PREVPAC Reviews (AMOXICILLIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; LANSOPRAZOLE; LANSOPRAZOLE)Average Rating: 2.6 (52 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare PREVPAC with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR PREVPAC | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | H Pylori | Headaches, chest pains, stomach pains, dizziness, extreme anxiety and depression, fatigue, insomnia. Blurred vision | I was on this for 14 days for h pylori, finished it completely took dosages at the same time everyday.Followed strict diet no fried foods, sugar, caffeine, bread etc. went back had breath test done still tested positive!! I'm now on it again with much stronger doses and added peptio. I'm on day 4. This second treatment is even worse than the first. I feeling like I'm dying a slow and painful death. God bless anyone out there that takes this. I'm praying that when i finish this treatment it will be gone for sure!!! Screw Prevpac and H Pylori!!!!! | F | 34 | 2 weeks | 11/10/2016 | 1 | H.pylori | UPDATE ON THE REVIEW POSTED YESTERDAY (10/10/16) SEVERE NAUSEA, MIGRAINE HEADACHE AND LOSS OF APPETITE, CANT SLEEP | I am on day 5 of 7 AND AS OF TODAY I AM NOT TAKING THIS MEDICATION AGAIN. It is literally killing me, i am sat in bed day and night crying in pain (stomach, intestines, back), feeling nauseous and no appetite at all. I thought I was gonna be hospitalised this morning when I woke up with severe nausea and panging stomach pains. GP didn't do anything much either when I called, apart from upping my dose of Lansoprazole from 30MG to 40MG to relieve heartburn (which doesn't work) Im wasting my time and I'm going into serious depression and can't stop crying whenever I think about the medication! I've lost 4KG since starting this treatment due to my lack of appetite and I am just rotting away in bed. I need to physically eat but i physically can't! I'm literally like a sack of bones right now, and it's scaring me and making me depressed and suicidal I have uni and work to go to, but this medication has ruined my life and I can't even get out the house I'd rather suffer with acid reflux and h pylori than go through this murderous treatment!!! Stopped taking the medication today and I can still feel my stomach and intestines groaning in pain, going to sleep hoping I wake up feeling better. I will stick to home remedies from now on to cure my acid reflux, nausea and lack of appetite. Ruined my life | F | 20 | 7 days 2X A DAY | 10/11/2016 | 1 | H.Pylori | Nausea 95% of the time, severe abdominal and instestinal cramps, acid reflux, loss of appetite and weight, gas in digestive system that cant come out | Worst 7 days of my life.... Worst medication I've ever taken, not sure it's even cured my H.pylori since it was so horrible. Combination of Lansoprazole, amoxicillin and metronidazole (or clarithromycin for some people) Im on day 5, too late to give up, im already at my worst so I'm going to carry on and hoping for the best. | F | 20 | 7 days 2X a day | 10/10/2016 | 1 | h.pylori | nausea, bad taste in mouth, diarrhea sleeping only 2 to 4 hours. | feeling so bad that I am unable to do anything. Stomach feels full and weird. Cannot eat much of anything. Eating yogurt to try to help with symptoms. I hope I can finish the medication. | F | 67 | 10 days normal 2X day | 3/11/2016 | 1 | H Pylori/Ulcer | Severe sharp pains in stomach, nausea, loss of appetite, dizziness after the 2nd day. Gas build up that i could not pass. I felt like i completely lost the ability to get food down after just the first dosage. Depression and anxiety seemed to come hand in hand with this. | I could not finish the prevpac. I stopped eating completely. Food just got harder to swallow each time i took it. After the 4th day of not eating, i lost most strength in my legs. The stomach pain was so intense that it sometime spread to my chest. On day 4 i was taken to the hospital where they had to give me fluids and advised to stop the medication. About two months later i don't have heart burn anymore (before prevpac,my heartburn was intense), but my discomfort in my stomach never went away, now having bad digestive problems. I absolutely hated this medication. | F | 17 | 3 days | 9/11/2015 | 1 | h pylori | Only withstood this murder cocktail for seven days . Almost killed me worst week of my life. Loss of appetite and worse the ppi side effect bring constant