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 | Severe headache lasted 3 days dizzy an sick, depression angry outbursts and red bumps on my hands, chest pain, hard to breathe, still burns when I urinate had to stop taking 2 save my sanity | F | 45 | 3 days 50mg x4 | 1/25/2012 | 1 | UTI | SEVERE HEADACHE,ELECTRIC PULSES FROM HEART TO NECK AND HEAD, SEVERE RINGING IN EARS, ACHY PAINFUL JOINTS, HIGH PULSERATE AND ANXIETY | MY MOTHER TOOK THIS PILL FOR TWO DAYS AND HAS HAD A SEVERE REACTION TO IT AND HAS STOPPED TAKING IT NOW FOR 36 HOURS AND THE SIDE EFFECTS ARE STILL THERE, SHE ALREADY HAS FIBROMYALGAE AND HURTS ON A DAILY BASIS AND NOW SHE HAS TO WORRY IF THESE SIDE EFFECTS ARE IRREVERSIBLE OR NOT LIKE SOME OF THESE OTHER. CONSIDER YOUR OTHER OPTIONS CONSIDERABLY BEFORE TAKING THIS DRUG. | F | 62 | 2 days 1X day | 1/23/2012 | 1 | UTI | Feeling like something is terribly wrong with your body! Trouble breathing, pressure in chest, heart racing, blood pressure dropping severly, dizzy, too weak to stand up, nausea, all-over body pain, cough, skin rash. | I was first given macrobid 3 years ago and experienced the same symptoms. I immediately put the drug on my "allergic reactions list" with my physicians and pharmacy. Three days ago I was given the drug nitrofurantoin for UTI. I had no idea these were the same medications until I had taken 3 pills and began experiencing all of the same symptoms. I am very upset that I had to go through all of this again and that neither my Urologist nor pharmacy caught this serious mistake. | F | 72 | 1 days 100 mg. 4X day | 1/23/2012 | 1 | urinary infection | Dizziness,itching all over my body with red raised wheals.Burning feeling.this medication is poisonous. | F | 60 | 10 days 100 mg | 1/22/2012 | 1 | UTI | Last year I took my last dose of Macrobid, went to bed and woke up 2 hours later very sick with flu like symptoms and a feeling of pressure in my chest. Later a rash developed along with swollen, painful hands. I was diagnosed with viral bilateral pneumonia. This year I was prescribed Macrobid, and after the first 2 doses, I had the same symptoms as last year. After a week, eight physcians, and a hospital stay, I figured it out by myself. I still have elevated liver enzymes, muscle weakness, and tingling in my hands. Hopefully, things will normalize. Doctors are NOT familiar with treating or even looking for this adverse effect of Macrobid. | I saw a pulmonologist, who is quite familiar with this terrible adverse effect of Macrobid. It is much more likely to occur in those who take it long term and for a maintainence treatment of frequent UTI. In these people, when it does occur, the respiratory complication is forever. | F | 67 | 7 days 50mg 2X day | 1/21/2012 | 1 | Uti | Neuropathy, painful burning, tingling of legs and arms. Ringing in ears. | I would NEVER advise taking this medication! I only took one pill 1-2 times a month, and yet I have these terrible symptoms that may never leave. I thought I had ms at first since the symptoms are quite similar. | F | 61 | ? 1X day | 1/20/2012 | 1 | uti | Five hours after the first, and only, dose (which I did take with food), I experienced extreme dizziness and nausea. Throughout the night I felt weak and extremely dizzy. Seventeen hours after my one and only dose, I still feel dizzy and have a mild headache. My doctor is switching the meds. | F | 60 | 1 days 100 mg 2X day | 1/19/2012 | 1 | uti | flu like systoms, aching joints, chills fever, lack of appetite, miserable! I only took 2 thank goodness. I would never take this durg again. I usually have no reaction at all to drugs. | F | 64 | 2 days 100 2X day | 1/15/2012 | 5 | uti-urinary tract infection | Did not have any adverse effects while I DID experience adverse side effects with both "Cipro" & a "sulfa drug". | As an RN reading some of these responses I am ALARMED at you for continuing to take this med. Most of these are ALLERGIC REACTIONS and if you EVER feel CHEST DISCOMFORT, TROUBLE BREATHING, THROAT SWELLING or FEELING TIGHT or "CAUSTIC" feeling as one person reported, or ANY reaction that seems abnormal to you especially if it involves airway, breathing, or circulation as these are LIFE THREATENING & some of you could have died by continuing to take this medication. ALWAYS read the insert from your pharmacy in order to be aware of what an adverse reaction might be & at the first sign of a problem STOP TAKING the med AND CALL YOUR DR or 911! However, when searching the web for side effects please know that during clinical trials if a person reports feeling something not quite right with them while taking the med they (the drug co) must report it as a side effect regardless of whether or not the problem was due to the trial med (even a minor headache which MAY have been due to another reason). So the order they are listed in as side effects is according to "lifethreatening" first, then reactions (complaints) in order of frequency. "CIPRO" & a "SULFA drug" BOTH made me have trouble thinking, reading,& remembering what I'd just said, hands shaking & other cns (central nervous system) probs & I CALLED my DR. & listed them as "allergies" & had him call in a different med ("Macrobid") which wo | F | 46 | 10 days 100mg 2X day | 1/12/2012 | 5 | UTI | Made me feel a little off. Not drowsy to the point where I just want to sleep, but less energy than usual. Still able to concentrate and go to the gym. Relieved symptom of urgency within 2 hours of taking medication. | I had my first UTI at 16, then nothing until 25. I was getting frequent UTIs possibly due to frequency of intercourse. After several rounds of 100mg 2x/d for 7days, I was given 1x100mg to take after intercourse. I did that for a while, then stopped since I'd rather not take medication if I don't need to. I was fine for a few months, then I got one back again. | F | 25 | 7 days 100 2X day | 1/11/2012 | 1 | e-coli uti | Extreme muscle fatigue and cramping, joint pain, severe abdominal pain upper right quadrant, dizziness, numbness hands and feet, blurry vision, headache, racing