PREVACID Reviews (LANSOPRAZOLE)Average Rating: 2.6 (592 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare PREVACID with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR PREVACID | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | Acid reflux | First day no acid reflux, sore stomach. Second day still no acid reflux but severe gas pains and diarrhea. Third day stomach pain and severe diarrhea uncontrolible. Stopped pills | M | 58 | 3 days | 2/2/2009 | 1 | Acid Reflux | Low and middle back pain, sore nose, wierd dreams, diarrhea, tiredness. | I had been taking Nexium and had no problems but insurance company would no longer cover Nexium so Dr. prescribed Prevacid. I started this medication one month ago and have not felt good since. Until I found this site and read all of the same symptoms I was having, I didn't even think this was a reaction to the medication. I have also had more heartburn taking this medication. I am going to quit taking it immediately. | F | 57 | 30 days | 2/2/2009 | 4 | acid reflux duadenal ulcer h-pylori | made my acid reflux better. cured my duadenal ulcer. do experience constipation, leg cramps, restless leg.i do not want to depend on this for the rest of my life. i do have joint pain especially my knees and ankles. due to my age? don't know. | it's probably good for short term. it prohibits the absorption of calcium in your stomach. if you have osteopenia (pre-osteoporosis) you need to take calcium citrate for your bones. the prevacid will not allow calcium carbonate to absorb. | F | 55 | 4 years | 1/30/2009 | 1 | Dispepsia | Some of the sympthoms gone away, but after taking Prevacid for 3 weeks, I started feeling stomach pain`, chest pain, anxiety and discomfort while i sleep, I stopped taking it and i am feeling that i am getting back to normal. I would go for natural medication now and on. | M | 34 | 30 days | 1/28/2009 | 5 | acid reflux | I do not have any side effects at all. | Works great for me. If I don't take it I have the worst pain in my stomach. | F | 37 | 2 years | 1/25/2009 | 1 | GERD | I took Prevacid for several months in 2007. I started having heart palpatations and angina. 3 trips to Emergency room a colonoscopy, stress tests and EKG's. I was going NUTS. Started having to take Ativan before bed just to sleep. It did help my stomach though. In 2008 my insurance company preferred that I take Protonix. Within a week my heart palpatations stopped, angina went away. At the beginning of this year insurance stopped paying for Protonix. Back to Prevacid and I am completely miserable. Finally just today my doctor put me on Nexiam and my insurance approved it. I have taken Nexium in the past with no problems. I wish the insurance companies would allow us to take what works best for us. Listen up Insurance Company Execs. PREVACID SUCKS and patients need choices. When patients use what works they spend less time at the doctors office and hospital. | More studies need to be done. This medication may work for some but it has been a nightmare for me. Protonix and Nexium both work well without the side effects. | M | 41 | 8 months | 1/22/2009 | 1 | YEs | blurry vision so bad I had to lay down*leg cramps* severe abdominal & chest pains*anxiety*depresion*and i think it's made my tongue feel weird | reflux can be one of the most overdiagnosed things in ER. i think all i really had was anxiety but they put me on prevacid saying i had reflux. now i'm trying to wean myself off from 30mg to 15 per day - can't wait to be off this stuff! | F | 35 | 30 days | 1/21/2009 | 5 | GERD | none, just relief | love it | F | 29 | 10 months | 1/20/2009 | 2 | Coughing up bile | I took Prevacid for 2 1/2 years (Nov 05-Mar 08) when I felt like I could quit taking it. I did fine for 9 month...no problems. I suddendly noticed that when I quit taking the Prevacid my Migraines immediately stopped. I had been having 1-2 migraines a week and after stopping Prevacid I only had 1 in 9 months. Hmmm...I thought there HAD to be a connection. I don't drink hardly any alcohol, but around the holidays I had some then one night I had 1 glass of wine and 3 small glasses of Port. A week later I was coughing up bile. When I called my doctor she asked if I had any Prevacid left and put me back on it immediately. This is the 3rd day I've taken the Prevacid and I've had a horrible migraine all day. I ended up needing to take medication for the migraine that tears up my stomach...kind of defeats the purpose of taking the Prevacid, doesn't it? The Prevacid helps the stomach problems, but I can't take the migraines. | No other side effects | F | 49 | 3 years | 1/16/2009 | 5 | acid reflux | Slight headaches, a little constipation | I have break through reflux sometimes. It has been a miracle drug. None of the others worked like Prevacid does. | F | 65 | 10 years | 1/15/2009 | 4 | barrets esphoph. | severe anxiety attacks - dizziness/light headedness - nausea - gas -a little shortness of breath - crampy stomach and strange dreams | I have been taking prevacid for about 10 years and until maybe last year the only side effect i was having was loose stools but within this last year everything went downhill. I thought I was going nuts ! I'm very happy I found this site because now I know What may be causing these bizzare effects. I am going to the docter next week to speak to him about a possible change in meds. and i am going to stop taking it and see what happens although my reflux is sure to return. | M | 49 | 10 years | 1/15/2009 | 1 | Possible GERD | Abdominal bloating and severe cramping especially at bedtime; constant severe churning in stomach; nausea; migraine headache. | I started my 14-year-old daughter on this drug and it worked wonders for her GERD symptoms, but she gradually developed the symptoms mentioned until a week and a half later the cramps and throwing up were so bad I thought I would have to take her to the hospital, but it all subsided around 4:00 a.m. and she was finally able to get to sleep. She has not taken the med in 3 days, but is still having the symptoms...they are gradually getting less severe, but she was still up last night with stomach cramps...I would not recommend this med for children at all. I have been on the 30 mg dose for about 1.5 years with no problems, but