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 | Heel sour | Numbness of the face, felt like someone had given me anesthesia, like I was gonna pass out. Throat felt like it was closing up and tighting of the chest. I felt like I was losing my mind. Very afraid | I was driving home from work talking to my mom and telling her I didn't feel right then my face started getting numb. I hung up and called my husband and then told him about it and then my throat felt like it was closing up and I had a tighting in my chest. He immediately told me pull over now and call 911. I did but I felt foolish. They came and put me in the ambulance. They wanted to take me to the hospital but I decided to go home. I do remember the emt guy asking if I had ever had a panic attack. I said no cause I haven't. After reading all these reviews I realize I wasn't crazy it has happened to others with this drug. I'm sorry but after what I went through people need More warnings about this medicine! I can promise you I will Never Ever take this medicine again!! I have never been so scared. I thought I was gonna die. | F | 48 | 1 days 50mg | 6/27/2015 | 1 | psuedo gout | Lightheadedness, dizziness, sensations of being on a roller coaster including stomach flutters, head and ear pressure, intermittent hot and flushed feeling of head. Always feel like I'm moving. | The symptoms hit me after about the third dose. I stopped taking the drug after the symptoms hit. Symptoms haven't stopped so I haven't been able to work for 2 months now. Not inner ear related according to extensive testing. Somehow, it seems this has caused a nerve issue. So far my doctors are stumped. | M | 48 | 2 days | 3/7/2009 | 5 | ankylosing spondylitis | Bit dizzy. | This drug has been a life-saver for me. I could (just) cope with AS by taking over the counter pain killers until I had a work accident and tore a disc in my lower back. After that the pain was terrible everyday! I only take suppositories and only one at night (as it makes me a bit dizzy about 1 hour after taking it). I take about 1 per week. I've would never consider anything else. | F | 47 | 15 years | 3/26/2009 | 5 | pleurisy, inflammatory pain | I feel drowsy and dizzy from 30 minutes after the dose and lasting 2 hours. I have anxiety, but indocin "drowsy" feeling actually kills the anxiety for me, which is a positive side effect. But try to plan not driving for a couple of hours. I have tinnitus all the time, and I think indocin might make it worse. But relief from pain is the trade off that makes it worth while. | I do not take indocin every day, to try to minimize any side effects. It is the ONLY med that works for my pain and achyness. It works when MORPHINE does not work. My son has a kidney disease, which is why I don't take it regularly, I am afraid of kidney side effects and I want to be able to donate a kidney if need be (I hope and pray I don't have to, but that is my fear) | F | 47 | 5 years 50 1X day | 1/23/2011 | 5 | PRIMARY ICE PICK HEADACHES | YES SIDE EFFECTS...ABDOMINAL PAIN EVEN TAKEING PROTONIX AND LIBRAX TO HELP WITH THOSE. OCCASIONAL FATIGUE. HASN'T TOTALLY 'CURED' THE HEADACHES BUT THEY ARE UNDER CONTROL. | This is the ONLY thing that has helped. The ice picks are totally dibilating sudden and more times a day than I use the bathroom. Nothing else worked not morphine not steriods NOTHING. It is a pain on the stomach but lesser of the evils. | F | 47 | 12 months 75 MG 3X day | 12/29/2010 | 5 | Gout (Podagra) | Although the pain is alleviated by this medication, I found that if I took it B4 exercise it caused light-headedness. I took the normal dosage with water then a I had a whey protein shake (Whey is just the runoff from cheese processing)When I was at the gym I started to feel very weak and disoriented. I went home napped and the effects seemed to stabilize. I would not shy away from this med if it helps. I just won't take it before exertion. | M | 47 | 2 days 50 3X day | 9/28/2010 | 5 | Gout | Lightheaded, diarrhea | Miracle drug! Despite side effects it allows me to continue my life when I have a Gout attack. Without indocin, I can't sleep or function after a gout attack. Colchicine is no help. Also, hydration helps prevent Gout attack. | M | 47 | 5 days 50 3X day | 9/4/2011 | 5 | Insomnia | A feeling of heat at the back of the neck. | Originally prescribed to me for gout, but it was not helpful for this problem. But I've suffered from very poor sleep for many many years, and sleeping pills and melatonin have never been of much use in this regard. With Indomethacin, however, very quickly noticed that my sleep improved, sleeping more deeply and without waking during the night. In the morning, do not feel groggy or hungover. The impression is that of relaxing my brain, rather than sedation. For me, it is a revolution of my everyday life. So the score of 5 is as an insomnia treatment, despite inability to improve my gout. Will continue to take 2 per nocte and monitor effects over the long term. | M | 47 | 1 months 2X day | 7/14/2018 | 4 | GOUT | Headache, diarhia, breathing difficulty, blood pressure issues as it made a