MACROBID Reviews (NITROFURANTOIN; NITROFURANTOIN, MACROCRYSTALLINE)Average Rating: 1.7 (1819 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare MACROBID with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR MACROBID | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | UTI symptoms | Nausea, fatigue, body soreness, extreme high blood glucose readings, chest pain off & on. All symptoms continued to worsen through 5th day. | I am a type 1 diabetic. My BG readings were already high from UTI but my insulin intake tripled while on MACROBID. | F | 59 | 5 days 100 MG | 5/28/2016 | 1 | UTI | After a trip to urgent care for a UTI I started a prescription of Macrobid 2 times a day for 7 days. It eliminated my UTI symptoms by the second day. However, starting day 3 my body was sore like I had been exercising hard. Pain everywhere. Day 4 was the same. After taking day 5 I decided I couldn't continue the prescription. Called my Gyno and they said the 5 completed days should be enough and it wasn't necessary to take the remaining two days. It's been a week and 2 days since I stopped and my body is still off. Sore in weird spots. My period was 10 days late. This never happens and I've had a tubal so I knew I wasnt expecting. | Google blogs about this medicine before taking. Obviously a terrible medicine that a lot of people have issues with. | F | 29 | 7 days 100 mg | 5/22/2016 | 1 | urinary tract infection | Sooo sleepy to the point of lethargic, have zero energy.it did help the uti, but finding it very hard to function. No nausea or headache, just total fatigue. | I will ask for an alternative in the future. | F | 67 | 2 weeks 100 mg x2 | 5/10/2016 | 1 | bladder infection | My 51 year old cousin suffered lung deterioration for 7 months and died because of macrobid | F | 51 | 10 days 1X day | 5/9/2016 | 1 | UTI | Within 15 minutes of taking a 100mg.capsule a severe rapid heartbeat started and lasted 30min.then next day I had violent tremors-shaking for 30min. Will never take it AGAIN! | I DON'T RECCOMMEND THIS DRUG TO TREAT UTI.SHOULD BE TAKEN OFF MARKET! | F | 59 | 1 days | 5/8/2016 | 1 | bacteria in urine | Severe stomach pain, vomiting, diarrhea, low grade fever. Feeling of having the flu after second dose. Stomach pain and vomiting continue and haven't had a dose in 24 hours. | Just several hours after the second dose of this antibiotic I considered taking my 15 year old daughter to the ER. She has no allergies to any other medication, this particular antibiotic is dangerous and needs to be pulled off the market before someone dies! DO NOT TAKE THIS ANTIBIOTIC!! I'm beyond angry that our nurse/doctor prescribed this to our daughter (especially since she had no symptoms of a UTI, just bacteria found when doing a urine for something else). | F | 15 | 3 days 100mg 2X day | 5/8/2016 | 1 | Uti | Extreme weakness and feeling of being generally unwell...diarrhea, nausea, flushing face, confusion. | I will never take this medication again. | F | 60 | 2 days 100mg 2X day | 5/8/2016 | 1 | uti | The third day of taking this I had experienced hives which was an allergic reaction to the medicine. Also had headache and feel very tired. Had gas as well. | Still feeling tired even after being off the medicine for two days now. | M | 24 | 7 days 100mg | 5/6/2016 | 1 | Urinary Track infection | Was told to take it the night before I was to have a test for re-occurring urinary track infections. When I awoke the next morning, I was paralized from the neck down. An ambulance came and had to get me out of bed with a stretcher to take me to the hospital. I was unable to move for two days while hospitalized.. Will never take Macrobid ever again. | Scary medication. I would be interested to know if others have experienced this side affect when taking Macrobid. | F | 65 | 1 days ? 1X day | 5/4/2016 | 2 | urinary tract infections | Headache, weakness | I had never taken it before but nothing else was working | F | 65 | 2 days 100 mg | 4/30/2016 | 3 | Bacterial infection | First few days after finishing this medicine I felt great! Now my face and body is red and I'm feeling crappy!! I look sunburnt! Going back to dr!! | F | 40 | 3 days 100 mg | 4/27/2016 | 1 | UTI | Was fatigued and restless first few days of taking.Did get rid of my UTI.On the 6th dose started having trouble breathing. Thought maybe it was from something else but when i took 7th dose not only was i having trouble breathing but got cold chills within an hour along with complete numbness to both hands. Then had severe fever like symptoms muscles all ached nausea migraine in my eyes dizziness just completely incapacitated. | Will never take agian..and dont recommend it | F | 28 | 7 days 100MG | 4/27/2016 | 1 | uti | nausea mostly; sometimes I start to feel better & then the next day, I'm sick to my stomach again. | Went in to the clinic that prescribed this for my uti to ask if the nausea for this many days was normal & was told that every single patient that they've prescribed it