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 | I took Cipro twice a day for 5 days for a urinary tract infection. I wish I had stopped taking it after the first two days when my UTI symptoms were better. Now I have red bumps on my legs and both of my legs are hideously swollen. My knees are in excruciating pain and the swelling is the size of a grapefruit. I can barely walk and have had to elevate my legs for the past two days. All I can do is lie around and sleep because my arms are too weak to lift anything and my legs are in the most excruciating pain I have ever had in my life. I can't even walk my dog. I am 40 and feel like I am 80. | F | 40 | 5 days | 6/20/2009 | 1 | acute diverticulitis | AFter ten days on the drug, ankle pain and extremely severe pain in shoulders, wrists, and hands. I could not sleep on either side, nor do any work with my hands. My usual routine at the gym was trashed. LIft a weight? Hah! Interestingly, some weeks after quitting the cipro, I developed an eye infection and put in a drop of the newest antibiotic drops my eye doc gave me. Two hours later, the horrible shoulder and wrist pain was back full-force. Intrigued, I looked closely at the eye drop box: It was "Viagmox," a fluoroquinolone, the SAME class of drug as Cipro! Keep an eye on those eye drops, folks. | There is some hope for those hurt by this drug. It's been almost three months since I stopped Cipro, and although I did not suffer an outright tendon rupture, I saw my rheumatologist about the continuing pain. He diagnosed Cipro-induced tendinitis and prescribed physical therapy, and after twice-weekly heat therapy, ice, massage, and gentle exercise, I am almost back to normal. Only one shoulder still bothers me, and my weights at the gym are indeed lighter than I normally use, but things are improving. If you have been harmed by Cipro, I urge you to talk to a rheumatologist. They are aware of this problem and can often help. | F | 66 | 10 days | 6/18/2009 | 3 | prostate infection | Dry eyes, optical floaters, visual anomalies with flashing lights, vitreal detachments, bilateral retinal detachments, partial blindess in left eye. | M | 51 | 30 days | 6/15/2009 | 1 | UTI | a big rash, muscle aches, extreme tiredness | I will never take this garbage again that's for sure. | M | 24 | | 6/15/2009 | 1 | bladder infection | I am dizzy, and did not realize that the tendons in four of my swollen fingers were related to taking cipro. I am so sick! Dying was not on my list to do, good grief. | I do not recommend taking cipro for any reason. I was not informed why cipro was prescribed to me except that I had a urinary tract infection. I wish I knew what I really have or had, so that I could give full information to this audience. I should have been put on a different type of medication, or waited for the results of my lab report before taking this dangerous drug. My urinary tract infection was in my opinion mild. Please have a talk with your doctor first about the side effects of taking this drug, or get a second opinion. Cipro is the last thing a doctor should perscribe to any person without first knowing what is truly the problem. Malama Pono, Hawaii | F | 61 | 7 days | 6/15/2009 | 2 | UTI | Depression and extreme leg pain | F | 69 | 2 years | 6/11/2009 | 1 | UTI | severel muscle aches, tired, weak, lethargic, behind my eyes hurt, skin rash, slept the entire 3 days (4 pills) | Never again will I take Cipro for anything. In fact. I'm jotting it down on my 'allergy' list. It was sincerely one of the most awful experiences of my life. I do not know if it was the pill itself, or it 'triggered' something in my body to react the way it did...but I did *nothing* but sleep for 3 days and even that was restless -- infact I went back to my doctor, and he had thought my Mono from over 10 years ago -- had come back!! -- It turns out that was NOT the case NO mono...quite simply -- the pill. I was severly achey ALL over my body my neck, my back, my legs -- even my EYES hurt. Tired, weak, lethargic, no appetite. Two days AFTER I stopped taking the pill IT gave me a MILD rash, a spot here, a dab there, and itch here and there -- red, looked better a FEW days later. Its still healing actually. BUT in ALL HONESTLY -- no sooner did he say "stop taking Cipro, it could makE your "mono" 'worse'..BOOM -- I started feeling AMAZINGLY BETTER. Please everyone, LISTEN TO YOUR BODY!!! If you feel AT ALL strange taking this pill -- JUST STOP! -- there ARE other alternatives!! --peace -a+ | F | 27 | 4 times | 6/9/2009 | 4 | UTI | While it cleared my infection quickly, I did experience some blurred vision and ultimately developed a rash on my stomach. | F | 49 | 3 days | 6/8/2009 | 1 | Sun sensitivity, severe diarrhea, and I've been in severe pain since taking it. | F | | 6/5/2009 | 1 | urinary infection | crippling pain, unable to walk. after 10 days of cipro, I had achilese tendonitis, plantar