INDOMETHACIN Reviews (INDOMETHACIN)Average Rating: 3.0 (317 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare INDOMETHACIN with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR INDOMETHACIN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Gout | Extreme drowsiness within 1 hour, mild slurring of speech, phenomenal headache after 24 hrs., bumpy rash on fingers @ 4 days, mental confusion / out of it. | Walked with increasing pain for 10 days prior to starting medication. Pain was gone within 4 hours of first dose but the ensuing side effects are not worth it to me. I'll drag my stiff and swollen ankle to my grave before I swallow another of these. | M | 56 | 4 days 75 mg 2X day | 7/10/2010 | 1 | Gout in foot | Hot face, panicky feeling, fluttery feeling in chest, out of it, slightly confused, emotional, scared, dizzy, shallow breathing, fast heart rate, extremely tired | Took it after a light snack of fruit, not a full meal as recommended. My mistake!!! It did help my foot but the side effects were horrible. Ended up calling paramedics and went to ER. No heart attack thank goodness. Discontinued use aftert 1pill. | F | 56 | 1 days 50 3X day | 12/21/2018 | 5 | For Gout | The only side effect I have is a slight feeling of anxiousness and heightened senses. A great trade-off for the pain! | The gout was in my left toe,knee,fingers and throbbing. I am to take 1 50 mg 3x a day. I take 2 to start and boom in 20 min. no pain. I haven't had an attack for 3 years by keeping my body ph neutral away from acid and no allopurinol needed. As soon as the ph went acid boom...gout and to the rescue indomethacin. Use once or twice a year! | M | 55 | 10 years | 2/5/2009 | 5 | gout | None noted | I thought this a miracle drug for my gout. I also use 50mg PRN for severe lower back and muscle pain when OTC drugs no longer help. Will not take regularly, due to fear of eventual GI bleed. | F | 55 | 6 months | 2/13/2009 | 3 | gout and psoriatic arthritis | severe water retention, heartburn and esophageal reflux, tinnitis (which never went away, even after I stopped the drug), lethargy, depression with long term use, peripheral neuropathy, arm muscles temporarily weakened, excruciating pain in my muscles every morning after the drug had worn out of my system overnight, worsened psoriasis, rage and anger when the drug wore out or was low in my system. | I don't know what I would have done without it when my arthritis wondition was at its worst; that is why I gave it a 3; however, because it caused tinnitis that I did not have before I took the drug and was never able to get rid of, because it caused severe muscle pain (unrelated to the arthritis and clearly caused by the drug)that left me bed ridden for a month after I went off the drug, because it was very hard on my stomach, and because I now have cataracts that may have been worsened by my NSAID usage, I would never take this or any NSAID drug again. I try to take nothing or tumeric, which has similar but weaker analgesic and anti-inflammatory properties | F | 55 | 3 years | 6/2/2007 | 3 | Gout | Always has caused very bad headache and upset stomach. During the latest use (three days ago), I experienced my first-ever acid reflux episode. | I have been using it for several years only when my gout would flare up (once/twice per year). Excellent in helping kill the pain. | M | 55 | 3 days 75 mg 1X day | 11/10/2010 | 3 | Gout | Oxygen depletion. At least if felt that way. Panic attack. | I thought for sure I was dying. | M | 55 | 1 days | 6/25/2020 | 2 | hemicrania continua | dizziness, light-headedness, anxiety, agitation | Dulled the headache, but did not relieve it. | F | 55 | 5 days | 4/19/2005 | 2 | torn finger tendon inflamation | swelling in feet and ankles, bleeding blisters on lower legs | the drug did not help the swelling, I do have NASH liver disease and that may have been a contributing factor of the side effects | M | 55 | 3 days | 12/19/2007 | 1 | gout | After about 25 minutes of taking one pill, I became very disoriented and dizzy, could not move from my chair and had significant trouble breathing normally. It was so scary that I decided to get my phone handy to call 911, though I had trouble getting up from my computer to get to the phone. After 15 minutes of trying to concentrate on breathing and deciding whether or not to call 911, I slowly made it 20 paces or so to unlock my door in case paramedics needed to enter my house. After sitting for over an hour concentrating on not blacking out, and still contemplating calling 911, I finally began to feel like I could walk. It is now 4 hours later and I still feel a quite dizzy and hazy, though my breathing is nearly normal. I am calling my MD to inform him of this response, and am throwing away the rest of this prescription. Please consider an alternative to this medication! | F | 55 | 1 days 50 mg. 1X day | 2/9/2011 | 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 | Gout | Upset stomach. Very uncomfortable and mildly painful stomach ache that has lasted over a day after last dose. Only took for 1 day dosage versus 5 day recommended. Through the other 12 pills in the trash. Benefits definitely do NOT outweigh the side effects. | M | 55 | 1 days 50 MG 3X day | 5/31/2023 | 5 | hemicrania continua | None Noted | This drug has eliminated my headaches. The headaches return within a day or so without it. | M | 54 | 1 years | 12/28/2007 | 4 | post hip surgery | severe drowsiness.faster heartbeat at bedtime, | seems to be effective painkiller, kicked in quickly | M | 54 | 1 months | 10/29/2008 | 4 | Reoccuring gout | Dizziness, slight diaherra, slightly anxious feeling | Have been taking for a couple of years during gout attacks. Seems very effective in warding off attacks if taken in time (just when feeling a gout attack starting). My doctor has recently discovered (xray of my feet) that I have started to show changes to the bone structure in my feet due to reoccuring gout, and has prescibed Allopurinal. He mentioned that I may experience a few new attacks while satring this medicine for the first few months. I don't see any other comments about the indomethacin and allopurinol drugs. Does anyone take allopurinol with the indomethacin to ward off any new gout attacks? | M | 54 | 2 years | 1/8/2009 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 1 | Gout | Dosage 25 mg. Within 30 minutes started to feel "goofy". Nauseous, dizzy and blood pressure up 180/90, normally 120/69. I don't normally have side effects from taking medication and the side effects from this drug was overwhelming. | F | 54 | 1 days | 7/6/2008 | 1 | Strained plantar faschia | First couple days on medication were fine. However, on day four I began to experience acute, vertiginous dizzy spells and a NASTY headache. On day 4 I became so drowsy I slept 15 hours, which is extrememly abnormal from my 7 hours a night average. On day six, after the morning dose, I decided to remove myself from the drug to use ibuprofen instead. I think that in my case I should not have had this drug prescribed for me, considering it's adverse potency. | TOUGH STUFF. Handle with care... | M | 54 | 5.5 days | 6/21/2007 |