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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR CIPRO | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Turned out to be nothing | Debilitating tendonitis, ringing in ears, light sensitivity, insomnia, panic, vision problems, full-body pains from the depths of hell. Three months later, still disabled and my life destroyed because of this crap that I foolishly put in my body. | All you new victims of these terrible drugs need to join us at WWW.FAVC.INFO. We are a community of quin victims in various stages of healing who are here to help you. Sadly, you are NOT alone in this nightmare. Welcome to the club nobody wants to belong to. | M | 45 | 7 days | 12/9/2009 | 1 | possible prostate infection | WEIRD SCARY THOUGHTS, DEEEEP DEPRESION, MOOD SWINGS, HORRIBLE HORRIBLE ANXIETY ATTACKS, DAYS WITHOUT SLEEP, I FREAKIN QUIT MY JOB BECAUSE OF THESE THINGS, ( THROUGH THE GRACE OF GOD THEY ALLOWED ME TO COME BACK AND HAVE LEAVE TIME ), I USED TO WIEGH 182 NOW IM DOWN TO 163 (IVE HAD NUMEROUSE EXAMS AND THEY ARE ALL CHECKING OUT FINE PRAISE GOD!). SORE KNEES, ( BENT DOWN ONCE AND HAD TO REALLY MAKE AN EFFORT TO GET UP ). BUT THE WORSTE WAS THE MENTAL SIDE, ONLY GOD CAN KEEP YOU THROUGH AN EXPERIENCE LIKE THIS, I PRAISE GOD! FOR KEEPING ME IN ALL THIS, | its been about 2 months since ive taken this stuff. before then i was having urinating issues ( stop and go ) . so the doctor prosscribed me this horrible drug. they gave me 28 pills. and i was to take 2 a day and come back to see him after i finished..well it goes with out saying i could not go through with the advise...about 3 pills into the bottle i started having wierd moments of constant negative thoughts, these morbid thoughts lead to a depression i cant describe!!!, nights without sleep!!, then the anxiety attacks started!!!!, i took this med for about 2 weeks of and on ( i missed a day here and there, but i ended up taking 20 out of the 28 pills ) its been about a month 1/2 since i took the last cipro pill, ( its been about 1 month since i took the last xanax, which i was using to help get sleep, but was making me feel horrible as well, and its been about 3 weeks since i took the last ativant pill which they put me on because i told them i couldnt handle the xanax. ) and it made me feel horrible as well. These last few weeks have been a road of horror that i wouldnt wish on anyone, Praise GOD that im feeling better than i was then. PRAYING TO THE LORD FOR TOTAL RECOVERY AND HEALING FROM ALL THIS, i must say it feels like a blessing just to find this page, because even though i feel better than i did, i was just wondering WHAT IN THE WORLD WAS THIS MESS ALL ABOUT?!!!....MY PRAYERS GO OUT TO ALL OF YALL OUT THERE GOD BLESS YALL | M | 32 | 2 weeks | 12/9/2009 | 1 | UTI | Depression, thoughts of suicide. | Wow, now that I see the other comments I'm amazed anyone is prescribing this drug. Of course, if anyone is, I'm not surprised my doctor is. She's pretty much in big pharm's back pocket. | F | 44 | 3 days | 12/8/2009 | 1 | post-surgery infection prevention | severe back pain, knee pain, mild ankle pain, headache | I'm an extremely healthy young guy and prior to taking Cipro I had never experienced back pain or knee pain. My back would hurt when I laid down at night to sleep. It seemed to intensify as I relaxed, and tensing up seemed to slightly ease the pain. When I woke up in the morning, I felt fine though and it didn't hurt standing up during the day really. Luckily after I stopped taking the drug the back pain got 90% better. Knee pain kicks in primarily in the mornings when I'm driving to work and has also improved (but not gone away) since I stopped taking the drug. However, I have had a headache now for at least 5 days! I've never had a headache for this long. I can't think what else it could be related to. Ibuprofen helps, and luckily the headache isn't too intense, but the fact that it's not going away is scaring me. Will be seeing a rheumatologist and possibly a headache specialist soon. | M | 24 | 7 days | 12/7/2009 | 1 | suspected kidney infection | nausea,headaches,dizziness,paranoia,EXTREME anxiety of the EXTREMEST kind,panic attacks, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, heart racing, etc... the list goes on | It is now 2 weeks since I took my last CIPRO. I have taken them 4 times before over the last 3 years thanks to my GP who refuses even now to admit that there are any serious side effects.I am in England in the UK and not the USA like many posters here. Unless you have taken CIPRO then you can never,never understand what they do to you and your body