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 |
| 5 | Severe Outer/Middle Ear Infection | Headache. Fatigue. Slight nausea that went away after the second day. | Amoxicillin didn't kill it. Zithromax didn't do it. Within 24 hours of Cipro, I went from maxing out the dosages of both paracetamol and ibuprofen to hardly taking anything at all. It worked. Yeah, there are side effects, but in my case, they weren't bad. It beat the pants off of an infected skull and pain that kept me from sleeping or talking. | F | 26 | 7 days | 9/21/2009 | 3 | UTI | some stomach discomfort, because I have acid reflux and could not take antacids 6 hours before or 2 hours after. | Cipro has worked for me in the past - I like the minimal 3 day regimen. Didn't clear the infection this time though. Doc put me on Bactrim - BIG problems, stopped after 3 of 14 pills. Now on Macrobid, just took the first one. Hoping it works | F | 53 | 3 days | 9/21/2009 | 1 | Epididymitis | Headaches, peripeheral neuropathy (tingles in my hands and feet), muscle twitches, muscle cramps neck pain, back pain, eye pain, night sweats, difficulty swallowing, panic attacks, deptression, etc.,etc,, etc. If it was on the side effects list, I got it. | This has been an absolute nightmare of an antibiotic for me. I started the cycle about 5 weeks ago and immediately started getting piercing headaches. I told my doctor and he said that if I stopped the medication, I would grow an immunity to it. Fearing testicular cancer, I kept on with the cycle. By day 4, I lost feeling in my feet and hands and by day 8, I started getting these feelings in my face. After I completed the cycle, I told my doctor that I still had those feelings, along with the headaches and bad muscle cramping. He said it would go away - it never did. I just visited my neurologist and got a CAT Scan and MRI done for fear of MS or ALS. Both tests came back negative and the neurologist stated that it had to be the meds. He even consulted with a neurologist colleague who had a patient with the exact same symptoms and took 2 years to accurately diagnose!! Cipro works for most folks, but the second you get ANY side effects, please, please, PLEASE stop!!! | M | 36 | 14 days | 9/19/2009 | 3 | Possible Parasite | Racing heart beat, Pounding heart, fever feeling (but didn't have a fever), chills, cloudy head, couldn't concentrate, minor neck pain, headache. | I am also on Metronidazole for a possible parasite that I might have picked up traveling. I thought the cloudy head was from being on a bland diet but I was on the diet a week before taking the antibiotics and never felt like this. It did make my stomach feel better however the racing heart was enough for me to call my Dr on call and stop the medications. I can't wait to get this crap out of my system... but now I need to find an alternative for my possible parasite!? This is beyond frustrating | M | 27 | 2 days | 9/18/2009 | 4 | diverticulitis | I CURED MY DIVERTICULITIS BY MYSELF! I figured out it was the yogurt I had been eating so much of because it's supposed to be good for your intestines, but I switched to lactose free yogurt and it's gone away! It was the lactose that is also in all dairy foods that was irritating my intestine! Hope this help you all and please spread the word! If you're lactose intolerant, regular yogurt has lactose! Stay away and eat soy yogurt. | M | 38 | 10 days | 9/16/2009 | 1 | Prostate Infection | I was prescribed 500 mg of Cipro twice a day for 14 days to cure what was thought to be a prostrate infection, but which turned out to be a kidney stone. I have never had any negative side effects from a drug before, but Cipro is different. It began with a screaming headache with occasional nausea and dizziness. And then the muscle pains started. At first it was in my quadriceps, which felt tight and sore. On the fourth day I woke up in the middle of the night because of a severe pain in my right shoulder. On the fifth day my right arm was still sore, but that night a severe pain in my left shoulder and bicep woke me up. I called my doctor and told him that I was through taking Cipro. I've been off of it for a week now, but the pain in my arms will not stop. It feels like a severe cramp that will not stop. Sleeping makes it worse because I'm not moving around. | I stopped taking Cipro almost a week ago, but the pain in my shoulders and arms will NOT go away. It's 3 o'clock in the morning right now, and I can't sleep because the pain is so bad. The doctor prescribed Vicadin to help me deal with it, but NOTHING gets rid of the pain. The side effects from the Cipro is far worse than any pain I've experienced with the kidney stone, I am a very healthy, athletic 47 year old. This kidney stone is the first time I have ever been sick, and the side effects I'm experiencing from taking the Cipro are first I have experienced with any drug. The JERKS who have posted to this website suggesting that this is some