my daughter's reaction was so severe that I am starting to question whether I should take this anymore or not. | F | 14 | 10 days | 1/12/2009 | 1 | acid reflux | liquid diarrhea several times daily, vomiting, nausea, extreme abdominal bloating and cramping, constant gas | Recently our insurance suddenly refused to cover Aciphex, which I'd been taking for acid reflux for several months without any side effects, so my primary care physician switched me to Prevacid 30 mg daily. Began 12/8 and was violently ill on 12/17 during a vacation to New York City, which I initially blamed on food poisoning. But because the Prevacid was the only change to my regular routine, and because the symptoms have continued for the past 3-1/2 weeks, I am stopping it as of yesterday 01/03/09. Will post again if this works to ease the symptoms. | F | 49 | 26 days | 1/4/2009 | 1 | Taking Prevacid for Acid Reflux | I took Prevacid solutab for about 5 weeks starting April 2007. I developed muscle twitching, IBS, skin rash, heart palpitations and muscle weakness. I have been to many doctors searching for clues as to what is the cause. I had nuclear stress test, ekg, EMG, MRI of the brain, upper GI 2 times, and colonoscopy 2 times. All they could say was to take a tranquilizer your IBS is caused by stress. I kept telling them it was the other way around. The physical problems are causing the stress. | I found the answer to my disease that was caused by Prevacid after a long 1.5 years of suffering and close to loosing my job. I went to a doctor outside of the insurance network and paid dearly to have some tests run. I had a CDSA stool test run and a IgG Food Antibody test run. I was diagnosed with Klebsiella and Citrobacter dysbiotic flora in my intestines. This was caused by a dysbiosis when I took the Prevacid. I also have severe food and chemical allergies now due to the infected gut. The condition is called Leaky Gut Syndome or Hyperpermeable gut. Sherry A. Rogers MD writes a book on this called "No More Heartburn Stop the pain in 30 Days Naturally" I urge anyone who has problems with the proton pump drugs to have a CDSA stool test. I am not a doctor but a person who has suffered a great deal and would hate to see anyone else have to go through what I have. | M | 45 | 5 weeks | 1/1/2009 | 2 | GERD,possible barretts esophagus | headaches,very tired, swollen glands, stomach pain. | My Dr. just put me on this three days ago, 30mg two times a day, I have had a headache ever since and sinus pressure started second day, I am waiting for an endoscope in a week and hopefully will be taken off of this, I can't take it! Was diagnosed at 16 with ulcers and have been fine,able to deal with pain, take tums & on occasion prilosec, reflux has been worse and family history of barretts & esophageal cancer. | F | 37 | 3 days | 12/19/2008 | 1 | gerd | Been on prevacid for ten years. Just stopped realizing this drug had severly affected my life. From deep depression, mood swings, suicidal thoughts, impulse control problems. Wife even thought i was bipolar. The fatigue was terrible, not realizing how much it has affected my life, I am considering a class action lawsuit regarding this drug | Beware, you don't get all the side effects and long term use of this drug, as my dr recommended dmged my life, don't let it do the same to yours. Prevacid has not long term clinical trials or outcomes studies on possible severe side affects. | M | 33 | 10 years | 12/19/2008 | 2 | Gastric Ulcer & inflammation | The worst for me was deep Depression - as if there was absolutely NO hope at all! I couldn't figure out where this came from, til a friend finally suggested maybe it could be the Prevacid. Other side effects for me - sore muscles, as if I'd really exercised hard, but I hadn't. Sore hips. Sinus & eye pressure, stuffiness & really sore inside nasal passages. All these side effects disappeared after I stopped taking the Prevacid. It was really effective for the gastric symptoms, but SO not worth it regarding the side-effects. I'm taking the vinegar/honey thing & that seems to be helping. Oh! and when I read online about the Calcium leaching of Prevacid, that was IT! I can't believe my doc prescribed this when I am a woman genetically very prone to osteoporosis! | Would NOT recommend. Too much risk of adverse reactions, and those are only a few "recognized" by the drug company. There seem to be a number of other side-effects more common than any drug researcher has reported. | F | 55 | 10 days | 12/16/2008 | 1 | Doctor didn't know yet. | nausea, severe headache in my left temple, weak, feeling hungry all the time. | stopped taking the medication immediately. Hated it!!! | F | 26 | 5 days | 12/6/2008 | 4 | GERD/Acid Reflux | Possible slight hair loss (not sure from prevacid) Gas, bloating, constipation and diarrhea (again not sure from PPI's) and stomach polyps. (again not 100% sure from PPI meds. Coughing and choking at night and getting asthma type symptoms. | I have taken prevacid and like medications for over 10 years. Prevacid seemed to help me the most. I have still have break through acid reflux at any given moment. However I have found out this year I have 3 issues either due to acid reflux or causing it. 1)Hiatal hernia. 2) Barretts esophagus and 3) Stomach polyps. I have recently learned that Stomach polyps can be caused from excessive use of PPI's. I cant not at this time stop taking Prevacid because of the Acid reflux causing Barretts esophagus. And I am reluctant to take it because of the stomach polyps that cover 80% of my stomach. I am having surgery in January to fix the hernia and also having Fundoplication surgery to prevent anymore acid reflux. Prevacid helped me a lot. but, I am scared of what long term affect I could have for being on that medicine for so long. I have learned from research that PPI's were not intended for LONG term use. Where does that leave sufferers and long term problems? Has anyone ever heard of P | F | 43 | 10 years | 11/29/2008 | 3 | ulcer | severe pins and needles that felt like i was actually being stabbed by a needle when ever i felt hot or started to sweat | Used in the past with no problems but when tried recently caused severe pins and needles when i got hot or sweaty. | M | 24 | 6 days | 11/29/2008 |