ALLOPURINOL Reviews (ALLOPURINOL)Average Rating: 3.0 (212 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare ALLOPURINOL with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ALLOPURINOL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | High Uric Acid Levels | fluctuating weight, rash, severe kidney stone build up (uric acid stones) | I had severe attacks associated with uric acid levels when diagnosed. I was told the usual, stop the red meat, smoking, drinking and trigger food etc, problem was and is that I am a non drinker, smoker and had been a vegetarian for a couple years prior to first diagnosis and remained so for another 2 years afterwards while they mucked with diet. Instead of gout symptoms I occasionally got the weight/rash issues and when I went in for a blocked urethra this year I was informed of the discovery of 6 additional stones in my right and 4 in the left kidney and all of them well over the 11mm range, all uric acid stones. My system has not been flushing but harboring it for several years. Allopurinol has lost effectiveness and I am still now in the process of surgery for removal. Strongly suggest if you have been on this for several years to get an ultrasound on the kidneys and verify your body has not turned to working around the drug as mine has. | M | 38 | 17 years 200 mg 1X day | 9/26/2011 | 1 | ucerative colitis | Week, painfully tired, headaches. most days I sleep once or twice during the day and get tiered a few hours latter or wake up tired. | I'm taking it for ucerative colitis. It was added to 25 mg of Mercaptopurine which is a 6mp imune saprussant to make it work better to get of prednisone. No one listed here says they are taking it for UC so I wonder if I'm a Ginni pig. Has anyone took it for IBD? | M | 53 | 1 months 100mg 1X day | 9/12/2011 | 1 | high uric acid caused by triamteren | legs became swollen,red and hot like sunburn. Some pitting on leg and peeling skin. Also nausea and chills. | This was supposed to reduce the level of uric acid caused by triamterene but really messed up my legs. Slowly getting better since I am off it. Using a regimen of cherry juice that seems to be helping. | F | 81 | 21 days 100 mg 1X day | 7/14/2011 | 1 | Gout | No gout attacks. However this drug had caused fertility issues and decreased sperm count to almost 0. Causes infertility and can also cause testicular failure. Would not recommend to any guy who possibly may want to have children. | M | 45 | 10 years 100mg 1X day | 7/8/2011 | 5 | Gout | None | I've taken this drug for years with no flare up's that is after about the first three weeks. I tried to get off the drug once because others had told me that they had success doing so. I had a flare up about four weeks after giving it up. Now that I have been reminded how painful the flare up's can be I will never stop taking again. | M | 29 | 11 years 1X day | 6/27/2011 | 1 | gout | muscle pains - ankles, knees, shoulders, hands could not sleep or eat Too many side affects | Several people have taken this drug and went into a coma. It shuts down the organs. Please be careful. | M | 73 | 3 days 100mg 1X day | 6/10/2011 | 5 | Gout | None | M | 57 | 12 years 100 mg 1X day | 5/15/2011 | 1 | Crystals in the kidney | Severe dry eyes and extreme sensitivity to light... optimoligist and nephroligist do not believe allopurinol is the cause but i disagree | if ANYONE also experienced these side effects please email me, i would ike to know what you did to treat it | F | 22 | 1.5 years 200 1X day | 4/22/2011 | 5 | Gout | None | After the initial 'pain' for around 2 months, have had no problems since | M | 51 | 4 years 100mg 1X day | 4/8/2011 | 3 | gout | fatigue, anxiety | I don't think it is effective as cholchicine | M | 55 | 2 years 100 mg 1X day | 3/27/2011 | 3 | Gout | I have been suffering from Gout since I was 23 now 43. I have, I think foolishly, been predudice against taking tablets every day - feeling this is a slippery slope. After a bad 2010 with many attacks I have bitten the bullet and started 7 days ago. I have constant pain in both toes but not as bad as a full blown attack, which usually effects just one toe at a time. I have read the comments and it seems a little unbelievable that the Uric Acid crystals 'melt' but I am going to persist with the Allopurinol. | I have been feeling very tired. I have had a couple of very bad tummy upsets this week. I will monitor and update again in a week. Any feed back from others is gratefully received - a trouble shared is a trouble halved an all that! | M | 43 | 7 days 300 1X day | 1/28/2011 | 4 | Gout | None so far | F | 68 | 10 days 200 mG 1X day | 1/11/2011 | 5 | gout | none that I can be certain are related to Allopurinol. | I had several very painful attacks in the mid 1990's, then none until around 2007 or so. It is the worst pain I've ever felt, so unless a side effect were life-threatening, I would take AP. I haven't had an attack since the one around 2007. | M | 64 | 3 years 150 MG 1X day | 1/7/2011 | 3 | gout | Right off I noticed that I was tired all the time and at times feeling confused. About every 2 weeks I will get painful welts on my face and scalp. Slight loss of hair on head, eye lids are red around the edges. Back pain on my lower right side and both left and right sides at times. I do on occassion drink some beer but have cut down to almost nothing. Gout symtoms have almost completly gone with an occasional scare. | I was putting of taking allopurinol for about five years but took the plunge after my last plolonged attack on multiple joints, ank;le, knee, wrist all on the left side. The pain was so bad I think that if there was an ax handy I would have used it on my ankle. My aim is to get my blood checked and if I like the numbers, get of this stuff, but I think it has helped thus far. Oh yeah I think the stuff does play a little with my mind. Maybe just cut my dose in half and stay on it? | M | 58 | 90 days 100 1X day | 12/21/2010 | 1 | Gout | severe allergic skin rash complete with burning, itching. "One of the most severe rashes she's seen." Immediately given prednisone and am still taking it. After 3 days, rash is starting to wane but still irritable. | F | 70 | 12 days 1X day | 12/17/2010 | 2 | gout | I have had severe fatigue, extreme forgetfulness, itchy rashes with welts on my hind legs and chest, stomach cramps, burning sensation in legs, tightness in ribcage and significant weight loss. | If i don't take the medicine, I have severe gout attacks. One such attack in June 2010 kept me bedridden for 2 days and necessitated a trip to the doctor. If I take the medication, the side effects occur. Either way I've been feeling seriously under the weather due to gout since June 2010. | M | 53 | 3 months 100 1X day | 11/19/2010 | 1 | gout | dizzyness,rashes all over,sallowen lymb nods.poped red eyelid,low grade fever to high-fever to low temp in three days,nerve system damaged,vombting,above all skin,head,everywhere itching all over.even prednisone cream couldn't stopped along /w hydroxyzine. | M | 62 | 30 days 300 1X day | 11/16/2010 | 5 | Gout | Diarrhoea possibly caused by allupurinol | M | 45 | 8 years 300mg 1X day | 11/11/2010 | 5 | Uric Acid control | I started using it as result of gout onset. No side effects at all. | Although I take the medicine daily, and it keeps my uric acid in normal levels, I still get a gout flare-up randomly, once or twice a year. | M | 55 | 10 years 10 mg 1X day | 11/10/2010 | 2 | slight hair loss, lethargic,low resistance to infections now got flu for first time in 12 years conjunctivitis twice in one month | have had gout 5 times in 8 months,so not sure if its helping me at all and am very concerned about the long term effects it might be doing to my body if I continue to take it!Thinking of either alternating the dose or cutting the tablet in half!! | F | 62 | 4 months 100MG 1X day | 10/10/2010 |