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 | uti | Tendon rupture in achilles | This drug should not be on the market. We know that but the government doesn't. Take time to fill in a MedWatch report to help others out. This is a link http://www.fda.gov/Safety/MedWatch/HowtoReport/DownloadForms/default.htm . For those who do not show symptoms. Remember me and that my achilles ruptured months after. Yes months! Bayer knows this. Just go to their website and search cipro. It will lead you to info at www.cipro.com. It can be during therapy or up to several months after. I don't know about you but that scares me on what they have done to my body. | F | 40 | 4 days 500 2X day | 3/21/2010 | 1 | Kidney Infection | Nightmares, very animated talking in my sleep. Insomnia, didn't sleep at all for 2+ days.Extremely Dry Mouth/Lips. Drank 10+ pints of water daily. Bloated Abdomen (from yeast overgrowth?) Pain that Moved from one place to another (not from injuries) Involuntary Stretching at night in bed to the point of pain. Hurts to Sleep on Sides due to Shoulder & Hip Pain. Cracking, Popping of Joints many times per day, i.e. Shoulders, Elbows, Wrists, Hips, Ankles, Knees. Dizzy. Chills/Sweats. Swollen Painful Finger Joints. Stiff Joints of the Hands, Fingers, Hips & Back. Pain in Knees, Shoulders, Wrists, Hands, & Hips. Cracking, Popping, Clicking, High-Pitched Sounds in Ears. Weird Ringing only in Right Ear. Blurry Eyes. Low Backache. Extremely Tight Sore Stiff Neck Muscles, couldn't turn head left or right very far. Nothing helped, heat or ointments. Strange sensations in back of Thighs and Knees, tendons? Weak upon Standing. Very very weak Wrists, could no longer open wine bottles wi | After my symptoms started I began researching this medication online. Ciprofloxacin is a Fluorinated Quinolone. Do not take anything containing Fluoride: water, juice, tooth paste, mouth wash, medications, i.e. Prozac, Paxil, Diflucan, etc. Read everything. Find a great Classical Homeopathic doctor & get help the sooner the better! I finally found one in Portland Oregon that I'm seeing on the 26th. I have been detoxing for weeks. No Sugar, yeasts, alcohol, only organic foods, natural toiletries. I'm eating tons of Organic Plain whole milk yogurt daily. I'm on a mission to kill this yeast! Regain my Health..Don't give up! Drink tons of pure water.. reverse osmosis. Please any and everyone that's sick from this...tell your doctor, file a report...speak out. Love & Light~ Linda PS Read about the History of Fluoride. It's TOXIC ! | F | 50 | 5 days 500mg 2X day | 3/19/2010 | 1 | PROSTATE PROBLEMS | Upadate on my cipro experience. I took 1 500 mg pill last July. I imeadiately felt pain in my achilles tendon and stopped taking the cipro. My tendons became very sore while my heels bruised. My knees popped and felt like my shoulders could tear out just moving my arms. I kept active-walking, stumbling, I just felt that moving these tendons would keep manufacturing new tissue. Well 8 months later I have recovered almost completely. I still get sore on the bottoms of my feet. I even can run again. I don't feel any diet really helped. i tried bone broth for the protien. It was time. I confronted my doctor about cipro. He just had a dumb look on his face. My advice is keep hope alive and stay active any way you can. | M | 46 | 1 days 500 2X day | 3/18/2010 | 1 | URINARY TRACT INFECTION | Severe kidney pain on right side. Bad enough to require visit to emergency room where a CRT scan did not detect any stones. Doctor never mentioned it could be caused by CIPRO. Did research on internet and stopped taking it immediately. Since then (three days now) pain has eased up but still not gone. Doctor didn't have a clue what was wrong so sent me home with a prescription for pain killers. He did not have time or inclination to find out cause of pain. | Will never take this again. | F | 66 | 4 days 500 2X day | 3/17/2010 | 3 | Severe inus and ear infection | From the first dose I noticed a burning and numbness on the palm sides of my fingers and toes. It was noticably different touching things, putting on shoes, etc. | I asked the doctor who gave it to me if this is something they see and I was told NEVER. But now in finding this page I believe I am not the only one. I had to stop taking it on day 5 because I had to go back to work, and I only hung in that long since the sinus infection was going on a month and a half and anything was better than that. | F | 32 | 5 days 500 2X day | 3/16/2010 | 1 | UTI | Severe lower back pain, pain and coldness in my hands, flu like symptoms, increased urination | I read the reviews before starting cipro and thought people were just too sensitive...I now wish I could turn back time. I took cipro for 3 days and right before my last dose I started having pain in my lower back, joints and pelvic region. My hands are freezing cold and they hurt. I can only imagine that this is what arthritis feels like in older people. I am usually