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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR PRILOSEC | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Acid reflux | 0 negative side effects for 3-4 weeks. Helped my reflux a bit. After 4 weeks, one day after my 2nd dosage I walked outside and felt Soo dizzy and nauseous and my vision was blurred. I felt like I was on a percoset or going crazy. I came home immediately and threw up. This awful feeling lasted the entire day. The next day I Didnt take the prilosec and felt normal! However the day after, all the same diZzy symptoms are back and I can't function ( and i didnt take the prilosec). I'm off the prilosec for good and just want to know if this feeling will ever go away? How long until the dizziness/blurred vision/headaches go away for good!?? Please let me know. | F | 28 | 1 months 40mg 2x | 8/7/2013 | 1 | Gastritis, Acid Reflux | Chest pains. Heart palps. Stomach gurgling, which was constant and unpleasant. | This drug seemingly helped my throat gurgle, and perhaps my stomach grumble, but maybe that was placebo. The chest pain scared the crap out of me. I'm an active guy, exercise a lot, and have a slow heart rate, but even though my heart rate remained slow, it seemed like it was a thudding beat, and that ain't right for a 130 pound young guy. | M | 27 | 1 months 20 mg 1X day | 8/2/2013 | 1 | hiatis hernia and acid reflux | So glad i found this site. Started taking this after being diagnosed. Panic attacks feelings of doom pain fatigue etc . Already taken todays dose but will NEVER take it again. Been out and bought apple cider vinegar with the "mother" tried this years ago for heart burn .... It worked so the natural route is where im headed | F | 38 | 2 years 40 mg | 7/31/2013 | 1 | GERD | A week ago I had some of the worst heartburn ever. I tried tagament and was just taking the edge off but no relief. I went to the ER with chest pains and a burning stomach. Long story short, heart was great and was diagnosed with GERD and was told to tale Priolcec for GERD. After my 4th day is was feeling relief but was still felling awful. My arms, shoulders and back was painful in my mussels, no energy, lack of sleep at night, cold chills, pain in my jaw and anxiety. I was feeling worse than I did with just the GERD. I stopped the Priolcec and decided to do some reserve on natural remedies. Two days later, I feel like a million bucks with no Prilosec and taking natural remedies. Do not recommend this medication at all. | 37 | 6 days 20.6 | 7/27/2013 | 4 | GERD | Smelly bowel movements and gas is the biggest side effect. I'm assuming this is common given the fact that it is a PPI that shuts down the production of stomach acid. | Deal with the side effects if your GERD needs better control. | M | 42 | 180 days 20mg 1X day | 7/8/2013 | 5 | GERD | Omeprazole worked great for me without any side effects. Highly recommended for those with frequent heartburn. | F | 25 | 2 years 40mg | 7/4/2013 | 1 | GIRD | Although the meds did help with my acid reflux, it was the side effects that wreaked havoc on my life. I was on prescription Prilosec and Zantac but had to stop taking the Zantac because it gave me heart pains. The Prilosec gave me very painful head zings. My main discomfort came when I started to take O.T.C 40 mg of Prilosec. I was slammed with dizzy spells so bad that I could not walk. This would cause me to vomit. The painful head zings were more intense as was my head with sensitivity to light and noise. My body also swelled up, particularly my head, throat and I bloated terribly. I had very tense muscles with severe neck pain to my shoulders. I was constantly tired with this medication and felt horrible immediately after eating. I will not take this med ever again and will deal with my acid reflux in another manor. Im so happy that I finally figured out that it was the O.T.C. PRILOSEC!!!!!!!!!!! | F | 45 | 1.5 years 40 1X day | 7/4/2013 | 1 | Acid reflux | The first night taking it, I woke up with severe numbness and tingling in my arms, chest pain, stomach tenderness, and my husband said I looked very pale. I went to the emergency room and Dr said anxiety. For six weeks, I had numbness, tingling, blurred vision, no appetite, but felt like eating raised my