PEPCID Reviews (FAMOTIDINE)Average Rating: 1.5 (431 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare PEPCID with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR PEPCID | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Thought I had GERD | Tingling, numbness in left arm and hand Panic attack Headache Constipation | So I suffer with silent reflux and I initially purchased Prilosec. After a day or two of taking that. I woke up with chest pain in my chest. I didn’t realize it was the the side effect of the meds until I weened off. I thought I had possible GERD because I was experiencing symptoms. Long story short. I had weird feeling in chest and arms and had to call paramedics. I made a phone appt with a gastroenterologist . I explained to him how I felt the Prilosec caused these issues. He claimed that’s not common and suggested I take Pepcid. This is where the nightmare truly begin. I end up taking 2 pills of 20mg as he prescribed to take 40mg a day. That same night I started feeling discomfort. The next morning my hands and joints started cramping up and the tingles and discomfort was back in my left hand and arm. It felt like sign of a heart attack so I started to panic. My hand became cold , numb, jittering, shaking. I basically prayed to God and had to ride out the horrible feeling that developed. It was no doubt this was from the Pepcid. I will never take this mess again ! I was relieved to find this site and saw how others shared similar symptoms. These doctors should be ashamed of themselves but they are in the business of pharmaceuticals meant to destroy. Going forward I will deal with my silent reflux the natural way and disregard anything these doctors suggest cuz most of the time they are wrong with their diagnosis. Having you feel bad and developing more | F | 36 | 1 days 2 of 20 mg | 4/4/2020 | 1 | Gerd | Terrible anxiety and panic attacks. Thought I was going crazy. | F | 52 | 3 weeks 40mg | 3/30/2020 | 1 | acid reflux | Major Anxiety, light headedness (as if I was going to faint) A feeling of impending doom, heart fluttering (as if it was going to just stop) Breathing issues - as if my brain would forget to tell my lungs to breathe. Feeling totally exhausted but waking up hours later. Jittery. Awful stomach pains. Overall a truly horrible experience. | F | 21 | 5 days 20mg | 3/28/2020 | 1 | Acid Reflux | Anxiety, pulsating in my body, inability to take a deep breathe, hair breaking off | Zantac is better | F | 48 | 3 months 20 mg | 3/27/2020 | 1 | Gerd | Severe anxiety and breathing problems | Horrible effects it's been 3 days and the effects have lessened but not gone away | F | 44 | 15 days 20 | 3/13/2020 | 1 | GERD | Terrible heart palpitations, rapid heart rate, anxiety, sense of impending doom, tingling limbs, numbness | Worked great for my acid reflux. Side effects were horrendous. I thought I was going to die, then I found this forum and realized what was happening. Stopped taking today, can’t wait to get this out of my system. | F | 30 | 30 days 20 MG | 3/4/2020 | 1 | Stomach issues | Oh my gosh, I thought I was losing it until I read these reviews. My doctor gave me famotadine due to the zantac issues. The first time I took a whole 40mg tablet, the next day I couldn't move I was so weak so my doctor said cut it in 1/2. I took 1/2 for a week and I was having pain in my side my integrative doctor said liver. So I went off for a couple days and liver was fine but still having the breathing issue so I took it again. The last 2x I took it, I called paramedics for heart racing the 1st time and I got up couldn't breathe and my hands started going numb. Anxiety was insane! Lower back pain, last night my foot cramped up. Why would they do this to people? | F | 52 | 6 months 20mg | 2/25/2020 | 1 | GERD | Heart palpitations, dizziness, insomnia and the worst anxiety. | F | 30 | 5 days 20mg | 2/23/2020 | 1 | GERD | Thank God I found this forum. I honestly thought I was losing my mind when I started to experience extreme feelings of anxiety, impending doom, and depression after starting this OTC medication. I already deal with moderate anxiety, but NEVER like this and for days at a time! Never would have thought to connect all my symptoms to something as simple as Pepcid, but it was the most recent change in my routine so I only discovered this group by chance. I experienced: - Tingling and burning sensations in my stomach, arms and legs - A couple small blisters on my skin - Ringing in my ears - Trembling - Feeling jittery - Bowel cramps and irregular movements - Intense mood swings - Difficulty concentrating - Insomnia Almost every complaint I’ve seen others talk about on this forum I felt, and I only took the pill 2 times! I’m still not totally out of the haze of these side effects after 2 days without taking it. Praying the next few days things get back to normal, and for anyone else who is experiencing this. I’d rather deal with acid reflux and GERD than this madness and I will definitely never take this drug again. | They need to do more to study these effects and warn people about the risks before others end up worse off because they don’t understand what is happening to them. | M | 30 | 2 days 10 MG | 2/23/2020 | 1 | Severe reflux. | My story is too long to explain here. But I finally started researching my problems myself and overlooking what the doctor was saying. My pharmacist brought it up to me that I was on too high of a dose of famotidine for far too long. I've developed ibs-c and that has caused bleeding hemorrhoids. All they want to do is treat whatever problem I have at the time and not look for the source of the problem. Along with this I have had off and on anxiety, insomnia (three sleep clinics), heart palpitations (multiple cardiologists), brain fog, depression (which I refused medication for), and most recently ringing in my ears. It wasn't until I developed an intestinal infection over Christmas and I stopped all medications including famotidine. That my bowel movements returned to normal, my depression went away, my muscle aches went away, and I've been able to sleep through the night for three first time in years! I never associated it with famotidine until this week when I started it again and I am a complete mess. I'm going to stop the medication today and see if I can get symptom-free. You should too. | For years I was prescribed 40 mg in the morning and 40 mg at night. 