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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR PRILOSEC | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | Constant Heartburn | Occasional headaches. Developed achy feelings in joints resembling tennis and golfers elbow, as well as pain in neck muscles. | While Prilosce performs its function as the acid suppressant very well, I find that as soon as I end a 14 day course, the heartburn immediately returns. I'm not sure which I like less: the constant heartburn or the aches and pains I experience with the medicine. Does anyone know why the drug is only supposed to be taken for the 14 days? Is there anything that is as effective that is able to be taken every day? | M | 47 | 2.5 years | 6/27/2007 | 5 | heatburn | gas, | Works great,I take it every morning and i can eat whatever i want.Tried numerous heartburn otc remedies.The only one that worked is prilosec. | M | 39 | 2 years | 6/23/2007 | 3 | GERD | Lightheaded/dizzyness, muscle fatigue, particularly in the legs and neck, headaches, flu like symptoms, feels like sinus infection without the actual infection | Gave it a 3 because it did take care of heartburn. If you can manage to take this without the side effects, I imagine it is quite useful. I was taking Prilosec, then Zegerid (basically Prilosec X 2 + Sodium Bicarbonate), then went back to Prilosec. Went to the docs a couple of times before realizing it might be side effects of the Prilosec I was feeling. Stopped 2 days ago. Very mild heartburn felt, but side effects are slowly decreasing. | M | 34 | 5 months | 6/19/2007 | 2 | Heartburn | Severe diarea, headache, constantly sick to my stomach, sad, migrane, extremely tired, cough, tingling in my arms, flu like symptoms, no energy, vomiting, Still not feeling well after stopping it 3 days age. | Not worth taking at all. Try something else. My pharmacist and Doctor did not recognize the symptoms as side effects. | F | 35 | 9 days | 6/19/2007 | 1 | Gerd | I've started taking prilosec for the past 5 days now and it has been a nightmare. I've been very depressed, upset, crying and it makes you feel as if you just want to run away and hope all your feelings of uncertainty would just disappear. It makes you feel bloated, chest tightening, coughing & loose stool. | I can explain this feeling, but I know for a fact that it's not a feeling anyone would want to experience. I suggest very highly that if anyone is thinking about trying this medication, think again. This may work for some people, but why take the chance, after all; look at the number of people with the same side affects. | F | 50 | 5 days | 6/19/2007 | 1 | ACID REFLUX | Extreme depression, migraine headaches, weakness in legs and arms, crying effusively, tightening of the chest as if your going to have a heart attack, loss of appetite, and very gassy. | I've been on Prilosec for the past 5 days now and I can't even begin to explain how I've been feeling. It's a feeling of uncertainty. All I can say is, if you ever decide to take this medication, on the first day if you have any changes in your personality and you start feeling differently about life, about yourself and about everything around you, then I strongly suggest you stop that same day. It is a feeling that I hear of people who commits suicide. Meaning: A unexplainable feeling of depression that can really affect your own stability. This is how I've been feeling. Trust your own self and trust that what you can and can not tolerate. After all: every one's different and we all function differently. So what may not work for me, may work for you, but watch the first day. | F | 50 | 5 days | 6/19/2007 | 1 | Heartburn | severe abdominal cramps,diarrhea, hot flashes, chills, light headed, and nausea. The abdominal pain was the worst I ever suffered. I had the same reaction about 3 months ago when traveling and thought it was a severe case of food poisining. Stopped taking Prilosec due to feeling so bad but did not put 2 and 2 together until I started taking it again and had the same reaction. I then decided to look at the side effects and found this site. Once I read the comments, I am now sure that the stomach pain is a side effect of taking Prilosec and will stop immediately. | Although the drug helped my heartburn it was mild compared to the side effects. Other members of my family have taken the drug with no side effect. I would recommend this drug with extreme caution and suggest others research the side effects first. | F | 59 | 2 days | 6/18/2007 | 5 | Heartburn | Nothing that I can notice and have been using for about a year. | I have been taking this cause Im no longer on a HealthCare program and dont want to pay for Previcid. BUT - PREV is much better of course. Still my Dr. Said OTC is fine and just about the same. I can still eat all my spicy foods as long as they are not too late at night. I now get my PRI OTC from a Canada Shop and its much cheaper. I can get 150 pills at a time with OUT a prescription. | M | 41 | 1 years | 6/17/2007 | 3 | GERD | Lightheaded/Dizzy, neck and legs felt weak all the time, general flu like symptoms, lump in throat feeling accompanied with "stiffness" in the jaw. | Took care of the hart burn so I didn't give it a 1, but like many others here, the side effects just aren't worth it for me. I'm going to stop taking it for a few days. See if there is a change in the symptoms and see how bad the heart burn is without it. I was on Zegerid which is basically Prilosec X 2 with sodium bicarb mixed in. Symptoms seem to have lessened after going back to Prilosec. I want to quit Prilosec all together and see how it goes. | M | 34 | 5 months | 6/17/2007 | 1 | gerd | I took this in