kind of joke or conspiracy need to go straight to HELL. Cipro may work for a lot of people, but the side effects I'm experiencing have ruined my life. If you experience a headache or any of the other milder side effects commonly associated with this drug, stop taking it immediately. I'm looking now for possible solutions or treatments to my muscle pains. If I find something--anything-- that works, I will post it here. In the meantime, I'm going to try all the other suggestions people have made starting with treating this as flouride poisoning, and trying to detox with borax. | M | 47 | 5 days | 9/15/2009 | 1 | possible uti | Stiff neck, horseness, hip pain, joint pain, muscle aches, low back pain, upper arm pain, foot pain. | Most of my worst side effects began 3 or 4 weeks after I stopped taking this drug. And they are not getting better. To top it off, the test for a uti came back negative and when I asked, the doctor's assistant told me to continue to finish the course. So I did. Not too smart of me, but I never imagined this would be the outcome of antibiotics. | M | 58 | 10 days | 9/15/2009 | 1 | Sinus infection | Bloating, joint pain, stomach pain, insomnia, lower back pain | This stuff is not good for me. I really thought that I was going downhill fast. I'm 71 and didn't realize it was the meds. I do have a means that helped me over the side effects. EFT. This is a method that helps with all types of pain. If you can't get over your probs. Try it.. emofree.com or call me 541-826-9851 I can help. | M | 71 | 4 days | 9/14/2009 | 1 | ear infection | inability to sleep, sweating, racing heartbeat, dizziness, sick to my stomach, shaking, sore limbs, dry mouth. | I was given JUST ONE after going to the ER for an ear infection i have been fighting off and on for 3 weeks. i had a zpack previous, which worked, but it came back. After I took the one cipro at the hospital I was advised when i talked to my boyfriend that this drug is very bad with horrible side effects and even used to treat people with anthrax and to not fill the script. I waited the night out to see, and it was the worst experience i've ever had with any medication. i have cystic fibrosis and I take a lot of medication, but nothing has ever made me feel as awful as this did. the first thing i did this morning was call my doctor to get something better called in. | F | 25 | 1 days | 9/13/2009 | 1 | UTI | One yr since last dose. One yr, nine months since first dose. Ears ring daily, nightly insomnia, feeling of doom, cranial pressure, knees ache, herniated disk, red face, hot flashes daily. Acupuncture (four gates) helped the red face some. Unisom (Walmart generic) helps me sleep 6 hrs. Only 3 hrs without. No real improvement for a year and a half, just gotten used to the side effects. | Do not ever take a quinilone drug. Ever. | M | 51 | 21 days | 9/10/2009 | 1 | Infection from cat bite | Headache, neck pain, joint pain, peripheral neuropathy, burning nerve pain in both arms and both legs. Both hands and both feet are completely numb. I have had 5 mri's, bone scan, emg, lumbar puncture. | This is a nightmare I am waiting to wake-up from..Is there anyway to reverse what is happening to me....This has been going on for 6 months now, with symptoms worsening every week. | F | 53 | 14 days | 9/10/2009 | 3 | Prostate Infection | Pain in both right and left elbows radiating through forearms, hands and fingers. pain in lower back and hips. Never had these problems before! | DONT TAKE THIS DRUG!!!! Was supposed to take for 3o days.... stopped after 20 days due to pain in elbows and hips. | M | 56 | 20 days | 9/9/2009 | 1 | Possible UTI | severe stabbing headache, racing pulse, faintness, chills, muscle aches, nausea (went away in 20-30 min.) neck pain, back pain,(all of these I didn't really attribute to the drug until now) severe bilateral calf pain, red sore bumps on legs, redness and soreness around tendons of both ankles, after 4th day terrible abdominal bloating and pain on left side made me go to the ER today. I only have 4 pills left and I'm not going to take them. | I know everyone has different reactions but I will NEVER take this drug again. | F | 25 | 6 days | 9/7/2009 | 1 | UTI | I took Cipro @once a week for 15-20 years, at first as a cure for chronic UTIs, then as a preventative every time I had sex. I developed severe vertigo/dizziness that took me a year to "diagnose" as Meniere's, then vestibulopathy (inner ear balance disorder), and now apparently currently they are UC Med is thinking it is MAV (Migraine Associated Vertigo). After reading up on Cipro I believe it is the Cipro which can cause permanent vestibular damage. I am now on SDI and can barely even watch a TV show without my head spinning. My dog was also given Cipro several times for bladder infections and when I figured this out in March 2009 I threw away her bottle. But voila, a month ago she was jumping up at a bird and ruptured the anterior cruciate