for recently has complained about nausea, just like me. Nurse said that they wondered if the manufacturer had made a bad batch. | F | 52 | 4 days 100 mg 2X day | 4/27/2016 | 1 | UTI | Shortness of breath. Feeling of doom l. Hazy breathing | Not for ne | F | 38 | 1 days 200MG | 4/20/2016 | 1 | UTI | First day taking it felt like I got the flu. Fever, bad chills/shivering, aches in neck, back, Very tired and no appetite. Then over next day or two, had gas, headache, dry cough, still no appetite. Joint pain in elbows and knees. Ringing in ears. The first two days of taking it were the worst. | I have never had a bad reaction to an antibiotic before. This one is awful and all the negative feedback here backs it up! For the record it did help my UTI, but all this misery for over 4 days is too much! Everyone I know said they have been prescribed Cipro with no problems so I don't know why I got Macrobid instead! | F | 46 | 4 days 100mg | 4/17/2016 | 1 | UTI | First of all this medication did not quickly clear up my UTI or even alleviate any of my best symptoms like other antibiotics have for me with past UTI's. The Dr said she believed that my UTI had infact spread beyond just my bladder and was into my kidneys yet prescribed Macrobid (which I now know is not recommended for anything other than uncomplicated UTI's infections that haven't infected or impaired anything other than the bladder). I figured I just had another one of my rip roaring kidney infections when I got home from the Dr and continued to feel worse after taking my first dose of Macrobid. My lower back/ flank pain continued to get worse as did the extreme pressure & pain when I had to go to the bathroom. Within an hour or so of taking my first dose I started to feel extremely tired but now also had a headache that made it hard to sleep. The next morning I took my 2nd dose as prescribed and became nauseated. Figured I should have eaten it with food so I forced myself to eat. I fought throwing up for hours unable to do anything except lay on the couch. What had started out as a minor headache was now an overwhelming throbbing headache with random sharp stabbing like pains in a very specific spot in my head. I felt like I was being stabbed towards the top right side of my head just under my scalp but didn't hurt to touch. The shooting or stabbing pains would just come and go without any warning and despite anything I did to try and alleviate them. I'm allergic too | F | 33 | 10 days | 4/9/2016 | 1 | UTI | Body aches, sore throat, headache, nausea, extreme thirst, severe pain in my feet, low energy. | Don't use this drug! It's horrible. | F | 53 | 3 days 100 | 4/2/2016 | 1 | UTI | At first I thought I picked up the flu from the hospital, I had numbness on my tongue and the skin of my four head headache rapid heartbeat I started taking it on Saturday and by Monday, I have pain in my back so bad I can't even tell you I couldn't sleep for two nights in a row fever chills and muscle aches all over my body now when I get up out of a chair feels like I climbed flight of stairs or two. Rash on my chest and four head. The day I came home from ER the area by both of my knees mostly the right one swelled up with fluid another sign of being poisoned by Macrobid. I think the thing that clued me into being poisoned was the feeling on the tip of my tongue numbness that's common with like bad spider bites and scorpion bites. Thank you to everyone who took the time to tell everyone about this horrible drug. The doctor at my follow-up visit from the ER said the only thing that will make it go away his time and drinking lots of water to wash it out of my body. | Macrobid is like poison to me, in fact when I went to ER I told him I feel like I've been poisoned. It's one week later my muscles are killing me the only thing I can do is try to wash this crap out of my body with lots of water I still have an insatiable thirst and all my muscles in my entire body extremely weak I don't recommend anyone taking this drug!!! | F | 52 | 3 days | 3/26/2016 | 1 | Urinary Tract Infection | Within 6 hours of taking the first pill I began to experience chills, achy joints, headache, dry mouth, dry cough, and feeling of doom. It got worse with each dose until my blood pressure began dropping and I almost lost consciousness each time I tried to get out of bed. A call to the doctor and was told to stop taking immediately | Scary stuff!!!! | F | 64 | 3 days 100 | 3/25/2016 | 1 | To stop recurring urinary infection | Fever, extreme chills and shaking, extreme joint and muscle aches. Joint and muscle aches in shoulders, hips, fingers, wrists, elbows, knees, pretty much everywhere. Experienced all of these symptoms on two different occasions, after taking only one 50mg capsule. My symptoms started about 6 hours after taking just one dose. | I intend to notify my Doctor of these resultant symptoms from this medication, and do not intend to take this medication ever again. | F | 57 | 1 days 50 mg | 3/20/2016 |