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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR FLAGYL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | amoebic dysentery | It is wonderfully reassuring to no longer be passing blood & mucus when I go to the loo. It also says strictly no alcohol on the instructions which has persuaded me to have my first alcohol free week in 20 years. Do feel very sleepy and lethargic, but this is a small price to pay. | F | 50 | 5 days | 12/30/2006 | 3 | diverticulitis | back pain, joint pain, abdominal pain (cramps?) all of which peak around the 3rd day - after which the cumulative pain is sufficient to cause sleeplessness. | I've had two attacks of diverticulitis, both treated with a combination of cipro and flagyl. The treatment worked fine both times but, because there were two drugs, I have no idea whether one or the other might have done the job alone. The side effects of flagyl are so severe (for me at least) that I finally called the hospital to ask whether I could cut or space out the dosage in an effort to reign in the side-effects. To my surprise the on-call Dr. said "stop it". Not being my regular Dr. I suppose he didn't want to go much further out on a limb by explaining how it is that I can stop a 10 day drug regimen at day 4.5, but his response was immediate and emphatic. Either the appearance of full blown side effects means the flagyl has done its job and is now looking for trouble where there is none, or the flagyl is a just-in-case side-kick to cipro thrown in to cover all the bases. I think the initial diagnosis and prescription should be done with enough care to eliminate | M | 58 | 4.5 days | 12/30/2006 | 1 | flagyl for TRICHOMONAS | tingling in fingers, nausea, metallic taste, hives | USE WITH CARE, was able to get herbal alternative. | F | 31 | 7 days | 12/20/2006 | 5 | C diff | weird taste in mouth, fatigue, fuzzy headed, nausea | The worst of the side effects passed after the first 24 hours. I find it a lot easier to get the pills down with sprite, and to take them in the middle of my meal so my stomach doesn't get upset and I have something to get rid of the bad taste afterward. | F | 24 | 7 days | 12/17/2006 | 3 | C.diff.colitis | I addition to usual side-effects which included metallic taste,extreme sensitivity to smell, I experienced Diabetes Insipidus which caused me to urinate large volumes of urine almost every couple of hours. I am a physician myself and was able to diagnose it promptly. Even I Got dehydrated and had to hospitalized.This is a rare side-effect but you should watch out for it. | Flagyl alone only partially helped my symptoms of bloody diarrhea. Later I took oral vancomycin in liquid form which worked much better but then bloody diarrhea recured 6 weeks after stoping vancomycin. This time I started on vancomycin capsules which worked only partially.Two weeks later, got on liquid form vancomycin with resolution of symptoms. In my opinion vancomycin in liquid form is better treatment for C.diff.colitis. | M | 51 | 18 days | 12/15/2006 | 5 | c diff | just bad taste after taking | within a day i felt 100 times better than day before. I guess its not for everyone, but at least i am not sitting on the toilet for hours at a time anymore. | M | 34 | 6 days | 12/14/2006 | 3 | bacterial vaginosis | flu-like symptoms (neck stiffness & pain, body aches, constant throbbing headache, fatigue, perhaps low-grade temp), constant nausea (near vomiting), metallic taste, mouth sores, swollen glands, some nasal congestion, loss of appetite | This is the third time I've taken this medication for the same condition. I've never experienced a side effect from a medication worth mentioning before. Sure, maybe drowsiness or dry mouth. Nothing compares to the side effects you will experience with this antibiotic, short of perhaps antibiotics used to treat cancer patients. I soldier through the week long course of treatment because I know it will cure my illness - and it does work - but I really am suffering. I chose SOMEWHAT SATISFIED because I know of no other antibiotic used to treat bacterial vaginosis that works so well, but it's a miserable week. The only other medications I take are a low-dose oral contraceptive and a multivitamin. I've heard (anecdotally - not evidence) that oral contraceptives and this med don't get along well together. Perhaps. If I hadn't taken this medication before and wasn't aware of the SEVERE side effects, I would go to a primary