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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR NEXIUM | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | GERD | The posting from the 43 year old female on 3/29/08 could have been written by me. Same procedures and tests, all normal. Have been on Nexium for 9 months. Began noticing mild "funny feeling" palpitations in chest early on but did not equate it with Nexium but thought it might be related to GERD. Thought GERD was getting worse and GP put me on TWO nexium per day. Began to feel some sort of "pressure starting in my chest and traveling upwards to my neck and jaws. EKG and everything else, normal. Still did not make any correlation. Developed chronic prostatitus and while I don't know whether or not the nexium has had anything to do with it, I began to feel so bad, I too, thought I had some strange incurable malady. GP wanted to put me on "anxiety" medicine. I almost punched him. Long story short, I've been off nexium for two days now. Will try to stay off for a while and see if anything changes. So far...So good. good. | Will post a follow up when I can make a definite connection between my "side effects" and the nexium | M | 55 | 9 months | 4/16/2008 | 2 | GERD, h pylori | I would like to add the following side effects: it made my osteoporosis worse, possibly because calcium needs to be absorbed in an acid environment. In addition, my hair (head and body) were thinning at an alarming rate. | I stopped taking the drug about 5 months ago and my hair just started growing back in. Rebound burning in stomach, depression and insomnia stopped after less than a week, fortunately. Still have dry eyes, nose and mouth, however. | F | 55 | 9 months | 4/14/2008 | 1 | GERD/acid reflux | Some relief from acid reflux symptoms, but had diarrhea almost on a daily basis, daily stomach pain which kept me feeling like I needed to eat all the time, and worst of all--decreased bone density (discovered later, due to incomplete absorption of minerals), condition known as osteopenia (precursor to osteoporosis). | Am now 61, but started this drug around age 52. Had suffered with GERD for at least 20 years, but symptoms got worse with age and increasing weight. Went off Nexium, then to Prevacid, and later to Prilosec, hoping to get fewer side effects, but not successful at this at all. All together, was on proton-pump inhibitor (PPI) drugs for about 7 years. Gallbladder removed at age 44. Diagnosed with rare-type pancreas tumor in 2005 and had surgery in Dec. 2005. Went off all PPI drugs in early 2006. Real reasons for GERD: eating too much sugar and wheat (and other gluten grains) for many years, and not enough bile acids for proper digestion. MY CURE: taking bile acid salts and full-strength pancreatic enzymes supplements with every meal. Drastically changed my diet to high-fat, moderate-protein, low-carb (NO wheat or other gluten grains) with absolutely no processed food; added raw dairy and grassfed, pastured, locally-grown beef, poultry, and pork, organic produce. I have normal digestion now | F | 61 | 1 years | 4/13/2008 | 1 | Chronic acid reflux/suspected ulcer | Terrible skin rash, anxiety, depression, flu like symptoms, insomnia | Took anti-inflamatory drugs for 12 months whilst waiting for a hip replacement operation. Experienced burning in stomach immediately after op. Put on Nexium 40mg 6 months ago. Appeared to help, but over the past month the side effects have become unbearable. I suddenly wondered whether the Nexium itself was the cause of the problem - awful skin irritation and rash, depression, a real struggle to get up and go to work, awful insomnia and almost manic thoughts at time (never experienced before in my life). So, went into your website - unbelievable - all the things that I was suffering from were reported by so many other people. Have taken my last Nexium tablet for ever. Will now control the symptoms of acid reflux with a bland diet and hope that, before long, I will start to feel like a normal, sane person again once the drug is out of my system. | F | 62 | 6 months | 4/9/2008 | 1 | Acid Reflex | Depression, chest pain, numbness, blood pressure, anxiety etc etc... | I had severe problem and had to go to ER thinking I am going to die. I am still getting over the depression. | M | 31 | 10 days | 4/9/2008 | 1 | acid indigestion | Abdominal pain, dizziness, nausea, sharp pain on the bottom of my feet | I stopped taking Nexium after only 11 days when I realized my side effects were from the drug. It's been almost 4 months since I've taken Nexium and I am still experiencing abdominal pain, dizziness and nausea that comes and goes. Can anybody please tell me how long these symptoms are going to last? | F | 42 | 11 days | 4/8/2008 | 5 | Acid Reflux | I am a singer who was always hoarse for years until I began taking Nexium. Almost right away there was clarity in my voice. Haing had vocal cord surgery, I now take Nexium religiously without any side