hunger pangs | M | 40 | 7 days | 11/28/2014 | 1 | H Pylori | Bad metal taste in mouth, stomach pains the morning of the second day, tremors and anxiety the night of the first day, just an overall awful feeling when taking this medication | I normally do have some anxiety, but on this medication it was worse. I've only taken 2 doses, one full day of this medication, but I'm ready to quit. I wouldn't take this medication during a stressful time. Be prepared to take it easy for 2 weeks and feel like crap. | F | 21 | 14 days 2X day | 7/19/2014 | 1 | H pylori | Sucked so much | M | 15 | 7 days | 3/28/2014 | 1 | Back pain, headaches, pounding heart, loss of breath, weakness. I stopped using this after the 2nd day I felt weak and at risk. | F | 16 | 1 days | 7/16/2013 | 1 | Unidentified gastro infection | Nausea, watery diarrhea, mood swings, chest pains, headache, nightmares, odd taste in mouth, loss of appetite. | Was told to take this for 7 days due to an infection that wasn't named clearly to me by any doctor. Was to take an hour before food. Two hours after the first dose, the nausea and diarrhea came. After two days, I had to stop taking it because I physically couldn't eat. Turns out most of my nausea from before I started taking the antibiotics was simply IBS. | F | 21 | 7 days 2X day | 6/6/2013 | 1 | H Pylori | Loose stool, peeing a lot, constant nausea that would last for hours, stomach distress, digestive distress, slight Thrush. On my fifth dose I woke up from sleep with my heart pounding through my chest. Heart rate was normal, but heart was POUNDING, and as a result, two hours later, I am extremely anxious. | I have to admit, I've been extremely hesitant about taking PrevPac, but I went ahead and did it anyway. Even after my insurance kicked in, PrevPac was $128 and change, and I don't like wasting that much money, because honestly, I don't have $128 to waste, but before I went to sleep this morning, I messaged my doctor, told him of the side affects, went to sleep, and woke up with the pounding heart in my chest. I'm not sure how to react to it, but to be weirded out and extremely anxious! I'm going to call into work because of it! | M | 37 | 3 days 2X day | 11/16/2012 | 1 | H-Pylori | First day, took first pack in the morning, having dizziness. I thought because I had high blood pressure but unusual dizzyness and spining and around 2:00PM ,Pain started from My right side back neck and shoulder then thrigh Arm and upper side of both chest burning pain and pressure-again. I called my freind as I was very scare if as heart attack symptom and I called my friend -he said because I have too much stress at work and anxiety. I had very distubing sleep like palpitain on my chest on upper side center. 2nd day, dizzyness , neck and shoulder pain do not disapear.I thought maybe I got weak from stress then again around 2~3 pm that chest burning pain with pressure for about 40Min. 3rd day, I had strange bitter mouth taste started and still dizzy, light headed, neck and shoulder pain , Arm weakness still there. It was hard to carry even my hand bag. both arm just drop down. No chest pain that day.Sleeping problem Forth day, still dizzy, light head andstarted light conf | Now, I understand, all these sickness and feels like I am getting heart attack and gives life threathning -emotional problem was because of PREVPAC side effect which could be fetal. I will not take tonight package and tomorrow one which is the last one out of 14 daysx 2D. I really regreat that why didn't I research earlier then I did not have to go through all those scary symptom and be patient with anxiety. It could've put me into deadly situation. I am glad I know what was the reason and even if this symptom contiuously happen, ( I saw on Med. research, these symptom can continue weeks to a year). I will discuss with my MD DR.next week as I have an appointment on next Wednesday. It IS horrible medicine. They should not even place this in the medication markets--fetal madication--PREVPAC!!! | F | 45 | 13 days 30/500/500 2X day | 6/23/2012 | 1 | H. Pylori | anxiety, rising heart rate, tried, weak, Really bad acid reflux | I went to the doctor for my sour stomach and my doctor did blood test for H. Pylori and it came positive. She prescribed Prevpac. After taking it for two days, I developed all the side effects, especially anxiety and acid reflux. The PPI comes with Prevpac doesn't help the acid reflux