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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR INDOMETHACIN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | Pleurisy | Well, the first night I had extreme night sweats but I only experienced that the first night. I've taken the advice from other posts and have always taken it directly after a full meal, not snacks. I've even pushed myself to eat more than a snack for a fear that I would experience what other people have. Suprisingly, I'm not drowsy but quite the opposite, I cannot get to sleep. When I do fall asleep, I seem to be groggier in the morning. As far as mood goes, I've been dealing with a lot of depression lately and since taking this, I've been in a really good mood. Not sure if it's the medicine or this added energy. Beats me. I'd have to say that I'm pretty happy with the drug so far. | It's doing what I need it to. | F | 37 | 5 days 25 3X day | 11/6/2011 | 3 | Shoulder rotator cup pain | Slight swelling aroung the calf and lower ankle. Slight increase in ringing of the ears. Tired. | According to the Dr. this pain RA associated pain. At this dosage it dulls my pain enough that I can do my exercises but based upon the the expected long term side effects I am discontinuing it. Perhaps if my pain gets worse I'll resort to it as a last resort. | M | 63 | 12 days 25MG 2X day | 10/11/2011 | 1 | Gout | I just got out of the ER after 3 hours. I took this medicine for gout, promptly drank two cups of coffee, and then 1 hour later went from being perfectly fine to slowly feeling detached from reality. My heart began racing irregularly and I was pouring in sweat. I grabbed my cell phone and couldn't remember how to operate it to make a call. At this point I decided I needed to call 911 figuring something had happened inside my brain such as a busted blood vessel. Mind you I'm 39 years old and never had any major health issues. As I focused on dialing 911, I noticed my hand started involuntarily shaking violently. I then managed to dial 911 and then walked over to the door to open it up for the EMT as I didn't think I'd be conscious before they could get to me. I then sat down focusing all my energy on not passing out. The EMTs finally arrived and took me to ER where I was stabilized 3 hours later. I need to check in with my regular doctor in the next few days, but this medicine | Will never take it again! | M | 39 | 1 weeks 30 2X day | 10/3/2011 | 5 | Gout | Lightheaded, diarrhea | Miracle drug! Despite side effects it allows me to continue my life when I have a Gout attack. Without indocin, I can't sleep or function after a gout attack. Colchicine is no help. Also, hydration helps prevent Gout attack. | M | 47 | 5 days 50 3X day | 9/4/2011 | 3 | I was taking this medication for gout. The pain seemed to lesson, but for some odd reason, it gave me panic attacks. I had never experienced panic attacks before. I would sit and think and in my mind, Doomsday could occur at any moment. My body would go numb and i would sit and worry about everything. My first day doing it, I thought it was just me. The second day I took it, same thing happened. Third day, I had to go to work while taking it. I ended up having to have the company call me a cab home. I could not drive. I kept having the feeling of losing control of everything at any given second. | M | 40 | 3 days 50 MG 3X day | 8/14/2011 | 5 | Ankylosing Spondylitis | Chronic fatigue. Anxiety/panic attack if not taken with a full meal. | This is a powerful anti-inflammatory, but it works best for my severe spine arthritis. Originally my Rheumatologist prescribed 50 mg three times per day which was too much for my body. The first week on this drug, I had to call an ambulance because I thought I was having a heart attack or dying. It turned out to be a panic attack from this drug. We lowered the dosage to the minimum that still controls my inflammation/pain. I am so grateful for this drug, despite the side effects because I would be crippled without it. | F | 36 | 2 years 25mg 3X day | 6/28/2011 | 4 | Seronegative Spondyloarthropathy | Rarely sudden brief dizziness, fatigue, anxiety, exfoliative dermatitis & other skin problem,rarely tachycardia | I have been taking 75 mg (SR) daily for my pain. It has given me considerable relief. I have been suffering from this disease for the last 15 years. I was not getting much relief from pain till I was prescibed Indomethacin 75 mg per day. Though much damage has occurred to my spine, I can still go to work. To minimise side affects,I am taking organic multi-vitamin-mineral supplements ( Nutrilite from Amway).These supplements , I believe, are keeping me safe from other damaging/fatal side affects of this drug.To my fellowe users, please read "Secrets of Supplements" by Gloria Askew, RRN & Jerre Paquette, PHD, to know more about prolonging your life despite using this