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 | Felt awful. Extreme Nausea ,headache, dizziness, hot and cold, aching mainly in back, racing heart, fatigue but couldn't sleep, sore throat and generally exhausted | Stopped taking after day 2 as UTI seems to have gone. Side effects are more debilitating than the UTI. Here's hoping I feel better soon. Would love to just stay in bed but that's not possible | F | 63 | 0 days 100mg 2X day | 8/20/2022 | 1 | UTI | Extreme temperature sensitivity, swollen saliva glands, neuropathy, nausea to the point of unable to eat, elevated heart rate, feeling very sick/general unwell, anxiety, high BP, shaking, continuous sweating- especially hands and feet. | Taken for 2.5 days, side effects long lasting after medicine stopped. This sent me to the ER. I felt like I was having a stroke. With how many people are experiencing such horrible side effects, this should not be the go to drug for uti. | F | 37 | 2 days 2X day | 8/3/2022 | 1 | UTI | Have taken 2 so first day woken up aching all over skins hot to touch slight headache tight chest not good taking antibiotics | Wont be taking this again after this course | F | 57 | 3 days X6 2X day | 7/29/2022 | 1 | Uti | Terrible! Severe headache, cough, fever, chills, body aches, fatigue. Stopped after only 2 pills. | F | 62 | 2 days 100 mg 2X day | 6/13/2022 | 1 | UTI | This made me feel dizzy and nauseous. I felt like l was going to crawl out of my skin and had severe pain behind my eyes. I quit taking it. | F | 40 | 3 days 100 2X day | 6/5/2022 | 1 | UTI | Although not good, a relief to see others here having same experience. Was dizzy and tired after day 1 and it seems it can take a few days in system before it can kick you hard. I had this once before, a year ago, and none of these effects. This time different. Dizzy, horrid pressure headache, then by day 5 the awful sweats like passing out and heart thumping out of chest which come in waves, terrible dizziness, head and crushing tiredness. | Stopped it yesterday after finishing 7 day course, it worked last time for a uti but dont think so this time so all the side effects continuing too! Hoping stops soon and uti has gone | F | 50 | 7 days 100mg 2X day | 4/28/2022 | 1 | for a uti | nausea, aching in my bones, fever, diarrohea and tight chested. | i fell like i want to die. feel so ill..way worse than the initial thing it was prescribed for..rang doctors to see if there is an alternative i can try as this is horrible :-( | F | 51 | 2 days 100mg 2X day | 4/7/2022 | 1 | UTI | Extreme fatigue, constant body aches, breathlessness on everyday activities, flu-like symptoms but no fever. Took a rapid covid test because I felt so bad but was negative. Was going to go to a doc in a box tomorrow and get a blood test to see what is off but after discovering these threads on the side effects of Macrobid, I feel much better mentally knowing this drug could possibly be causing all these symptoms. At 67-years-old, a lot of other things could be brewing at this age, I'll dc tonight and hope for the best. | F | 67 | 6 days 100 mg 2X day | 3/27/2022 | 3 | UTI | No side effects until AFTER the 7 day course. Felt like a horrible flu, shaking, cold chills, joint pain, nausea and worst of all RIGHT ANKLE PAIN. Dull sharp aching almost feels like an ankle sprain but I didn't sprain it. It's been about 1 week after macrobid and my ankle is painful to walk on or move certain ways. Xrays showed nothing wrong with it. It's definitely from macrobid!!! Not sure how long it will take for my ankle to stop hurting!!!!! | Be careful! | F | 35 | 7 days 100mg 2X day | 3/8/2022 | 1 | UTI | I took four pills so far. I woke up today and my heart is pounding out of my chest...my feet and fingers feel strange...pins and needles. I'm super irritable and anxious. I'm so shaky , I can't function. This is awful...just feeling horrible. | F | 60 | 7 days 2x a day 2X day | 2/17/2022 | 1 | UTI | I thought I was going to die after taking this medicine for 2 days. I had chills, sweats, body aches, very severe headache, pain