at all. I stopped and feel so much better now | F | 36 | 2 days | 8/20/2008 | 1 | H. Pylori, Heartburn | I had all listed side effects plus some of my own. Listed side effects: Diarrhea, Headaches, Taste distortion. Unlisted side effect: my heartburn got much worse - it went totally out of control. I had acid in my mouth. My doctor insisted on me to continue. After 5 days I started coughing up blood - because of irritated esofagus. I stopped taking it. | I know that my side effect is not typical. But before taking this medication my heartburn was not that bad - infrequent and totally under control. After taking Prevpac I still cannot sleep - because my mouth is full of acid and that bitter taste is everywhere. I am taking only Prilosec now trying to control it. | F | 33 | 5 days | 5/21/2006 | 1 | bacteria in stomache | would not advise anyone to take it .causes bad things to happen to you | F | 60 | 2 months | 2/2/2004 | 2 | H pylori | Stomach unease, slight vomiting, anxiety/insomnia, bro this sh*t woopin my ass | Tested positive for h pylori so I had to do PREVPAC, worst part of my life tbh. The stomach uneasiness makes it extremely hard to sleep and I've started feeling more anxious than usual. And I cant eat much without cannabis, as well as shaking through the night with tremors/anxiety unable to fall asleep. Gosh it feels like hell. Typing this now as my first dose of the day kicks my stomach in half. | M | 18 | 5 days Idk 2X day | 9/19/2021 | 2 | H pylori | Stomach unease, slight vomiting, anxiety/insomnia, bro this shit woopin my ass | Tested positive for h pylori so I had to do PREVPAC, worst part of my life tbh. The stomach uneasiness makes it extremely hard to sleep and I've started feeling more anxious than usual. And I cant eat much without cannabis, as well as shaking through the night with tremors/anxiety unable to fall asleep. Gosh it feels like hell. Typing this now as my first dose of the day kicks my stomach in half. | M | 18 | 5 days Idk 2X day | 9/19/2021 | 2 | H.pylor | Headache, metallic taste in my mouth, earache, pounding heart beats, | I am on day 5, I feel so horrible, I am ever tired I just can't wait to get over this. I was hoping the meds will somewhat help with the pain but nothing | F | 25 | 14 days 2X day | 11/6/2020 | 2 | Hpylori | Crushing headache, abdominal spasms, nausea, vomiting, horrible change in taste, full body weakness, shortness of breath when walking short distances, excess fatigue | Saw my pcp for excess gas and abdominal spasms. Started the 14 day treatment. Ok first 4 days with only liking nausea and the awful change in taste. By day 5 I woke up with a crushing headache, nausea with vomiting, full body weakness, and shortness of breath walking short distances. Doctor is having me stop for 48 hours with plan to change regimen if symptoms go away. Scared about not completing the 14 days, but also can’t function and doctor is instructing my to. Hope we all kick this thing!! | F | 46 | 4 days | 1/22/2020 | 2 | H pylori | Im on day 8, symptoms started around day 4....rushing chest pain, back and shoulder pain,stomach cramping, generalized fatigue | I am seriously considering stopping, don't know if I can take it another week | F | 42 | 14 days 2X day | 5/6/2017 |
PREVPAC (AMOXICILLIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; LANSOPRAZOLE; LANSOPRAZOLE): This product is used to treat stomach/intestinal ulcers caused by the bacteria H. pylori and to prevent the ulcers from returning. Treating an ulcer reduces the risk of serious damage to the lining of the stomach/intestines (such as bleeding, tearing, blockage). Lansoprazole is known as a proton pump inhibitor (PPI). It works by blocking acid production in the stomach. Decreasing excess stomach acid can help the ulcer heal. Amoxicillin and clarithromycin are antibiotics used to treat a wide variety of bacterial infections (including H. pylori). Treating the infection helps reduce the risk of the ulcer returning. Amoxicillin is a penicillin-type antibiotic and clarithromycin is a macrolide-type antibiotic. They work by stopping the growth of bacteria. The antibiotics in this product treat only bacterial infections. Antibiotics do not work for viral infections (such as common cold, flu). Using any antibiotic when it is not needed can cause it to not work for future infections. FDA Approval Date: 1997-12-02 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)