80 mg a day and with all the side effects I was having you would think my doctor would suspect the drug. Heck, you would think I would suspect the drug! You are your own best advocate. Research it. There are plenty of other people online that are having the same problems you are. | M | 56 | 16 years 40 MG | 2/20/2020 | 1 | GERD | Anxiety, panic Attack, heart palpitations, headache, shortness of breath | I recently discontinued Zantac because of the carcinogenic properties and had just taken famotodine for one week and was ready to go to the Dr because of the anxiety that came out of NO where. Relieved to find this forum as it has to be the drug.... | F | 57 | 7 days 20 | 2/10/2020 | 1 | Acid reflux from scleroderma | Worked for acid reflux. Then I began having horrible cramps all over my body. After 8 weeks of sleepless nights and cramping from bending over daily. I began taking myself off meds to figure out the culprit. 7 days of eliminating Pepcid I'm nearly cramp free. | F | 61 | 3 months 20 | 1/28/2020 | 4 | Gurd | Insomnia | M | 57 | 2 days 15 | 1/8/2020 | 1 | Acid reflux | Severe anxiety and depression within 24 hours of first dose. I have taken this drug intermittently over two months with severe anxiety that I couldnt pinpoint a reason for. It wasn’t until I recently googled the side effects to see others have also experienced similar problems. I will never again take this medication. It’s taken 8 days since I stopped the Med and I’m still experiencing slight anxiety. Looking forward to getting back to myself. | It had immediate relief of my acid reflux within two hours of taking Pepcid. | F | 50 | 3 days 10 mg | 1/7/2020 | 1 | Had to change from Zantac | Landed up in the hospital...heart rate was 135...I was nauseous and vomiting | Throw it out...it’s dangerous. I never had any issues with Zantac | F | 60 | 2 days 40 1X day | 1/3/2020 | 1 | Reflux | Low back pain and headache, nausea | Took 1 and several hours later had low back pain which became severe as time went on. Then nausea set in followed by frontal lobe headache. Never tried a medication like this before but after eating holiday foods stomach was acting up for a few days. Next time I will just skip meds or try an antacid instead. | F | 66 | 1 days 20 mg 1X day | 12/29/2019 | 1 | H2 antihistamine for chronic hives | I started taking Pepcid after the whole Zantac issue with having a cancer causing agent. I never had issues with Zantac. Pepcid seems to have caused a lot of muscle pain for me, in my left leg, back and left arm. I also have had stomach aches frequently and lack of appetite. I reduced the dose down to 10 mg 2x a day but still am dealing with a lot of stomach issues. Has anyone had stomach issues coming off of or tapering off of Pepcid like pain, lack of appetite, frequent bowel movements etc? | F | 31 | 4 months 20 mg 2x | 11/25/2019 | 1 | GERD | Crippling anxiety. Muscle pain, weakness. Huge mental breakdown. Muscle cramps. | Zantac had done this to me as a kid, so trying pepcid should have been an obvious no-go. Was feeling kind of desperate after about a week long battle with some crazy gastric problems. In retrospect, I'm certainly mental state was too fragile to get into a medication with a pretty well hidden history of weird psychosis issues. Either way, if you're prone to depression and anxiety you should leave this stuff alone. 1 and done for me. The only issue now is waiting out this terrible feeling. Awesome. Nothing makes gastrointestinal problems worse like extreme, crippling stress and anxiety:/ | M | 37 | 1 days 20MG | 11/11/2019 | 1 | Gastritis | Anxiety shaking muscle weakness. Trouble sleeping and nausea. Differently would not recommend this drug. | F | 61 | 30 days 20mg | 11/9/2019 | 1 | GERD | Extreme anxiety, panic attacks, heart palpitations, shortness of breath, tingling and burning sensation in head and extremities, diarrhea, constipation, insomnia. | Started taking Pepcid on October 20th, 2019 for my GERD. On October 22nd, 2019 I had the first panic attack that I have ever had. Having never experienced anything like this before, I was convinced I was dying. I rode out the panic attack and suffered from insomnia, anxiety, heart palpitations, sweating, nausea, IBS symptoms, tingling burning sensations, and cramps for the next 2 days. Finally, I had enough and went to the doctor. I mentioned I had just recently started Pepcid and she said nothing of it. She diagnosed me with anxiety/depression and put me on Prozac. After taking Prozac for 5 days, I became suicidal and was also having homicidal ideation. (nasty side effects of Prozac) I discontinued the Prozac but kept taking the Pepcid (never thought an antacid could cause anything like this) As the Prozac cleared from my system, my bad thoughts subsided but I still had all the anxiety and previously mentioned symptoms. I have suffered for nearly 20 days, thinking I was going crazy until I found this! I am so grateful for you all on this website. I had no idea what was happening to me (no history of mental illness) Pepcid literally could have killed me! Stopping this medication immediately. I’m hopeful that I’ll return to normal in a few days. | M | 27 | 20 days 20MG | 11/8/2019 |