effects. I have been told to keep watch on bone health though as it can take away from your calcium absorption leaving women espe cially prone to osteoporosis. After several years of taking it I just had a bone scan for the disease and showed no problems. Be proactive and take your medication but also find out as much as you can about it and get tested as advised regularly. | 49 | 7 years | 4/3/2008 | 1 | Stomach pains | I am STILL suffering from the WORST headaches I have ever encountered. I have also had a steady fever (101 deg), shakes and chills, goosebumps, light-headedness, and joint pains. | My FORMER Doctor had prescribed this to me after Prilosec was not working. He had never mentioned ANYTHING about side-effects and said that "because I didn't have any side-effects from Prilosec, I PROBABLY wouldn't have any side-effects from this either." After I asked him the difference between the two products, he told me that there were "some biological differences"...NEVER EVER, EVER, EVER, take this pill. I stopped taking it this morning (which would've been day 10), after this 4 day fever. Also, I started noticing fever like symptoms after the night of my 6th day. Since then, it's been a tidal wave of pain!!! BEWARE!!!!!!! I'll put up with the stomach pains first... | M | 28 | 9 days | 4/3/2008 | 1 | GERD | I have been suffering from chest and a horrible burning abdominal pain-not related to what and when I ate. depression, anxiety, aches and pains, tired all of the time. Have had endoscopy, CT Scan, upper GI, ultrasound, ekg/echo stress test.....all normal. Dr tried different pain meds...none worked. I ran out of my nexium and figured it didn't seem to make me feel better, so why take it. Now I am making the connection with all of my symptoms to the nexium! I already feel better, off for about 5 days. will never take again! | I think next time a Dr gives me a new drug, I will do my research on all of the side effects first. I thought I was going to die, my abdominal pain was unbearable. It was constant epigastric burning pain(like a deep hunger pain)that would not go away with eating-hense the waight gain. I would recommend people to be aware of the side effects of any medicine! I also tried protonix, had insomnia for a year! a friend helped me make the connection. | F | 43 | 1 years | 3/29/2008 | 1 | acid reflux | Have taken nexium for over 15 months have had severe leg and feet muscle spasms, hand spasms, cold hands, pins and needles in legs and feet and hands. Debilatating muscle weakness to a point of bearly being able to walk and function,difficulty going up and down stairs, feet severe pain, high blood pressure out of no where, weight gain over 40 pounds in 15 months. Have had severe reflux for 10 years mostly at night. Nexium did help that but side effects which I thought were coming from fibromyalgia were actually from medication. | Have stopped medication on doctors orders.Got previcid samples. He said in 10 days I would feel like a miracle has happened. I truly hope he is right. As it has been 15 months of hell. Have taken previcid ,aciphex had to change due to insurance carrier no longer paid for it. Well now I have paid a severe price in my health and daily function for their changes in my plan. | F | 64 | 15 months | 3/28/2008 | 3 | Acid Reflux | I started taking 40mg in the am about 2 weeks ago. I immediately began getting hunger pains all the time but wasn't interested in food once served. Then came headaches, severe tingling pain in my hands at night and most recently a rash that has caused me to be incapacitated for the past 4 days! It started Thursday 3/20 on the soles of my feet. By Friday night I was in bed almost delerious with pain and swelling in every joint/muscle in my body. I didn't make the connection and thought I better stay in bed to be ready to cook easter dinner - didn't take the Nexium Sat or Sun but the rash has moved to my face and wrists and I was not only unable to cook easter dinner for my family but they left late Sunday for a ski trip and I am stuck home in pain. Finally called my MD and have an app tomorrow but the RN said she doubts it's the Nexium - BS - I stopped taking Sat and the symptoms are SLOWLY decreasing. The flu like symp with this painful rash are enough to make you want to die - or mayb | I wouldn't ever put this in my body again! I can live and will do so happily with the occasional bout with GER before sending my system into near anaphalactic shock by swollowing this "little purple pill" or should I say POISON PILL! I am 37 and have no other health issues I am beyond angry to think I missed my son's first trip snowboarding (something I was going to teach because dad ski's) due to this virelle substance - I will never get this time back but some pharma rep is golfing in Scottsdale for his exceeding his qoata all paid by the makers of NEXIUM! | F | 37 | 16 days | 3/24/2008 | 1 | GERD | Sharp right shoulder pain, debilitating pain on the right side of chest, shortness of