MEDROL Reviews (METHYLPREDNISOLONE)Average Rating: 2.4 (354 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare MEDROL with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR MEDROL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | herniated disk | Horrible anxiety racing thoughts severe agitation! HORRIBLE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE MEDICINE!!!! Back does feel better but now I need a psychiatrist!!!! Losing my mind feel like I'm spinning out. If control!!!@ | F | 40 | 6 days dose pack | 5/2/2013 | 3 | severe allergies | Severe dizziness, fatigue, insomnia, bad headaches. | F | 30 | 6 days 30 | 4/15/2013 | 3 | Chest wall inflammation | severe muscle aches, vomiting,fast heartrate, cant sleep | F | 28 | 1 days 4mg 6day | 3/29/2013 | 3 | resp. infection | Emotional liability, depression, muscle aches, terrible headache racing thoughts difficulty sleeping. Back pain. | F | 28 | 5 days mdp | 3/2/2013 | 5 | asthma | slight depression and dizziness but it works wonders to get my asthma back under control after a cold. I have different side effects each time I take it but it is a wonder drug. | F | 33 | 6 days dose pack 1X day | 2/28/2013 | 4 | Sciatica/Lumbar Disc Herniation | Loss of Appetite, Change in Taste of Foods, Dry Mouth, Abdominal Cramps, Extreme Mood Swings/Short Temper | The side effects were troubling, but it did reduce my back pain IMMENSELY within the first two days of my six-day prescription. Before starting Medrol I was hardly able to get out of bed, but two days later I was able to vacuum, drive, and go about a normal routine with only some lingering stiffness. That said, I DEFINITELY felt a change in my mental state, and had family and coworkers commenting that I seemed very short-tempered while taking it. | F | 31 | 6 days 1X O | 2/27/2013 | 1 | A fungal rash | Horrible depression and anxiety. Felt like I couldn't go on. Could not handle the stress in my life. Loss of appetite and intestinal distress. | F | 26 | 6 days | 2/22/2013 | 1 | Inflamed shoulder muscle | I thought my wife was trying to kill me after day 1 of the pack. Took it until day 4 when I realized it wasn't my wife it was the pills!! I took myself off 5 days ago and now my skin feels like its on fire my hand an arm want to explode. I can't sleep at nite,I have to eat Tylenol, Bayer and ibuprofen 4-6 times a day. It takes all I can pull out of me to get thru a day of work and back home to lay on a heating pad. The medicine is bad the come down is the worst thing I ever dealt with and I've dealt with a lot. | M | 33 | 4 days | 2/1/2013 | 2 | Due to Joint pains | Anger easy and Cry easy. Very ugly behavior. I have been one it for just about a month and I stop because of the mood swings could not be torerated any more by me, or anyone else. | F | 58 | 4mg 1X day | 1/28/2013 | 3 | Inner Ear Issues | Flushed face. Slight discomfort in area above groin. Slightly euphoric mood | I was prescribed medrol dose pack (5-day) for inner ear inflammation and tinnitus. I do not see much of a difference with my symptoms but I have tolerated the drug fairly well. Biggest complaint i have is a flushed/warm face. One positive side effect, oddly enough, is a slightly euphoric feeling...my mood is very happy, positive. Which is something my doctor said could happen. Curious to see how i feel mentally a week from now when i am off the medication. | M | 37 | 5 days 4 6X day | 1/8/2013 | 4 | Allergic Reaction to medicine | Sleeplessness, heavy limbs, adrenaline bursts all day long, jittery, no energy, dizziness, moodiness, weightloss. U feel like u are dying!!! | Could ignore most side effects or make them resolve by just getting up and moving. But took so much will power because u feel so tired. Still going through severe withdrawl symtoms 4 days out. Worse than when i was on the drug. Very tough mentally to keep going. At least it stoped the drug reaction! | F | 38 | 6 days dose pack 5X day | 1/7/2013 | 2 | reaction to another medication | it took my rash away but the side effects are horrible, very moody CANNOT SLEEP i think i have maybe slept six hours total in the past 3 days and i havent ate at all. it makes food taste nasty even though my body is telling me to eat i cant | mine isnt medrol, its cadista but i cant find that when i looked it up online its all medrol, i took it once before but at that time i didnt know what my reaction was from so i was taking the meds that broke me out along with cadista. last time i took it for a six day period and lost 7 pounds | F | 27 | 3 days 6 day pack 1X day | 1/6/2013 | 1 | sinus congestion | By day 3 of this medication i startedfeeling very agitated and depressed but thought if ijustfinished it would go away...so