ADVIL Reviews (IBUPROFEN)Average Rating: 3.1 (86 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare ADVIL with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ADVIL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | back pain and pulled muscle | Chest pains always took it before daily walk at least 2,,hrs before walking. I quite today and wd walked 1hr no chest pain .thought i was goin to die.today aug 23 , ,2014 feel better than ever felt. I wont take any more. I couldnt fig. What was wrong. I'll just deal with my pain.im not ready to die. Just retired. Thank you God for helpin me find this out.my takes advil too. She has many symptons also | M | 64 | 1 years 200 | 8/23/2014 | 4 | 1 days | 8/16/2014 | 1 | Cold | unbearable itching and bright red rash on my hands, feet and legs. I took an allergy pill and applied calamine lotion, to no avail. After an hour in the bathtub running cold water on my legs , I called 911. A hospital trip was avoided when itching subsided, after a second Benadry was okayed by paramedic. | Probably the most agonizing, stressful three- hour experience since I gave birth! This medication should be banned. | F | 86 | 1 days 30mg 1X day | 5/14/2014 | 1 | Minor muscle pain | Muscle pain was my side effect! Brain fog, joint stiffness. | I started taking Advil for a slow healing repetitive stress injury. Later I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia: pain in all four quadrants of the body, stiffness, fatigue, brain fog. I kept taking Advil for the fibro symptoms. I had "fibromyalgia" for 8 years before I figured out that it was just a reaction to Advil. I have been fibro-free for 10 years since I stopped taking it. If I take one pill, the symptoms start coming back: achy jaw, hips, etc. | F | 54 | 8 years 200mg 2X day | 5/1/2014 | 1 | Headache & body ache | I rarely take medicine. In the past 2 weeks I have taken advil 3 times. This was my first time using the film coated ones. I developed rashes on my ears, hives on my face, bumps on my knuckles, and itching on my feet. I was able to trace it back to the advil. After reading the label and reviews, it's a definite it was the advill. | F | 39 | 1 days | 3/16/2014 | 4 | back muscle pain | None this was a regular sugar coated caplet | F | 48 | 1 days 250 mg | 11/10/2013 | 1 | tennis arm pain | URGENT!!! new advil fast acting, www.advil.com/advil-film-coated gave one to my 13 year old. was going to call an ambulance. looked like she was having a heart attack. called husband who is an emt | we had given her ibuprofen many many times even two for a high fever. this was 20 min after taking one. I thought pill may have got stuck in esophagus. gave warm tea to help, the pain of the liquid tea was too much, she could not drink. turns out she could not eat or drink without severe pain for 6 days. Doctors didn't believe her, she could not go to school, trouble sleeping, had to sleep sitting up. Now I find it was not ibuprofen, but 256mg of ibuprofen sodium in each pill. package misleading, as both ingredients are listed. I feel like a terrible Mother. She may have been having a cardiac event and a acid reaction at the same time. called advil, they pretended to care. I reported the event to them, you call and I am sure they will say, no one ever complained of these symptoms. THIS IS DANGEROUS PLEASE SHARE THIS INFO, | F | 13 | 1 days 200 1X day | 10/29/2013 | 4 | menstrual cramps, headaches | I've been noticing over the years, dry patches of skin on my legs, chest pains, even more headaches,and sensitivity to light and loud noises | it takes at least half an hour before it begins to work, so usually am just sitting there in pain looking at my clock ,counting the minutes waiting for it to start, i just hope am not addicted! cause nothing else works for me now,just Advil! | F | 22 | 10 years 3X day | 10/2/2013 | 5 | Menstrual pain, sciatica | None | Works great for menstrual pain. Gives temporary relief for sciatica and back pain, but I need higher doses. | F | 37 | 50 1X day | 1/28/2013 | 1 | I just got braces. | On the third day I was using it I started feeling cramps and I have had them for at least 24 hours strait... It hurts to breath the doctors think I'm bleeding inside of my body which can cause my immune system to burst and fail then I will die of