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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR PREVACID | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | GERD | I've been taking Prevacid for about 2 years now. Recently I have experienced shoulder and arm pain and have trouble getting comfortable at night. I am not sure the drug is causing the pain, but it occured suddenly and persists. I have no heartburn as long as I take Prevacid. | M | 72 | 2 days | 4/10/2008 | 1 | acid reflux | difficulty breathing-severe shortness of breath, moodiness, painful hip, lower back and joint pain, swelling in the ankles, extreme fatigue, anxiety, depression, lack of a good night's sleep - I could go on | I have been taking Prevacid for 5 years now. I had, what I believe, no symptoms at first. Was only glad that the pain went away. But for the past few years now, I have been experiencing these symptoms and thought it was my thyroid. Many tests later and my thyroid shows normal. Was diagnosed with mild asthma last year as well. This year I was diagnosed with a vitamin D deficiency. My doctor, and I, never connected all the symptoms together thinking that one thing may be causing all of them. Then, the past 3 weeks my asthma was out of control. My fatigue was extreme, I wasn't sleeping and I was getting depressed. I tried to think of what had changed in the last 5 yrs and taking Prevacid was the only thing that had changed. Stopped taking it 3 days ago and am feeling MUCH better. Though the acid reflux is back, it is better than all the others symptoms combined. The pills are going back to the pharmacy to be disposed of. Will NEVER take this medication again!! | F | 47 | 5 years | 4/8/2008 | 1 | GERD | edema in legs, ankles and hand, headaches, lethargic, dizziness, muscle aches, thirst, numbness, sleeplessness, depression, very low potassium levels. | I thought I was going crazy with all these symtoms. Both my gastro doctor and GP ignored all my ailments, put me on potassium pills while continuing with prevacid. No relief in sight. Thank goodness I read this website and will stop the prevacid tomorrow. I really cannot not function the way I am now. | F | 54 | 50 days | 4/6/2008 | 4 | gerd | None. | My son started throwing up at about 1 year of age. I kept telling the doctor something was wrong. He couldn't eat small chunks of anything, and would throw up at almost every meal and at night. Finally, after persisiting that something was wrong and not just "something he'd outgrow" I got him to prescribe Prevacid Solutabs. We went to a specialist, etc. He's been on it since last August (2007) and it is now April 2008. The specialist said not to be on it too long because it could adversely affect his bones. They wanted him off of it within three months, but I said no, I'll wait until spring. I'm now taking him off of it, but it has worked great. He rarely throws up any food, feels good, and sleeps through the night without vomitting. I'm afraid to take him off of it, but I'm afraid to keep him on it. I'll see what happens. If he starts throwing up again, back to the Prevacid and back to a specialist to see if he needs more testing done. | M | 4 | 8 months | 4/2/2008 | 4 | acid reflux | unconfirmed | Has anyone experienced mouth sores as a result of Prevacid? I read about them once, but cannot seem to find a reference to them now. I get them very frequently now. | F | 55 | 2 years | 4/2/2008 | 2 | supposed acid reflux | Severe stomach cramps, stomach bloating, depression, fluid retention, weight gain, yellow stools. | Worked fine for a few months, really caused problems afterward. Gained ten pounds in two weeks after doctors put me back on the medication after a break of a few months. Severe swelling of abdomen occurred after four weeks with very painful stomach cramps. I am female and periomenopausal. This medication correlated with feelings of severe depression that were not present prior to use. | F | 47 | 6 days | 3/30/2008 | 1 | Acid Reflux-Heartburn | Really painful hip, lower back and joint pain. Also burning urination. | I was told this is a benign drug. It took away the heart burn, but too many other side effects. | F | 44 | 2 days | 3/30/2008 | 3 | acid reflux GERD | Second day after starting Prevacid I had and still have diarrhea. It strange though because I have no stomach pain or cramping. It's just their. About an hour after I eat I need to stay close to a bathroom. I wake up early in the morning and have to move fast to the bathroom too. This