CARAFATE Reviews (SUCRALFATE)Average Rating: 2.9 (140 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare CARAFATE with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR CARAFATE | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | Bile acid gastritis | Only side effect was dehydration and weight loss. | Well worth taking.Nausea is less and stomach pain is tolerable. It does take a bit of work to keep up with the dosing schedule. | F | 63 | 3 months 4000mg/day | 8/2/2019 | 4 | Bile GERD, hiatal hernia, ulcer | Lethargic, sleepiness | F | 66 | 3 weeks 1gm | 6/27/2019 | 1 | GERD | This medication is horrible! I was taking it for GERD (like i have in the past...except i took a white pill before... i didnt get any side effects and it healed me) now, I got the pink pills and they have absolutely made me far worse than i ever was. I have severe, watery diarrhea, headaches, dizziness, floating sensations, intense gas, and shaking. I just want to get better. I feel so awful. This pink carafate pill has ruined my life :''( | They are very hard to swallow. I choked a few times and had to resort to dissolving them completely in water and drinking it. | F | 30 | 1 months 1gm 4x | 5/1/2019 | 3 | Gastritis | Tingling and numbness in my left wrist, fingers, elbow, and upper arm feeling like squeezing, was thinking it was a heart problem but after seeing this the reviews l have the same thing as someone else. I also hope it’s not a dangerous side affect | F | 56 | 6 days 1Gm 4x day | 4/9/2019 | 3 | Bile in my stomach | Numbness In arms, fingers, wrists. Some joint pain but hoping that's not a dangerous side effect. | F | 63 | 15 days | 2/27/2019 | 4 | Massive abdominal pain, | It stopped the pain , but it makes food taste terrible, mine is the liquid and its 10 mls 4 x per day ..but when I woke up this morning my front of my neck hurt so bad . So I don't know it's day 2 ..and the only thing i like is no pain | F | 47 | 8 weeks 10ml | 2/26/2019 | 5 | Gastritis | Mouth watery,metallic taste mild stomach ache but tolerable, from 10 mg 2x a day Im cutting down cause I also take 40 of nexium and I eat bland foods | F | 64 | 3 months 2 tspx a d | 1/8/2019 | 1 | Ulcer | Horrible gas and diahrrea. Metal taste in mouth, headache and dizziness. | F | 59 | 2 days 1mg | 6/24/2018 | 5 | Ulcer | None | After taking Omeprazole and other PPIs, I was having little no relief for an entire 6 weeks. My doctor put me on this and I’m so glad he did! My ulcers were cleared up and I finally feel like myself again. I can eat more and my appetite returned. Definitely recommend to anyone suffering the same problem! | F | 22 | 0 days 1 gram | 6/23/2018 | 2 | severe heartburn | Maybe I'm not on it long enough? But sometimes it will actually activate the heartburn when not having any! I also feel extremely shaky and nervous and weak a few hours after taking it. THAT could be mental as I have anxiety, but this seems different somehow. Hey, I don't mind the taste at all! To me it tastes like a liquid form of those Smartie candies! I was only prescribed it for 10 days, doctor seems to think my severe stress is causing an overload of acid. I will take it the whole 10 days, maybe it's just not in my system enough yet. | F | 59 | 5 days 10ml 3X day | 3/24/2018 | 5 | CVS on ROB thru pic line 24 he day | None had to stop taking because it was covered by my insurance and cost me $50 through Humana and one day when I went to refill the liquid version was $2000. The man next to me with United Heath Care had the same problem. | Anyone know the reason for the huge jump in cost for the liquid version | 48 | 3 months | 1/6/2018 | 4 | Gastritis bile reflux | I can't say that it makes me feel better when taking it. But when I have a flare up and I stop taking it after 2 weeks I feel better. I tried not taking it at all with a flare up and flare up doesn't go away. I guess it helps. | F | 53 | 0 years | 11/3/2017 | 5 | For my ulcers | None that i know of when i take it takes shortness ofbreath away | F | 54 | 3 years | 10/22/2017 | 3 | Barrett's esophagus | it has helped my ulcers and my esophagus, but it has left me with shortness of breath and I've had a very hard time breathing. so I have to find another solution and stop taking it | F | 54 | 10 days | 10/8/2017 | 5 | Barratts oesaphageus | Dry throat when swallowing. | Complete cure. Heartburn cured. | F | 69 | 15 days 2 tablets | 7/22/2017 | 3 | Gastritis | dizziness, chills, nausea | It seems to help the pain and nausea from gastritis but I have trouble functioning with side effects. I am only taking 1 ml, rx says 10 and doctor told me to take 2 ml because I am underweight and very sensitive to meds | F | 67 | 5 days 2 ml 2X day | 7/14/2017 | 5 | Admitted to ER with extreme gastritis | Slight nausea but I was also given pepsid, valium and morphine. Perhaps the combination caused nausea. | I'd never heard of it until that ER visit. | F | 60 | 1 days 1 gram li | 4/3/2017 | 4 | Reflux, Hiatal hernia | Mouth dryness was very distracting, tried to decrease. Was able to almost get off carafte, but after bronchitis and asthma , symptoms came back with a vegence. Burning in esophagus, gi distress, inner tremors and brain fog. Can't take ppi's, so I'll have to live with symptoms. Glad I found this site and learned others have similar side effects! | F | 73 | 4 years | 2/21/2017 | 4 | acid reflux | Back pain still get a bit of heartburn and ingestion dizziness hot fever | Is a good medicine to take hope I feel better with it soon | F | 41 | 2 months 1mg | 12/31/2016 | 3 | Gastritis | I'm not sure if it was (seasonal) allergies, nerves, or what... But a sticky feeling in my throat and feeling of something catching in my throat.... Also coughed a little and sore throat. | Other than that.... What a blessing.... I already was talking Pepcid for the gastritis and that killed some of the acid and pain, but the carafate killed it off entirely... The doctor wants me to take it 4x's a day (there was signs of minute traces of blood in my stool; doctor believed that it was just aggravated stomach, and not yet quite an ulcer), but between the Pepcid and Maalox and bland diet, I'm wondering if 2xs a day would be sufficient. Considering my anxiety disorder, I can't help but think that a lot of the feeling that I have with the medication isn't mental. | M | 30 | 1 days 1gm | 9/24/2016 |