blood sugar and reduced the tingling. I had difficulty sleeping, nausea, anxiety, headache, stomach tenderness, abdominal cramping, bloating, poor concentration, clouded thinking, sweating,weakness in arms and legs. I was told to double the dose. I didn't. I had a gastric emptying study and was told not to take any medication. I felt amazing!! I was full of energy and my symptoms were reduced by second day. I told myself I should probably take it again and follow what my doctor ordered. So I took it that second night and woke up in the middle of the night with tingling, nausea, spinning room feeling, sweating, anxiety and abdominal pains. It has been a week since that episode. I will never take this poison again. | F | 33 | 6 weeks 40 | 7/1/2013 | 1 | acid reflux | Took for two days. Stopped before third pill. Severe headaches, cloudy thought, tense, nausea. Will Never touch this stuff again. | M | 44 | 2 days | 6/27/2013 | 2 | Acid reflux | Eyes won't focus when going from close to far, plus blurry vision. Extreme pain, tingling, and some numbness in upper arms near shoulder, hands, feet, fingers, thumbs and toes. Pain in face especially bones around jaws and teeth. Uncontrollable crying, anxiety, panic, sweating. | I had tried Prevacid for 4 days last year. It caused me to awaken out of a deep sleep with inability to catch my breath and pain in upper chest near collarbone. Very frightening so I stopped it. I stopped taking Prilosec about a week ago and still have all the symptoms. I'm wondering how long this will take to get out of my system. I don't want to go to my doctor if I can get through this. I had already been taking vitamin B12 and Vitamin D and continue these. I wonder if my body is so low in these vitamins and that's why symptoms continue. Any advice from anyone would be appreciated. I will never take this medication again! It's very dangerous! | F | 64 | 39 days 20mg 1X day | 6/26/2013 | 1 | Ulcer | occasional trouble getting a deep breath, occasional anxiety | It has now been 5 weeks since I stopped taking Prilosec. The breathing difficulties and anxiety, once extremely severe, have simmered down to an occasional feeling. I am now sure that the previous severity was due to Prilosec making me extremely agitated and anxious - in a virtually permanent state of anxiety. I will never take this drug or any other acid blocker or reducer as I have had negative effects from all of them. As mentioned in my original post the Doctors said there was no way the breathing problems were due to Prilosec and told me to continue taking it. In fact every Doctor I have talked to in regards to this problem seemed to believe it was impossible and wanted me to go on anxiety meds....not happening. I can honestly say I despise Doctors and the way they push drugs onto patients as their method of treatment. | F | 33 | 40mg 2X day | 6/12/2013 Patient History | 1 | acid reflux | Shortness of breath, wheezing, fatigue, constant yawning, knee pain in both knees, tennis elbow in both arms, carpal tunnel, joint pain in thumbs, restless legs, severely dry skin, chronic constipation, poor memory and unbelievable insomnia | Initially when I began taking this poison 10 years ago I noticed no immediate side effects so I continued to take it because it did help my acid reflux. As the joint problems, fatigue, shortness of breath and other symptoms crept in overt the last 10 plus years, I never put 2 and 2 together. I have had multiple surgeries to correct trigger thumb, tennis elbows and knee issues. It was an orthopaedic surgeon that noticed my long term use of prilosec. She informed me that she has seen many patients with the same health issues as I and suggested I stop taking it for 6 months to see if my symptoms improve. I did not think they would but I did it anyway. I modified my diet and removed foods and drinks that cause heart burn and reflux. I used tums as little as possible. It was pure hell. Guess what? 6 months later I feel ten years younger. EVERY SYMPTOM has subsided. I feel so much better and so sad that I endured such depletion of my quality of life, several unnecessary surgeries, procedures, injections, missed work, ingested more medication, went to PT, lost good years all because of this fucking medicine that was approved by the FDA as safe for human consumption. I wish someone would have warned me how harmful it would be to me. Maybe my review will help someone like me. | M | 32 | 10 years 1X day | 5/19/2013 | 1 | GERD | Hospitalized 4 times for severe diarrhea, vomiting and constipated in-between. 