MACROBID Reviews (NITROFURANTOIN; NITROFURANTOIN, MACROCRYSTALLINE)Average Rating: 1.7 (1819 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare MACROBID with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR MACROBID | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | UTI | Horrible burning stomach pain and burning reflux. Nausea, vomiting. | I will never take this medication again. | F | 60 | 2 days 100 mg | 3/4/2020 | 1 | Cystitis | Cough, gas, stomach pain, chills, headache and hives. | Do not take this drug! I have never had a severe reaction to a drug like I have this. I had taken it once before with few minor side effect but this time by days 3 I was seeing stomach pain, cough and could not keep warm. On 4th night I saw headache, gas , and chills worse along with this dry cough. I finished the 5th days course and spotted couple of red like ezema patches on lower legs. Next day still seeing chills and rash expanding up legs and on both arms I went to pharmacy. It was not exema it was hives its now day 7 I have finished the 5 day course of macrobid 2 days ago. Yet, the cough is still there and the hives are getting worse. My skin on my arms and the whole of my legs including feet and hands are covered in area of red bloches and loads of small bumps with red spots in as well as white bumps with little red spot in. I started certirzine hydrochloride antihistamines 10 mg last night pharmacist recommended but seeing how bad the hives have got overnight I am just hoping things will settle down. Its too early to say if the u t i has cleared but I would never recommend this drug to anyone or take it again myself. The reaction I have had even made me frightened to take the cetririzine at first reading the possible side affects and living on my own but the hives were too bad not to try an antihistamines | F | 67 | 5 days 100mg 2X day | 3/2/2020 | 1 | Uti - E. coli in culture | Severe lower abdominal cramping, GI tract pain almost debilitating in spasms. Didn’t even clear up was prescribed for 5 days dr. Told me to stop after 3 due to symptoms. 7 mo. pregnant | This medication was POISON!!! I took D mannose supplement and ate plain yogurt and kimchi... cleared symptoms up and helping clear up lingering abdominal pain from medication. | F | 33 | 3 days 100 mg | 2/24/2020 | 1 | Recurring bladder infections | I started to get muscle pain on the side of my right leg..my face went numb. Went to the hospital...no stroke...thought nothing of the one a day antibiotic. Fast forward a week later...balance issues, blurred vision, slurred speech, muscle cramping...muscle atrophy. I had no idea an antibiotic could do all this to someone. | I was off work for a year because of this medication and probably now have Tinnitus for life. I pretty much have to rebuild all my leg and arm muscles...plus I lost vision. | 50 | 6 months | 2/17/2020 | 1 | Lung infection | Explosive diarrhea after just one dose. I stopped taking it immediately, but the water diarrhea has been ongoing for 48 hours. No solid stool whatsoever...I have taken imodium for the past 36 hours and it is no better. I am now away on vacation (this started the day before I left) and I may have to go to the hospital in a sketchy country... | NEVER AGAIN!!0 | F | 50 | 1 days 100 mg | 2/10/2020 | 5 | UTI | None! | I take this for every UTI (I have a history of recurrent). I’ve never had any side effects. By the morning after my first dose, I always feel completely fine with no urinary symptoms. Don’t let others’ experience completely freak you out before you give it a shot - Miracle drug! | F | 25 | 1 days | 1/20/2020 | 4 | Cystitis | Dizziness, headache, intensely fatigued, swollen lymph nodes. | I took this once many years ago and don't recall having side effects. Not so this time. It cleared up the UTI, I think... But I had less side effects with Cipro, which is rather unbelievable to me. I think I'll stick with Cipro in the future - at least I didn't feel like I was dying when I took that. | F | 37 | 5 days 100mg | 1/14/2020 | 4 | UTI | Nausea, GERD, explosive diarrhea, malaise, extreme fatigue. | I am very fearful of antibiotics in general as I have many drug allergies. Macrobid is helping my UTI symptoms so the side effects are bearable as long as I can be cured of the UTI. | F | 64 | 7 days 100mg | 1/9/2020 | 1 | UTI | I have never been allergic to any antibiotic but this