PEPCID AC Reviews (FAMOTIDINE)Average Rating: 1.5 (124 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare PEPCID AC with similar:
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| 1 | GERD & Had 2 get off Omeprazole | Tight chest, heart rate up, hot flashes, nausea, bloating & hard to breathe. Many of the same symptoms of the potassium & magnesium deficiency from long term usage of omeprazole. | It's horrible to experience. After 8 yrs on Omeprazole that caused sudden magnesium & potassium deficiency. I had to try something new. Only to experience these horrible symptoms again. Have no clue what I'm going to do now. Research home remedies. | F | 43 | 1 days 20mg | 6/10/2020 | 2 | GERD | I also suffered from rapid heart rate, palpitations, high blood pressure, muscle cramps, joint aches, anxiety, dry mouth, waking up throughout the night and vivid nightmares. My doctor told me that this drug is not known to give people rapid heart rate or palpitations and that I must have an anxiety disorder. They said I should start therapy and perhaps an anti anxiety medicine. That seemed wrong to me, as I have never experienced this kind of extreme anxiety/heart rate before. After reading these reviews now I know I am right. I am going to start using aloe Vera and natural remedies instead. This drug eventually sent me to the ER with high blood pressure, rapid heart rate and chest pain. Extremely frightening. The doctors didn't know what was causing my symptoms, but now I think I know: Famotidine. | This drug helped with GERD, but the side effects were incredibly harmful, mentally and physically. | F | 35 | 20 days 20MG 2xD | 6/9/2020 | 1 | Acid reflux | Throat and mouth all went numb. Racing heart anxiety. Had to go to ER high blood pressure !! | F | 33 | 1 days 20 | 5/9/2020 | 1 | acid reflex | Constant irregular heartbeat and PVC's. Occasional slow heart rate of 45.Vertigo and loss of equalibrium. | I took Zantac 150, twice daily for five years with no side effects. I'm allergic to Prilosec. My doctor prescribed Pepcid 10 mg twice daily. Due to the constant irregular heartbeat, I returned to Zantac. I only have a one and one-half year supply. I will eventually wean off of it. | F | 76 | 14 days 10 2X day | 5/8/2020 | 2 | GERD | Heart palpitations and anxiety! Heart started skipping beats! Like many others, I had been taking Zantac for years and it worked great. When I ran out I started taking Pepcid. Actually went to my dr, had an EKG, had to have an echocardiogram etc. I finally put 2+2 together and realized it was the PepcidAC! If you are a natively anxious/panicky person, this drug is NOT for you. I’ve reduced myself down to 10mg per day just to ha e SOMETHING in my system for gerd. I don’t like the PPI’s but now find myself in a position of trying to find the lesser of two evils. Don’t know what I am going to do. Tried Tagamet but it did same as Pepcid or I still had Pepcid in my system because spacey effect and heart issues continued. | Do NOT use this if you are a naturally anxious person or you might be going down the rabbit hole at the doctors like I did. Please bring back Zantac.... | 51 | 2 months 20 2X day | 3/30/2020 | 3 | Acid reflex | I suffer from Anxiety. At first I thought it was me. But when I took the second dosage with the same symptoms. I knew then it was medication. It works well for acid reflex, but the side affects are not so helpful. I felt heart palpitation with anxiety, sleep insomnia, restless at nighttime. | It does work for acid reflex. Not for patients with Anxiety or depression. | F | 33 | 2 days 20 mg | 3/16/2020 | 1 | GERD | I have generalized anxiety disorder and this drug took it to another level.. Heart palpitations with in an hour of taking it...and they Last SOO long...I am losing a lot of sleep...but the med takes away that awful burn....was on Zantac..but because it's recalled...I'm stuck with whatever is left.more specifically I'm taking Pepcid AC Max Strength.. The first sign of stress and I am having heart palpitations. They make me so nervous. No idea how to control them..clearly I need to stop this medication...but I'm not sure how I can be helped as PPIs are awful for me and make me extremely sick. | F | 29 | 3 months 40mg | 2/5/2020 | 1 | Acid reflux, Zantac was recalled | Extreme anxiety! Waking up every night with heart racing! Started off taking Nexium after Zantac was recalled. After taking that for a bout 2 months or so. I was having side effects from it. Became depressed and waking up a few times at night. Started taking famotidine and my symptoms got worse. Had no idea that all of this was coming from Famotidine, until I was reading these reviews! I definitely will not be taking it again!! How long has everyone else’s side effects lasted after stopping this mess!? And has anyone ever taken Tagamet for acid reflux!? If so did that cause the same side effect!? | Never taken this again!!!! | F | 32 | 30 days 20 | 1/29/2020 | 1 | Acid reflux, Zantac was recalled | Extreme anxiety! Waking up every night with heart racing! Started off taking Nexium after Zantac was recalled. After taking that for a bout 2 months or so. I was having side effects from it. Became depressed and waking up a few times at night. Started taking famotidine and my symptoms got worse. Had no idea that all of this was