and mind. I have been to hell and come face to face with the DEVIL himself thanks to my GP and the pharmaceutical companies and Government policies. If you read this before taking a pill then please stop right now and throw them away because any infection is far better than what you will go through. If I had to make a choice right now between a CIPRO and an injection of heroin off the streets then I would opt for the heroin without any doubt or faltering in making the correct choice. These drugs are worse than any street drug that a scumbag drug dealer peddles in dark alleyways. I am taking each day at a time now and thanks to God have now stopped having the horrible negative thoughts that have overwhelmed my life for the last 14 days. I still cant go upstairs without getting out of breath or having aching bones, but thanks to a good friend have started a de-tox and i pray to the good Lord that in time i may be normal again. DO NOT TAKE CIPRO UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES..PLEASE DONT.I CANT REALLY SAY ANY MORE | M | 31 | 3 days | 12/5/2009 | 1 | Possible UTI | Pains in legs, feet, fingers, toes, wrist...can barely walk. I feel like I am burning up every night, a "hot" feeling. DO NOT TAKE THIS MEDICINE! | I am so scared, I took for a suspected UTI, 2 pills a day for 7 days. The pain and fear is so bad I've already contemplated suicide. I'm 25 ears old, how can this happen! I've had to withdraw from school,when the semester was almost over, and was suppose to be job hunting. Now I don't know if I will ever be able to resume college or work again since reading others horror stories. This pain may really not go away for weeks, months, years even?! It's been over a week since discontinuing. I never even wanted to take this to begin with, because I had a urinalysis come back NEGATIVE after taking a different antibiotic.A urologist said it was possible I still had an infection, which sounded like BS to me. I checked with my regular physician who said it was indeed possible to have a negative result but still have an infection. I had no symptoms of infection other than kidney pain. My family urged me to take this, and now I'm am filled with guilt for not following my gut instinct on this, like this is my own damn fault. I discontinued what should have been a 10 day treatment after 7 days, and went to the ER. Still not properly diagnosed | F | 25 | 7 days | 12/4/2009 | 3 | UTI/Kidney Infection | Continued pain in my right kidney, shooting pain in my left arm, pain in my toes, overall pain in my stomach, left kidney, weight loss, depression, anxiety, morbid thoughts, lethargy, sleep disturbance | I had a UTI that lead to a kidney infection. My doctor prescribed a 7 day course of Ciprofloxacin which I dutifully took. It cleared my kidney infection, however, I still continued to have pain the right kidney. I tried to go back to work, experienced acute pain. Since then I have started to have all the pain noted as side effects and it continues. It wasn't until I stumbled across this last night that I actually began to think that it is the Cipro. I have now been off work for nearly two months. I am a shadow of my former self. I don't have energy to do anything. I'm a single mum and struggle to care for my two young children. God knows what I would have done if I hadn't had a loving family around me. I go to bed at 8pm every night, and wake up every morning feeling worse. I'm probably going to lose my job, which I loved, because I just can't work. I had a ultrasound scan yesterday that came back as clear which has made me feel like I am going mad and all this is in my head. If this is true, I cannot believe that we can be prescribed a drug that can cause more harm that the original illness for which it was intended. Please email me with comments. I've been prescribed a further 5 weeks course of this product and I stopped taking it last night when I read all your comments. Whoever started this thread, I thank you so much. | F | 40 | 42 days | 12/3/2009 | 1 | UTI | Do Not Take This Drug!! Within only 2-3 hours after taking it, I developed severe tendonitis and my doctor took me off of it immediately. The pharmacist told me the drug is about to be recalled because of this. Ask for something else!!! Do not take it! This is pure poison! | There are far better drugs for treating UTI's than this awful thing. You are far better off with the infection than using this drug. Avoid it avoid it! | M | 44 | 1 days | 12/3/2009 | 1 | dr said | sun sensitivity, rash, diarrhoea, depression | felt like i was poisoned | F | 19 | 8 days | 12/2/2009 | 3 | Prostatsis | Muscle Aches,light