CIPRO Reviews (CIPROFLOXACIN HYDROCHLORIDE)

Average Rating: 1.6 (2014 Ratings)

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CIPRO  (CIPROFLOXACIN HYDROCHLORIDE):  This medication is used to treat a variety of bacterial infections. Ciprofloxacin belongs to a class of drugs called quinolone antibiotics. It works by stopping the growth of bacteria. This antibiotic treats only bacterial infections. It will not work for virus infections (such as common cold, flu). Using any antibiotic when it is not needed can cause it to not work for future infections.   FDA Approval Date: 1987-10-22 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)

  

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 1  UTI Diarrhea, SERIOUS gas, nausea Was given this in the ER as part of a stone protocol. Antibiotics rarely do not really screw up the digestive tract. This crap is no exception. But what's worse is the fact that it is known to weaken the Achilles tendon and tendons of the feet substantially for up to a year from one dose. My PC Dr flipped when I told him what I was taking. He is treating a patient for tears in both tendons now. I personally know another that is suffering the same thing. Best advise he gave me is to not go hiking, skiing etc for the next year.... yipppe. NASTY STUFF! M 50 10 days
500 2X day
6/2/2011
 1  Post surgery to prevent infection Chronic headache, tendon and joint pain (legs, arms, neck). Pain gets worse when I bear additional weight. Also GI issues. This all happened when I took my last dose od Cipro. Now I'm self treating with amino acid supplements, arnica for inflammation, senna (for GI), and drinking lots of cranberry juice(low soidium/sugar) and of course lots of water. No junk food. It's been 2 weeks and symptoms are improving I am an active person. Running & resistance training. I cannot exercise again until tendinitis is under control. Update: My symptoms are doing better. Stopped taking anti-inflammatory at the advice of other sufferers. Prior to stopping symptoms were better. Saw a orthopedic doctor. Said he's never treated a Cipro damaged patient but has read about it. Said to treat as though I have a sport injury and try not to bear weight on muscles until inflammation subsides. Encouraged me to stretch a little each day until no pain when stretching then gradually add weight. The will strengthen muscle so tendon doesn't tear. My headaches are gone. Eating veggies as raw as possible (high in magnesium). Absolutely no junk food or processed food (can or package). No alcohol or sugary food. As soon as I do I get a headache with joint pain. I'm drinking lots of cranberry juice(low in sugar and salt). Cranberry is an antioxidant & high in Vitamin C. I'll report again in a couple of weeks. Update#2 It's been about 5 weeks and started taking magnesium/calcium supplements. Helps with pain. Still anytime I use a muscle my tendons become inflamed. Also joint pain is constant. It is difficult to carry or do normal activities without feeling some pain. Seeing a Rheumatologist next week. It seems there are no instructions for healthcare professionals to help them treat us after the damage has occurred. Guidelines need to be put in place. F 48 10 days
500mg 2X day
6/1/2011
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 3  Severe Pouchitis Taking for pouchitis. The only side affects I have experienced are insomnia (I guess there could be worse things) and minor joint pain if I take the drug for more than 1 week. It may surprise many, but I've Cipro on and off for over 15 years. Aside from insomnia if you take late in the day the drug has actually helped me. I don't feel taking any type of drug is a good thing (esp a super drug like Cipro), but for my condition it has been the only thing to work. I do occasionally have joint pain. But can't really point to much else. Although after reading your posts I will definitely take a closer look. I've turned 40 this year so need to make sure I'm building a healthy body going into my 50's. The bottom line is most physicians don't really know what they are prescribing. So it is our job to do the research and make the decisions. The Internet makes it very easy. So everyone considering taking this drug do you research. M 40 8 years
500 mg 2X day
5/31/2011
 1  UTI - Urinary tract infection After one dose, severe lower abdominal cramping with some diarrhea, Upset stomach, Started taking Acidophylis chewable tabs 3 time day...by 3 rd day cramping subsided but had muscle cramping in lower legs at night and prickly feeling lower legs. Loss of coordination for walking..Had chills/hot sweats/ palpatations. I have history of Atrial fibrilation. Stopped Cipro after 4 days of 5 day Rx. It is the 6th day and still feel uncoordinated with nausea, weakness and prickly sensation in lower legs. Will not take this drug again. I am allergic to Sulfa. F 74 4 days
500 mg. 2X day
5/28/2011
 1  Bronchotis can't focus feeling of being dizzy, anxiety 35 6 days
500 2X day
5/27/2011
