FLAGYL Reviews (METRONIDAZOLE)

Average Rating: 2.3 (1916 Ratings)

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FLAGYL  (METRONIDAZOLE):  Metronidazole is an antibiotic that is used to treat a wide variety of infections. It works by stopping the growth of certain bacteria and parasites. This antibiotic treats only certain bacterial and parasitic infections. It will not work for viral infections (such as common cold, flu). Using any antibiotic when it is not needed can cause it to not work for future infections. Metronidazole may also be used with other medications to treat certain stomach/intestinal ulcers caused by a bacteria (H. pylori).    (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)

  

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RATING  REASONSIDE EFFECTS FOR FLAGYLCOMMENTSSEXAGEDURATION/
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DATE ADDED
 
 1  Diverticulitis Metallic taste in mouth. Could not sleep well. Constantly being awaken by vivid dreams followed by waking dreams or hallucinations. Makes you see insect like creatures on the walls and ceilings that seem to pulse in a rhythmic fashion and seem to crawl towards you originating from windows and dimly lit areas. I also experience a sort of very high pitched sound/sensation on waking. Difficulty walking when first awakening. Sweating. Disorientation. Depression. Anxiety. Had to stop. Could not stand the side effects. M 55 3 days
500 1X day
5/19/2015
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 1  diverticulitis Medicated wed, thurs., Fri living independently before med. Monday, could not stand up. Now need 24 hour care & vigilance. Parkinsonism AWFUL drug; permanently disabled from having taken it. M 87 3 days
500mg iv
5/14/2015
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 1  Bacterial infection Extreme nausea Funny headaches General feeling of being unwell Weird taste in my mouth Dizziness F 40 10 days
3 x Daily
5/13/2015
 1  Diverticulitis The worse headache ever! Worse than any migraine I use to have. I was giving this twice before. The first time my head almost blew up, so I stopped taking it. The second time, no problem. This time the very fist pill I took made my head feel like it is exploding. I can't finish taking it. The headache is so bad, you can't function at all. When I tell the doctor I can't do this, they don't seem to take it seriously and tell me i must finish it. I recommend the doctors all take it themselves before they stick their patience on the stuff. There has got to be a better solution to Diverticulitis problem. F 60 14 days
500 mg 3X day
5/9/2015
 4  Diverticulitis horrible metallic taste 24/7. Avg 7 BMs a day. F 41 14 days
500 2X day
5/8/2015
 1  BV Severe depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, dark urine, headaches, sensitivity to light. The worst experience ever. I was under a lot of stress and started takin this orally to cure a bv infection. After that 7day course the BV symptoms persisted so I continued on to a 5 day vaginal course. The first few days I felt increased anxiety. The last day I felt impending doom, under some outside stress I went into a rage and stabbed myself with a sharp object, punched a truck until my hands bled, left my home and drove my self to an ER. 2 days after stopping treatment I feel foggy, headaches, loss of appetite. Couldn't get out of bed. My husband had to take 3 days off of work because of this. Thank GOD today the depression has lifted and I am alive and home with my family. This drug should be taken off the market. F 41 12 days
N/A 1X day
5/7/2015
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 4  Diverticulitis Cotton mouth, dizziness, burning eyes, nausea, pounding heart, metallic bitter taste that lasted entire 10 days I had a severe case of diverticulitis. This is my 3rd attack since 2007 so I have taken the med before along with 500 MG of Cipro every 12 hrs. By day 3 I was ready to stop taking Flagyl. I contacted my Dr. and she prescribed Zofran for the nausea. The Zofran took the edge off the Nausea. I also found that eating something small, toast, crackers, cereal bar an hour before taking his med really helped but most importantly was drinking a lot of water when taking Flagyl. Today is my last day, thank God. This med does work along side of Cipro but the side effects are horrible. F 60 10 days
500 MG 3X day
5/2/2015
 1  Suspected Diverticulitis Prescribed to take this 4x a day & this medication is horrid. I've experienced dizziness, anxiety (which I had been previously diagnosed with & not bothered with it) up until now. Dilirious at times, headaches, pain behind eyes, loss of appetite, weepiness, depressed, moody. Urine is dark as well. This stuff is potent, had I known I would have asked for something else. I'm surprised this medication is legal, you can just about kill a horse with this stuff! This did clear up my infection fast! However, I'd rather have a diverticulitis episode that this Flagyl. F 32 10 days
