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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR CIPRO | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Sinus infection | Felt as if my body was tearing apart from the inside. My legs swelled, bruised, and I could barely move after finishing the dose. Insomnia. | I have never felt anything like this pain before, ever. I was diagnosed with Lyme disease/Fibromyalgia but nothing compares to the pain that I have felt since taking Cipro. Every part of my body where there are tendons is screaming in pain, feels tight, pops, and blistered. I cannot move without painful cracking and my body has swelled substantially. I cannot sleep due to the pain or the insomnia which I now have. I went to my doctor after suffering these symptoms and she refused to acknowledge that it was the drug that was causing my ailments and suggested that I see a psychiatrist. I did not take her recommendation and instead visited a homeopath who treated me for the drug's effects. I came out walking and moving with less pain, but still have milder versions of the symptoms 2 weeks later, it seems to get worse when it is cold. It will take time for my body to remove it from my system, as according to the Warnings reactions can happen months after finishing the medication. I really feel that this drug is dangerous and do not recommend it to anyone. If I had not had a homeopathic doctor treat me for the side effects I would be bedridden right now. The doctor who perscribed the medication refused to admit that there was a problem, eventhough I had brusing and swelling. I was walking like someone in their 90's before I went to the homeopath and came out walking much better when I left. It was like night and day. That's how I know it was the medication. | F | 29 | 10 days 250 2X day | 12/8/2010 | 1 | sinus infection | Anxiety, insomnia, joint paing, especially in the knees, pain in the feet, tendon pain, especially in the calf muscles. | Really quite remarkable that this drug stays on the market. It is pure poison no doubt. What is more confounding is the fact that my ENT proscribed this for a minor sinus infection. I am still having these symptoms after taking on three doses of 250mg each and wondering if/when the side effects will subside. | M | 40 | 1.5 days 250 mg 2X day | 12/7/2010 | 1 | Ear infection | Lightheadedness, foggy vision and floaters, migraine headaches, ocular migraines, tinnitus, exhaustion, disorientation, memory loss, inability to concentrate, nightmares, diarrhea, tension, anxiety, panic attacks, tendon pain, itching | I am shocked Cipro is still on the market. I won't deny it’s effective. The problem is it nearly killed me. My story is similar to others you’ll read here. When I first took Cipro, I was in my 30s, active and fit, working for a large law firm. I didn't know at first what caused my symptoms. I assumed the dizziness, fatigue and migraine headaches were caused by my ear infection. My doctor refused to admit my symptoms were adverse reactions to the drug. As I continued to take Cipro, the symptoms became harder to ignore. In 2001, I had convulsions so severe that I went for MRIs and CT scans of my skull. Good news: no brain tumor. Bad news: no prognosis. It was the Anthrax scare of October 2001 that alerted me to the problem. Postal workers refused to take Cipro because of the same side-effects I had suffered myself for years. My doctor was still skeptical, and the substitute he prescribed turned out to be another kind of FQ. My symptoms continued until 2003, when I found myself in ERs three times with anxiety attacks and disorientation. I lost my job because I could no longer focus or concentrate. In 2004, I finally took charge of my own care and found the answers on the Web. Support forums on adverse reactions to FQs alerted me to the cause, and provided advice on controlling the symptoms. It took five years, and continuing dietary restrictions, but I have finally controlled this hell-on-earth. I am in a new job and successful once again. There is hope! | M | 51 | 4 years 100 MG 2X day | 12/1/2010 | 1 | skin infection | Started to have digestive pain and reflux, then sore throat, then chills, achiness in body, felt like a bad flu, nauseated | This is poison. I was supposed to take this for a week and after reading other posts regarding other people having the same side effects I stopped taking it and woke up the next day feeling normal again. Just a litte weak from not being able to eat because of feeling nauseated all the time. DO NOT TAKE THIS, IT IS POISON. | F | 46 | 7 days 2X day | 11/30/2010 | 1 | diverticulitis-bowel perforation | While taking: nauseous, throwing up. was hospitalized and given the drug intravenously for six days, had to finish treatment orally thereafter, had to lie down (with a bucket nearby) after taking it. | At the end of the treatment, I started getting continuous pains from the top of the hips &lower back traveling upwards thru the left or/& shoulder bones & radiating in upper arms, could not sit, could not sleep- Dr.felt that it was a myalgia, suggested a rheumatologist,I was upset. Strangely enough,the same thing had happened to my best friend last year! I asked her if she had taken Cipro before it occurred, her