ALEVE Reviews (NAPROXEN SODIUM)Average Rating: 1.8 (628 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare ALEVE with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ALEVE | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | back & joint pain | none, i have no allergies to food or drugs. | it appears on this site, most of the negative feed back are from people that have allergies to food/drugs which common sense tells me you will have reaction to most medicines presc. or o/counter drugs when taken. Your problem stems from your allergies not product. | M | 59 | 2 years | 8/11/2008 | 3 | Lower Back Pain | Oh my, the side effects this medicine played on me. First of all, just know I rarely take pills at all, but my back was bothering me & had been for quite some time. Someone told me to take Aleve, I did & I felt extremely angry. I thought to myself, why am I so angry today. Never thought about it again until I took Aleve again about a month later. The medicine had the same affect on me again. Now know that I am a very calm & laid back person, but again, I felt extremely angry. Then I thought to myself, this is what happened the first time I took Aleve. Being angry is not my personality at all so I refuse to take the medicine again to see if that's what caused it. It's been about a week since I took this pill last, but it took a couple of days before I felt like I was relaxed again. I am really curious as to if anyone else has had this same sypmton. Keeping in mind, I take pills so rare that this was an easy call for me to put my finger on the pill itself for causin | However, the pill did cure the pain for a day or so. | F | 40 | 1 days | 8/11/2008 | 2 | Pinched nerve and disc problem | Severe stabbing stomach pain, chills, sweats, extreme reflux, and abdominal pain for several hours. | It is a great pain reliever if it doesn't kill you. It worked effectively for about 24 hours until the side effects kicked in. | F | 44 | 2 days | 8/7/2008 | 1 | joint pain | within 20 minutes of taking aleve, i broke out in a rash. felt like fire ants all over my body..i became dizzy and very weak. i was having a hard time breathing. my blood preassure dropped to 90/50. ems took me to the hospital where they gave me benydryl an a steroid. also prescribed prendisone for 5 days. it has been 3 days and i still feel the results. extremely tired and lethargic. i have a heaviness to my chest. almost like a flulike symtom. still a little lightheaded...doctors said it was anagyltic shock. | NEVER TAKE THIS OTC DRUG. THE RESULTS WERE AND ARE FRIGHTENING. THANK GOODNESS I WAS WITH FRIENDS WHEN THIS HAPPENED. EXTREMELY DANGEROUS....... | F | 60 | 1 days | 7/21/2008 | 1 | Back pain | Took two tablets for back pain. Lips became very very swollen, can barely speak. Lips are very tingly like pin pricks. Eyes puffed up.. Sinuses and throat irritated. Hives on body. This has happened before but now I realize it was due to the Aleve. | It seems from this thread that I am not the only one. I wonder why I had not heard of this before. I took a non-drowsy antihistamine to try to stop the outbreak, | M | 46 | 1 days | 7/12/2008 | 1 | menstrual cramps | Nothing for 9 years, I would take a couple of aleve once a month for horrible cramps and it always worked great. Then last June started getting huge swollen tingly lips, itchiness all over, and scratchy throat. Didn't know what it could be. Got tested for food allergies and found that I had become allergic to garlic and onion(my favorites!) after eating them regularly all my life, but the lip swelling always coincided with taking Aleve. My allergist told me I shouldn't take aleve anymore because a potential side effect is lip swelling. But then I read on the internet that NSAID's possibly cause food allergies or make them worse because they irritate and harm your stomach lining contributing to leaky gut syndrome which contributes to food allergies. So I am staying away from all NSAID's. So I thought about aspirin, but it says on the bottle if you have trouble with other pain meds you shouldn't take ANY! Argh! So from what I have read, I need to not only stay away from Aleve and NSAIDs | Stopped taking aleve 6 months ago, and also careful to avoid garlic and onion as much as possible(since I became allergic). Now when I have my horrible cramps I just suffer through it. But I am looking into alternative treatments. See the dysmennorhea topic on wikipedia: omega-3 fatty