500mgs 4x
4/28/2015
 1  BV Very bad headaches daily, heightened sense of smell, nausea, felt unwell overall. Awful medication due the side effects but did clear up the BV F 42 7 days
500MG
4/27/2015
 1  BI Metallic taste , insomnia , nausea , throwing up several times throughout the day AND night , extreme sense of smell , tiredness , Bloating I would not recommend if because of the horrible side effects but as for clearing up the infection it has worked. The side effects made me so sick though really wasn't worth taking ... But I am pregnant and I really needed rid of the infection .. Hope it has not bothered with my pregnancy ... F 25 7 days
500 Mg
4/27/2015
 3  bacteria infection Tiredness, dry mouth, bad dreams, no appetite, just feel crazy F 29 7 days
500 mg
4/26/2015
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 4  BV Dizzy, loose bowels (all day long), lazy, tingling feeling in legs nausea and insomnia. This is the second time taking this medication. I took it last year for c-diff and now BV. But I don't recall having these side effects when taking it for the c-diff. This medication is helping but it makes me feel so sick F 29 7 days
500mg
4/25/2015
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 1  Bi My fiance and i have had the most horrible experience of our life taking this med. from what i have read alot of people have encountered the awful insomnia, anxiety, limb jerking, enhanced vision and taste, and just sick in general feeling. I feel as though i have taken poison and this is after my 3rd day off. If there is an alternative, take it, because these side effects have been so severe that i have missed two days of work. F 35 1 days
4* 500 mg
4/23/2015
 1  Diverticulitis Dizziness, metal taste in mouth, muscle weakness, weight loss, fatigue, anxiety, depression, weepiness, hot flashes. I was prescribed this medicine in January for a suspected bacterial growth in my colon and took it for 10 days. It made me tired, metal taste in mouth and I had feelings of anxiety and muscle weakness and one morning woke up with almost vertigo, which my doctor attriibuted to my new dose of synthroid. I was taking this twice a day for 10 days. Then I had a diverticulitis attack a few weeks later, which landed me in the ER one morning. The doctor prescribed Flagyl, but this time 3x day plus Bactrim. Holy cow! It slammed me! Dizzy, anxiety, muscles feel like jelly, and I've lost weight. Sure, I wanted to get back into a size 6 jeans, but not feeling this rotten all the time. I weep for no reason. I'm shaky, tired, lethargic and fearful of everything. And this is having been off of it for 4 weeks now! I'm wondering if I'll ever feel "normal" and happy again. I will never take this med again. Just too dibilitating,. F 61 10 days
500 mg 3X day
4/23/2015
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 1  Suspected diverticulitis I held out on typing this review until the side 3ffects were totally gone, because I wanted to let everyone know there is hope. I took this poison over 8 months ago and am finally feeling close to my old self again. As far as side effects go: extreme nausea, extreme fatigue, cotton mouth, super taste and smell, I could actually smell the inside of my nostrils, dizzy, loss of appetite, weight loss, extreme stomach bloating, extreme back pain, muscle weakness, heart palpitations, rapid heartbeat, chest aches, headaches, numb tip of my tongue, tingly toes and fingers, depression, paranoia, EXTREME ANXIETY, sever panic attacks, sensation in center of my back which I called "pill stuck feeling", feelings of doom, somewhat suicidal, all these side effects started around day 7. I was walking with the family and collapsed to my knees and thought I was dying, I was yelling at my wife to take me to the er, I'm dying. She took me home and gave me a Xanax, and it somewhat subsided, for that moment. That was the first of many panics. GI dr thought I was crazy accusing Flagyl about these side effects. When I tell you these last 8 months were the worst 8 months of my life it's the gods honest truth. I started going to church and being blessed by the priest every Sunday to help me overcome this anxiety and panic disorder. I still go to church regularly to thank the lord for getting me through this, and I was never very religious. I used to sneak to the walk in clinic to get blood w I waited to write this review because I wanted to let anyone know who's going through this ordeal like I did, there is hope, and a light at the end of the tunnel. I never thought it was going to be over. I'm still not 100%, but I'm almost there after about 10 blood works and multiple trips to the GI, and a couple visits to the