pharmacist confirmed it. Presently,she is finishing up a one year prednizone treatment program! I have osteopenia & while treated with cipro, had to give up calcium supplements/ dairy prod. or anything fortified with calcium because CALCIUM COUNTERACTS THE EFFECTIVENESS of Cipro, so, I self prescribed: 650mg of calcium, 200 I.U. of D3 (cholecalciferol)needed for calcium absorption & 200mg of magnesium with breakfast-200mg of magnesium with Lunch- 650mg of calcium, 2000 I.U of D3, & 200mg of magnesium with dinner.Each Day the pain receded by 2 or 3 hours; by the fifth day, as unbelievable as it is, I was free of pain! If you try it,reduce the magnesium as soon as you feel better as it is not recommended to take over 200/300mg per day. I am back on my usual intake: 650mg of calcium a day, 2000 I.U. of D3 & 200mg of magnesium at dinner time, it relaxes my muscles & may be tendons?& helps me sleep.Calcium helps in neutralizing Cipro's action & magnesium relaxes muscles. Do check with your pharmacist to make sure that it is OK for yo | F | 68 | 19 days 500mg 2X day | 11/29/2010 | 1 | Prostatitas | Everything similar to all the people who have been chemicaly poisoned. | ATTENTION: You want help-stay away from your doctor. Cipro or fluoroquinans inhibits the production of the good protiens (Collegen) in your body. This is man made chemical poisoning. Okay now what you should do. 1. Stop your F%cking medication-don't flush it cuz your putting that junk in your water, personally I'd send the crap back to Bayer and let them eat. 2.Do not take-Steroids, Ibuprofen-this is bad!!, Aspirin 3.Eat protien-Eat bone broth-go to butcher get beef soap bones-big ones with the marrow-crock pot those bad boys for a day on low. Pour off liquid let cool and skim off the layer of fat. Drink the broth-you are giving your body the amino acids to repair the collegen-tendons joints etc. 4. Keep moving-if you are stuck in a chair fall off it and roll, then crawl, then walk-go slow-you want to keep you body moving so it will stamp out new protiens for your joints. Eventually the ratio of defective "cipro innfected stamps' will decrease overtime. How much time-thats a case by case situation. 5.Get in a pool-Float the low resistance on those joints will help rebuild them. You will feel better mentally with some excercise. 6 Don't give up hope. no one will beleive you hurt as much as you do. They will tell its just age. Scew em. This is results of research and personal experience. In my opinion the majority of doctors don't know or care. The drug companies are profiting on the populas desire for pills. We don't need all these pills. | M | 47 | 1 days 500 1X day | 11/28/2010 | 1 | UTI | Muscle and joint pain, exhaustion, yeast infection | Have taken Cipro twice and been experiencing excessive and at times, extreme, muscle and joint pain. I will barely work out or go for a walk, and feel like I've run a marathon or been hit by a truck. EVERY DAY I am sore and excessively achy in my whole body, particularly my feet and calves. After coming to this site, I realize it's from this horrific drug. I will never take a drug again without fully researching it. Good luck to everyone. We are all living this nightmare and I feel everyone's pain. I have been feeling this way for a year. | F | 28 | 5 days 500mg 2X day | 11/28/2010 | 1 | uti | joint pain, abdominal pain, nausea, general sadness, trouble sleeping, tingling in the face,lips,hands. Weak all over and feeling much worse than before taking the medication. | The overall feeling of restlessness is almost unbearable. Sleep deprivation and insomnia coupled with joint pain and discomfort. After reading all the posts on this site all my symptoms from taking this medication have been validated. Please warn anyone seeking a medical need for antibotics to steer clear of Cipro. | F | 37 | 3 days 250mg 2X day | 11/26/2010 | 1 | UTI | I have been on it for four days and so dizzy. Feel like I'm walking on air but most of all as a recovered attack feelings like coming off meth. Ringing in my ears all day and kind of a static in the ear.At least I'm not crazy.. Called my doctor and stopped it immediately. | Does anyone know why that happens with this medication? | F | 33 | 3 days 250MG 2X day | 11/22/2010 | 1 | Cough, upper resp infection | I am in tears reading these posts. I never would have thought the swelling in my legs would have been caused by this until today. My left leg is slightly swelled as well as the ankle but my right leg looks like the michellin man's leg. Literally bulges....my ankle is completely swollen to where I can barely move my foot. I really hope that since I finished it this morning that this will go away. I can't believe I was this stupid to keep taking it. | Avoid this medication at all costs...read everyone's posts! | F | 41 | 10 days 500 2X day | 11/21/2010 | 3 | Bacterial gastroenteritis/e.coli | Sore neck, aching body but the worse was the terrible nightmares last night, dreaming I was dreaming but nightmares occured in both dream states, possibility of the dreams of me dreaming were hallucinations in some parts. Really disturbing nightmares too. | This medicine made me feel better within 1 day so cant fault it for that but am now scared to take it because nightmares