acids, zinc and Vitamin E are recommended. | F | 27 | 9 years | 6/12/2008 | 1 | Anti Inflamitory | This drug sucks. I had what most describe here. It's actually called FIXED DRUG ERUPTION, or FIXED DRUG SYNDROME. I've heard it called both. ITCHY hives return in the same place every time the drug is taken. If you are alergic to this drug, DO NOT TAKE NAPROXIN (perscription drug). It's the same thing. Welts all over the place that itch like nobody's business. | M | 31 | 1 days | 6/11/2008 | 4 | headaches | I can not take many other drug and aleve work for me. I need it to stop the headaches to help me do my day to day things | M | 25 | 7 months | 6/9/2008 | 1 | I took Aleve for lower back pain. | I took Aleve when someone recommended it for my back pain. It DID help, and I was grateful, but after a week of taking it, my scalp started feeling strange, tingling, and then just darn itchy. Then, after a couple of days of that, I woke one morning and took my last dosage of it and within minutes, I started getting red splotches on my neck, then my neck and ears turned deep red like a severe sunburn. I quickly took two Benedryl (which the emergency room doctor later said was extremely wise that I did so) and told my husband we needed to get to the emergency room because something bad was happening. While I dressed to go, the redness spread, then hives started popping out, all over, and the worst itching of my life began, like fire ants crawling all over me and biting me again and again. By the time we got to the hospital (less than five minutes later), the redness, hives, and itching were on EVERY inch of my body, even my feet and breasts -- everywhere and my scalp felt like I ha | NEVER, EVER, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES TAKE THIS DRUG!!! It is NOT worth the risk!!! There is no doubt that this drug reduced my back pain, but this drug should NOT be on the market consdering the huge amount of people reporting deadly side effects! It is just NOT worth the risk and SHAME ON ITS MAKERS FOR LEAVING IT ON THE MARKET!!! Donna G. in Texas | F | 59 | 10 days | 4/19/2008 | 2 | knee and hand pain | I also was on a diet and in one day i gained 2.6 lbs and I had severe itching where it kept me up at night. Also felt really bad.kept taking the aleve because it relieved the pain very well. then I realized it was the aleve causing the other problems. I had palpitations also and felt like I was going to die. | The Aleve actually worked well for the pain. | F | 51 | | 4/13/2008 | 1 | car accident , inflammation | I took just one aleve at bedtime, woke up at around 3 am hot and uncomfortable (strange feeling, similar to what people describe as a panic attack). The next day, my lower lip began swelling, and became irratated. The following day I could see small pin-size blisters forming on my lower lip. It has been three days and I am still suffering. This happened once before around the holidays this last year 07' ( Yes, I had taken aleve (for several days), I had the same symptoms, I am experiencing, now. Unfortunately, I had not put two and two together until this experience. I also went to the doctor ( when this happened around the holidays and he cleared me of any suspension of cold sores, etc...) I believe the I am experiencing an allergic reaction to Aleve. | I will not use Aleve, again. | F | 30 | 1 days | 4/12/2008 | 4 | arthritis | none | Generally works as described. Lasts about 6 hours. Would like it better if it was more effective against pain. | M | 50 | 3 months | 4/11/2008 | 1 | headache | I took 2aleve on lunch for headache on Monday, an instant burning began. The palms of my hands/feet had grown extremely sensitive as if i'd fallen into an ant bed. my throat is soar. The next day, i had large blisters throughout my body. My skin is RED w/Black Bruises all over, and extremely sensitive. My lips, upper and lower eye lids are swollen and severely discolored red, purple, pink and black! Like 2black eyes. I've got some darkening around the eye, lip, nose, and chin areas of my face. Lips are swollen w/darkenings at each end. Gums are sore. Doctor prescribed a steroid, prednisone. Benadryl only puts me to sleep. Shocking sensation w/ creepy goosebumps all over. I've been bursting the blisters & causing some really huge sores. My supervisor will not let me back to work with out a doctors statement. i will have to return to him tomorrow, which will be my 4th day so that he'll see