that.. I wouldn't recommend using Advil. | F | 13 | 3 days 2 a day | 3/22/2012 | 3 | Menstrual cramp and headache | Gas, vertigo, nausea.... | F | 26 | 1 days 1 pill | 3/21/2012 | 5 | PMS Cramps | No side effects, just quick pain relief! Works perfectly! | I love this stuff. Takes all the pain of cramping/headaches away so I can function! | F | 25 | 11 years 600mg 2X M | 3/2/2012 | 2 | Cold and Sinus | I took the drug early in the morning and about 15 hours later I seemed to have an allergic reaction. My knees got swollen and had rashes all over them, then my right ear swelled, and now recently I took it again it produced bumps on my neck. This happened 3 times. The exact same way each time. | F | 19 | 1 days 30 mg 1X day | 1/20/2012 | 5 | Headaches and muscle pain | No side effects at all. I have a stomach condition and even this way, it didn't bring any problems. | M | 28 | 1 days 400mg | 1/12/2012 | 5 | Endometriosis | No side effects. Just pain relief! | I've never been big about taking medications, but I could not survive my menstrual cycles without inbuprofen. My endometriosis is so severe it literally floors me every month with excruciating pain. Ibuprofen makes the pain tolerable. No other medication works for the pain. I've been taking this stuff once every 28 days since I was 16 and it has been a complete life saver for me! | F | 22 | 5 years 400 mg 4X day | 11/13/2011 | 1 | Back Pain and headaches | ulcerative colitis | I have been using advil over the years to help with my pain and neck pain, headaches, and fibromialga. 3 years ago I began bleeding with bowel movements. It progressed over the next few months so badly that I couldn't even leave my house because of the pain in my stomach and the blood was constantly coming out so I had to have a colonoscopy. They discovered I had developed ulcerative colitis. I never related that to the advil but then found myself have bad flare-ups everytime I took ibuprofen or advil, so I had to stop taking it and just try to deal with my back pain and headaches when they occur. | F | 27 | 400mg 1X day | 8/4/2011 | 3 | sore ankles, leg pain | It took about 4 or 5 days to set in but I developed bad stomach pains, weight gain, got fat, ringing in the ears, and a strange sort of constipation combined with diarrhea. | I took 2 to 3 advils every morning for about a week, it was fine at first, but like a slow poison, after a week I slowly got the listed problems. then took about 4 days to clear up to get back to normal. I might take advil again but only for one day, never for consectutive days in a row. | M | 49 | 5 days 2 pills 1X day | 3/20/2011 | 1 | pain relief | Took Advil Liqui-gels over the weekend due to sore throat, fever, achiness. 2 days after taking the Advil, broke out in a skin rash from head to ankles with unbearable ITCHING all over, including scalp. Diagnosed by my Dr. as a reaction from the Advil. Going on day 5 now, and it's not at all subsided! | LOT: E89434, EXP. 04/12 | F | 45 | 2 days 200 mg 3X day | 3/8/2011 | 2 | For muscle aches and pains | Advil is the very likely cause of my bowel obstruction, which generated extreme pain and discomfort after I ate. One of the episodes caused me to go to the emergency room and resulted in a three day hospitalization. I have had laparoscopic surgery and will likely require further, more extensive surgery to resolve the blockage. The first three GI docs said there was no known cause for abdominal blockages such as I had, but my fourth GI doc said Advil and other ibuprofen anti-inflamatories can cause diaphragm blockages within the colon. | Other people I know, including my wife, take Advil without any problems or issues whatsoever. I did not make the connection to my abdominal issue to the Advil because I took it a couple hours before dinner and before the severe pain / blockage occured. I can not tell folks not to take Advil, but I would be cautious since the side effects for people who are sensitive to it can require hospitalization and surgery. And abdominal surgery takes a lot longer to recover from than I expected. | M | 55 | 1X day | 11/22/2010 | 3 | Killer PMS / Menstrual Cramps | The gels stick in my throat sometimes and give me horrible bad breath and heartburn. Do not take before a date. | F | 45 | 4 days 1 pill 2X day | 9/23/2010 |