potentially fatal drug. | M | 49 | 4 years 75 mg 1X day | 6/28/2011 | 4 | Ankle arthritis | Some abdominal cramps at first use, not too bad recently. | I use it weekly, for pain management. One day, 4 pills, and then no use for several days until pain gets bad again. I'm trying to avoid or postpone the need for an ankle fusion. Taking with food and lots of water reduces the cramping. | M | 58 | 6 months 25 4X day | 6/24/2011 | 4 | Paroxysmal Hemicrania | Blood pounding through ears and head, stiff neck, canker sores (?), slight dizziness 10-15 minutes after taking pill | This medicine has drastically reduced the frequency of my horrible headaches, but it does not block or fix smaller tension or stress headaches. When I first started this med. I would feel tightness in my chest for about 15 minutes, and then it would relax. This doesn't happen anymore. Now, I still sometimes have trouble with the sound and feeling of blood pulsing up into my head - very uncomfortable but usually goes away after I fall asleep, though sometimes this takes a long time. I had about 2 months of chronic canker sores on gums and tongue, but this may or may not have been caused by the drug, I'm not sure. They aren't occurring right now and I'm still taking the med. Overall it has been helpful. When the big headaches come it blocks the majority of the pain, but my body still goes through the headache so I still experience neck stiffness, vision changes, sensitivity to light and sound, nausea and vomiting and the need to sleep for much longer than usual. I have also experienced some weight gain while on this drug because it must be taken with a meal, not just a snack. I space out the times when I take it to cover as much of the waking day as possible, so I wind up eating 6-7 small meals each day. Is difficult when the last meal is at 10pm each night. | F | 37 | 4 months 75 4X day | 6/16/2011 | 4 | Gout | No serious side effects. The first pill made me feel slightly light headed for about an hour. I think the key with this drug is to take it with a full meal..not a snack in my opinion. | Noticed mild pain relief after first pill. After first full day (3 pills) redness/stiffness/swelling was noticeably better. Pain reduced significantly (thank god). After 4 days the gout attack was ended. | M | 30 | 50mg 3X day | 4/19/2011 | 4 | Chronic Migraines | I use this medication to get rid of migraines once they've started. It works amazingly quick in ending the migraine BUT...I get incredibly dizzy, nauseous, and feel like I'm incredibly high and feel like I'm slowly fading away or falling down, which makes walking difficult. I do eat w/it, but the side effects are a constant either way. | It works great for migraines ...especially since I've tried several medications for this disorder. However, for first time users, I would recommend NOT taking this before needing to leave your house for work or school or something. The first time I took it I had to leave work and was hit so badly with disorientation I considered calling 911 at one point. | F | 26 | 3 months 75 1X AN | 3/22/2011 | 4 | Gout | I didn't have any side effects. | The bad pain went away about 36 after starting the meds. I have taken it for a week and can still feel a little pain. | M | 48 | 10 days 50mg 3X day | 3/14/2011 | 5 | chronic paroxysmal hemicrania | Dizziness if I don't eat something with it. | It's AMAZING! I've had chronic debilitating headaches for 8 years. Doctors thought it was tmj, migraine, etc. until I finally saw a newrologist who prescribed this! It's a wonder drug for me and has completely got rid of my headaches which were severe, debilitating stabbing pains in my right cheekbone, several times a day for 30 mins at a time. I thought it was hopeless. This drug has changed my life. | F | 32 | 21 days 50mg 2X day | 2/20/2011 | 4 | GOUT | Headache, diarhia, breathing difficulty, blood pressure issues as it made a heart beating like sound in my ears, worsened my tinnitus, pretty much rendered me useless by the 3rd day on it. I was very dizzy from the start of takng it until 2 days after I stopped taking it. I also have pain in left side of my chest which I did not have before | This med did work for the pain of gout. gve me very unpleasant and very scary side effects. I was bedbound by the 2nd day using it and stopped on day 3 after a very loud beating or whirring sound appeared in my ears. Dr. said it was from blood pressure perhaps. I was not supposed to take this smed because of my asthma but they gave it to me anyways, why i do not know? | F | 47 | 3 days 50 MG 3X day | 2/12/2011 | 1 | gout | After about 25 minutes of taking one pill, I became very disoriented and dizzy, could not move from my chair and had significant trouble breathing normally. It was so scary that I decided to get my phone handy to call 911, though I had trouble getting up from my computer to get to