facia (bottom of feet) pain, shoulder pain with 2 rotator cuff tears. | I took this medicine in 2006 and had shoulder surgery about 8 months later to repair torn tendons. I had to see a foot specialist (to no avail), now in 2009, both shoulders have rotator cuff tears so I'm looking at surgery again, my feet still hurt daily as does my left elbow. I have a technical job that does not relate to the kind of tendon problems I had and still have. Personally this drug is a nightmare, if you happen to be alergic to it, not everyone is, and it does clear up infections very fast. there is one thing that is evident though, there is no time limit on the injuries you can have from this medicine. | M | 55 | 10 days | 6/5/2009 | 1 | sinus infection | joint pain trouble walking 1 day after 7 day course of cipro, It has been over 1 month and joint pains still lingers. I have to wait and rub my legs after getting up before I can walk well. Knees were swollen like bowling balls two days after I stopped taking the drug. This drug seems to be anti-health rather than healthy. The after effects are not worth the positive results. | I have read the reactions from cipro and I couldn't believe what I read. it felt like everyone was in my body. It sounds like there needs to be a CLASS ACTION SUITE FILED. AND IF SO...I'M IN!!! | F | 58 | 7 days | 6/4/2009 | 1 | UTI | A rash and lots of pain in my legs | I don't understand how an antibiotic can give you a rash on your face and pain. | F | 26 | | 6/2/2009 | 4 | UTI | Like others...were worried about stomach upset or side effects, but thank God really no problem at all except for some back achy pain or tiredness, but really no problems | F | 50 | 7 days | 5/30/2009 | 1 | infection | Extreme, EXTREME pain. I feel like I'm 80. I'm 20. | This drug is not supposed to be used as care-free as stupid physicians use it. People blame the drug companies for being greedy, but a large part of the problem as well is stupid doctors who don't know when a drug is really supposed to be used and when it's not. | | 5/25/2009 | 4 | kidney infection | 1 week after finishing 7 days of 500mg Cipro per day, I am left with a metallic taste in my mouth - nothing tastes right. I am quite depressed( more than the usual depression caused by report card writing - I am a teacher) and I ache in my legs and feet/feel swollen in hands and feet (although I have osteoarthristis, so it is hard to know what is causing it). I also have tenderness in my lower abdomen. | I had taken a week's course of another fluoroquinolone but it didn't work, so my GP switched me to this. It took a week for the symptoms to subside. I wish I had known all of the severity of the side effects, and their longevity. Are they really irreversible? That's even more depressing. I am going back to my GP. | F | 60 | 7 days | 5/24/2009 | 3 | sinus infection | My doc prescribed it for me for my sinus infection, I experienced some of the worse body pain I've ever had in my life. My neck and upper shoulders felt like there were two huge rocks fighting to get out. My fingers were popping and hurting at the joints. My ankle felt like something wanted to pop out of place when walking, muscles all over my body ached, not like the aching from working out, but from someone just punching the @!&! out of them for three hours. I'm 29 years old! Not to mention extremely dry skin and dry mouth. The pain and stiffness is virtually gone about 48 hours after coming off the drug. | It does do the job it's intended to do, no problem. My sinus infection was better in about 3-4 days and I haven't had any problems with that since. The side effects are monstrous though. I fancy myself having a tough mentality so it really has to hurt for me to be online searching about it and complaining about it in a post. If you're going to take it, expect a rough going, but expect it to work for what it was supposed to be fixing. | M | 29 | 14 days | 5/23/2009 | 5 | UTI | the only thing i experienced was my UTI going away! | I've taken cipro and levaquin for throat infections and they've always worked. recently, i had a terrible UTI. cipro knocks out bacteria fast. if you take it for more than 10 days, you feel kind of weak, during one infection, the cipro really made me sick to my stomach and i lost my appetite. but, that's a small price to pay for a life-saving antibiotic. i am prone to yeast infections, so that's generally a given for me. but, cipro really has just been given a bad name, and it's an excellent, fast-working drug. | F | 23 | 10 days | 5/22/2009 | 1 | Too many to list. | Doctors who prescribe this should be ashamed of themselves. | F | 34 | | 5/21/2009 | 5 | None. | Cipro really helped to relieve a lot of my symptoms. I did not have a bad experience with it at all! I took 2 week-long courses, and 1 2 week course, and each time it has been easy on me. | F | 20 | 7 days | 5/20/2009 | 1 | | 5/19/2009 |