care physician to seek treatment for the flu. AWFUL. | F | 26 | 7 days | 12/8/2006 | 3 | C. dificile | nausea, diarrhea (not the C. dificile kind, it was usually really dark or yellow and not bubbly), numbness of feet, felt like crap all over, dizzy, lost appetite (could barely eat), dry sinuses, dry throat, it basically sucked the water out of me because my body was trying to get rid of it. | It did stop the C. dificile diarhea within a day, but then my body couldn't take the medicine and started to expell it out as fast as possible. I'd be hospitalized if I finished the whole prescription. Seems like some people can handle it though. | M | 24 | 4 days | 12/3/2006 | 3 | bacterial vaginosis | I heard of this medicine (metronidazole) before, reading about it. I asked pharmacist about oral tablet. I felt more tired and unsteady and had unpleasant taste in mouth but could live with it. There are other side-effects to be aware of. | I don't know at this time if I will be better from the medicine. I tried it now 6 days but not a lot of improvement yet. I'm still getting same symptoms. I'd check in soon with my scheduled doctor appointment in 2 weeks. | F | 47 | 6 days | 11/30/2006 | 4 | intestinal infection | nausea, metallic taste, disturbed sleep, slight dizzyness | Nausea was my biggest problem on this medication. After reading some of these posts, I started taking this horrid tasting pill with a cup of kefir. The nausea is all but gone. I also encased the cursed thing in an empty gel cap so I wouldn't have to taste it. You can get kefir and empty gel caps at health food stores or places like Wild Oats, Sprouts or Whole Foods. As an added benefit, I've learned that I really like kefir - you'll find it near the yogurt. | F | 43 | 14 days | 11/28/2006 | 5 | c-diff | insomnia, overall itching | I am surprised by some of the comments here. Yes, the pills taste bad. Medicine isn't *supposed* to taste good, and you can die from some of the things you people have. Yucky pill taste seems a small price to pay. My pill bottle says right on it, if this upsets your stomach, eat something with it, and don't drink alcohol or operate machinery. Maybe your problem is less your medication than it is your pharmacy. Flagyl (I'm taking the generic) knocked back the worst of my c-diff symptoms within a day. | F | 49 | 10 days | 11/18/2006 | 1 | BV | Extreme nausea, irratability, loss of focus, tiredness, headaches. | I would try anything else before this drug! I have been on it for 4 days now and every day around 1pm I get extremely nauseous to the point where I can barely function - not to mention the fact that I am extremely tired all of the time and cannot focus on anything for more than 2 minutes. The headaches are also bad - for me they seem to come in waves and add to my irratability. I don't think I can finish this prescription. | F | 32 | 4 days | 11/17/2006 | 1 | bacterial vaginosis | severe depression, anxiety, anxiety attacks, slowed brain function, slowed speech, inability to concentrate, bad taste and muscle cramping began AFTER I finished, loss of interest in anything in my life | Was only warned about the alcohol effects by MD and pharmacist. Play entire 90 min. soccer games without cramping, but this did it. Have a bachelor's degree in English linguistics (spoken language) and can't think of words I want to say, or read them out loud. 48 hours since last pill, and still cannot think clearly. The worst was the depression- constant thoughts of death for 4 straight days, anxiety attacks, constant feeling of needing to be somewhere in a hurry but nowhere to go. No appetite, but forced myself to eat, which made me feel like throwing it back up. | F | 27 | 6 days | 11/15/2006 | 4 | c diff | Initially huge loss of appetite, and nausea, then severe panic attacks in the latter stages, with leg numbness, dizziness, drymouth | My 14-day course started well - immediate relief from horrific c diff (got c diff after two courses of antibiotics for a cat bite). Didn't care about the nausea - when I ate it felt better. Around Day 10 I had a HUGE panic attack that lasted almost two days - hyperventilating, crying, diarrhea (NOT the C Diff kind!), confusion, felt I was going crazy. Leg weirdness too. My husband keeps saying he will be happy when I am off of this because it's made me weird, jumpy, dizzy all the time. Had to get some Xanax to sleep. Still if the c diff is at bay I have my life back - PARTIALLY. I am crying just reading about everyone else's