very active and run 3+ miles several times a week. I can't run any longer, my feet are killing me. I honestly feel like a 90 year old woman right now. Going back to Dr. I will never take cipro again. | F | 41 | 500mg 1X day | 3/15/2010 Patient History | 1 | uti | crushing headache, leg pains, depression, bloody nose, aches all over my body. | My Dr. prescribed Cipro for a UTI. After taking the Cipro for 2 days I was in so much pain that when my Dr. called to see how I was doing I told him I thought I was going to die!!! I had never felt as bad in my life. I quit taking cipro after 2 days and took another antibiotic. For weeks after taking cipro my upper thigh muscles felt like they had been destroyed. My regular MD did blood work and discovered that my "muscle emzynes" were sky high. She would have given me a steriod but said that it would affect my blood sugar. So for about a month or so I just put up with the pain before it finally subsided. Here's the saddest thing of all......this happened 7 years ago. If I stress my thigh muscles in any way (like exercise) my thighs hurt so bad, and get so tight that they cause me to feel "unsteady" on my feet. I have to go down the steps backwards! If I try to go down normally I feel like my legs won't support me. | F | 58 | 2 days 1X day | 3/13/2010 | 1 | uti | While I was taking drug, I had intense burning pain in almost all joints of body, plus constant bad headaches and mild dizziness. After I stopped taking the drug after 3 1/2 days, I got more symptoms. Both achilles hurt constantly. Ankles hurt. Bottom of heels hurts. Can't do calf raise. Loss of ankle mobility. Peripheral neuropathy. Coldness in legs and arms. Burning pain at joints. Fasciculations, spasms, weakness in legs. Painful tightening of legs. Loss of balance when standing. Can't stand more than a few minutes, and can't walk very good. It is starting to happen more in my arms and hands now. | It has been almost 8 weeks, and I see no end in sight. I can barely walk. The achilles hurts so bad, especially right at the bone. Afraid it will rupture. I wasn't given any warning about this drug. They should have tried another antibiotic first. This is supposed to be the last line of defense, not the first. POISON. DO NOT TAKE. ASK FOR ANOTHER ANTIBIOTIC. | F | 46 | 7 days 500 mg 2X day | 3/12/2010 | 1 | Suspected UTI | Left should pain and weakness in left arm. | I was supposed to take this for 7 days. I didn't do anything to to my shoulder all I was doing was sitting playing a video game and all of a sudden I got a sever stabbing pain in my shoulder was not able to sleep went to the doctor the next day. I think they thought I was crazy because before I left for my app the nurse called and said that the doctor doesn't think that an antibiotic could cause my pain I told her that it was in the patient info I received from the pharmacy. I took that with me to the doctor so they could see for their selves but I still felt dismissed. I didn't get to see my doctor he wasn't there. The one I did see I didn't like. | F | 27 | 2 days 500 2X day | 3/12/2010 | 2 | UTI | Pain and weakness throughout the body (especially through legs, knees, and back), dizziness, light-headedness, upset stomach, diarrhea, general fatigue | I stopped taking this on the 5th day because my body felt extremely weak like never before, as I am relatively fit and young. I did not mind the upset stomach as much as having the UTI, but this was where I drew the line. Now I feel as if I'm 50 years older. I am still experiencing these symptoms after stopping the medication. I don't think everyone would react like this, just keep in mind that if you do feel pain/weakness in your limbs, call your doctor immediately. It is not normal, so my doctor told me to stop and will prescribe a different antibiotic. Cipro relieved my symptoms but did not cure my UTI, and it took several days to feel a difference (which is also rather unusual with such a strong drug). | F | 20 | 7 days 500 mg 2X day | 3/11/2010 | 1 | Elective surgery for mole removals | This last week, increasingly "stabbing" pain in my left kidney. I just took my morning dose and asked my son "Google Cipro and see if it can cause kidney problems." Why is this stuff still on the market - and why don't doctors know about the meds they prescribe. I am on my way to ER now - to see what they can do. Several sites said if your kidneys are involved - don't mess around. The Dermatologist prescribed this (over a 10-week course of surgeries) so I wouldn't get infections at the wound sites. Not having a kidney is worse...I would think. | M | 53 | 500mg 2X day | 3/11/2010 | 5 | Sigmoiditis, Inflammation colon | Lethargy, dizziness and increased sensitivity to ultraviolet light | I appreciate the negative comments from people who have had a severe reaction to this antibiotic - it is potent one. Other medications I have taken have given me severe side efeects - but for me, in conjunction with Metronidazole (Flagyl), ciprofloxacin