CIPRO Reviews (CIPROFLOXACIN HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 1.6 (2014 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare CIPRO with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR CIPRO | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | urinary track infection | Was riding in back seat of work pick up when i had a seizure. Never had one before. | F | 38 | 4 days 500 mg 2X day | 5/17/2010 | 1 | UTI | Side effects started within 6/hrs of first dose. Intense headache, severe fatigue, loss of appetite, ringing in ears, bloated with sharp stomach pains, gas. | On day 4 I called my Doctor who prescribed another antibiotic which cleared up the UTI. I will NEVER take Cipro for any reason again, the side effects were horrible! | F | 53 | 4 days 500mg 2X day | 5/17/2010 | 1 | UTI | After the 1st dosage, I started to feel weak and had some joint pain. Then it got worse, and even the soles of my feet hurt, it was like the aches you get when you have the flu but much more intense. I couldn't sleep and all my joints and lower back were hurting (kidney area). I then started to have tingling or pins/needles in my feet and hands. My body was sentative to touch and it was difficult to bathe too. It's like my nerve endings were so close to the surface. It stripped away my appetite to. I was so sleepy and tried, I could hardly walk and was very very sluggish, every movement caused me pain. I was also experiencing extreme hot/cold flashes. Of course the Doctor told me these didn't sound like typical side effects. | I stopped taking the meds after 1-1/2 days (on my own, as I made the connection) and called my GP. I explained to him or his after hours physician that I needed a new perscription. They called in something different for me to take, as the UTI symptoms were still present. I would not recommend this drug to anyone. People, please do your research! | F | 48 | 1.5 days 250 mg 2X day | 5/16/2010 | 1 | Post Surgical | I have found healing from this nasty drug through the folks and supplements from Point of Return, they are located in California and their supplements not only helped me get off the anti-anxiety medication I was on due to Cipro toxicity, It also alleviated, Anxiety,depression,irregular heart beat, confusion, insomnia, fever. It has been 4 months since I was poisoned with this drug and i am 95% better and looking forward to working again. | there is Hope! Point of No Return is a non-profit organization that helps folks with medication withdrawals and has helped me with Cipro Toxicity. Their website is pointofreturn.com | M | 32 | 5 days 700 1X day | 5/12/2010 | 3 | Chest Infection (COPD) | I did not experience any side efects whilst taking the 5day course, but a few days on completion I had severe cramp like pains in my right calf muscle. This then also affected my left calf muscle. Walking was a very painful experience, although at rest my legs just felt heavy,tingling/burningand aching. Also some general bodily aches and pains. Being alarmed by this and having a nursing background I wondered if I had developed "Intermittent Claudication", I saw my GP who has referred me to a Vascular Surgeon. Only now, I wonder if this is now connected to the Cipro course I had taken for my chest infection, rather than a physical problem. I awaite to discover whether this is the case and will update my entry asap. | F | 64 | 5 days 2X day | 5/11/2010 | 1 | UT infection | numbness in arm then leg then all over body. Extreme wrist pain then tendonitis all over my body. Eye floaters. | I WOULD NEVER EVER EVER TAKE THIS DRUG AGAIN. THIS IS PURE POSION. I took this drug for 3 days only 250 mg (1 pill a day). On the first day I started feeling numbness on my arm. Then I had pins and needles sensation all over my body. My doctor told me to stop after the 3rd day I made the connection. A month later I have tendonitis all over my body, eye floaters, and insomnia. I can't lift weights (I went from athletic to in the bed all the time)....DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG | M | 30 | 3 days 250mg 1X day | 5/11/2010 | 1 | uti | many many many still effected 6 months later still have all tinnitis all my tendons swell a weird headache like something crawling in my head stabbing in the center of my head and numbness on the left side of my head. anyway they are all less intense then 3 months ago i even have days when i feel really good. | cipro is a poison. we all know that. any way i emailed alot of people and no one emailed me back im thinking no one is getting my emails, I have made progress im on b6 omega 3 an amazing product from the seed of broccoli called sulforaphane glucosinolate expensive but worth it and like others accupunture. my email is on here please email me i would love to share my progress with those that want to oh yeah also Clean organic food a must even my toothpaste has no flouride | F | 44 | 2 days 500mg 2X day | 5/11/2010 | 1 | Post surgical infection | Swollen tongue and difficulty swallowing, ringing in the ears then and general overall feeling terrible. Then the muscle