the phone. After 15 minutes of trying to concentrate on breathing and deciding whether or not to call 911, I slowly made it 20 paces or so to unlock my door in case paramedics needed to enter my house. After sitting for over an hour concentrating on not blacking out, and still contemplating calling 911, I finally began to feel like I could walk. It is now 4 hours later and I still feel a quite dizzy and hazy, though my breathing is nearly normal. I am calling my MD to inform him of this response, and am throwing away the rest of this prescription. Please consider an alternative to this medication! | F | 55 | 1 days 50 mg. 1X day | 2/9/2011 | 5 | Gout in right toe joints and ankle | I used to have mild upsets with stomach, and felt slight anxiety | I have been taking this drug on and off for 10 years. I would at times feel sick in the stomach, heart beating faster and also mild anxiety. I realised that the trick is to have a proper meal, ie - such as rolled oats, with bannana and honey, and then directly take the indomethacin straight after. The same applies with lunch, and dinner. I used to just have a glass of milk or a yogurt, which resulted in the side effects. The way I see it, is that if the medication is slowly released into your system by having a big meal underneath it, I have no problems. I just had a terrible episode of gout for 3 weeks. My big toe and ankle looked deformed!and the pain!! I thought I would try natural alternatives - cherries, cherrie juice, celery seed in captule form, different types of water, lime juice, lemon juice and nothing worked. I have just had my third indomethacin capsule, and no pain, swelling gone down and feel fine! Remember- Full meal before taking. Sit upright for half an hour after taking. Stay off coffee, caffine while taking Stay cool if you can. Drink plenty of water while on this med. I've had no problems since doing this for the last five years when needing this med, it is a life saver!! | M | 43 | 10 years 75mg 1X day | 1/26/2011 | 5 | pleurisy, inflammatory pain | I feel drowsy and dizzy from 30 minutes after the dose and lasting 2 hours. I have anxiety, but indocin "drowsy" feeling actually kills the anxiety for me, which is a positive side effect. But try to plan not driving for a couple of hours. I have tinnitus all the time, and I think indocin might make it worse. But relief from pain is the trade off that makes it worth while. | I do not take indocin every day, to try to minimize any side effects. It is the ONLY med that works for my pain and achyness. It works when MORPHINE does not work. My son has a kidney disease, which is why I don't take it regularly, I am afraid of kidney side effects and I want to be able to donate a kidney if need be (I hope and pray I don't have to, but that is my fear) | F | 47 | 5 years 50 1X day | 1/23/2011 | 2 | Moderate Back Pain | I had a moderate backache and saw this pill in my bag and it said "for pain" in the packaging. I previously took this when I had a gout attack thats why I have it. It was my mistake to take this drug (2 pills of 25mg) without a proper meal (but I did eat a small kitkat and coffee with it). I only ate lunch like an hour after I took it. 10mins after my meal I felt so effing dizzy, nauseaous and disoriented and I was in the mall on my way back to work. I really thought I was going to pass out. I never felt such an extreme side effect from any drug. I was literally praying in my mind. I thought I was going to have a heart attach or what. When I got back to the office I immediately googled this drug about the side-effects as I suspected it was because of the drug and I stumbled upon this website. I actually felt relieved that my symptoms were because of the drug as what other people mentioned. I am 5'9 30yrs old but extremely overweight (around 270lbs) so I thought it was | M | 30 | 1 times 50mg 1X day | 1/6/2011 | 5 | Gout | Taking it with food is key. i've had the occasional stomach ache or diarrhea taking it, but typically, i just get a little woozy/drowsy. i am 6'4", 230#. | Very effective for me. If I take it at the first sign of a flare up, I can often nip it in the bud and prevent the flare up altogether with just a pill or two. once a flare up happens, the meds seem to take a bit longer to do their work, but indomethacin has always made the pain go away after a few days. | M | 42 | 9 years 50 mg 3X day | 1/4/2011 | 5 | PRIMARY ICE PICK HEADACHES | YES SIDE EFFECTS...ABDOMINAL PAIN EVEN TAKEING PROTONIX AND LIBRAX TO HELP WITH THOSE. OCCASIONAL FATIGUE. HASN'T TOTALLY 'CURED' THE HEADACHES BUT THEY ARE UNDER CONTROL. | This is the ONLY thing that has helped. The ice picks are totally dibilating sudden and more times a day than I use the bathroom. Nothing else worked not morphine not steriods NOTHING. It is a pain on the stomach but lesser of the evils. | F | 47 | 12 months 75 MG 3X day | 12/29/2010 |