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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR PAXLOVID | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | Covid | Slight metallic taste, helps to take it with a lot of water. | My symptoms started on Monday, I tested positive for Covid on Tuesday. Because of my age (66) and the fact that I have asthma, my doctor prescribed Paxlovid. I took the first dose Thursday evening. After the second dose I started to feel much better, body aches were gone and the horrible congestion/runny nose was about 75% better. Unfortunately I still have a horrible cough. Some residual fatigue. Only side effect is a slightly metallic taste in my mouth. | F | 66 | 5 days 300mg 2X day | 2/9/2026 | 3 | Covid | Initally is helped the deep congestion in my upper chest almost after the first dose. Also the bitter taste everyone talks about but to me it was not horrible, its medicine. As time went on I had a deep pit in my stomach and espophageal tightness. After a few days it seemed to agitated my urinary tract and bladder. It got fairly bad with this so I stopped the medicine. I started some herbs I take to help UTI like heavy on d-Mannos, oreganol, olive leaf and Colloidal Silver. Also drank some Aloe Juice. I don’t know if it was a true UTI or side effects of irritated bladder due to Meds. | I am 70 and a petite women. I think the higher dose is too much. I took it to start but cut it back after a few doses. It did help my upper respriratory that was very socked in so I am thankful for that. It lowers the viral load and allows your body to fight the virus. I am thankful it is around but alas like most medicines, there are side effects and you rob peter to pay for paul. | F | 70 | 3 days 2X day | 5/10/2025 | 5 | covid | Put a horrible taste in my mouth for the 5 days I took it, but really knocked the covid down. I had covid once before and ended up with pneumonia and in the hospital so that is why I took it this time. I could feel the covid going into my upper respiratory and didn't want pneumonia again. Took it on the evening of day 4- because I was on vacation and just got home and zoom called my doctor. He prescribed and my husband went to get it. Was the quickest I could do it and it was very effective. | strange side effect-- I have a swollen knee that just blew up one day (two years ago) and have been trying different rheumatoid arthritis drugs since then. HCQ, then sulfasalazine. That is what I was taking when I got covid. Had to stop it because it interacts with Paxlovid. So while taking Paxlovid, my knee swelling went completely down! First time anything has worked for that in two years. Arthritis doctor does not think it's causal .... So no one will look into a virus being in my knee.. My primary care doc thinks it's interesting, but of course won't go against the RA doc. So... more immunosuppressants for me. Next stop.... methotrexate. | F | 58 | 5 days 2X day | 8/23/2024 | 3 | Covid | Bad taste in mouth and on day 3 diarrhea and dizziness | Helped fever and sore throat | F | 69 | 3 days 2 x day 2X day | 6/25/2024 | 3 | Covid | Horrible taste in mouth, fatigue, sweating, insomnia, dizziness, anxiety | My Covid symptoms didn't worsen, but these other side effects - not sure it's worth it | F | 65 | 5 days 150-100 2X day | 1/2/2024 | 1 | Positive for covid | I'm sitting up at 5:45 a.m. with racing thoughts, can't sleep-- haven't slept for 36 hours, bad taste in my mouth, horrible dry mouth, have to sip water every few minutes, then pee every 15 minutes, the dirrariah started about 4:00 this morning - after reading the reviews I was so relieved, I thought I was losing it emotionally-- crying, oh, then came the high pitched buzzing in my ears-- I don't know if that's from the covid or the medicine-- it's all too much-- I would NOT RECOMMEND THIS MEDICINE!!!!! | I HATE IT!!! | F | 68 | 5 days 100 mg 2X day | 1/2/2024 | 5 | Covid symptoms and positive test | Funky taste in my mouth, but was warned to expect it. Prompted tto drink lots of water and so I did. | I started having symptoms on a weds and took a test Thursday afternoon. I had high fevers (104+) and severe coughing and headaches. I saw the doctor on Friday and took my first dose Friday evening. Saturday morning I felt amazing! Paxlovid was very effective in my case. My recommendation is don't delay. If you have symptoms, test right away and contact your doctor. | M | 63 | 1 days 300mg-100m 2X day | 12/30/2023 | 1 | Positive Covid test and symptoms | Weakness in my legs to the point I could not stand up. Metal taste in mouth that made me throw up. Luckily, it made me throw up so I got the drug out of my system. After about 10 hours I was able to walk again. | Do not take!! | F | 53 | 1 times 100/300 1X day | 9/21/2023 | 4 | Covid | Very bad taste in my mouth. Diarrhea no appetite. After fives Covid test still positive. | It helped me. But coughing a lot short of breath when talking. Dry mouth. Fever went down. | F | 62 | 10 days 300mg 2X day | 9/16/2023 | 4 | Covid | Bitter taste in mouth, stomach discomfort, empty feeling but can't eat, no appetite, constant thirst dry mouth, a little dizzy loss of balance, diarrhea. | I just took the last dose this morning. The fever broke after the first dose so it appears to be effective. Mostly all of the Covid symptoms have cleared up (body aches, cough, congestion, runny nose, headache, eye ache, fever) except for extreme fatigue and weakness. | F | 65 | 5 days 300 mg 2X day | 7/17/2023 | 1 | Covid | Horrible taste in mouth is the wrist thing you could imagine. Got so hot like on fire, packed with ice packs that barely helped. My actual body temp was down to 87 degrees but I was still burning hot Also feeling major anxiety or panicky. I do not have anxiety normally Is never suggests this. Only took 3 doses. | DO NOT TAKE IT | F | 58 | 1 days 2X day | 5/16/2023 | 1 | Covid | Horrible taste; dizziness; lightheaded; extremely anxious; racing thoughts | Absolutely horrible. I would rather have Covid. | F | 40 | 3 days 1X day | 4/15/2023 | 2 | Long Covid symptoms | Bitter taste | M | 35 | 8 days 2X day | 3/23/2023 | 2 | COVID positive | Guess I was lucky, as my reaction to Paxlovid seems mild compared to the other reviews. Absolutely horrible taste in mouth, and it’s now two months since I took this medicine. Did have mild chest pains and still not back to my sleep routine. Awakened many times with extreme anxiety. | I would not recommend this medication. I know I’m in a high risk group because of my age, but all I had was a severe sore throat when I tested positive. All these other side effects from the Med don’t outweigh the sore throat. Think I could have ridden this out without all these lingering side effect. Thinking the horrible taste was due to sinus infection or teeth, I have been to my ENT, two of my dentists (regular and Endodontics, my regular doctor, and my gastroenterologist, thinking the taste was GERD. This has cost me lots of money, not to mention a lot of stress. Would not recommend this med. | F | 76 | 5 days 30 mg 2X day | 3/15/2023 | 1 | Covid | Severe nausea, horrible metallic taste, extreme weakness arms and legs and splitting headache. I am done with this. | Dont want covid but this is horrible. | F | 64 | 2 days 30 mg 2X day | 3/8/2023 | 3 | to reduce the severity of covid | I had the same side effects others have mentioned, the gut pain, diarrhea, nasty taste in mouth, insomnia, body aches, joint pain. AND depression. I had covid a year ago before paxlovid was an option, and none of this happened then. | I cut the dose back to less than half of what was prescribed--I'm hyper sensitive to medication and often have to go with a half dose. This made most of the side effects manageable, and it still speeded up the departure of covid. Being female and over 65 also often means a person needs a lower dose, but there's no way they've had time to tease all that out yet with this very new medication. My biggest complaint is the emotional effects. I've been off the drug 36 hours now and still feel discouraged, depressed, even close to despair at times. Physically, covid is gone--my body feels well. But I've never had a medication yank my emotions around in this way. It's something to be aware of. | F | 66 | 5 days 150/100 mg 1X day | 3/6/2023 | 1 | Tested positive with covid | Can't take the pain in my stomach and the metallic tastes tastes in my mouth and it's very painful to swallow sould I go to the hospital | F | 57 | 3 days 300-100MG 2X day | 3/5/2023 | 4 | Omicron Covid | I still have 3 days to go but the horrible migraine is now a slight headache. It does leave a nasty taste. Just hope it kills the virus! | F | 58 | 2 days 2X day | 2/28/2023 | 1 | Positive covid test | I felt extremely nauseous immediately after taking first dose, then the nasty metallic taste which did not go away. Insomnia, diarrhea, non stop nausea and the horrible metallic taste. | I took 1 1/2 days of Plaxovid and will not take it anymore. | F | 70 | 1 days 100mg 2X day | 2/15/2023 | 1 | Covid 19 positive | Bad medicine taste in the back of my throat, made my symptoms more onset | 35 | 1 days 100 1X AN | 1/31/2023 |
(NIRMATRELVIR; RITONAVIR): The combination of nirmatrelvir and ritonavir is used to treat coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 infection) caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus in adults and children 12 years of age and older who weigh at least 88 pounds (40 kg) who have mild to moderate symptoms and are at risk of severe disease that could result in hospitalization or death. Nirmatrelvir is in a class of medications called antivirals. It works by stopping the virus from spreading in the body. Ritonavir is in a class of medications called pharmacokinetic boosters. It works by increasing the amount of nirmatrelvir available in the body so that the medication will have a greater effect. Was approved in October 2023 after being used under FDA emergency use authorization. (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)