MOTRIN Reviews (IBUPROFEN)Average Rating: 3.0 (93 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare MOTRIN with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR MOTRIN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | post cesarean abdomninal abscess | I had ongoing abdominal pain after my abscess healed, but kept taking motrin for the pain. After a CT Scan & colonoscopy, it was discovered that the extended motrin use had caused inflammation in my large intestine. As soon as I stopped taking ibuprofen to treat the pain, the pain stopped completely. I felt 100 times better within a week. | None of my doctors warned me about prolonged motrin use. I thought it was safer than narcotics with a new baby. I only thought to mention it to my GI specialist after my nurse friend warned me that I had been taking it too long. It is really dangerous to take it regularly for extended periods of time. | F | 35 | 5 months | 4/24/2009 | 2 | Knee injury | the first day or two, just had the water retention, now severe vertigo which can't be attributed to anything else | F | 46 | 4 days | 4/13/2009 | 4 | Wisdom Teeth and Head Pain | Very mild Dysphasia, cannot concentrate on typing that well or any common task, lose track of thoughts easily. | Works good and I like how it doesnt give you the high feeling like Vicoden does but the dysphasia bothers me the most but not too much. | M | 17 | 3 weeks | 3/26/2009 | 3 | shoulder pain, arthritic | mild relief in a.m. when it is intense. On motrin 600 mg daily as needed | Unusual nosebleeds. Stopped, but will try again. | F | 70 | 3 days | 2/17/2009 | 1 | pain | Anxiety, depression, insomnia. Anger and weepiness. On 800+ mg/day per doctor's order for pain flare-ups. Also taking maintenance oxycontin and oxyIR and Lyrica for osteo pain. | Very sneaky drug. Rxlist.com shows 1% or fewer taking Motrin get anxiety, depression, and insomnia. No one would suspect an nsaid could do this, but I finally figured it out. No more Motrin for me! | F | 54 | 3 months | 1/31/2009 | 2 | plantar fasciitis | After two weeks of being on 800mg three times a day I became very bloated. I'm normally a size 6 and had to wear size 10. I was suppose to stay on it 3 X's a day for three weeks, however, I would rather deal with the pain than have stomach problems not to mention I wasn't sleeping well. | F | 48 | 2 weeks | 1/23/2009 | 5 | broken ribs | none | F | 42 | 9 days | 1/21/2009 | 4 | pain from possible staph infection | Certainly nausea, copious gas and I guess accompanying bloatedness; maybe some sleep interruption. | Seems surely to relieve the pain and burning sensation at the infection site. So much so that I mistakenly think the wound area is better healed than it really is. Pain relief? Great, so far. Side effects? Jury is still out -- its been only 2.5 days. | M | 50 | 2.5 days | 12/2/2008 | 3 | fever | F | 20 | 2 days | 11/2/2008 | 1 | Severe back pain... | Terrible stomach aches. | After I had my baby, I suffered from severe back pains. I was prescribed this to reduce pain in my back, but it did NOTHING. All it did was give me terrible stomach aches. It didn't touch the pain at all. It was a joke medicine to me. I have switched to Flexeril, which is working wonders. | F | 22 | 14 days | 9/25/2008 | 5 | Absessed Tooth | None-I usually eat before I take it, so I am not sure how it would be on empty stomach. | 600 motrin and 500 tylenol killed the pain, exept at night time. If I took it Tylenol PM with the Motrin early enough I can actually get some sleep | F | 29 | 5 days | 8/25/2008 | 3 | Post-hysterectomy pain | Nausea, headache | I took 600 mg every six hours for almost six days. The first three days it worked great. Day four I had nausea and a headache. Day five I switched back to Darvocet-N for temporary relief to get a break from the Motrin. Day six I tried the Motrin again -- nausea despite taking with food and the headache was worse than ever. Tomorrow, I'll go without. If I get a bad bought of pain, I'll try regular strength acetaminophen (Tylenol) instead. | F | 49 | 6 days | 8/21/2008 | 5 | Osteoarthritis | Slight stomach upset, slight dizziness | Motrin in prescription form is Ibuprofen in a large 800 mg dose. The large 800 mg dose worked well for me but b/c of the stomach upset, I take Advil or Motrin IB over the counter(same medicene, lower dosage). It comes in 200mgs so I can take the smallest effective dose. Taking the smaller dose helps a little with the stomach upset. The smaller dose took away the dizziness as well. | F | 31 | 5 years | 7/22/2008 | 1 | knee, hip and back pain | SEVERE stomach pain. Ringing in ears. Some dizziness, but the worst was the stomach pain and nasea. | This isn't fit to take. All docs want to do is push medication, rather than actually fix the root cause of the problem. I never didn't take the med, even after the doc prescribed because I don't like to take any sort of medication. But the pain got so bad, I gave in and took one 800 mg. pill on a full stomach. Was fine for about 8 hours, but then had horrible stomach pain and nasea for 20 hours-plus after taking just one pill. | F | 45 | 1 times | 5/25/2008 | 3 | Shoulder strain/injury | Bad constipation, gas. I had to to take Metamucil. A high-fiber diet did not do the trick. | I was prescribed 800mg to take 3 times a day for 2 weeks. It took a week before I felt some relief. With what sounds like a high dosage, I expected it to work better. My first time taking it was over 25 years ago (I believe it was pretty new on the market then) when I got severe menstrual cramps. Back then, I would have rated it a 5. It worked FAST, and I don't remember side effects. But I just took it the first or second day of my cycle, and I think I only took one each day. About 6 years ago I was prescribed Motrin to ease the "killer cramps" I got occasionally which was related to a previous major surgery even years earlier. It was like eating candy. It did NOTHING. I would have given it a 1 for that. My doctor gave me Vicodin instead when I said Motrin wasn't strong enough. (Vicodin WORKED) Also, since the cramps were so bad, it'd make me throw up. That would make me not only throw up the food I was to to take Motrin with, but up would come the medication as | F | 46 | 2 weeks | 5/24/2008 | 5 | Menstrual cramps | none | Motrin tends to work better than Tylenol for menstrual cramps. | F | 18 | | 4/28/2008 | 1 | Rheumatoid Arthritis. joint pain | high blood pressure | Never had a blood pressure problem until I began taking this drug on a regular basis to control pain/inflammation. This NSAID is definitely not for me! | F | 45 | 4 months | 4/16/2008 | 1 | plantar fasciitis | severe cramping in upper abdomen | After taking 800mg motrin every 8hrs for two weeks, my plantar fasciitis was better but I developed a severe pain in my right upper abdomen. So severe that I went to the emergency room and ended up having my appendix removed and IT WASNT MY APPENDIX!!!I will never take a drug again unless it is a life threatening reason to do so. | F | 50 | 2 weeks | 3/31/2008 | 4 | fever | peeling of skin on hands | after 6 days of giving my son motrin for a fever noticed skin was peeling from his hands. Bottom of the soles of his feet also very dry. | M | 7 | 5 days | 3/23/2008 | 5 | tendonitus bursitus shoulder | If I take 800mg on an empty stomach it will give me a bad stomach ache. | Motrin is better for me than even any perscription painkiller I have taken. It reduced the inflamation in my shoulder enough so I could sleep at night and have so far avoided surgery. After suffering with debilitating pain in my shoulder while 9 months pregnant I was thrilled when I had my baby and could take Motrin.(You cannot take it in the third trimester of pregnancy due to blood thinning) | F | 33 | 2 months | 2/19/2008 |