INDOMETHACIN Reviews (INDOMETHACIN)Average Rating: 3.0 (318 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare INDOMETHACIN with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR INDOMETHACIN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Frozen shoulder | Extreme nausea, bad gas, canker sores, sleeplessness, abominable migraine, stomach cramps, palpitations, hot & cold flushes, restlessness. Only the most minor relief from frozen shoulder | F | 38 | 5 days 50mg 3X day | 4/4/2010 | 4 | spinal stenosis | Some light headedness, some GI discomfort, some upset stomach issues | I am a pharmacist so understood what I was using before I started. This is one of the older NSAIDs, but has been unsurpassed in efficacy.....IF you can get to the correct dose for you! Dosing guidelines are just that...guidelines. Your MD can help you find the correct dose. The drug is used long term, but you should be aware of stomach and cardiovascular issues, especially for older patients. | M | 54 | 60 days 50mg 2X day | 3/31/2010 | 2 | Bone bruise in foot | For the first two days I felt like this was a miracle pill. The foot pain I was dealing with from a bone bruise was so horrible I could barely walk. A few hours after taking this pill I could walk and the pain was nearly gone. I took the pill for the next few days and felt incredible. On the fourth day I was supposed to take the pills I woke up sweating, vomited twice in 20 minutes and had a horrible throbbing migraine. Over the course of the day i had shortness of breath felt dizzy while walking, had a tingling sensation all over my body that was worse in my extremities and spent almost my whole day lying in bed. It is now the second day of not taking this drug and I woke up with the same headache and shortness of breath. I have not vomited but am slighly less nauscious than yesterday. | This website was very helpful and made me less worried about the fact that I feel like a bag of mush. I dont think that the few days of pain was worth these now days of sickness that will last for how long, i'm not sure. It seemed great at first but the side effects caught up with me an I am wasting a beautiful sunny weekend laying in bed feeling horrible instead of limping around on crutches. In my opinion it was not worth it. I would not recommend this drug to anyone unless their pain is so severe they are not concerned with feeling like they have the flu. | F | 27 | 3 days 50 mg 3X day | 3/20/2010 | 1 | chostocondritis | HORRIBLE MIGRAINE HEADACHE THAT WILL NOT GO AWAY EVEN 4 DAYS AFTER I HAVE STOPPED TAKING THE DRUG. | I would not ever have taken this drug had I know this would result in the worst headache I could imagine. Debilitating after the first day I stopped taking the drug and now three days later the headache still exists but I can live with it. I'm afraid of what damage this has done that would cause such a severe reaction after only 4 days. | F | 41 | 4 days 50 3X day | 3/2/2010 | 3 | torn meniscus repair | light-headedness, nosebleeds | Worked just fine for the pain and inflammation. The problem was side effects. I have an aspirin-like platelet defect which is normally not a problem for me with frequent dosages of NSAIDS. Apparently more than a few doses of indomethacin led to nosebleeds. Light-headedness if taken on an empty stomach is one description, I suppose; two older work colleagues who had taken it for arthritis in one case and a bone spur in another referred to the side effect as an "out of body experience". In my case it felt as almost exactly as if I'd rapidly consumed three drinks on an empty stomach. | M | 45 | 30 days 1X AN | 2/13/2010 | 1 | Gout | Took my 1st dose @ 7:15 AM with food; by 11:00 I was light headed, checked my glucose level and it was normal. 11:15 checked my blood pressure and it was normal. 5 minutes later blood pressure was raising. Thank goodness I was in a school setting with a registered nurse. I ended up sweating, very light-headed and feeling tingling and numbness over my whole body; felt like I had a lead blanket on top of me holding me down with additional pressure on my upper chest. I ended up being taken by ambulance to the hospital with the fear of a stroke / heart attack. It was the scariest event of my life. I would not recommend this medication to anyone!! This is only with one dose! | This drug has been around for over 40 years. If people are having as many medical problems with this drug as I did why is it still on the market??? | F | 55 | 1 days 75 mg 1X day | 2/6/2010 | 1 | r arthritus | i took my first tablet 50mg at 9.30am by 11.00am i was on the floor of my bathroom vomiting dizziness lightheaded disorintated its now 8pm and i have numness and tingling down one side of my face will never take them again it was the most frighting experience thankgod my husband was passing and popped in as i had a 16mth old baby in the house | would not recommend to anyone | F | 34 | 1 days | 2/2/2010 | 3 | 75mg once a day | It does a great job with GOUT pain attacking my big toe. Take with food and drink plenty of water all day. Beware of long term use. | It took time to figure out what caused my gout attacks. I have learned that any food or drink with HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP will trigger a gout attack within a few hours. I have also learned after not taking this medication for 3 days all my joints in my body begin to stiffen and hurt. If I keep using this medication my joints feel fine. Stay away from HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP! I would also like to know how long it takes to get back to normal after you quit using this medication? I hope this information helps. | M | 48 | 2 years | 1/28/2010 | 5 | Daily headaches | If I dont eat something with it... feel dizzy and light headed. | I have missed a few days in the yr that I have been taking this med, and it gives