aches, breast tenderness, and joint pain started. My skin burns and I'm depressed, more than just the pain should cause. I'm fatigued and tired but can't sleep. I hurt all over.I have spoken to so many people who have ruptured a tendon on this class of drugs that I am extremely fearful of all the pains in my wrists, knees, tendons, biceps, that I will rupture a tendon and have even more pain and medical issues. Oh yea, and a coated tongue. | After researching as much as I could find from medical journal excerpts, I am taking a multi-mineral tablet with calcium magnesium, a tablespoon of Milk of Magnesia during the day and Melatonin Snooze-in which is a blend of Melatonin with calcium magnesium and other herbs which really, really helps though it makes you sleepy if you take it during the day. Large doses of a high quality probiotic to restore my digestive tract and help heal along with Kumboocha, olive leaf oil, chondroitin/glucosamine, aspirin to help with inflamation, ice helps specific spots too, SAM-e for inflammation, joint, liver and depression. When I am not so fearful of tendon rupture, I will be making that appointment with the accupuncturist. But according to 1 study the majority of tendon ruptures occur between 2 and 42 days so I will be waiting 2 more weeks before begining even light exercise more than home maintenance. I also take a multivitamin, D3, and L-theanine. If you have learned anything else that helps I'd love to hear. I am taking the "keep moving" advice to heart. I am believing I am going to get better, lets stay positive! And warn everyone about flouroquinoline drugs. | F | 43 | 3 days 500mg 2X day | 5/10/2010 | 1 | lower UTI infection | Weakness,I could not stand up more than two weeks. Swollen throath,large red rash on face, blisters, hallucination, headaches, and disorientation. The lower UTI came back. | They sale and they get money. We give money and we get more sick. Where is the consumer protection? We should to sue them. | F | 57 | 14 days 500 mg 2X W | 5/9/2010 | 1 | skin infection | severe all over body pain, joint pains, depression, muscle pains | I took cipro about 18 months ago and had some aweful symptoms, much like the ones you are describing. I tried several treatments to get better. You will be glad to know I am better now, so keep positive, it will pass. Here's a list of things that helped me 1) Find the best accupuncturist you can find and explain what happened to you. He or she will then treat your liver and kidneys intensively. The liver toxicity is the main cause for the tendon problems. 2) Simultaniously try and find a very good sports physiotherapist. He or she will treat your muscles and tendons. Traditional, Thai yoga was also very helpful to sort out some very painful areas in the neck, back and tendons. 3) Try colonic irrigation. This will try to clear out any remaining toxins in your system. Also take active biocultures 4) Try taking a zinc suppliment and some calcium rich food that will help to mop up any resudial cipro 5) Get advice on herbal products -"boswellia" and "devils claw" can help 6) Try taking Siberian ginseng (comes as a tincture - which you can mix with fruit juice) which is a great adaptogenic (means it gently fine tunes your system that has been disturbed) 7) Have good healthy clean food 8) Get yourself a regime so you can treat youself easily. I have been through this, so I know how hard it can be....but all will be well in the end. | M | 35 | 2 weeks 500 1X day | 5/8/2010 | 1 | possible chest infection | tinnitus, dizzy,nausia,feeling strange, | will never take this again,puts you off going to the dr, | M | 65 | 1 days 500 mg 2X day | 5/7/2010 | 1 | prostate infection???? | Cipro affects the bodies ability to regenerate collegan. Basicly it turns healthy tendons into string cheese. The way I recovered was to keep active. If you can't walk -crawl. If you can't crawl-roll. Everytime you make a movement your body replaces the protiens in the structure. Cipro blocks this regeneration. Eventually the body will rid itself of this chemical poison. How long is a individual cases by case situation. I have been there too-lying in bed wondering if my shoulder will rip out if I lie on my side. Feeling like my heels are made of steel balls clanging on the carpet. Afraid to step down a stair in fear of ripping my heel tendon. Here are some tips-Walk down the stairs backwards. Try to get into a pool-water resistance will help. Eat protien-egg whites for those amino acids. Please don't give up. | M | 47 | 1 days 500 1X day | 5/7/2010 | 1 | YES | My 27 year old daughter had horrid symptoms after starting Cipro. Severe Head Ache, Blur & Loss Vision, stiff neck, high blood pressure & heart rate, depression,confusion, ringing ears, nausea & vomiting, loss appetite, bed ridden, light sensitive, popping joints, tired, can't sleep laying down and more. She took 10 days plus another 4 days before she stopped. I am debilitated from this episode, my family & I thought I was dieing. The symptoms have not gone away. I've been to ENT, Neurologist, general medicine Dr. I had blood tests, MRI, Cat