headache. | I've taken Cipro before without much trouble but the latest use has not been as trouble free. I am very achy and a bit lethargic. Also seem to have a slight headache.Within an hour of taking this I feel my groin muscles start to contract.Having taken Levaquin awhile back with bad results this family of drugs while useful in clearing infection clearly has issues.I would seek other remedies given the new black box warnings.The pharmacist who filled this prescription for me told me to expect to "feel this in your bones and to avoid excercise". It is clearing my prostatis. | M | 52 | 15 days | 11/30/2009 | 1 | UTI | I'm commenting for my father who took this. Before the infection, he was mentally sharp. Now very demented. Not sure if this was the direct cause, but I doubt the infection did this. | Many drugs (artificial chemicals) have severe adverse effects, some permanant. I personally prefer Eastern holistic medical approaches over the more profit oriented Western approach (which often leaves hapless victims in it's wake). The system is stacked, so it's best to be very wary. | M | 76 | 10 days | 11/29/2009 | 1 | UTI | I took Cipro 2 months ago for a possible UTI. I immediately became very ill with abdominal pain, exhaustion, body aches, pain in my extremities. When I went to the doctor she suggested I probably did not drink enough water so when my urinary problems returned 2 months later the doctor recommended Cipro. After the 3rd day the same symptoms appeared even though I was drinking enough to drown myself. I stopped after 3 1/2 days but I still have the aforementioned symptoms and backaches as well. I will never take this drug again and after reading some of these accounts i am afraid I may have long term effects. P.S. I didn't even have a UTI. | F | 61 | 4 days | 11/29/2009 | 4 | acutre attack of diverticulitus | I finished the course of cipro over two weeks ago but I have had lingering pain in my left side and abdomen as well as some joint pain in ankles and wrist. | Not sure if these are side effects of cipro or of losing almost 20 pounds in about a month from 1000 calories a day. | M | 47 | 10 days | 11/28/2009 | 1 | UTI | Cipro ruined my life. I don't wake up until 3pm most days now because I have no life to wake up to. I dread every day. I can barely walk, barely bathe myself, barely even type this message right now. | Two months ago I was healthy, active and independent. I don't know if I'll ever be that person again, thanks to six days on Cipro. The biggest mistake of my entire life. How can these things be allowed to happen? Where is our protection? I don't fit any of the "risk" factors for developing side effects: I'm nowhere near 65, never had a transplant, no steroid use...but here I lay crippled and wondering what the hell is going to come of my life now. Those poisonous pills have attacked just about every part of my body--and severely so. No longer able to care or provide for myself, I struggle every day with thoughts of suicide. I am now a 30-year-old trapped inside a 200-year-old body and every day I want out. This was not the way my life was supposed to end up. IT'S NOT WORTH IT, PEOPLE. TAKE SOMETHING ELSE. I hope this message finds you before, not after, you've ingested your doctor-prescribed poison pills. If you've already taken them, drop to your knees while you still can and pray to God that you're one of the lucky ones. And never take another quin drug as long as you live or else you're truly asking for trouble--repeat exposure to quin drugs seems to be a big factor in becoming floxed. Also, I'd advise NEVER to take a quin drug unless you know FOR CERTAIN that you indeed have a bacterial infection. If not, the poison will turn on you and attack your own tendons, muscles and tissues. That is my warning to you. One f*cked up life is enough! | M | 30 | 6 days | 11/28/2009 | 1 | suspected kidney infection | nausea, chest pain, difficulty breathing, couldnt walk, panic attacks, suicidal thoughts, self harm thoughts, thought i was dying | I cannot believe this is an antibiotic!! I have been taking for 3 days 250mg twicw daily and have been to hell and back. I took it a year ago and had similar thoughts but never connected it to cipro. until I have just been to the same dark and scary place again. DO NOT TAKE IT BECAUSE IT WILL MESS YOU UP | M | 37 | 3 days | 11/28/2009 | 1 | infection | F | 45 | | 11/26/2009 | 1 | UTI | Nausea (very bad) couldnt eat, tingling and numbness on face hands & feet, Anxiety, severe back pain near ribs, IBS, headaches, neck pain (like cramps) lip numbness, confusion and fatigue. | TERRIBLE! Have been taking for 2 and half days, stopped