal pain which was constant for 4 hours straight, vomiting, trembling, dizziness, nausea. Arthrotec seemed to induce my menstrual cramps and cause the pain to be severe. | I would not recommend this drug to anyone, especially since I have never had such an adverse reaction to any other medication. Also, I would caution women not to take this medication while menstruating, since one side effect can be severe menstual pain. | F | 31 | 1 days | 11/30/2004 | 4 | Sore coccyx | Abdominal cramps, flatulence, gas, bloating. Cramps would start within 15 minutes of taking pill, even during meals. | Reduced coccyx pain but the cramps and bloating were very uncomfortable. | M | 53 | 12 days | 1/18/2005 | 4 | Sore arm | My urine is bloody, I have got canker sores the size of golf balls, my face is falling off. It hurts. | My arm feels better. But my face...its falling off. | F | 54 | | 1/25/2005 | 4 | Arthritis in my back | The day after I started taking it, I had a little vaginal bleeding in spite of being menopausal for 10 years. I had been using Estrace for several months but had not had bleeding from the Estrace alone | My back does feel better, not 100% OK, but probably 60%. | F | 58 | 3 days | 1/29/2005 | 2 | hip pain | The pill eliminated all pain I felt in my hip, but it was hard on my stomach. On my 10th day of medication, I experienced vaginal bleeding. This scared me because it was two weeks after my normal period. | There is something really fishy about this drug. I do not advise anyone to take it as there are many adverse side effects. | F | 36 | 12 days | 2/13/2005 | 5 | knee pain | No side effects, but I always add acidophilous to my diet with any anti-inflammatories or antibiotics | I am only taking 75 mg a day and it is wonderful for relieving all of my aches and pains | F | 55 | 3 weeks | 4/6/2005 | 5 | knee pain | No side effects, but I always add acidophilous to my diet with any anti-inflammatories or antibiotics | I am only taking 75 mg a day and it is wonderful for relieving all of my aches and pains | F | 55 | 3 weeks | 4/6/2005 | 4 | Lower back and joint pain | Heavy, extended bleeding during menstruation | works good on back pain | F | 49 | 14 days | 4/28/2005 | 3 | lowr back degeneration, severe pain | Extremely heavy menstral cycles, fatigue, slow healing & clotting. If I miss a day, headaches begin to creep in. | Tried many others, this seemed to work best for quite some time. No day is pain free, though. Not bad on stomach - always take w/ milk or food. This is genetic for me, so NSAIDs will be in my life for a while....but fear long-term use of this one. | F | 36 | 10 months | 5/22/2005 | 1 | spinal pain | Experienced excruciating, unusual abdominal pain (bowel, uterine) and lower back pain for about 5 hours after taking (including diarrhea 6 times), and heart palpitations and vaginal bleeding for about a day after taking. | I took with 2 aspirin (which I've since learned is contraindicated) and some fruit. This may be the reason for problems in my case. I will not take it again as the pain was extreme, but others should be cautious to take with lots of food and no aspirin. | F | 43 | 1 days | 5/31/2005 | 4 | RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS | more frequent menstral periods (twice a month) | Works but can realy tell how good it works when I had to go off of it. | F | 31 | 1.5 years | 7/6/2005 | 5 | arthrits in ankle and knee | frequent heartburn | take it once a day and it works very well on the pain. | M | 32 | 4 years | 7/15/2005 | 1 | artharidis in my knee | Disorentatation,trouble brathing, extreme hot, redness and swelling, itching, later abominal cramps. All this came all sudden in couple of minutes. | I had been taking arthrotec before for my knee pain and it helped me a lot. I only had 10-12 pills left from last March when I had a cortisone shot and my knee pain went away. | F | 59 | 1 years | 11/30/2005 | 3 | ankylosing spondylitis | For the first 8 days of ever taking it, the only side effect was a similar feeling you get when you have an empty stomach and light nausea that lasted for no more that 30 minutes After 8 days, the feeling elevated to an annoying sharp pain in my stomach. Then two days later, I had to stop using it because the pain was becoming unbearable. Now I have been off for two days and I still have the stomach pain. | Aside from the stomach pain, it worked miracle on my nighttime spinal pain. Now I have to see my doctor again to see if I should keep taking it. I tried Naprosyn just before and had to stop taking it for the same reasons. | M | 38 | 10 days | 12/3/2005 | 1 | frozen shoulder | I have vaginal bleeding, my cycle was back (I'm menopausal ), breast pain Other symptoms I have: erithema, my skin is so dry I have little cuts on my hands, I 'm sweating a lot (usually I don't), pruritus ani etc. | I took it 3 times: the first for 3 days, then I stopped because it didn't make great improvements and I had diarrhea. My doctor told me the symptoms had to go away after taking few more Second time: I took other 3 pills in 3 days. little improvement with the pain. I had the first vaginal bleeding, a lot of pruritus and my skin was all red but I didn't know it was arthrotec/ My doctor prescribed me a topical cream , did some a vaginal test to exclude infections. I had my cycle The last one for 4 days. More problems and this time I had the ideo to go on Internet and I discovered I had a lot of the side effects by taking Arthrotec Why they don't tell you about them? | F | 50 | 10 days | 2/3/2006 | 1 | frozen shoulder | I have vaginal bleeding, my cycle was back (I'm menopausal ), breast pain Other symptoms I have: erithema, my skin is so dry I have little cuts on my hands, I 'm sweating a lot (usually I don't), pruritus ani etc. | I took it 3 times: the first for 3 days, then I stopped because it didn't make great improvements and I had diarrhea. My doctor told me the symptoms had to go away after taking few more Second time: I took other 3 pills in 3 days. little improvement with the pain. I had the first vaginal bleeding, a lot of pruritus and my skin was all red but I didn't know it was arthrotec/ My doctor prescribed me a topical cream , did some a vaginal test to exclude infections. I had my cycle The last one for 4 days. More problems and this time I had the ideo to go on Internet and I discovered I had a lot of the side effects by taking Arthrotec Why they don't tell you about them? | F | 50 | 10 days | 2/3/2006 | 1 | Back spasms | Within 5 minutes of taking drug, developed severe colon and uterine cramping. Cold sweat, fainting, heart palpitations. | Will never use again or recommend | F | 39 | 1 days | 2/19/2006 |