in stomach, nausea, eyes hurt. All I could do was to pray to feel better. I would rather deal with an UTI than to take this medicine. | Macrobid made me feel the worst I've ever felt in my life. | F | 64 | 2 days 2X day | 2/5/2022 | 1 | Uti | Flu like symptoms, sore sore throat thrush headache body aches chills and hot flashes | F | 31 | 3 days 100 2X day | 1/6/2022 | 1 | UTI | A headache that would put a horse to it's knees. Eyes hurt so bad I wanted to gouge them out. Eye whites tirned brown. Sores in my mouth and gums got sore and bloody. Abdominal pain that feels like it is kidney and/ or liver pain. Abdominal area is enlarged. Puffy face. Absolutely exhausted. | Glad I looked this up here. I was thinking the severe side effects were because I am alergic to most antibiotics. I took 3 doses, a week ago. Still exhaused and still have all the symptoms. This medication has put me down as bad as Covid did. It did clear up the UTI in 1 day, but I would rather have the UTI than the side effects from this medication. | F | 61 | 2 days 100 2X day | 11/10/2021 | 1 | UTI | Debilitating headache and eye pain, sores in mouth and bleeding gums, abdominal pain under my rib cage, horrible brain fog. Going through of chills then burning up hot. Exhaustion that has made it impossible to do anything. Made me very irratable. The whites of my eyes turned brown. Look and feel dehydrated, enlargement of my abdomen and puffy face. | Took a total of 3 doses for a UTI. If I knew it was going to make me this sick I would never have taken it!!! I have not taken this medication for a week now and still have all the symptoms. Everyday I pray the next day will be better.... no improvement yet. Was told to take benadryl at bedtime, that has not eased the symptoms either. I seriously feel poisoned. I would love to know when these symptoms are going to subside. | F | 61 | 2 days 100 2X day | 11/10/2021 | 1 | UTI | I was fine for first 5 days and it seemed to be working and on day 6 woke up with a cough and aching all over. I carried taking medication as thought I had Covid/flu. By the evening I triggered it was Macrobid as felt awful 20 mins after. Sever body aches, cough, back ache, sore chest, crackles when breathing, vomiting. | I had no idea symptoms could be this severe. I felt like I'd been poisoned. | F | 45 | 6 days 2X day | 10/19/2021 | 1 | UTI | Horrible! I had to stop it because of severe chills and sweating and severe dry cough. I also had nausea and a headache, but the aforementioned side effects were more worrisome. | F | 49 | 2 days 2X day | 10/7/2021 | 1 | Uti | Will never take again. First 2 days I was wiped out, exhausted. Experienced palpitations, anxiety, depression...crying loads for no reason. Breathing has been difficult at times. Irritability. 2 days after finishing course I feel rotten. | F | 35 | 3 days 100mg 2X day | 9/24/2021 | 1 | Uti | Mucus membranes dried up still not right,pain at belly button, horrible burning pain in who ha. Started on 2 100 x a day. 5 days later I had it changed to 50 4 x a day. Felt so sick, pain in eyes terrible burning shooting in my foot and toe, hot skin, it was hell. Finally ended up in er with a horrible allergic reaction. Need epi pen and steroids. Now on high dose steroids for 4 days. Eyes feel weird still dry in nose . This should be banned. I'm allergic to all other uti drugs that are normally given. God it was horrible. Hoping this goes away. | F | 64 | 9 days 50 4X day | 9/21/2021 | 1 | Uti | Horrible medicine.... it started with pain under the jaw neck pain just below the base of the skull swollen salivary glands that never seem to resolve... pain in left shoulder needles and pins in my arms itching...etc am not taking this poison ever again | Horrible drug | F | 21 | 0 days 1 3X day | 9/15/2021 | 2 | UTI | really bad anxiety, ringing in ears , headache | really rough drug, it does seem to help my UTI but the side effects are insane. I am doing my best to complete the full 7 days but it is one of the hardest things I have ever done. | M | 39 | 4 days 100mg 2X day | 9/8/2021 |