ligament in her knee. She will never be able to jump again and after having her knee surgically taken apart and repaired, will need 6 months of physical therapy even to go to daycare or dogpark again, if ever. | DO NOT TAKE. EVER. I will never be able to work at the simplest lowest paying job ever again. | F | 47 | 15 years | 9/6/2009 | 3 | Prostatitis | 500 mg 2X daily for 20 days - On 3rd day begin having night sweats, weird dreams, severe joint pain with mild fever. Joint pain so severe I could barely move. It was curing the Prostatitis, saw marked improvement - but side effects too severe. Will request alternative from Doc. | M | 46 | 20 days | 8/30/2009 | 1 | Possible UTI/Kidney Infection | About 4 hours after the 2nd dose, I experienced numbness and ache in my right leg and right wrist. I called the Doctor, who didn't seem too concerned, but told me I should stop taking Cipro as it sounded like I had a reaction to it. I stopped the Cipro, haven't taken any more for three days - but I'm still achy, have intermittent tingling in limbs/extremities, and just feel unwell overall. It seems to be getting worse in fact. I feel unsteady when I walk. Doctor said it could take 5 days or so for the Cipro to clear my system, and until that time, my symptoms will probably be with me. If my symptoms aren't better in 2 more days, I'm going back to the Doctor or maybe hospital. After reading all the horrific experiences other people have had, I'm now pretty scared. I'm sure that's not helping my symptoms either - it's all I can focus on and my anxiety is through the roof. I can only hope I'll start to feel better as time goes along. I've taken other antibiotics before, but I've never fel | There are many effective antibiotics out there. Please only take Cipro is there is absolutely no other alternative. | M | 32 | 1 days | 8/29/2009 | 1 | Intestinal Infection | Severe pain in both achilles tendons and left hand. Trouble walking and moving left hand. | Cipro has made my life a living hell for the last 2 months. I can't walk without limping or pain, I can't exercise, I can't run around with my kids, I have trouble typing on the computer, I can't play guitar anymore. I feel like an old man at age 40. | M | 40 | 7 days | 8/27/2009 | 1 | prostatits | Depression,thoughts of suicide,weird and severe nerve pain, buzzing sensations in limbs, ringing in ears, extreme pain in legs, arms (could not walk more than a few steps for 4 months), nightmares, horrible insomia (for at least 7 months),blurry vision,unexplained crying, numbness in legs and arms...I really can't even describe everything that this did to my body...but 1 year after I took the drug, I am 75% recovered. | Please do not take this drug, unless you are about to die and there is no other option. It is toxic to body systems, especially to your nervous system. THERE IS NO REASON TO EVEN TAKE THIS DRUG. If you are told to take it DO NOT take it, and if you start to take it and begin having even the slightest reaction (burning in your achilles,headache,etc) STOP AT ONCE and demand that your doctor give you something else. You may not experience side effects until after you take the medication. If you experience side effects, expect a very rough road for at least 6 months ..but most individuals experience some level of recovery, if not totally complete recovery by 1 and 1/2 to 2 years after the drug was first taken. For those hurt by cipro...You will get better, but you must be patient. Find a good support system. Make "I will get better" your mantra, and hang in there. HAVE HOPE!!! Take it easy and give yourself time to heal. YOU WILL GET more and more BETTER every single day.... | M | 38 | 7 days | 8/25/2009 | 1 | uti | I took 4 pills so far. I am not taking anymore. I felt my heart racing, loss of appetite, my fingers on my left hand were trembling. I feel sicker then I was in the first place. I had to come home to lay down. I feel like crap. Hopefully this will get out of my system soon. I am not taking anymore pills. I have 6 to go. I am going to throw them out. | This drug must be very strong. I was given 500mg twice a day. I was ok until today. The trembling started yesterday and this morning. I feel my absolute worse today. I took the 4th pill at 930am. It is now 324pm. I was going to the store. I wouldnt make it up and down the aisles. I also feel drained and tired. So I came home hoping I will feel better later. It is the worse side effects anyone can ever have. It appears to make you sensitive to the sun too. I also had burning in my stomach last night. | F | 50 | 3 days | 8/25/2009 | 1 | Suspected UTI post prostate surg | Took for 3 days - twice per day, when preliminary lab results indicated possible UTI. Stopped when UTI not corroborated. Horrible searing pain in shoulders developed a week after last pill. Who knows what else is in store for me! | Can't believe surgeon prescribed this stuff, it is DEVASTATING. | M | 62 | 3 days | 8/24/2009 |