the morning, went back to sleep and awoke 2 hours later my skin was tingling and burning and when I got up I was extremely dizzy and had malaise.Also I felt like a pressure in my chest and that my heart rhythm was unstable..I couldnt function for a few hours and late in the afternoon it started to wear off somewhat .. By 9 pm my acid was starting to come back | I also couldnt tolerate nexxium and ended up on the hospital...theres got to be a safer way....Im trying previcid tomorrow | F | 57 | 1 days | 6/17/2007 | 1 | "gastric irritation" | Within three hours of taking my first pill, I felt both disassociated from my body (like sleepwalking) and, strangely, incredibly, inexplicably depressed. I could not stop crying for hours. About 10 hours after taking the pill, the pain in my right side decreased measurably, but I can't bring myself to wake up tomorrow and take another of these pills. I don't know what I'm going to do to get rid of the pain (vague diagnosis came after an endoscopy this week; awaiting biopsy results), but I can't function on Prilosec, that's for sure. | The patient package insert should mention this side effect. I could very easily have damanged a relationship (or had a car acccident) if I hadn't realized the cause of my emotional discombobulation. | F | 48 | 1 days | 6/17/2007 | 1 | GERD | Extreme weakness in my thigh muscles. Pain in my hip joints that was so extreme it lead me to believe I was going to need a hip replacement in the near future. Weakness in my arms and hands, so much so that using my computer mouse began to become very wearysome. Shortly before I quit taking Prilosec my entire body started to feel like I had the flu, except without the headache. | Prilosec is some bad stuff! I would rather have heartburn than feel the way I felt after taking Prilosec! It's back to Provacid for me, although I'm also going to start working out in hopes of loosing weight, which I believe will help. I took Provacid for two years without any problems, until my perscription ran out and I thought I would try Prilosec OTC. What a mistake! Prilosec is a bad joke. I've been off it for over a week and my legs still don't feel back to normal yet. If I know then what I know now, I NEVER would have tried Prilosec! If I could rate Prilosec a zero, (or negative 5), for extremely dissatisfied, I would. | M | 46 | 19 days | 6/14/2007 | 1 | GERD | Severe abdominal pain and bloating. I thought I had flu or maybe food poisoning. Headache, depression, dizzines and weakness. | After I concluded that it wasn't food poisoning I stopped taking it. Its now three days later and while my symptoms are subsiding, I am still not back to normal. | M | 62 | 7 days | 6/11/2007 | 5 | Acid Reflux | anxiety, pain in shoulders and arms, lump feeling in throat, lightheaded, no energy, very dry mouth and throat first thing in the morning, metal taste in mouth from time to time. | Still taking in now, but after reading the comments on this site I decided not to take it today and call my doctor tomorrow. I only have 5 days left but I can't go another five days plus like this. I can't beleive that it took me this long to figure out that it is most likley the Prilosec that has made me feel this way. | F | 35 | 9 days | 6/10/2007 | 5 | Acid Reflux | Pretty major headache the first few days but it went away and hasn't been back. | Completely stops my acid reflux. All symptoms are gone. Within 2 weeks my esophagus no longer felt irratated when I swallowed. I do have to stay on Prilosec continuously though, because if I miss a single pill, the reflux is back, with a vengeance. | M | 24 | 4 months | 6/9/2007 | 5 | GERD / Barrets Esophogus | Have taken for 10 years; every few years when trying to get off of it I experienced typical rebound acid, bloating, leg cramps and vivid dreams; indeed Prilosec seems to suppress my dreams almost completely when I take it. | Overall very effective at suppressing acid. Note: it is effectively the same as Nexium so don't waste your money on Nexium (or your insurance carrier if covered). Nexium was just a way for the manufacturer to profit on patent expiration of Prilosec. I sat in on a sales seminar for Pharma Salesguys, and it is only a few molocules different, only to get past patent expiration, and has no real differences from an efficacy perspective. Don't waste your money on Nexium and the marketing hype. Just take OTC Prilosec. | M | 45 | 10 years | 6/6/2007 | 4 | Acid reflux | Intermittent shots of pain in right temple of forehead. Loose stools. | This medicine did clear up my acid reflux. I had no reflux symptoms other than the few side effects that I mentioned in the previous caption. | F | 26 | 14 days | 6/4/2007 | 2 | Acid Reflux | Headaches, abdominal pain that comes and goes, dry itchy skin, fatigue, gas, bloated, belching, tingling in arms, muscle cramping, panic attacks (never experienced anything like this before). | After reading this message board about Prilosec, I intend to stop taking this medicine tomorrow because it has been making me feel worse the past two weeks. I can't live like this, so I'm hoping that the symptoms are relieved by stopping this medication. | F | 32 | 2 months | 5/25/2007 | 1 | Heartburn | Began to have severe nightly GERD, more severe heartburn, diarrhea, etc. I tried the OTC couse of 14 pill, discontinued after 10 days, and that was several weeks ago. My husband and family were convinced I had developed heart trouble. Side Effects continue and will cost me a doctor visit soon. | SHOULD NOT BE OTC -- not worth the additional symptoms | F | 59 | 10 days | 5/23/2007 | 5 | acid reflux | none | two prilosec otc a day keep my heartburn and acid reflux away!!! | F | 62 | 5 years | 5/21/2007 |