because I felt it was the Cipro making feel so sick, I went to ER last night and Dr, gave me different medication to treat UTI. I couldnt take the back pain & heaches and thought maybe it was my kidneys. All of a sudden I have Anxiety and all the symptoms I described above. I did a search on cipro and found this site and now Im scared. how long will I have these problems. Nausea isnt as bad as its been last few days ( I ate twice today) had Diahrhea, headache still all day and pain still there. This is day 2 of not taking it. For the past few days I've been feeling like I'm deathly ill. No energy and very depressed. Today, I recall taking Cipro a few years ago and after one day I felt so sick & I went back to Dr for different meds, totally forgot. NEVER AGAIN!!! | F | 36 | 2 days | 11/26/2009 | 2 | BLADDER INFECTION | SHOULDER STIFFNESS & PAIN, ANXIETY, EXTRA HEART BEATING AND HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE. NEVER HAD THAT IN MY LIFE, ALWAYS LOW, SUDDENLY WENT UP AND FLUCTUATING RANDOMLY. | F | 60 | 4 days | 11/25/2009 | 1 | Suspected bladder infection | See my previous post | Continuing my previous post: The doctor who put me on cipro REFUSED TO SPEAK TO ME, and the message relayed to me was to speak to my GP and that side-effects are VERY RARE!! My only option was self help. I embarked on a detox diet, eating fresh fruit and veg, taking probiotics, drinking nettle tea, and avoiding flouridated toothpaste, drinking lots of water, and taking a biochemic tissue salt (Mag.Phos.) which is anti-spasmodic. I got myself a small wooden foot roller to help stretch the tendons in my heels. It's now been excatly one month since the side effects started and I can tell you that the pain, cold clamminess and buzzing in my feet has almost gone. The leg weakness has mostly gone. I no longer have the sweaty face and hands. I do still have pains and numbness in my arms and hands, which occurs every other day or so, depending on what I've been doing. My feet ache after standing/walking for more than 15 mins, but that's nothing compared to the pain I had before. Good luck to all of you who have had horrible side-effects from this drug, or from interactions with other drugs. My only advice is to try detoxing your system. And people who have taken this drug and had no side-effects should count themselves very lucky. There is no need for them to belittle the terrible effects it has had on other people less tolerant to flouride poisoning! | M | 34 | 3 days | 11/25/2009 | 1 | Suspected bladder infection | Side effects in the order they appeared after taking Cipro for 3 days (500mg twice a day): Aches and pains in my arms, sudden very sharp pains in heels, freezing yet clammy feet, buzzing feeling in feet, weak ankles, shooting pains in feet ankles and calf muscles, cold sweats at night, waking up in the night with numbness in fingers, sharp pin prick pains in chest and jaw, tightness in chest, very thick sticky sweat on face and hands, pain in heels and arches of feet when standing (later diagnosed by GP as plantar fasciitis), freezing hands, prominent veins appearing in arms,hands and legs...... | I had already taken Amoxycillin for 7 days, Keflex for 6 days with only temporary relief from what seemed to be a bladder infection. I ended up in hospital with excruciating lower abdominal pain. All tests were negative for bacterial infection, but they still put on cipro. They'd also given me morphine and a muscle relaxant intravenously, followed by the cipro 4 hours later, along with a cocktail of pain killers, (dihydrocodeine, tramadol, some sort of ant-sickness tablet) and they wanted to give me ibuprofen, but I happened to refuse that one on the grounds that I'm asthmatic. I didn't read the leaflet accompanying the cipro tablets until day 3 of treatment, which mentions not to take it with muscle relaxants, ibuprofen and many other drugs!! I do not know if Cipro alone caused my side effects, or the cocktail of drugs they pumped me with, but the most upsetting thing for me is that there was no sign of bacteria (or anything else for that matter) in my urine or blood samples, so I don't understand why they treated me with such a toxic drug. I was sent home with a 10 day supply of Cipro, but stopped taking it the following day when the foot pain started. My GP said I should stop reading about side effects and that she'd NEVER HEARD OF ANYONE HAVING SIDE-EFFECTS to this drug. I went back a couple of days later in worse pain, and at this point the GP said "Well, the PEOPLE WHO I HAVE SEEN WHO HAVE HAD SIDE EFFECTS TO THIS DRUG have gone one to recover, eventually" | M | 34 | 3 days | 11/25/2009 |