has been going on now for a full week. I still feel a lump like in my throat at times when I eat more than I should. I also have been very thirsty during the night. I need to keep a bottle of water by my bed. | F | 51 | 1 weeks | 3/26/2008 | 3 | hiatel hernia/GERD | This stuff kicked my a$$ for the first week. Fatigue, aches and the reflux/heartburn about the same as before. Day 8 the reflux seems better than it was and side effects are merely extreme pain/disconfort just below diaphram and puking out my a$$. Beautiful! | Will write again when I know more. Maybe it will get better. | M | 31 | 11 days | 3/25/2008 | 3 | bad heartburn | slight dizziness, fatigue, nausea, odd feeling in gutt, higher blood pressure, less appetite. | Initially, I had no side effects with this drug, just excellent relief from the constant burn. After a month of 1X30mg/day, I stopped taking it for 5 days, then resumed after heartburn started to get bad again. Since I resumed the drug, I have experienced the listed symptoms. I am fairly confident that the symptoms are the result of Prevacid so I will be going off the drug again to see if the symptoms cease. If so, I'll need to try another option. | M | 40 | 60 days | 3/16/2008 | 1 | Acid reflux | Weakness in arm and legs, joint pain, tremors, extremely fatigued, headache. | I took two time released for two weeks and then went down to one a day. I was on it for about 6 weeks when everything started going wrong. I had severe muscle aches in my arms and legs accompanied by weakness and every joint in my body hurt. I also had shooting pains in almost every part of my body. I decided to stop taking prevacid. Went to the Dr. and from the symptoms he said it sounded like vitamin D deficiency and sent me for blood work up. Results came back and sure enough I had a D deficiency. I was off prevacid for about a month and my symptoms slowly went away. I took one the day before yesterday and sure enough all my symptoms came right back. I am throwing these pills in the garbage as the side effects far outweigh any benefits. | F | 58 | 7 weeks | 3/12/2008 | 2 | gerd | my 18 year old son has been on this medication since he was 9 yrs old. He had a thal fundoplicaton in 2000 for severe reflux and possible Barretts. We have now found out is has contributed to his severe hair loss within the past year. Will have to change meds now due to this. Always complanied of headaches/stomachaches but was the only med that controlled the gerd | M | 18 | 9 days | 3/3/2008 | 3 | GERD | hair loss, swollen ankles,irritability, mild chest pain | I am on no other medication other then prevacid. | F | 45 | 2 months | 3/2/2008 | 1 | Acid Reflux Disease | Loss of appetite, queasiness, rapid weight loss, and the most frightening... SEVERE shortness of breath! | I was taking Nexium, 20mg, one per day but was still having a little of that burning pain. I told my new doctor about this and he switched me from the 20mg Nexium to the 30mg Prevacid capsules. I had horrible side effects immediately. I would have sudden and unpredictable loss of appetite. Not just loss of appetite but the sight of food would actually make me feel queasy. I lost over 10 pounds in a week and wasn't even trying. But the worst, and most frightening, side effect was the severe shortness of breath. Immediately after starting on the Prevacid I got so short of breath I could not climb a flight of a dozen stairs. My chest would heave up and down. Air was going in and out. But it felt like my lungs weren't getting any oxygen from the air that was going in and out of them. I wanted to trust my doctor but I was actually becoming afraid of going home from work and taking the Prevacid. I got back in to see my doctor as soon as I could and he put me back on Nexium. Not long after th | M | 54 | 10 days | 2/26/2008 | 1 | pre barrets | Severe pain in lower back and abdomen.Constant belching.Flatulence. Blurred vision.Headache(I never get headaches).Heavy night urinating.Asthma in morning.It hurt to move. Tired and spacey. Blurred vision. | How much research is done on drugs before and after they are released to the public? I took two pills per day. | M | 52 | 3 days | 2/24/2008 | 5 | Acid Reflux | It started fine, but after about 20 days of the medication, I started noticing some side effects. Firstly, my hands would start feeling very hot, as if with flu, and then would feel very itchy. This then also happened to my feet, which would become very red and itchy specially while standing for about 30 minutes