heartbeat, anxiety attacks | I am so angry but relieved at the same time. I have taken this medication several times in the past 18 months. The first go round I didn't notice any side effects. I finished a full cycle in October 2011 and after reading this post I realize that all the other issues I've been having were caused by this medication. My hands and feet have been tingling since October, I'm a massage therapist so I thought it was work related. Sometimes the pain in my side is so bad I cant move and my muscles feel like they are slowing desolving.Yes it cleared up my uti but I think the cure is worse than the disease. Is there anything that can be done and I hope these side effects we seem to all be having are not permenant. Maybe we could all get a settlement and retire early. (lol) | F | 49 | 7 days 100 2X day | 1/11/2012 | 1 | UTI | bad neck and head pain and extreme fatigue, burning sensation and slight fever | First, I am a very healthy and fit individual. I took the first dose before bed and woke up with very bad neck and head pain. I could barely get out of bed but, got up and started my day thinking I just had a horrible nights sleep. I had diarhea but, again just assumed I was under the weather. I took a second dose and decided to work from home but the headache and neck pain persisted and eventually I was so fatigued I needed to lie down. I slept but woke up feeling like I had been hit by a bus and the headache and neck pain continued. As I was lying in bed I was trying to figure out why I was feeling SO incredibly bad and why my head was so TOXIC feeling with burning sensations on ears and neck. The only thing that made sense was a reaction to this drug. So, here I am because I looked it up on the internet. I feel for all of you especially those of you who have taken more than a few doses. This stuff is hideous and I do not understand WHY it is not immediately irradicated. The fever response to this drug is baffling to me but not to a bacterialogist/chemist etc. They need to figure out why this response occurs to medication!. So unconscionable of FDA. Doctors who blows off reports of side effects are irresponsible and ignorant and unethical!! They of all people should know better (my head is pounding and face stinging as I write this). I WILL NOT take another dose! | F | 49 | 2 days 100mg 2X day | 1/10/2012 | 1 | Uti | Shortness of breath,cough, chills,fever, excruciating back pain. My lungs still have a strange sensation like I've breathed in a caustic substance. My throat feels odd and my voice is strained. | F | 54 | 1 days 100 mg | 1/10/2012 | 1 | bladder infection | I took it for 3 days, 12/22/11 and it has been over 2 weeks and still have side effects. Started w/ rash all over 4 days after taking. Severe pain in back of head and neck. Every joint hurt, swelled. Fever. Felt extremely sick. Chest still hurts. The worst is the numbness in my hands. Can't sleep at night for pain in hands. Numbness in feet too. What a nightmare. Doc says it can't be from med, yeah right. Thank God for people writing in and telling or I wouldn't know what caused it. But I still have extreme headaches everyday, afraid it set off something permanent. | F | 47 | 3 days 100 2X day | 1/9/2012 | 1 | Uti | Anxiety,sweats, weird thoughts, muscle pain in back | Cleared uti quickly but felt terrible, so have stopped taking it. | F | 65 | 2 days 100mg 2X day | 1/9/2012 | 1 | uti | Awful. Do not take it!!!! I still not recovering from it. | F | 30 | 7 days 100 mg | 1/5/2012 | 1 | urinary tract infection | my elderly mother took it...after 4 days she suffered from nausea, vomiting, labored breathing, shortness of breath, sweating, fatigue. we stopped the medication. | now she must be on oxygen to reduce strain on her heart as the mild fibrosis she had is now worsened and her heart is having to work harder because of it. The nurse said my mother may have had a heart attack but she "never heard of heart or lung issues associated wiht macrobid" - all one has to do is google it! If she lives long enough to have another UTI, I will never allow her to receive this drug again. Cranberry capsules are what i'm using now to prevent another UTI. | F | 89 | 7 days 2X day | 1/3/2012 | 1 | UTI | Extreme sudden fatigue and dizziness, felt as though I were about to pass out. during the night, I had such sever dry mouth to the point that my mouth was actually not producing saliva. Woke up with headache and blurry vision out of my left eye. | Dr prescribed this drug as an alternative to Cipro since he does not like cipro. I asked about side affects and was told that they are so negligible, they're not worth mentioning. After 1 pill, I'm done. | F | 34 | 1 days 100mg 2X day | 1/3/2012 | 1 | cystitis | Update on my symptoms: After 2 days I woke in the night feelong like someone had stuffed a golf ball down my throat - very painful and swollen. I was completely exhaused and very pale. I slept for 26of the next 48 hours. The doctor did not know if it was a reaction to the antibiotic. He told me to take antihistamine. I did not take them. They just mask what is goin on . I wanted to know what was going on in my body. I was not ill - flu, toncilitis etc. I am 47. I know how my body reacts to illness. This was something new. It is hard to describe but I felt poisoned. I could not face alcohol, rich food anything that would put an extra load on my struggling body and SO exhausted. It took about a week for the symptoms to come under control (regained some energy, throat much less swollen, dont feel poisoned, cyctitis symptoms gone, itching down to a lower level). It has now been nearly 2 weeks and I am nearly back to normal. A few times a day I feel a bit itchy but nothing that interferes with life. Good luck with your symptoms - especially those of you that have had much worse reactions than mine. | F | 47 | 50mg 1X day | 1/2/2012 Patient History | 5 | UTI | No side effects whatsoever. | I took medication after a meal with plenty of water. Started to feel better on day 2. | F | 54 | 5 days 100 MG 2X day | 12/29/2011 |