heart beating like sound in my ears, worsened my tinnitus, pretty much rendered me useless by the 3rd day on it. I was very dizzy from the start of takng it until 2 days after I stopped taking it. I also have pain in left side of my chest which I did not have before | This med did work for the pain of gout. gve me very unpleasant and very scary side effects. I was bedbound by the 2nd day using it and stopped on day 3 after a very loud beating or whirring sound appeared in my ears. Dr. said it was from blood pressure perhaps. I was not supposed to take this smed because of my asthma but they gave it to me anyways, why i do not know? | F | 47 | 3 days 50 MG 3X day | 2/12/2011 | 3 | occasional flare-up of Gout | Light headedness, slight upset stomach | I recently had cellulitis on my leg, I was hospitalized for 8 days. On the 6 th day my toe flared up with gout on the same leg. I've been on indomethacin for a week now and it relieves the pain temporarily. Im not sure if the antibiotics im on (cephalexin) is countering the effects of the indomethacine, but before this if I had a flare up it alleviate the pain right away and I would be back to normal in about 3 days. | M | 47 | 1 weeks 50 mg 3×/d | 1/5/2015 | 2 | Gout | Dizziness, nausea, upset stomach | M | 47 | 2 days | 7/13/2008 | 2 | Gout | Fairly severe headaches early in the morning, and then dissociation (a form of panic attack), racing heart beats, and psychosis which sent me to the emergency room twice, and the second time I had to be hospitalized for two days in a psychiatric ward | This is a big price to pay to fight the inflamation caused by gout. I am off work for more than two weeks now, and I am now recovering from the trauma this whole ordeal has caused me | M | 47 | 5 days | 3/31/2009 | 1 | Post surgery hip laberal repair | Difficulty focusing vision and concentration. Initially I thought something was wrong with my reading glasses because I had to concentrate so hard just to focus my vision while reading. "out-of-it". Extreme lack of energy. Alternating between being hot/sweaty and cold with chills. By day 7, all symptoms were so bad my wife almost called 911 (embarrassing since I'm a fire fighter/paramedic) until on a whim, we looked up side effects of this drug (only med I'm taking regularly). | M | 47 | 7 days 25mg tid | 4/5/2013 | 3 | Prescribed for Gout | Take too much and stomach problems. | Formerly on Colchicine, went to a new doc and he prescribed PREDNISONE, a cortiosteroid, and Indomethacin. Both of these have the same result - they reduce the inflamation and pain - but do NOTHING to stop the attack. I have had attacks last up to a month now on this new doc's ideas (makes me wonder if he just wants to keep me coming back?$$$). Took one, my last one, Colchicine last week and the next day the gout was 1/2 as bad (with no Indo or steroids). Am seriously going to get a 2nd opinion tomorrow. Do the research - Indomethacin does not cure Gout - it is a NSAID (non-steroidal anti-inflammitory drug) designed to reduce inflammation and pain - that's it. You must take something designed to fight gout to stop an attack unless you are just lucky and your body gets around to reducing uric acid levels and crystals itself (never happened for me)... | M | 46 | 1.6 years | 5/15/2006 | 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 | 1 | Gout | Giddiness, light headedness, a little confusion, trouble being fully coherent, disturbed sleep; on the 13th day severe disorientation followed by a massive panic attack requiring an ambulance and complete loss of emotional control for about an hour | Didn't really hit the gout either | M | 46 | 13 days | 10/30/2005 | 1 | Gout | Took it as a precautionary measure against gout sporadically over 4 months. Didn't make the correlation right away, but I had 4 separate panic attacks and just thought COVID life was taking its toll, which was a bit concerning as I've Never been an anxious person. The last time I took it, within 10 minutes had a huge panic attack and an felt like I was about to explode. Heavy breathing. Anxious behaviour. Jittery and erratic. Was on the freeway driving and don't remember how I got to my destination. Pulled over 3 times (I think) to move around to try and shake off the effects. Worst feeling in my life. Finally out two and two together and realized that my 4 first panic attacks were all centred around taking a dose. Will never, ever take it again. Gout pain is way better. | M | 46 | 1 days 50mg 1X day | 6/28/2021 | 5 | Rheumatoid Arthritis | Light headed. | This drug has been my pain killer for over 20 years. It's great. No other drugs work. Been told is no longer manufactured? I'm trying something else now but I feel terrible and I really would like to know if it has in fact stopped being manufactured. | F | 45 | 1 years 75mg R | 4/3/2017 | 5 | gout | none. | overnight relief - swelling eliminated and pain went from intense throbbing pain that ws intolerable to nearly non existant literally overnight. 50 mg 2x daily - total of 150 mg over 36 hours. | M | 45 | 2 days | 1/3/2007 | 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 |