or more. Then after about 30 days, i suddenly started having eye floaters, but that might be due to some other reason. (About 3 weeks since then and still there). | This worked great for the reflux, although i stopped taking the medication after 30 days. All side effects previously mentioned stopped about 1-2 days after i quit taking it . | M | 15 | 30 days | 2/23/2008 | 1 | ulcer | I have been taking prevacid for 4 days now. The first day I had a really bad headache and started to feel a little sore...not thinking it was from the prevacid. By the 2nd day I was feeling the headaches again. Everytime, about an hour after I take it, I have a really bad pain on the left side of my temple and goes down to my neck. As the day goes on my head hurts more. My joints are very achy and my eyes feel like they are burning. I know it has to be the prevacid because none of this started until I started taking the prevacid 4 days ago! As of tomorrow, I will no longer be taking it. Thanks to everyone who left a comment, it helped to know I wasn't the only one. | It really helped to cure the burning sensation in my stomach, but the side effects are horrible. I'd rather have a burning sensation in my stomach then a killer headache where you can't even function. | F | 34 | 4 days | 2/17/2008 | 3 | GERD | * Terrible exzema (what the dr's thought to be exzema, but couldn't find a treatment that worked) * Chest Pain * Shortness of breath * Severe Anemia, for which I had to get an infusion and a tranfusion this past summer!! * Exhaustion * Headaches * Muscle Aches * Severe Depression * Anxiety * Stange thoughts, moods * Hair Loss | Well guys, I've been taking Prevacid for over 7 years, until 2 days ago - I stopped cold turkey - and I will explain why. I have had GERD for probably 10 years now. It was so bad, that it was hard for me to function. The Dr's tried everything on me, and nothing worked. Then I finally, I found what I thought to be a miracle drug! That drug was Prevacid. I was so happy that it took away my symptoms, that I never questioned the safety of this drug. That is, until 2 days ago. I have been having so many physical problems. Some I just attributed to what I believed to be 'just the way things were.' I consider myself to be well-informed, intelligent and I research almost everything before I buy,or use it. This is an instance where I am sorry to say, I didn't apply my intelligence or even basic common sense. I assumed (wrongly) that the doctors would inform me of the adverse effects of this drug, but I was not informed of one. I have been suffering from severe depression, anxiety, | 37 | 7 years | 2/15/2008 | 3 | gerd barrets esophagus | headache, dizziness, sinusitis, presistant cough,migraine | 3 Years i have had severe headaches and i started prevacid about 7 years ago and for 3 years i had terrible side effects dont know why its happending now and not in the beginning. Now if you read the package insert carefully for prevacid you will see that it says 1% of paitents exprience sinusitis and if you look closely in the package insert it will say migraine. I just recently had a sinus surgery done i had a diveded septum, polyps and in turn sinusitis lots and lots of congestion dr said it was extensive. 3 weeks later still getting the pressure in my head and ears and nose he said i must wait 2 months to have any affect of the surgery to take place. I also when i get the headache i get an aura a circle of light over my vision its a warning side before its get really bad. when it gets really bad i need help getting to bed. the attack lasts for about 3 to 4 hours along with vomitting so bad i have to lead over in the bed and do it in a bucket sometimes it lasts an hour dont vomit | M | 29 | 7 years | 2/12/2008 | 1 | Acid Reflux | Tachycardia for a couple weeks, then heart palpitations/flip-flop,fluttering feeling. Frequent,urgent loose bowel movements, many headaches, dizzyness,elevating blood pressure,always bloated. Labored breathing. | I only recently discovered that others were having similar symptoms. Maybe it's related to the Prevacid, maybe not, but heart palpitations followed by dizziness is a scary thing. When I stopped taking prevacid on 2-4-08, the next day there was a noticable difference in my breathing...much easier. I've always had rock solid blood pressure until the last 2 times it was checked, again not proof it's related, but suspicious. Regardless, I am laying off of it til my nuclear cardio test next week. | M | 35 | 1 years | 2/8/2008 |