is considered very rare affecting less than one in ten thousand ppl. Gonna ring doctor later to get advice | F | 27 | 2 days 500mg 2X day | 11/19/2010 | 1 | Bladder Infection | Horrific graphic real nightmares. Restlessness and anxiety. | I will never take another drug again without reading the warning signs first. I have been awake all night and have experienced 7 - 8 horrible nightmares, night sweats, anxiety and restlessness. This drug is not for me. | F | 50 | 2 days 500mg 2X day | 11/19/2010 | 1 | Kidney Infection | I went to the doctor because of one thing. When I got there I was told something else - that I had a kidney infection. (I don't believe this to be true). While at the hospital I was treated with one bag of levaquin and a ten day supply of cipro. I had the bag at the hospital took one pill that night at bed time and another the next morning with breakfast. By the afternoon of the second day (two pills in) my entire body hurt and I could barely walk. I went from marathon training to difficulty walking even to the kitchen. I only took two pills and have not taken another in 3 weeks. | Does anyone know when the pain will go away and I can go back to running? | F | 30 | 1 days 2X day | 11/16/2010 | 1 | uti | tendonitis everywhere, muscle twitches, anxiety, insomnia, popping joints... Insomnia was gone in 48 hrs. The moderate muscle/tendon pain went away after 2 weeks but flares up randomly here and there. My joints pop 8 months after taking 2 of the cipro pills. Every joint I have is creaky and pops so loud. The only thing that helps is magnesium. Cipro interferes with your body's ability to use magnesium. My symptoms have slowly morphed over time. I hope in another year I'm symptom free. Fingers crossed. It's a slow recovery. And I'm 23 and was in great shape before taking it. | GET MAGNESIUM and take it every day. If I miss it for 2 or 3 days, my joints pop more, I get really tight muscles, muscle twitches, and even a lump in my throat and trouble swallowing. Magnesium is the only thing I have found to help. Take it easy on the exercise, your joints are weakened and will wear down quicker. | F | 23 | 1 days 1X day | 11/14/2010 | 4 | mastoiditis | "spacey" feeling; dizziness; general malaise; felt like a war was going on inside my body; hip joint pain & stiffness | I was prescribed a fairly high dosage due to the difficulty of treating a bone infection with oral antibiotics. (This was an alternative to in-patient IV antibiotics.) Side effects lasted for the first 5 days or so, then tapered off. The only remaining side effect (3 weeks after finishing course) is left hip pain & stiffness. This seems to be a tendinitis, and it is resolving with rest and daily stretching. In my case, the drug worked well and although the side effects were unpleasant for a few days, it allowed me to continue to work instead of having an in-patient hospital stay. | F | 50 | 10 days 500mg 2X day | 11/13/2010 | 3 | lyme, h. pylori | none | I think it's useful to realize that all these side-effects people complain of are EXACTLY the same as the effects of Lyme disease and other similar diseases. Perhaps, these aren't side effects at all, but actually a latent infection manifesting itself as the bacteria dies. This is well known as a herxheimer reaction. 90% of people with Lyme disease do not realize they are infected. I was infected for 15 years before figuring it out. Something to consider.... | M | 33 | 30 days 500 2X day | 11/13/2010 | 5 | diverticulitis | none | efective for me. took with food and added acidophillus 2x a day. | F | 45 | 14 days 500 2X day | 11/7/2010 | 3 | uti | chills and waking up from sleep and bad scary dreams (usually I don't remember any dreams and I usually sleep throughout the whole night) | F | 55 | 10 days 2X day | 11/7/2010 | 1 | bronchitis | Paint travels from left neck, right shoulder and recently left, wrists (incapacitationg hands)and left ankle. Pain cannot be controlled with two hydrochodone 750, every four hours.....only the edge of pain is releived enough to keep from going to hospital. | I was dancing four nights a week, playing cards three to four times a week and keeping a spotless home. I am bed ridden except when hydrochone is taken. Must start Navigator with a pair of pliers, cannot lift most pillows, difficulty trying to wipe in bathroom, pain is worse than child birth, vision changes, foggy thinking and pain changes places to hurt....involving two to three places at a time. This has ruined my life. | F | 70 | 5 days 500 1X day | 11/4/2010 | 1 | UTI | I think I managed to get 2 pills in me before I ended up at the ER due to red blotches all over my body and horribly swollen & painful joints (knees/ankles especially). It was twice as bad from the time I left my house to the time the doctor came in the room. I couldn't even walk by then. Never had any type of reaction to an antibiotic like this before. | This happened quite a few years ago, and they put me in the hospital and tried to come up with some other reason for all my symptoms, but I was fine the day before I started taking this medication, and finding this web site has confirmed my belief that it was *all* coming from the Cipro. Never had an issue like this since. | F | 32 | 1 days 2X day | 11/4/2010 |