Scan. I went to emergency rooms. The only thing that showed was chronic sinusitis in the Right side. Dr.'s didn't know the problem and instead went on to try to treat the symptoms. | If any one can help the 1000 or so people including me who have left word on here please advise. | F | 26 | 15 days 500mg 2X day | 5/6/2010 | 1 | Dr's orders | Large red rash on face, blisters, permanently damaged the skin on my face. Tiredness. Joint pain. Depression. | A worthless drug. | M | 23 | 2 weeks 1X day | 5/6/2010 | 1 | Strep throat/scarlet fever | Severe tendonitis in wrists, ankles, knees, shoulders, stiff neck. After the first day of taking Cipro, I noticed that my joints were aching but thought it was due to the strep/scarlet fever. After the second day, I knew something was not right so I googled Cipro and read all of this. My joints are swollen and it's difficult to even walk. | F | 29 | 2 days 500 2X day | 5/6/2010 | 1 | possible infection | joint pain, tingling, weakness in arms, tendonitis all over body, rash, depression | THIS IS POISON!!! If you are taking this STOP immediately! This medicine has drastically changed my life - maybe forever! I was a healthy, happy very active 30 year old - newly married and teaching to help children with disabilities until CIPRO changed my life. I first had severe joint pain in two fingers and then tingling, numbness and weakness in my upper body. It has been a year now and I was misdiagnosed with RA and since then tendonitis has moved to all over my body ( jaw, shoulders, wrists, hands, calfs and worst of all my feet) I used to be able to run five miles, lift, play softball, do triathlons - these were some of my greatest joys in life and it has ALL been taken from me just from taking a handful of pills for a possible infection. I now struggle to walk and do anything repetitive such as flip a page in a magazine or change the channel on the remote. Some days I don't want to eat becuase it's just too much work. I would choose DEATH over putting another one of these pills in my mouth. My symptoms did now show for a ten days after the medication so please even if you are not having a reaction while on this med STOP now. On a positive note - I know finally have answers to what has been going on in my body after countless hours in the internet searching and praying everyday! It's now time to be positive and do whatever it takes to get my life back. Still working at this point because of my amazing and understanding school. I have tried everything - chiro, a | F | 30 | 8 days 500 mg 2X day | 5/4/2010 | 1 | pancreatic biopsy | 72 hours after given drug during sugery was awakened with chest pain and extreme heart arythmia. Event lasted an hour and a half. Went to ER. Since first event, 4 more events w/same effects. Mother had tachycardia and was allergic to Cipro. Should not have been administered to me. | F | 61 | 1 times 500mg IV 1X O | 5/3/2010 | 1 | prostate biopsy | I had noticeable muscle tension by day 2, increasing daily. It was 2 weeks before I could move well enough to go back to work. 3 months later, stiffness and mild spasms are still present in several muscle groups on my left side. I am concerned about returning to the gym with unexplained muscular deficiencies ~ is there also tendon damage? Mild depression has also worsened. I have never reacted to any other meds. This was prescribed as a preventative for surgery-relayed infection, so it may not have even been necessary, like using an A-bomb to kill a fly that might be there. I will never risk Cipro again when there are so many options that still work and are more appropriate to use. If you're not dying, choose a less lethal cure. | M | 59 | 7 days 500mg 1X day | 5/3/2010 | 1 | Completely CRIPPLED | Six months now since I took Cipro and I STILL CANNOT WALK, all tendons and joints in my body are SHOT. 30 years old and my life has been completely ripped away from me by the Bayer corporation. This is far worse than any nightmare...at least you wake up from nightmares. Cipro is 100% the stuff of the devil. If you're on it, you'd better vomit that poison back up and never take another pill (if you enjoy being able to walk, anyway). Words cannot describe what that sh*t has done--and continues to do--to my body. It is nothing short of HORRIFIC. We live in a sick world where things like this are legally allowed to happen to innocent people and we're allowed NO legal recourse whatsoever. I want to see heads roll at Bayer HQ for what they've done to me. ANOTHER LIFE DESTROYED | M | 30 | 6 days 500 2X day | 5/2/2010 | 1 | Intestinal infection, UTI | Foot and ankle pain immediately after taking Cipro. Both feet swelled up and I was unable to walk for days. Headaches, nervousness and blacking out everytime I stand. | Taking Cipro mainly for intestinal infection. My abdominal pain seemed to clear up by the end of my dosage, but 3 days later I began having severe pain and diarrhea again. So, I feel as though this medication did not even fix my problem and I am left with a sore body and constant dizziness. | F | 25 | 10 days 500 mg 2X day | 4/28/2010 |