medicine makes me feel awful. On my second day and after 3 tablets I have developed breathing problems and a cough. I just want to sleep and feel worse than I having the UTI. I’m going to try to complete my 3 day course but will never take this medicine again. | F | 60 | 2 days 100mg | 1/4/2020 | 4 | UTI | Abd pain, diarrhea, nausea subtle chest pain | Cleared up UTI within day but I knew I needed to finish whole course by day 4 I was so happy that only one more day then hopefully back to normal | F | 51 | 5 days 100mg BID | 12/31/2019 | 1 | UTI | Headache confusion weakness anxiety ..pain all over blurred vision .sweats ... fear ... breathing difficulties.... | Never again . I told my doctor and he said it was my imagination ! Wouldn't change antibiotics ... told me to continue taking them .. I said no ! .... He wouldn't listen .... I'm lost ... is there any home remedies for UTI ... | 45 | 1 days 100 | 12/29/2019 | 5 | uti | Severe headache . Aches all over and just after one pill . Dissorintation dizzy . Feel worse now than I did before . Mind can't settle . Rapid heart beats . Breathless. | Never again | F | 45 | 1 days 100 | 12/23/2019 | 1 | UTI | Itching , weakness, headache, peripheral neuropathy lasting for months, low grade fever, nausea, long lasting stomach upset and pain. Crashing depression. | Should not be prescribed to anyone. Too risky. I am sicker than I was before the drug, I stopped a 7 day course after 3 days. | F | 61 | 3 days 100 2X day | 12/22/2019 | 4 | Uti | Headaches, stomach pain. I still have them even after last dose, hoping it leaves soon it’s terrible. | Don’t really want to use it again | F | 33 | 4 days 100mg | 12/3/2019 | 1 | uti | update.. severe stomach pain and cramps...lasted over 3 weeks after stopping Macrobid. Stomach condition has eased quite a lot now after taking Saccharomyces Boulardi Complex. | Never again. | M | 64 | 5 days 100 3X day | 12/2/2019 | 3 | UTI | Hours after taking first dose I started to get a slight headache, which worsened into a splitting headache. I became dizzy, had all over body aches, high fever and chills that would not subside. I became nauseated all for several hours throughout the night. | This medicine did however, work. My UTI was gone. Just had horrible side effects. | F | 39 | 7 days 100 MG | 11/29/2019 | 1 | Cystitis | Constant nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, very painful stomach cramps, excessive gas, extreme tiredness, fever | I only took 3 tablets with food, as advised, 2 on the first day and after the 3rd tablet I was so unwell I had to call the doctor to come out to see me. I was vomiting and could not sit up without extreme nausea. The doctor tested my urine and the cystitis had cleared up. He told me to stop the Macrobid and that because I was dehydrated I should take fluids. My fever had reduced by then and I'd started with a bad headache. Next morning around 5am the severe stomach cramps and diarrhoea started. I have now had diarrhoea with stomach cramps for 4 full days and the nausea and tiredness too. I have been told not to eat because I can't absorb anything and to take immodium. How long for doc? This is not a sustainable solution to the effects of the poison you told me to take. Avoid this product at all costs. It is absolute poison. I have no idea how long this will last for and I am so angry that the only warning I was given was that it may turn my pee brown. How about telling me it may poison my system for a week and make me feel like I'm dying? That would have been a more useful warning. | F | 55 | 2 days 100 x 2pd | 11/24/2019 | 1 | UTI | Severe bloating. Abdomen pain. Rib pain. Nausea. Panic. Dizzy. Shooting pain all over. Severe brain fog. Felt like death. | It did ease UTI a little but quit taking after 5 days due to severity of side effects. Now 4 days after quitting... and side effects only slightly easier. Would never use again. | M | 64 | 5 days 100 3X day | 11/3/2019 | 1 | UTI | Black tarry stools, stomach pain, severe anemia, weakness, low on B12 I was hospitalized with severe anemia. It took 2 months to get my blood count normal. My doctors did not believe macrobid caused this however there was nothing else new or different in my meds or symptoms. I have it on my allergy list | F | 71 | 3 days | 11/2/2019 | 1 | UTI | Peripheral neuropathy, heart palpitations | F | 26 | 5 days 2X day | 10/26/2019 |