coming from Famotidine, until I was reading these reviews! I definitely will not be taking it again!! How long has everyone else’s side effects lasted after stopping this mess!? And has anyone ever taken Tagamet for acid reflux!? If so did that cause the same side effect!? | Never taken this again!!!! | F | 32 | 30 days 20 | 1/29/2020 | 1 | GERD | depression, anziety, constant worrying, crying very easily, irritability | After starting this med. I started feeling a little depressed. I thought it was just my normal depression on and off. As time went on the depression got worse along with anziety, crying easily, irritability. I am also taking prevacid in the am. I wake up with terrible fear and depression. I take 20 mg. before going to sleep. I also have brain fog and cant think or make decisions easily. HELP. How do you get off this stuff??? | F | 64 | 7 months 20 or 30 1X day | 1/24/2020 | 1 | Heartburn, indigestion | Heart palpitations, pressure in my head, anxious, anxiety. Pretty much the same as everyone else on here. How long do these side effects last??? | M | 41 | 7 days 20 | 1/17/2020 | 1 | Reflux | Heart palpitations and irregular heartbeat | F | 54 | 1 days 20 | 1/13/2020 | 4 | Heart palpitations, anxiety, sometimes feeling of labored breaths, tiredness. | It works well for my stomach I just wish it didn’t mess with my heart. That the scary thing.? | M | 31 | 3 days 10mg | 1/2/2020 | 1 | Acid reflux | I was having palpitations and anxiety. Horrible Not going to take this anymore! | 64 | 3 days 20 | 12/21/2019 | 1 | GERD | I woke up in the middle of the night, sweating, my heart palpitating like crazy. This stuff makes you feel like you’re having some sort of major heart episode. It took an hour of walking around in the wee hours of the morning to make it stop. | M | 42 | 1X day | 12/20/2019 | 1 | Acid reflux | I was ppi’s for over 20 years but I couldn’t handle the side effects anymore I went on Pepcid last year for 7 months taking only 20 mg a day I was. Just experiencing nervousness and being hyper on it but then I ended up with esophagitis had to go back to Nexium and I started getting side effects from Nexium again joint pain muscle spasms sensation so I want to Pepcid and I was doing 40 mg a day and started experiencing tingling numbness feet sweating joint pain muscle cramping so I did cold turkey off these bad meds I’m taking DGL slippery elm Aloe Vera seems like it’s helping .and at night I take some Mylanta. during the day if I get some heartburn I’ll take a couple of Gaviscon it’s been eight days and I’m still feeling burning muscle ache tingling numbness in my feet hands going to the doctor today to do some bloodwork To see if any vitamin deficiency because I know the stuff it’s up your magnesium and your B12 .I thought the stuff would be out of my system by now and hopefully I start to feel better people say on this sight said it’s been taking them about a week to start feeling better . I’m not going on anything anymore and stick to what I’ve been doing so good luck everyone but the best thing to do is wean off of these meds. | F | 61 | 90 days 40 | 12/9/2019 | 1 | Acid reflux | I was ppi’s for over 20 years but I couldn’t handle the side effects anymore I went on Pepcid last year for 7 months taking only 20 mg a day I was. Just experiencing nervousness and being hyper on it but then I ended up with esophagitis had to go back to Nexium and I started getting side effects from Nexium again joint pain muscle spasms sensation so I want to Pepcid and I was doing 40 mg a day and started experiencing tingling numbness feet sweating joint pain muscle cramping so I did cold turkey off these bad meds I’m taking DGL slippery elm Aloe Vera seems like it’s helping .and at night I take some Mylanta. during the day if I get some heartburn I’ll take a couple of Gaviscon it’s been eight days and I’m still feeling burning muscle ache tingling numbness in my feet hands going to the doctor today to do some bloodwork To see if any vitamin deficiency because I know the stuff it’s up your magnesium and your B12 .I thought the stuff would be out of my system by now and hopefully I start to feel better people say on this sight said it’s been taking them about a week to start feeling better . I’m not going on anything anymore and stick to what I’ve been doing so good luck everyone but the best thing to do is wean off of these meds. | F | 61 | 90 days 40 | 12/9/2019 | 1 | Heartburn | Severe anxiety | F | 58 | 1 days 30 mg | 11/27/2019 | 1 | Mast cell activation disease | Dizziness and it does not help my stomach acids like Zantac did. I only switched because the FDA pulled Zantac off the shelves. I hope it comes back. | F | 52 | 1 months 80 mg | 11/3/2019 | 1 | GERD | I had heart palpitations, horrible panic attacks, and a feeling that something was drastically wrong with my heart. I have had Acute Panic Disorder for over 37 years but Pepcid took it to the next level ! I thought it was just part of my condition but it was well under control. The only new thing I had been taking was the Dr ordered Pepcid twice a day. It enhanced any horrible feelings of impending doom that the panic attacks already brought. Don’t take this med. I’m a Nurse and I never knew that a med for GERD could do this to my heart. | F | 58 | 9 days 40 mg bid | 10/24/2019 |