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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR PREVACID | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | GERD | severe diarrhea, lower back and hip pain, depressed, very decreased engery level | After taking prevacid for about three weeks, I started having severe pain in my lower back and hip. I could not even turn over in the bed because of the pain. My othopedic physician could not find anything wrong with me and suggested physical therapy. I was coming home from work sleeping most of the evening. My days off consisted of the same because I had so little energy. Then I started having severe diarrhea for over two weeks. I performed a culture and found that I had very little normal flora left in my intestional tract. Since Prevacid was the only medicine I was taking, I stopped it and my diarrhea stopped the next day. I have been off of it for a week now and feel like a new person. I do not come home from work and hit the sofa and sleep anymore. I no longer have any pain in my back and hip, and have not had any trouble with diarrhea. This medicine helped my GERD but would not take it again because of the side effects that I experienced. I was convinced that something serious was wrong with me. Thank God it was only the Prevacid! | F | 60 | 4 weeks 30mg 1X day | 2/14/2010 | 4 | GERD | None that I know of. | Was on it at 30mg/day until insurance stopped covering it four years ago. I never had a problem with it and it was effective. One thing you have to consider about sites like this is that people are far, far more likely to report bad experiences than they are good experiences, and you never know whic bad experiences can be contributed to a drug and which cannot. Learn to read the clinical trials. They're placebo controlled and peer reviewed. There aren't people with multiple health problems making guesses about what's causing what. No offense to anyone on here but I trust data more than anecdote. With that said, I had a good experience with Prevacid and started going downhill when I was forced to go to Prilosec OTC. I just now took the first dose of OTC Prevacid. I don't really have any concern about side effects...my worries are more efficacy related as I will be taking half the dose I used to. Anyway I don't mean to say that people here are full of it or anything. There are always rare side effects to any drug and some can be bothersome or worse. What I'm saying is the average patient lacks the knowledge to diagnose themselves, and also that bad experiences are more likely to be reported. When people are feeling bad it's natural to point fingers and I don't particularly blame them, but when other people come along and read it these accounts should be taken with a grain of salt. | M | 33 | 30mg, 15mg 1X day | 2/5/2010 | 1 | Acid Reflux | nausea, tingling upper body, fainting | switched to Prevacid after taking Zantac 150 for about 2 years. Mainly becouse of the coupons. thought I would give it a try. first 2 days, dont remember any problems, 3rd day, was out to eat and was drinking. Became sick to my stomach, light headed and flushed and vomited. Blamed it on the alcohol and my mood. The forth day, same side effects, this time i faited in the bath room and hit my head. Scary. At this time I suspected that it was Prevacid but was not positive. Out of fear I Stopped using it. went back to Zantac 150. Two weeks later, ran out of Zantac. So I took a 15mg Pevacid, within 30 min. all The Side effects were there. Now I am Positive. | M | 37 | 4 days 15m 24hr 1X day | 2/5/2010 | 1 | GE | GERD | I had been taking Prilosec for 6 years before I decided to give Prevacid a try. I had coupons and it made sense at the time to use them. Unfortunately, I did not visit this site before I took them. Immediately. I felt a change in my body and mood. I was lying on the couch most of the day, getting up only to go to bed. Since I am dealing with the recent death of my mother, I thought that it must be normal. Then the gastrointestinal stuff kicked in. All of a sudden, I was ravenous so I thought that the sheer amounts of food I was consuming must be causing that. Almost overnight, I couldn't wear my jeans and my stomach was constantly making animal noises. I could not eat anthing without getting severe diahrrea. The daily and nightly gas pains were crippling. I seriously did not want to go out because I could not control the gas and it was the type that would clear out the whole building. Last night I decided to look for side effects on Prevacid and EUREKA!! It was all there in black and white. I still had a week's worth of pills left but I dropped them into the garbage can and went out to buy some Prilosec. I never had a problem with Prilosec so I feel stupid for taking the chance with Prevacid. I will never take them again and hope that my symptoms go away quickly so I can go grocery shopping! Oh, I also had mind fuzziness and barely could remember my own name. What a horrible experience! | F | 60 | 3 weeks 1X day | 2/4/2010 | 1 | hiatal hernia--gerd | pains in neck and chest,terrible symptoms from slow heart rate,headaches,heart pausing, | runner and very healthy for years,developed high vagal tone which I believe the prevacid caused,ended up in the E.R. have been off med for 6 weeks and have slightly improved. last refill was generic maybe that was the problem | M | 50 | 11 months | 1/31/2010 | 4 | GERD | In order of severity: Gas and intestinal discomfort,heat flushes at night?, forgetfulness?, occasional heart palpitations?, colon polyps? | Prevacid has been working for me.I noticed that as I became older the side effects seemed to get worse. Consequently,I have reduced the dose from 30mg daily to 15mg daily with no perceptible difference in reflux relief, but a big improvement in my side-effects. | M | 53 | 12 years | 1/29/2010 | 1 | GERD/Reflux | Terrible stomach aches, alternate diarrhea, constipation. I knew something was wrong when I barely got 1/2 day relief fromGERD when it went OTC & I decided to switch from Prilosec (had many coupons). I went back to Prilosec a week ago and the stomach nightmares are fine again. | Not sure why but it doesn't work right for me. I'm tossing out my 2wk supply and back to Prilosec, not worth the pain and lost time from work for this junk. Very disappointed and worried for weeks my insides were a mess, thank god I thought to switch back to Prilosec as a last resort, saved