the severity of the rash, as opposed to when he'd seen them the very 1st day. Tried Calamine lo | ALEVE SHOULD BE TAKEN OFF ALL COUNTERS!! AND SHELVES! There should be more testings done on Aleve. Or if you're ever prescribed this medicine for some reason, take only 1 of them just to see if there are any changes prior to taking the entire recommended dosage. | F | 29 | 1 times | 4/3/2008 | 1 | Headache | My lips and tongue swelled the first time I took Aleve. I have not taken it since. | F | 35 | 1 days | 3/30/2008 | 1 | carpal tunnel pain | I took Aleve for only two nights. Woke up second morning with swollen lips and chin and sore palate. After reading, I realized it was the Aleve. It is uncomfortable, but bearable. BUT, in retrospect, I have had several incidents of seriously inflamed, red, extremely painful upper palate. I believe now that it was the Aleve. | It did help with my pain, but I am apparently allergic to it. | F | 53 | 2 days | 3/26/2008 | 1 | headache | general feeling of anxiety (very unusual for me), leg cramps, nausea, and worst of all incoherent, illogical thoughts that were disturbing. | No headache relief at all. I've never had an allergic reaction to anything before this. The medicine was left over from the first time I took it with little result. This medicine should be taken off the market. | F | 32 | 6 months | 3/20/2008 | 3 | injury to bursa and low back pain | After taking it for 3 days my heart started pounding and felt funny the next morning still with my heart. | It worked for the 3 days I took it so was sorry the side effects came into play. I do have suspected heart problems so I probably should not have taken it. | F | 45 | 3 days | 3/7/2008 | 3 | Ovarian pain | Fever Blisters! I've never suffered from fever blisters in the past - the only thing I've done differently was added 2 Aleve in the morning and 2 Aleve in the evenings. Since then, I've been breaking out from fever blisters. I usually take Advil (without issues) but my doctor suggested the Aleve (since it's fewer pills). Not sure if the blisters really are from the Aleve, but that's really the only difference. (Of course I took my morning dose before finding this site). I'm going to stop for a few days and see if that helps them go away. | I truly don't know if this is a side effect - has anyone else had similar issues? | F | 41 | 6 days | 3/5/2008 | 5 | Menstrual Cramps | No bad side effects. Aleve starts to relieve the pain and bloated feelings of even my worst menstrual cramps within about 15-30 minutes. It continues to work for about 6 hours. | I have tried many alternative medications for my menstrual cramps and nothing else has ever worked. I typically only have to use the medication 1-2 days per month, if that. I do not use Aleve for any other conditions unless directed by my doctor. I find that Tylenol works best for my headaches and body aches. My doctor has recommended it for inflammation and joint pains; since I rarely have these I don't use Aleve more than once a year for non-menstrual related problems. I've been using Aleve for over 10 years without any problems. I am aware that Aleve has the potential to create problems if taking in excess or for a prolonged period of time. My family has a history of Heart Attack, Stroke and many other serious problems. According to my doctor there is no risk involved as long as the intake is limited. | F | 25 | 11 years | 2/27/2008 | 1 | Swollen itchy lip, itchy red spots on hands and feet, and itchy vaginal area. I took this product intermittently throughout college (my mom has back pain so we had some at home and if I was out of pain reliever I would take it with me). I thought I had some sort of disease that was induced by stress or my period because this is when the symptoms would occur (and when coincidentally I would take an Aleve). The university clinic tested me for stds (though I was a virgin when these symptoms first occurred) and everything always came back negative. Finally, in law school I was very stressed out and having headaches all of the time and therefore taking Aleve all of the time. The symptoms were getting worse. I used my entire bottle of Aleve and picked up another bottle of pain reliever (Excedrin) at the store. The symptoms stopped. About a year later I had a headache at home and I took an Aleve and the symptoms returned. Bingo! I felt so relieved. I am not allergic to any other medications | F | 28 | 6 years | 2/26/2008 |