MACROBID Reviews (NITROFURANTOIN; NITROFURANTOIN, MACROCRYSTALLINE)Average Rating: 1.7 (1815 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare MACROBID with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR MACROBID | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | bladder infection | To answer the below post, yes my symptoms actually got worse over 3 weeks after I finished my prescription. The symptoms lasted a long time after that. They call it a "hypersensitivity reaction". | go to to read about more reactions www.rxlist.com/rxboard/macrobid.pl | F | 34 | 5 days | 10/16/2005 | 1 | UTI | Profound headache and joint pain (knees, hips, lower back), fever, chills, weakness. I cannot overstate the severity of the symptoms. I can only describe it as a step toward death. Keenly interested in learning more about why this happened and whether others experience symptoms persisting after discontinuing this medication. | Had taken courses of Macrobid to treat UTIs within the past year without ill effect. Later instructed to take 1 pill after intercourse to deter formation of UTIs. On the first 2 occasions (10 days apart), symptoms developed within 24 hours after taking a single pill. | F | 41 | | 10/15/2005 | 5 | UTI | Mild tummy ache if taken on an empty stomach. I take it after sex to prevent recurring UTI. Never had a problem. | I don't believe that the symptoms listed here by other visitors are by and large caused by macrobid. You have to know more about people's health in general and how well they take care of themselves before you can take their word for it. www.bfl.com | F | 34 | 10 times | 10/11/2005 | 3 | UTI | Extreme headaches, sleepiness. | F | 22 | 7 days | 10/7/2005 | 1 | UTI | After One pill I got a shooting pain behind my left eye. My head got heavy and very tired, bad when you take care of kiddos. my stomach started rolling, seriously, in my colon I could feel it rolling. So far, no other side effects, but leaving for vacation tomorrow, and calling to get something different perscribed. | All of the side effects scare me. I have never had side effects to any drug, so this one threw me for a loop. | F | 37 | 0.5 days | 9/29/2005 | 1 | UTI | extremly tired and very foggy in the head, hives, intestinal issues (cramps, loose bowels, constipation, gas), difficulty sleeping. | The side effects came on slowly and when I figured out what was causing me to feel so bad I stopped taking it. I have been off it for two days now and I'm still getting a few hives, feeling foggy in the head and having intestinal cramps. Don't take this stuff!!! | F | 41 | 6 days | 9/24/2005 | 2 | uti | nausea, chills, frequent urination (more than before drug was taken), brown colored urine, headache, extreme drowsiness. | If you have to take Macrobid, take a couple days off work to get used to the medication. | F | 26 | 7 days | 9/23/2005 | 1 | UTI | dry cough, profound dizziness, nausea, vomiting, mental fogginess, weakness, malaise, abdominal pain, profound drowsiness,inability to perform normal activities of daily living | this drug is scary. | F | 41 | 3 days | 9/19/2005 | 1 | UTI | WITHIN DAYS OF FININSHING MY 7 DAY PRESCRIPTION ITCHING, BUMPS LIKE HIVES ON NECK, ITCHY HAIR AND FACE... HEARTBURN AND A REOCCURING UTI, 3 DAYS AFTER I STOPPED TAKING MACROBID | F | 25 | 7 days | 9/8/2005 | 1 | UTI | 24 hours aftr taking -Loss of appetite, very achy all over back especially flanks and worst of all, horrible chills which have lasted 7 months. Doctors won't agree that this is a side effect from Macrobid and have put me through extensivehi-tech tests to find a cause. No answer so far. | F | 63 | 4 days | 9/6/2005 | 3 | uti | I'm on my fifth day of taking this medication. I usually work out very hard at the gym about an hour and a half every day. I use a heart rate monitor and usually can do a very high interval workout about 92% rather easily. I am so tired and sick feeling that all I want to do is sleep. Hopefully my bladder infectin will not return, I only have one dose left. Can't wait to have energy again! | F | 30 | 5 days | 9/5/2005 | 1 | (Not sure, test results are not in) | Feel sick, headache, chest pain off an on, tingly in fingers but that has went away, sore throat and some back pain. Pain in left arm went away after awhile. I felt some dizzyness and cramp like pains. | This is weird I never took a medication where my symptoms kept coming and going all night long and new symptoms keep popping up and this is after one dose. Both of my doctors said this is a safe drug and when I called the pharmacy she said most people do well with this drug, they do? Not from what I have seen on this site and I am not feeling well after taking this medication. Thanks to this site I know why. I just called a doctor and she said for me to stop taking this medication and to see how I feel. I am going to do just that. | F | 32 | 1 days | 9/3/2005 | 2 | YES | An emergency doctor prescribed Macrobid for my UTI. I took it for 10 days as prescribed with no symptoms other than being a little more tired than usual and a bit light-headed at times. Toward the end of the prescription I started getting itchy on top of my head, ears, eyelids, and then other parts of my body at different times. It even woke me up at night. Small bumps appeared in the areas that itched and a tingling sensation under the skin. The itching happens randomly in different areas. Cool baths with Epsom salt helped some. I am so glad that I found this site and that others have had the same problem. I will be calling my doctor tomorrow to find out what can be done to stop the itching. It is awful! | The good news is my infection is gone, but the itching is just as bad or worse than the symptoms from the UTI. Hopefully they will find something else that doesn't cause the itching and works to stop UTIs. | F | 44 | 10 days | 8/23/2005 | 1 | bladder infection | headache, irritability, stomache ache, feeling nausea, feeling angry at the world,weepy,tired, cannot sleep, bad dreams. | I would not recommend this medication to anyone ever. | F | 65 | 7 days | 8/23/2005 | 1 | UTI | SIDE EFFECTS: allergic rxn - swelling and itching of hands and feet, difficulty breathing and subsequent dizziness/feeling of passing out, panic attack when allergic rxn and breathing took place (typical of anaphylaxis rxns). the swelling looked like | don't wait for doc or pharm approval to stop taking meds. STOP AS SOON AS YOU HAVE ANY OF THESE SCARY SYMPTOMS, because they will only get worse FAST upon furthering the meds!! I know!! | F | 21 | 2 days | 8/11/2005 | 5 | urinary tract infection | F | 38 | 5 days | 8/5/2005 | 1 | UTI | I had severe chills and a really high fever. I felt like I couldn't breathe and I wasn't seeing straight, not to mention the headache and nausea. I lasted two doses on it, and need to switch to something different. | F | 20 | 2 days | 8/4/2005 | 1 | UTI | difficulty breathing and constant headache | I took the generic version of this drug and ended up in the ER about fout hours after taking my second pill because of breathing difficulties. I would NOT reccomend this drug. | F | 48 | 1 days | 8/4/2005 | 2 | uti | Woozy, nasuea, fatigue, headache, body hives | Wooziness & flu-like symptoms from the start, constant headaches by day 3, hives/body rash day 13. I'm NOT finishing this prescription (was for 14 days)! Switching to natural ant-bacterial remedies-unsweetened cranberry juice, D-Mannose powder. | F | 37 | 13 days | 7/30/2005 | 1 | UTI | flu-like symptoms, major fatigue, foggy head, nausea...I am 38 weeks pregnant and this is a VERY difficult drug to tolerate. | If your Dr. subscribes this med....ask for something else - I felt better with the UTI than during the course of this med. | F | 26 | 5 days | 7/29/2005 |