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 | Took for 6 days. Then started side effects. Tingling and pins and needles in arms/legs/face. Headache, dizziness. Difficulty breathing with chest pain. Weakness, chills, feeling horrible. It has been 3 days since I stopped and I am still having the symptoms. I am very, very scared. Worred that this could be permanent. Do not take this poison. | F | 44 | 5 days | 11/22/2004 | 1 | UTI | I felt sick to my stomach the whole time I took it and my chest hurt a little bit. On the 7th day of taking the medicine I had an asthma attack and had very itchy feet. It has been a little over a week since I stopped taking the medication and I recently had to go back in to Urgent Care because I was breaking out in Hives continually from the medication. I have yet to have relief from it and assume that it will be like this for a couple of weeks. | I would say that if this drug is suggested try another because after reading all the other comments about it the side affects really aren't worth it. It's a pity that doctors are not as informed as they used to be. | F | 22 | 7 days | 10/24/2004 | 1 | urinary tract infection | chest tight, dry hacking cough, sleepiness, bouts of difficulty swallowing, chills and sore throat, general malaise. | Three days after taking 100mg x 2 I began to feel like I had caught a virus. I was due to take the med 5 days. I finished it and two days later my urine culture came back indicating I needed a couple more days of it. When I took the first *new* pill I had the flu symptoms occur within hours. The cough and chest tightness were particularly upsetting. This is when I realized it was the medication. I stopped it immediately but that was two days ago and I still feel ill. It seems to have worked on the UTI but don't know for certain yet. I don't recommend this medicine. It's side effects cause as much discomfort as the UTI. | F | 47 | 6 days | 10/6/2004 | 2 | UTI | I took a 7 day supply, and beginning on the 8th day I started breaking out in hives on my head and neck REALLY bad. I woke up with my eyes almost swollen shut, and had to go to the ER to get adrenaline, benadryl, and cortisone. It helped for that day, but I still have spotty itching 3 weeks later. To make it worse, I'm breastfeeding, so taking the other meds affected my milk supply! | I took while I was pregnant, and had a mild reaction which I thought was dietary. I will never take this again. | M | 37 | 7 days | 10/4/2004 | 2 | UTI | Minor stomach pains at first. By the 7th day of a 10 day prescription, I had a horrible allergic reaction. Broke out in total body hives from my scalp to my knees, face puffed all up and I got very hoarse. Hives itched beyond belief! Had to go to the emergency room, where I was given a strong antihistamine and a cortisone shot. This worked for about 12 hours, but the hives came back. Saw my Dr. and got put on a 1 week course of cortisone pills and even stronger antihistamines. I had taken macrobid about 2 times before this, without any reactions. Now I am seriously allergic and can't take it at all. Very scary!! | It did a good job of curing the UTI's, very quickly; until I became allergic to it. I can never use it again, and it scares me to use other antibiotics. I had a milder reaction to taking Bactrim, with a smaller, less serious case of hives. Don't know what my antibitotic options are, if I get another UTI. | F | 47 | 7 days | 9/27/2004 | 5 | uti | ate with some food and got a little stomach upset. better to eat more heavily. | had many recurrent uti's. need a variety to use because the e. coli was resistant to several other antibiotics | F | 56 | 7 days | 9/18/2004 | 3 | UTI | Shortness of breath, dizziness, confusion, brain felt | F | 34 | 5 days | 8/31/2004 | 1 | uti | I had extreme sickness feelings and hot flashes also some headaches occured~ | F | 6 days | 8/25/2004 | 1 | UTI | Nausea, vomiting, headache, chills, and body aches after one dose. | Would not recommend it. | F | 37 | 1 days | 7/14/2004 | 1 | UTI | difficulty breathing, coughing, fever, chills, weakness, dizzyness, headache, nausea, vomiting, tingling in hands and feet, rash on tops of feet (small raised dots under surface, sometimes itchy) | seems to have got rid of UTI but at what cost? these side-effects, though apparently rare, are pretty nasty - was in bed 48 hours feeling nearer to death than life, still off work 3 days after last pill I took (I didn't take the final 2 because of the side effects), still am having a bit of difficulty breathing and coughing when I try to etc but much better than last 2 days. | F | 24 | 6 days | 7/9/2004 | 1 | Urinary Tract Infection | Extreme nausea - immediately after I took the first pill! Some confusion, dizziness, and tingling in arms. Also leg cramps. | F | 41 | 7 days | 7/2/2004 | 1 | urinary infection | shooting pains in hands and forearms, flu-like aches, mental fogginess, and tight cough | I didn't realize it was the medicine until I was told to take a second round and the same symptoms started up again | F | 50 | 3 days | 6/16/2004 | 5 | UTI | used to treat and then prevent a UTI | F | 22 | 90 days | 3/21/2004 | 2 | uti | didn't work | F | 37 | | 1/11/2004 | 3 | urinary tract infections | | 10/21/2001 |