2 of those times with heart palpitations and tightening of the chest. Doctors never found anything wrong. A friend told me to read side effects, WOW ! All my symptoms were there including headaches. I had lost 40 lbs because I was so sick all the time. At one point I had severe bacterial infection. Stopped taking Prilosec last Nov and I AM FINE NOW !! Gained back 8 lbs so far. I chew Tums for GERD now which doesn't work great but helps. | F | 61 | 5 years 30 mg 1X day | 5/14/2013 | 1 | stomach inflammation | Pain in eyes especially right, anxiety attacks, stiff neck and shoulder, headaches, watery eyes, pain behind eyes, simian infection symptoms, sore ear. | F | 25 | 10 days 40 | 5/5/2013 | 1 | Sleep: reduce laryngeal acid reflux | Sudden and rapid hair loss starting the second week. The shedding stopped approximately one week after I ceased taking omeprazole. Let's hope it grows back. | M | 47 | 14 days 40 1X day | 5/3/2013 | 1 | Stomach Acid | Shooting head pain, tension headaches, tightness in throat, sinus infection symptoms | F | 36 | 18 days 21MG 3X day | 4/30/2013 | 1 | Diagnosed ulcer from NSAID use | Panic/doom, high bp, throat choking, depression, overall sick as i have ever felt!!! This is evil poison. Pills for pills for pills!! Enuf!! I will deal with a normal existence and take my chances. Western docs are part of a system to KEEP YOU SICK AND MAKE YOU SICKER. | M | 55 | 10 days 20mg 2x | 4/16/2013 | 1 | Ulcer, unable to eat | Burning in back of neck, tightness around neck (like something tied around my neck) panic attacks, anxeity. | I was misdiagnosed of having a nervous breakdown and an ucler three months ago. We later found out that what I had was mercury posion. So yes, I was having some type of strange panic attacks/anxiety before taking prilosec. I started prilosec the same day as Lexapro and had some strange crazy reactions such as no sleep, throwing up, cant eat or sleep. Then was put on many different other anti depressants with the same reaction. I thought i was allergic to the anti depressants but it was really the prilosec. I forgot to take my prilosec one day and i had no choking in my neck or nervousness.. I took it later at 4pm and by 5 pm all those crazy symptoms came back. I then had the guts to google this and found this website. I am thankful to read that others have been through this and know that i am just not crazy. I am quitting the medicine TODAY!!! The ucler was misdiagnosed anyways so I would rather have heart burn that chocking and panic attacks anyday! | F | 30 | 1 months 1X day | 4/5/2013 | 1 | Ulcer | Increased HR at night and sometimes during the day, BP, night sweats, palpitations (especially in the middle of the night... they would wake me up), anxiety, depression | I took this for 4 days and started to experience heart palpitations and night sweats with an increased heart rate. I was having extremely depressing thoughts and broke down daily. I just stopped taking it today and was wondering if these symptoms went away for anyone and how long they took? Email me! Thanks | M | 21 | 4 days 40 1X day | 3/25/2013 | 1 | Gastroesophygeal reflux disease | neck stiffness and pain, severe anxiety, panic attack,armpit pain, pain in my calves, heart palpitations, increased heart rate after eating anything (106), tingling hands and feet,severe hives,high blood pressure, shortness of breath, blurry vision, freezing cold, tiredness after eating, overwhelming feeling of dreed, etc.. | omg I really thought I was going crazy, have been to the ER 3 times in two weeks, afraid to eat anything. I have had cervical x-rays, MRI and was recently told by my Dr.that I would need a comprehensive phsycological evaluation, and a MRI on my brain to see if I had lesions(MS) my Dr. has perscribed Baclofen, Paxil, Klonipin, ER dr. gave me Ativan ( turned me into a zombie) So glad I am an internet searcher. My Dr. even told me to stay off the internet. I will never take Omeprazole again. | F | 48 | 60 days 40 1X day | 3/25/2013 |