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 1  UTI After the 3 dose, my legs started to feel 'weird'. I started having problems walking and I felt pain in my achilles tendons. I exercise every day and when I went to the gym, I found all I could do was walk 2 miles per hour on the treadmill, I usually run at 6miles per hour. Everytime I tried to increase the speed my legs, knees felt like they were going to give out. I spent 30 minutes on the treadmill and went back to my job. After 1 hour, I started to feel nausea after eating 2 crackers, then I felt like I was fainting and started sweating and felt so bad that I had to lay down on the floor. After 30 minutes, my nausea passed and I left work and went to the ER. I could barely walk, my legs were so weak, I had shooting pains in my achilles tendon, numbness and pins and needles feeling from the knee down. My heart , blood and liver checked out ok at the ER. I was not taking any more CIPRO. The next day, I am at home resting and the side effects are isolated to my knees down. I am I took 3 doses and then when I started to feel the side effects , I looked up CIPRO and read the black box warning. I have asthma and take steriods and MY DOCTOR NEVER TOLD ME the warning. She never told me any of the possible side effects. I just got off the phone with her and told her that because I take Advair/steriods she should have never prescribed this medicine. The black box warning states not to take in combination with corticosteroids but my doctor stated that since Advair is inhaled corticosteroid it is not included. I told her that I disagreed and that my symptoms fit exactly with the warning. She said this happens in less than 1% of patients and thats why she prescribed it for me. DO NOT TAKE THIS CIPRO unless you will die without it. I went from running 3 miles at 6miles per hour to walking like an old lady in TWO days of this medicine. I am so worried and it was not worth it for a UTI that I could have taken another antibotic. F 40 2 days
250 MG 2X day
5/26/2011
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 1  Diverticulitis Bless ALL of you for this site and your comments. I am SO SORRY for all of you that have suffered horribly at the hands of this poison. You basically saved my life. I was prescribed this 'medication' yesterday for accute diverticulitis. I took only 1 (one) 500mg dose and had a terrible headache. Then i couldnt sleep last night, even with Ambien, which was strange. I woke up this morning feeling generally terrible with a bad headache, jawache, general malaise. Pain behind my eyes, feel jittery. So, I thought darn - could I be having a reaction to this stuff? Then I found this site and was floored. I can't believe it is still legal, it has hurt so many people so badly. I immediately stopped taking this thanks to all of you. Luckily I only took one pill yesterday and am starting to slowly feel better. I flushed the rest and will be having a 'conversation' with my doctor about this poison. I think it is a horrible shame that the FDA, which is supposed to be protecting us allows the continued sale and use of these poisons. I have occasional accute knee pain due to knee reconstruction that occasional warrants narcotic pain meds. It is like trying to slay a dragon to get a few pain meds to manage the pain for a limited duration. The FDA makes it almost impossible to get these, but they allow doctors to hand this poison out like they are chicklets. I found the same thing with anti-depressants. I sometimes have generalized anxiety attacks and take lorazepam which works wonders. I am constantly being pushed to go on tons of anti-depressants. I tried em once and it's like someone performed a lobotomy on me. Just makes me sad. Bless all of you and thank you - I pray that you recover. F 38 1 days
500 MG 2X day
5/24/2011
 1  virus I took Cipro in 2009 & had shooting pain like electric shock in legs. Two months latter my right arm felt like it had been broken. This lasted for months. Strange rash, bad taste in mouth. Thought I was over the effects of Cipro. I didn't list all of the side effects, now my finger joints are painful for over two months now. It seems the vibrations from a hand grinder set it off. Also can't sleep well. Always thirsty & I feel tired & weak most of the time. Cipro should be off the market by now. M 53 10 days
500 1X day
5/16/2011
 1  Blood found in urine/ UTI Stabbing pain in left upper quadrant just right below the ribs, Diarrea and severe nausea trough out the day and worse after eating. I have always suffered with UTI'S and antibiotics always made me feel better within the next day or two of taking them. With the Cipro I traded one problem for a couple others and i very much regret ever taking the cipro! I have lost a huge amount of weight because of this drug. I am terrified of food because i get so sick after eating and when i do eat i take a few bites and feel full as if i can't eat no more. I do not reccomend this medication to any one and i woukd much rather be put in macrobid because i know it always works for me and i never had any side effects from it. F 24 7 days
500 mg 2X day
5/16/2011
 1  Epididymitis Superficial muscle spasms which I would qualify as low level peripheral neuropathy. Low level pain in knees, ankles. The warning leaflet was interesting: Tendon ruptures in the elderly. Seeing this drug is fluorine based and that fluorine and any chemical containing fluorine is HIGHLY toxic I did some research. Thank Heaven Almighty for the internet. Thank all you brave people victimized by this drug for posting your comments on the internet. I took this drug 1.5 days. After swallowing the last pill it occured to me I MAY have been poisoned by this drug back in 92 making my life a living hell of malise, uncontrollable migratory muscle spasming and weakness-and set the stage for tendonitis and knee meniscus breakdown years later. Within 1/2 hour of taking the last pill I slammed milk, 200mg zinc and 150 mg magnesium to block absorption. I made the doctor switch me to doxycycline. Two days later I am still having superficial migratory muscle spasms but the joint pains have stopped. If I had done the full 14 day cycle I dare not think what could have happened. I cannot afford to be an invalid at 41 with a family of 5 to support. The drug works very well at killing offending bacteria but the cost is not worth it. I'll suffer a painful prostate and testicle for a month while slower working doxycycline does its thing. I pray for each victim of flouro-drug poisoning and pray the people promoting this drug will develop a conscious. M 41 1.5 days
500 mg 2X day
5/16/2011