me a killer headache, but if I remember to take the dose early enough it will get rid of it. I have had daily headaches for 3.5 yrs and was always given migraine meds, which never worked. When given Indo, I was greatly relieved of my painful headaches. I get checked every year for ulcers and have yet to have any major problems from this medication. | F | 27 | 1 years | 1/25/2010 | 2 | post concussion headaches | severe, pounding headaches(much worse than migraines | F | 21 | | 1/3/2010 | 3 | reactive arthritis | I took Indomethacin from 1987 until 2002. The resulting side effects from this long term use in my case are: permanant tinnitus, anemia, fatigue, and GERD. I was taken off Indomethacin in 2002 due to the intestinal loss of blood I was incurring, which required blood transfusions. | It helped reduce the pain of my arthritis, but I am now paying the price for its long-term use. | M | 54 | 15 years | 12/27/2009 | 3 | unassociated spondylitis (low back) | bizarre anxious feeling; nervousness; inability to concentrate; | I've been taking indomethacin 2x daily (50mg)for three weeks approximately and began noticing a weird mid-day panic feeling about a week ago. It felt so overwhelming that I was sure something horrible was happening...I was forgetting something important at work or something would happen to someone I cared about. I couldn't concentrate on my work and needed to get up constantly. I didn't start tying it to the drug until it began happening consistently every day around 1pm (two hours after I took the pill) and fading around 3:30. I told my doctor I thought I was going crazy so she's given me a sample of celebrex instead. It definitely helped with severe lower back and joint pain that I've had for months, but I guess it's just not chemically well-matched with me. | F | 32 | 21 days | 10/22/2009 | 1 | pericarditis | severe dizziness, light-headedness, drowsiness. The closest I've ever come to losing consciousness in my life! I took the first 3 doses and tolerated them ok- but on the third day, I became extremely light-headed and disoriented within an hour of taking the drug. This progressed until I almost passed out- had to sit down with my head between my knees until the episode passed. Fortunately, I knew this was a common side effect, so didn't panic. I then went home and crashed for a couple of hours, after which I felt better. | Lots of people tolerate indomethacin just fine- but if you're one of the ones who don't, don't panic! Just realize that it is just a medicine side effect- you are NOT having a heart attack or a stroke! To help prevent this, take with plenty of food and water and don't drive or do anything dangerous for a couple of hours after taking it. Even if you have no problems with the first dose or two, you could still experience troublesome side effects with a subsequent dose. | F | 38 | 3 days | 9/18/2009 | 1 | inflammation of rib muscles | Extremely severe headache, dizziness, diarrhea, nausea, sleeplessness, swollen eyelids | The first night on it, I didn't sleep. I had diarrhea the entire next day and again did not sleep that night. The following day, I had the worst headache that I can ever remember; I felt like my head would explode. Again, I didn't sleep that night. When I woke the next day, my eyelids were swollen. It was four days before I associated this drug with all of my symptoms. After a day without taking it (was prescribed 50mg, 3xday), I am symptom free. I will NEVER, EVER take this drug again!!! | F | 54 | 5 days | 8/26/2009 | 4 | Gout | Increased dreams, I usually do not dream too much. Some headache on the third day and discomfort on my stomach. Also it seems that I am gaining weight | I usually take Naproxen but this time gout got to my ankle, so my doctor gave me Indomethacin 75mg x 2 per day. I feel much better. | M | 49 | 3 days | 8/11/2009 | 3 | Gout | Did relieve pain and had a sedating effect. Day 3 brought dizziness, out-of-it sensation, slurred speech, trip to ER. | Shot blood pressure to 200/102 during dizzy episode. Will not take again with these side effects. Did, however, curb pain. Slept well after taking. | M | 46 | 3 days | 7/18/2009 | 5 | hemicrania continua | none that I am aware of | In 2005 I started having debilitating chronic headaches. For four months the neurologists I was seeing were clueless and I was beginning to have suicidal thoughts, the pain was that bad. Then I found a headache specialist who started indomethacin treatment and the horrific headache was gone. I still have low-grade headache pain, and the bad pain starts to come back if I miss a dose, but otherwise I can function like a normal person. So far, no adverse effects after four years. Don't know what I would do if I had to stop taking it. There doesn't seem to be an alternative for treating hemicrania continua. | M | 45 | 4 years | 7/12/2009 | 4 | Both shoulders paining | After my left knee replacement about 3 weeks later my shoulders started giving me a lot of pain.I have R. Artheritis. I was advised by knee surgon to take this drug for a week | I got much relief from my right knee pain and shoulders after taking one capsule at night after dinner. If I stop it for a day or two the pain begins again. But I am scared about the side effects if I use it for a long period of time | M | 59 | 8 days | 7/7/2009 | 5 | Inflammation of Joints | Dizziness, light headed, weight loss (40 Pounds) | I take 100 MG of Indomethacin everyday (DAILY). I love this stuff and it has really reduced my overall joint pain. | M | 38 | 8 months | 7/5/2009 | 2 | gout | 1.5-2 hours after taking 100mg, I became very dizzy, very faint, with a weak pulse. Got helped home and started to feel better after about 6 hours. Had headache and slight dizziness for another day. This is after the 2nd time of taking indomethacin, with no side effects the first time. | M | 51 | 1 days | 6/30/2009 |