symptoms and SO GLAD I am not imagining my own. | F | 40 | 14 days | 11/9/2006 | 5 | Bowel infection | loss of appetite,severe heartburn,nausea,tiredness,more frequent bowel movements the most bothersome is loss of appetite and severe heartburn | Side effects made drug nearly unbearable but it works | F | 24 | 3 days | 11/6/2006 | 3 | C-difficile and blastocytosis | on a normal dose (500mg 3 times per day for 10 days), my skin smelled funny and I felt a little funny; on a high dose (750mg 3 times per day for 14 days) I experienced dizziness, nausea, and vertigo | It helped with the Clostridium difficile infection and was worth taking at a normal dose. I am not sure when I took it several years later (one year ago) for blastocystosis whether it helped, and I think I damaged my liver. The side effects I had were listed as "call you doctor if these effects persist or worsen," which they did, but I waited too long to call because I thought I had the flu. I felt truly awful, missed more than one day of work in a row for the first time in my life, and felt better as soon as I stopped taking it (after 13 days) | F | 34 | 13 days | 11/3/2006 | 4 | Undetermined abdominal pain | Hahaha, well combine EVERY side effect on this page and you got what I have. Except the diahrea(sp?) Hot burning sensation in stomach area, flu-like symptoms - without a cold, TERRIBLE nausea, Tingling in hands and feet, Dizzyness/vertigo, Headaches, my vision is "blurry?" Paranoia/Anxiety, cramping, Horrid sour/metallic taste, fuzzy tounge, mouth tingling, tremors, Chest Pain, rapid heartbeat. etc. | Good lord I hope this is going to help my mystery problem. My doc's weren't REAL on top of my condition in the first place, and I had to tell THEM to prescribe me something for giardia. Although I had no Diahrea, I had all the other symptoms - which they never did a stool sample for. Plus I had upper pain near my gall bladder, and lower right quadrant pain. I had HORRIBLE cramps/"jab and jolt" like in my stomach and because they didn't know what my problem was - and when these symptoms from the Flagyl started, I though I was dying. I even got on my hands and knees and started to beg for mercy!!! With the depression I already had it made it SO much worse. Thank the good lord I found this website, or I was ready to call an ambulance. I could barely drive and I had to take the week off from work. But on the other hand, If it takes care of the mystery KILLER pains I've been having It's worth it - as long as I'm not like the poor other souls on this board who have had lasting s | F | 35 | 7 days | 10/26/2006 | 3 | unknown infection | side affects were bad for me, i only took one pill and bam severe alergic reaction. i broke out within one hour of taking the first pill, my skin turned bright red just like a sunburn, and a severe rash, itching, had to go back to the doctor and get a shot to stop the reaction. i had some type of an infection dr could not determine where or what it was, some type in my lower pelvic, quite painful and sore, so i don't know if it would have helped or not. by the way, doctor said my reaction to the drug was quite rare.... | F | 56 | 1 times | 10/24/2006 | 4 | c-diff | extreme fatigue, mild nausea, severe anxiety, depression, vertigo | the diarhea from c-diff went away after a few days. that was great news until i started becoming very tired. most days it was all i could do to get out of bed. i have anxiety problems anyway, and they got progressively worse on the flagyl. it got to be where simple errands like going to the grocery store seemed like too much effort. i thought there was something seriously wrong with me and asked my dr. if i should be on anti-depressants, but he told me it was probably a side-effect of the flagyl. i wish i had found this site before i started taking it because i in no way thought that the medicine was making me sicker. i just got back from the dr. this morning and my c-diff test was negative. hopefully it doesn't come back so that i can get on with my life. i am a little concerned looking at this site and seeing all the people who have had relapses. if it comes back i will ask my dr. for the vancocin. i'll pay the extra money if it doesn't make me feel so useless as flagyl di | M | 28 | 16 days | 10/23/2006 | 3 | H.Pylori | The worst thing possible is the awful, foul taste that is contantly there! It is so bad that it wakes me from a sound sleep. Have to be on this medication for 2 weeks. | F | 58 | | 10/7/2006 |