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 3  UTI Cystitis On day two i had severe muscle pain in my thighs, particularly in the quadriceps. I got them massaged, that made them feel better. However the pain went away after the third day, despite the fact that I continued the Ciprofloxacin. Ive read some reviews and it seems that this drug is causing crazy side effects in certain people. Thank God none of them struck me. Ive also noticed though that most of the people that experienced the side effects were older than me. I'm 26, male with a healthy life style. It wasn't really that bad for me. Reading most of the reviews in this blog I feel i've been lucky not to be effected so adversely as some of the other users. There was slight muscle pain on two, but it went away. HOWEVER as soon as I completed my prescribed dose ( 7 days, 500 mg x 2), my symptoms have returned. I felt almost completely cured while I was on the dose. Now that i've stopped taking, basically because i've finished my prescription, my symptoms have re-appeared. I'll consider trimethoprim or an alternate this time, this decision is influenced by the reviews you guys have posted. Better safe than sorry, i'll avoid it. M 26 7 days
500 mg 2X day
5/15/2011
 1  bladder infection Horrible gas pains as well as stomach pains!! I was suppose to be on on for 7 days..Stopped after 5 days.. took 24 hours to feel better.. am feeling 90 % better... F 60 5 days
500mg 2X day
5/13/2011
 4  Chronic UTI caused by enterococcus Despite all the negative side effects of cipro, it cured my chronic uti (caused by the bacteria enterococcus faecalis)that I have been dealing with for the past 11 months and this bacteria is very hard to get rid of. Negative side effects of cipro for me were shortness of breath, extreme fatigue, nightmares, pain under right side of rib cage, nausea, chills and sweats, foggy thinking, major panic attacks, frequent urination, nervousness, sore throat, muscle and joint pain, loss of appetite, itchiness, heartburn, yeast infection and the worst part i got ulcerative colitis from this antibiotic which i am now taking medication for the colitis for the rest of my life. F 29 28 days
500 mg 2X day
5/9/2011
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 1  UTI (Suspected, not verified) GI Problems, Joint problems, Tendon problems, Joints popping everywhere, Insomnia, Anxiety, Depression, Hair loss, skin differences, sore/swollen throat, tinnitus, eye floaters THIS DRUG SHOULD BE BANNED FOR MINOR INFECTIONS. Do not take this drug unless your life depends on it. My life has been severely altered -- I do not have the perfect health I once had. I am still dealing with all symptoms and its been THREE MONTHS since I took the drug! M 24 3 days
250MG 2X day
5/7/2011
 1  sinus Many red splotches (up to about 1 inch in diameter) over most of my body. Large pockets of fluid on outsides of ankles and smaller pockets of fluid on insides of ankles. Left foot hurting to walk on. I believe lawsuits need to be filed against manufacturers of this drug to protect people from its horrible side effects. Let's take a stand to put an end to the damage of this drug. Hopefully then no one will have to suffer like so many of us have already. F 51 3 days
30 mg 1X day
5/7/2011
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 1  uti after 2 doses, stabbing sharp pain between right ankle bone and bottom of foot; swollen knees and pain; weeping sense of depression after one dose until i exercised next day. woke up after 4th pill w/ numerous stabbing pain in right foot, same place; rash. called doctor and got off cipro and on another antibiotic. hopefully four pills won't cause permanent damage. will see how things go. take this drug off the market. F 68 2 days
300 2X day
5/7/2011
 1  Bladder Infection Severe anxiety and tender area on right side of stomach under ribs I suffer from anxiety and had been doing fine till I took Cipro; I bursted out into a full panic attack and thought about taking myself to the ER. I called my doctor to let him know about the panic attack and the nurse spoke to the doctor, the nurse calls me back to tell me the doctor had said Cipro does not cause anxiety but, I mentioned I had called the pharmacy and read through the pamphlet after my anxiety subsided a bit but she continues by telling me "The doctor is a pharmacist too ma'am he says it doesn't cause anxiety and continue taking your medication." I stopped taking it - it took me 2 days to get my nerves back to normal without taking my medication. F 23 10 days
500MG 2X day
5/6/2011
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 1  Suspected infection Broke out with hives like i was having a severe case of the Chicken pox this stuff is extremely dangerous please please please reconsider M 44 2 days
750 mg 2X day
4/29/2011
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 1  UTI Infection I think I have most of them. Heart arrythmias, digestive problems, blurry vision, tinnutus, tendonitis, body & hands tremors, muscle twiches, muscle weakness, brain fog, severe pain, breathing difficulties, insomnia, depression etc. I was given this in IV form. In a cruel twist of fate, I took cipro for 1 day and had immediate bad reaction, burning pains on my shoulders and back. I went to ER with these symptoms and they didn't make a connection with the drug. They then proceeded in giving me even more in IV form and another 3 weeks in oral form. I started getting the really serious symptoms aprox a month after finishing the dose. I'm really angry and upset, I wish this world wasn't such a sesspit of evil scum who'll hurt innocent people for the sake of profit. The whole thing is just immoral, this drug should be removed immediately. M 45
500 MG 1X day
4/27/2011
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 2  Lobular Pneumonia M 32 10 days
500 2X day
4/25/2011
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