cardiologist for a full workup later, I'm just about back to my old self again. If anyone needs any sort of advice feel free to email me at [email protected]. I'm no expert, but I do have a lot of experience getting through this mess, and I found that it helps to talk to people who know what you're going through, because pretty much nobody understood what was happening to me. Just keep thinking the side effects will subside eventually, for some people it may take longer, for some it may take less. This medicine was THE worst experience of my life and I wish I never took it. I would rather have lived with the achy pelvis and low back than to have taken this medicine. I think I was misdiagnosed anyway, I think I had chronic pelvic pain syndrome the whole time, because it all started with an enlarged prostate. The urologist sent me for a cat scan and it said I had mild thickening of the colonic wall, and chronic diverticulitis. I never had the normal symptoms of a diverticulitis attack. Shoot me an email if you need to talk. -Dennis M 36 10 days
250
4/17/2015
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 1  bv I have been having bad pain behind my eyes, always feel very upset to my stomach as if I have to vimit , I never in my life had tendanitis but now I do in my left hand.I have lost my appetite . When I do eat I have to force myself.I have severe insomnia now I couldn't get more than 4 hours of sleep if someone paid me one million dollars.Next time I will opt for the gel form of treatment. This is awful ! The medication is working great as far as clearing up my infection, the side effects just make you feel horrible. F 33 7 days
500 mg
4/15/2015
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 1  Crohn's flare up severe dizziness, blurred vision, severe vomiting worst antibiotic ever; husband stopped taking it after 2 doses due to dizziness and blurred vision until we could speak with a dr; ended up in the ER with severe stomach pain and that dr said basically to 'go home and continue taking the antibiotics, he did not feel the antibiotics were the cause of the dizziness/blurred vision; we didn't trust his opinion (this was on a Saturday, 2 days after starting the flagyl) so he did not take the meds until I could speak with his dr on Monday. Sunday night thru Monday husband was so sick that we couldn't sleep, had a severe headache, etc. Went to see his dr who then sent me back to ER to have a CT scan of the head due to the bad headache, the CT was normal; discharged out of the ER and went home, I spoke with his dr and the dr said dizziness was probably due to the headache problem, keep taking the medicine; he slept most of Tues; got up on Wednesday and dizziness is SO SEVERE it feels like he's falling, even when sitting down; called pharmacist who also states that Flagyl should NOT make me dizzy; called dr to ask if something else is going on since husband IS still severely dizzy but no answer yet and then I look this up and find the same problem - that the drs/pharmacists don't want to say the dizziness is caused by this med. VERY WORRIED. M 45 7 days
500 mg 2X day
4/15/2015
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 3  septicemia pain in the eyes,feeling weak,metallic taste in the mouth,depression, VOMITING which I have to control,nausea,loss of appetite I'm still on the antibiotic and I feel like crap!!!! F 22 5 days
15
4/14/2015
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 1  Bv THIS IS THE WORST ANTIBIOTIC EVER. I only took it for two days and my whole body is covered in an itchy bumpy rash. My legs and arms feel like they have concrete blocks hanging from them and it hurts badly. I'm super nauseous and nothing tastes right. I stopped the med 26 hours ago and no relief from any of these symptoms yet. I also have had weird bad dreams, also in the naps I take in the day. This antibiotic will get you bedridden. And don't even get me started on the dibilitating headache it causes me. Constantly. Even when I have to walk to the bathroom or the kitchen it seems like a lot of work due to the feeling of these concrete blocks on my hands and legs. The rash allover in red itchy bumps is enough to make you crazy. I'm taking benadryl which gives some relief from the itch but the rash is still just as bad. Couldn't be more unhappy. This drug will send the most calm person over the edge. Nightmare!!!! F 39 7 days
500 mg 2X day
4/14/2015
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 1  bv nausea, loss of appetite, metallic taste in mouth, fatigue, depression, anxiety, panic attack, feeling of dying, HORRIBLE lower back pain, feeling of being out of my mind, dark urine, buring with urination, frequent urination, restlessness thought i needed to go to the ER on day 5 F 19 7 days
500 2X day
4/14/2015

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