myself a lot of money and worry!! | M | 40 | 2 months | 1/29/2010 | 1 | acid reflux | Severe IBS symptoms...loose stools,horrible cramping,burning in upper and lower stomach,intestinal spasms,gas,and bloating. | worked for acid reflux, but immediately caused other bad side effects | F | 35 | 7 days | 1/19/2010 | 4 | GERD | joints pain, weight gain | F | 51 | 11 months | 1/18/2010 | 3 | GERD | Constipation started soon after I started Prevacid, the abdominal bloating comes with it. I changed from Prilosec because I was having late day breakthrough reflux. I've been on Prevacid for about 1 month now. I am having little calf pain that I never would of associated with the medicine until I read other people's experiences, Hmm. Just this last week I felt like I gained some weight, tighter clothes...maybe side effect!? Same for being wiped out it started last week, initially I thought I was coming down with something..but I didn't and I still feel the same. Ditto about the vivid dreams that also started same time the fatique set in about last week....I thought it was odd..but I'm hearing similiar effects. I am gonna go back to Prilosec now and monitor this.... | I switched to this drug because it just became an over the counter medicine and thought I would try it. Thought it might be more effective than Prilosec, but for the GERD it works about the same for me. Going back to Prilosec. | F | 43 | 30 days | 1/12/2010 | 5 | GERD | No side effects | This has worked very well for me to avoid GERD symptoms and to prevent developing Barrett's Esophagus. Since I have MVP I have worried that without any stomach acid and therefore no first defense against bacteria it could cause problems for a heart valve and when I expressed this to my doctor he said it was theoretically possible. However I've been taking it for 10 years apparently without any problems. Highly recommend it, if you can tolerate it. | F | 56 | 10 years | 1/11/2010 | 4 | GERD | The first day was fine. By second day the migraine/severe headache began. It would lessen as the day went on. Headache pain increased for a few hours after taking the pill. By day six severe diarrhea and a depressed feeling. I also began to notice an irregular, more rapid heartbeat. | The side effects are not worth it. It's to bad as my GERD began to greatly improve by my second day on the medication. However, the way I feel now, it's not worth continuing. I hope the drug works its way out of my system soon. | F | 47 | 6 days | 1/11/2010 | 1 | heartburn | stomach and muscle pain, diarrhea | F | 48 | 14 days | 1/11/2010 | 2 | acid reflux | exessive heat flash, rash all over body, pain in stomach, loose bowels | Ive taken prevacid before when it was perscribed to me, for some reason the over the counter ones gave me these awful side effects. | F | 24 | 1 days | 1/2/2010 | 5 | GERD | if I take too much-stomach pain, otherwise-none | Thank God for Prevacid! Saved my life from a severe case of GERD where I couldn't eat and lost 40lbs. Now I take one a day and I can eat anything I want, as long as I don't lie down for 2 hours after eating | M | 35 | 5 years | 12/30/2009 | 1 | taken off nexium(pregnant) | horrible gas pains right before loose stools can not leave bathroom for over an hour. Horrible horrible bloating, this is bad medicine.I have never had this bad of gas in my life. | works for about 12hours for me, not even 24 with the side effects i don't recommend this medicine to anyone try taking otc prilosec works alot better. The only reason I swithched was because I had to for now (pregnant) but i,m going back to my family doctor to get on something else for sure on Monday.I haven't really noticed any other side effects though i do feel a little spacey i thought it was the holidays i,m thinking i should just stop taking it to be safe we will prolly see it on tv next year "if you have taken the drug prevacid please call 800 bla bla you maybe entiled to a cash settlement from the side effects sorry no cash can make up for shittin your pants some where!!! | F | 28 | 20 days | 12/27/2009 | 5 | heartburn, pain, vomit | I've been taking prevacid for a while. Every time I eat I throw up or get such a raging pain I feel like I'm in heat and can't think. My chest would constantly hurt and everything was unbearable. My doctor gave me some prescribed prevacid and it helps lots. I still have a urky feeling a tiny tiny bit, but I'm extremely happy that I can think straight and most of the pain is gone. I did try the prevacids you can get at walgreen's one week when I had run out, but it like didn't really work. I only felt a little less heated and in pain, not enough to stop from vomiting or cringing. When I remember(I'm pretty stupid) to take my prevacid about 10-20 minutes before I eat, I have no problems. So it's awesome for prevention and calming c: I usually take it after I eat/during caused that's when I start getting the pain. It takes llike 5 minutes to start to work, and like 20 to make you feel much better. | F | 14 | 7 months | 12/20/2009 | 1 | I took prevacid for acid reflux | I started having problems after taking prevacid for 2 weeks. I had problems swallowing and swelling in my back that caused nerve root irritation. I have burning in my back, arms and face.I have have discontinued taking it and i hope my problems will go away. | F | 58 | 2 weeks | 12/15/2009 | 1 | heartburn | Irregular heartbeat, severe body aches, nervousness, elevated blood pressure, tingling in joints, brain fog, shortness of breath, foul bowel movements and gas, severe stomach pains | Was always healthy, fit and active. When I decided to come off of an anxiety medicine I took as needed, I got heartburn so they put me on this. I have been off of it for over a year now and am still sick. Had to postpone my wedding as well. Very upset still short of breath but some better. Cannot work. | F | 25 | 3 weeks | 12/11/2009 | 1 | GERD | I started taking Kapidex (new version of Prevacid) one night. Next day I really started feeling cramps and diahrrea. Following day I was vomiting and non-stop bad diahrrea and I literally fainted. That day I stopped and it took 2 days for the side effects to go away. This and a antibiotic called chlyndamycin have been the worsts pills I have ever taken! | Kapidex manufacturer reports over 5% of patients have the symptoms I suffered so it seems that it is a known side effect (http://www.drugs.com/pro/kapidex.html) | M | 40 | 2 days | 12/6/2009 |