was a life saver. I had intravenous Cipro and Flagyl for 3 days and tables for 18 days. The pain caused by the inflammation and infection ceased after around 2 days. For those who are just starting this medication - we must remember that many people have had successful treatment with this antibiotic and those people are unlikely to post on discussion boards showing side effects. I have found this site http://emc.medicines.org.uk useful for patient information leaflets and information used by health practitioners. ...if everyone was to think too much about what side effects medicines could produce no one would take any. | M | 30 | 21 days 500 2X day | 3/9/2010 | 1 | UTI | While taking antibiotic: 34 hrs of insomnia and I NEVER have sleep problems. 1 - 6 days after taking Cipro: moderate tendinitis in achilles tendon, wrists, ankles, knees, fingers, toes. Joints popping in knees, ankles, back, shoulders. Weakness, muscle spasms and twitches in arms and legs (and sometimes face) a few times/minute. I'm 23 yrs old and was perfectly healthy! | Welcome to the world of human greed. The makers of this drug know damn well they are ruining lives but it puts money in their pockets, as well as more money in the med industry for all the follow up tests, treatments, and drugs people need after CIPRO. I'll post 6 months from now with an update on if it improved or worsened. Praying for and visualizing improvement. | F | 23 | 1 days 500mg 2X day | 3/9/2010 | 1 | UTI | Insomnia, feeling of doom, ear ringing, red face, exhaustion, joint pain. | It has been 2 yrs and 3 months. Not much has changed. I have simply become accustomed to my physical state. Less feeling of doom though. Also have returned to lifting light weights and exercising. Nightly dose of 1 ibuprofen and 3 mg melatonin helps me sleep 4-5 hrs. 1-2 hrs without. Generally feel better if I sleep without worry. Melatonin by itself never helped me before. Let me know if anyone else has tried this. Reluctant to see doctors for any ailments now. | M | 52 | 30 days 500 2X day | 3/9/2010 | 1 | uti | extreme anxiety, weird hopeless despairing feelings, flu-like symtoms, terrible gas, dizzy, light-headed & increased volume of urine | I was prescribed cipro last march for c-diff from augmentin and experienced these same symtoms but believed they were caused by and related to my illness (bronchitis & then c-diff). After taking it a 2nd time and experiencing the same, there's no doubt of the culprit. Worse, I've had lingering bouts of vertigo and am now prone to panic attacks. It did effectively treat both the c-diff and uti but at what cost?! | F | 49 | 3 days 500 mg 2X day | 3/7/2010 | 3 | Bacterial Infection | Very Bloated and intense stomach pain | Side effects were common to any other antibiotic. Cleared infection up quickly. Second time taking Cipro with same side effects but both times it took effect quickly and was well worth it. | F | 33 | 10 days 250 2X day | 3/5/2010 | 4 | UTI | A slight Insomnia, Acid Reflux and towards the end Tendonitis, I am having tendonitis of the neck and shoulder muscle. The pain is not going away for almost a week now | The medicine cured my UTI but definitely has some side effects | M | 35 | 21 days 500 2X day | 3/4/2010 | 1 | UTI | loss of vision,neck pains, constant discomfort in the mid section, lack of sleep,light fever that I need to replace all my clothing and undergartments around 2am nightly, loss of muscle around my biceps and arms | After reading all the great testimonials on this drug, doctors should give you more options or refer you to a Naturopath (wishful thinking) | M | 53 | 5 days 500mg 2X day | 3/4/2010 | 1 | UTI | Fever, nausea, achilles tendonitis | I really, REALLY wish I had read this stuff before taking the medicine, because then I never would have. It gave me fevers of almost 102 degrees, achilles tendonitis in my right leg, and it didn't even completely clear up the UTI. I had to follow up with 3 days of Bactrim, which I should have just taken in the first place. Please do not take Cipro for anything if you can help it. You will regret it. | F | 29 | 3 days 2X day | 3/2/2010 | 1 | upper respiratory infection | peripheral neuropathy....depression | this is the worst experience of my life..I cant sleep...the pain wont allow me any peace at night..amazingly I am a natural medicine practitioner and acupuncturist for over 25 yrs...was prescribed this poison by a fellow MD who only had good intentions...I had tried alleviating this chest cold naturally without success and ultimately I am suffering greatly...I only took two pills and its been two months of burning tingling electrical surges of my peripheral nerves...I am about to marry the soulmate I have searched my whole life to be with and I have to contend with this challenge of not being 100% healthy before my wedding...this plainly sucks, but G-d is great and I will overcome this profound injustice...I volunteer to help fellow sufferers... | M | 48 | 2 days 1X day | 3/1/2010 |