breath | The chest pain was so severe that my P.A. suspected a small pneumothorax (free air in chest that pushes on the lung). I was out of breath walking from one end of my house to the other. When I thought about when the symptoms started, I could trace it back to a day or two after I started the Nexium. After discontinuing the Nexium, symptoms started to resolve within 24-48 hours. Three weeks later, all but the shoulder pain is completely resolved and that is substantially better. | F | 31 | 22 days | 3/24/2008 | 2 | Belching, burning in chest, reflux | Headache, some joint pain. Extremely tired all the time, no want to do anything if I didn't have to. | I researched this site, and was surprised to see how many side effects there were. I quit taking it. I was only on it for three months. I would like to know how long before nausea is gone? | F | 57 | 3 months | 3/20/2008 | 1 | Acid reflux | Depression, anxiety, constant nausea, feeling aggressive, constant need to urinate, constipation, insomnia, confusion | The side effects were amazingly bad, I did not realise how badly they had altered me until I stopped taking it. Never again. | F | 24 | 7 months | 3/18/2008 | 2 | silent Acid reflux into Barretts | Depression, muscle inflamation, gradual breathlessness and wheezing, horrible bloating after everything I ate, constipation | I took Nexium for 3 years. Two of those I had no symptoms except depression and muscle inflamation then 2 years in I got 2 abnormal ekgs and trouble with breathlessness after stairs oddly the feeling would get better after a gas bubble would disperse in my upper stomach. Then one day my world changed. I suddenly got terrible bloating after everything I ate. I couldn't rid the pressure. Headaches, Breathlessness, indigestion ensued. I changed my diet to no avail and lost 25 lbs. in 4 months. Went off Nexium 2 weeks ago and bloating completely subsided. I have Barretts (just diagnosed) and need acid blocker but these PPIs are scary. I wish they'd research long term usage more because Drs are certainly putting people on them years. It does block acid but is that good | F | 49 | 3 years | 3/16/2008 | 1 | acid reflux-cysts on vocal cords | severe tiredness, could not wake up, dizziness, pain, fatigue and blurred vision. | my doctor prescribed this because acid reflux had damaged my esoghagus and caused cysts on my vocal cords, it seemed to help but the side effects were too much too handle. it caused me to miss so much work, because of being so tired, fatigued, and pain, my body just hurt. my vision got blurry, and i stayed dizzy. | F | 34 | 3 weeks | 3/12/2008 | 3 | Ulcers, Helicobactor pylori | Respiratory tract infection, dizziness, lack of concentration, depression, anxiety, headaches, lack of energy and tiredness | I was diagnosed with a potential peptic ulcers associated with Helicobactor pylori infection. The doctors found the bacteria after I blow an abnormal breath test. I was prescribed with Nexium Hp7. It is a combination pack containing Nexium and two antibiotics - Amoxil (amoxycillin),Klacid (clarithromycin)which is used to treat this infection. I took 8 tablets a day for 7 days total 56 tablets and felt terrible. Whilst on the medication my heartburn at night was very serve I couldn’t sleep.I found that I needed to sleep at an incline and not lay flat. During the day I got hunger pains when I was hungry. Once I ate the pain went away. I realized that I was losing weight due to the feeling of fullness, I ate less at night and my meals were smaller. I have been taking Nexium 40mg for 3 weeks and for the first 2 weeks I felt some side affects such as lack of energy, tiredness depression, anxiety, and now I have had the flu for 5 days. The flu symptoms are sneezing and sore | F | 33 | 3 weeks | 3/11/2008 | 2 | Hiatal Hernia | Stiff joints; nausea; dizziness; headache; sore, stiff neck; flatulence; strange noises in my head upon waking; on the third morning, I had to urinate about 20 times and then I called my doctor. That was scary. Nexium was the only thing new I was taking as I only take estrodiol once a day. | I was given Nexium for acid reflux which I never have. | F | 60 | 3 days | 3/10/2008 | 1 | Stomache aches | Daily headaches, chest pain, swollen fingers, trouble sleeping, feeling of swollen throat. | Childrens GI specialist recommended. Regular pediatrian advised to quit taking after going over head ache symptoms with him. My daughter has not been feeling well, we thought she was turning into hypochondriac... I'll post again after a few days off medicine | M | 14 | 24 days | 3/10/2008 | 2 | acid reflux | Terrible joint pain; horrible pain, tingling and sensation loss in my wrist and hands; headaches, dizziness, tightness in my upper back, neck and shoulders; stomach burning after eating; bloating; undigested food; much more tired than normal and overall feeling of not feeling right. | It did clear up the acid reflux but the side effects weren't worth it. | F | 33 | 30 days | 3/9/2008 |