wrong on the last day i had such bad depression i thought i needed to go to a mental hospital. After that its been severe anxiety..depression..loss of appetite..and inability to fucus. Ra ing thoughts. And feel disconnected to my family. It has been 3 weeks and im able to somewhat function ie: go to work and do small tasks but ive now been to a psychiatrist and psychologist and they think i need antidepressants now. This drug is so horrible.if i could go back 3 weeks i would never have taken it. Symptoms are getting better but not gone | F | 28 | 6 days 6 day | 12/13/2012 | 2 | Bronchitis | Severe sun burn appearance of neck, chest and face. Hot, burning skin. Head ache, restlessness. I have taken this before without issue. I won't be taking this again. | F | 29 | 2 days | 12/7/2012 | 1 | Inflammation of neck | Worst medicine I ever had, I experienced. Dizziness fatigue panick attacks fear , I thought I will die I ended up at er because I almost fainted . I stopped using the medicine and after 5 days I still have some side effects , | Really bad side effects for me | F | 26 | 6 days 4 6X day | 12/1/2012 | 1 | skin rash | So bad were the side effects, they just wouldn't stop, everything to do with emotions just compounding. It just would not stop. a screamed my way to sleep, woke up five hours later screaming for help. When the cops came they beat the crap out of me. bloodied and bruised from head to toe, why did my doctor not inform me 1 out of 20 have severe psychotic reaction. I just complained to the fda. they should mix this with an antipsychotic or something. so bad so bad so bad. | I read about people in jail for murder trying to say that medrol contributed. I would have locked them up and laughed at their defense prior to my taking it. Google this guy Randall Creek, or Robert Danenberg . one was a duputy sheriff from bowling green who refereed high school football games and served in desert storm. the other was a young lawyer with a life ahead of him. Now they are convicted murderers. Unreal how this stuff can take a bad emotion and make you feel it is reckoning day and your last day on earth. | M | 43 | 2 days 4 mg 1X O | 10/30/2012 | 1 | Hsp vasculitis | Now has moonface, big fat stomach, pimples all over my body, cannot sleep well, very irritable and now slightly psychotic, depressed, stomach pains and shooting pains in other parts of my body | I was given steroids on IV when i was in the hospital for 9 days due to hsp vasculitis. Then i was given oral medrol upon getting out, and im now on the taper. The vasculitis has gone, but i still cannot work due to the side effects of medrol. Still immunocompromised and the risks definitely outweigh the benefits. Doctors even suspected my kidneys were involved, but knowing i only developed proteinuria after taking medrol, i insisted on having it tapered off. I . i was right because upon the taper my kidneys normalized! i will NEVER drink this medicine again. Also, listen to your body and not just to the doctors. You know yourself better than they ever will. | F | 30 | 30 days 32 mg 2X day | 10/1/2012 | 1 | asthma | Anxiety, panic, depression, could not stop crying, lethargy, sweating, sleep disturbances, felt like I was losing my mind. | The medrol did clear up the tightness in my chest from asthma. But the side effects have been so bad I would only take it again if it were a life or death situation. I learned to never let my asthma get out of control again. It has been 2 weeks since my last pill and I am still jittery and depressed though getting better. | F | 48 | 5 days dose pack 1X day | 10/1/2012 | 3 | post herpetic zoster neuralgia | injections into torn rotater cuffs q 3 mos.x2 blessed relief, but shingles came back quickly twice, so neuralgia pain returned!! after agony 3 mos. later injections into swollen knees reduced swelling, but herpetic miridian pains remain. Now my skin is itching, burning and red. | It was a life saver when the initial pain and contractures were getting intolerable, but I have since found naturopathic options that are helping without the side effects. | F | 64 | injections 1X O | 9/16/2012 | 5 | tmj and trigeminal neuralgia | dizziness lack of appetie and not wanting to sit still... | I have take this two time prior and havehad good resluts, but the pain I have never goes away so it is somewhat of a mind trick for 7 days. Works for those of us who live with everyday severe pain as we are more used to side effects i assume. WHats a little dissines when pain that is always there is less? I would question having a doctor give me a steroid for strep throat like someothers, maybe sever sinusitus but strep needs an antibiotic not a steroid… | F | 32 | 7 days 1X day | 9/10/2012 |