PROTONIX Reviews (PANTOPRAZOLE SODIUM)Average Rating: 2.0 (670 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare PROTONIX with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR PROTONIX | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | GERD | none | Give it up people and go to a specialist. Mine did a surgery called a "Nissan fundoplication" Basically repair of a 7cm round hiatal hernia. Woke up with minimul pain. Ate EXACTLY HOW I WAS TOLD. Lost 20 lbs( much needed) Symptoms of GERD Stopped THAT DAY, never needed a tums even again. So worth it. | F | 58 | 2 years 40 1X day | 12/4/2015 | 2 | Gerd | It helped my stomach if I took it for a couple of days and then took off a couple of days..but if I took it every day it made my stomach feel worse, and I felt VERY TIRED. | M | 40 | 1 days 20 | 12/4/2015 | 1 | Gastritis | HORRIBLE HEADACHE! | Hate it! | F | 34 | 1 days 40 mg | 11/26/2015 | 1 | Gastritis | I started taking this 2 months ago for presumed gastritis. I am so glad I found this site! I have been to the ER twice, 2 Neurologist and a Cardiologist. Everyone says it anxiety. Well, I have anxiety/panic attacks, numbness/tingling EVERYWHERE, headaches, woozy, racing heart and panic attacks, blood pressure up(it's usually low). Told I might have had a mini stroke, but the symptoms never went away. I feel like I'm dying sometimes. I have been referred to a counselor for anxiety/panic attacks. | I'm going to stop this ASAP! I pray these symptoms go away. | F | 44 | 2 months 40mg | 11/23/2015 | 1 | Gerd and gastritis | Headache, anxiety, feeling like heart pounding out of chest and blood pressure high. | Thank God I found this. This was horrible. I would have chest pains and felt like my heart was pounding so fast and hard. My anxiety has shot through the roof. I felt off a couple of days into this but kept taking it. Never again, I will stick to zantac. Hoping these side effects leave soon. | F | 45 | 8 days 40mg | 11/18/2015 | 5 | Acid reflux | Just reading bad things | F | 68 | 3 years 40 mg | 11/8/2015 | 1 | GERD | Numbness, tingling, pain in my hands and arms. Nausea with diarrhea. No energy and no appetite! | I'm a mom of two young children. Stress has flared up my gerd. However, when i say I feel the worst I can ever recall! Numbness, tingling, pain in my hands and arms. Nausea with diarrhea. No energy and no appetite! An unusual tiredness that feels like I am going to faint. There's been a rise in my blood pressure and my anxiety! Do not recommend. Winging off this crap to restart my zantac . also in further observation ; medicine that threatens the development of pregnancy , i can only imagine , in fear of what this drug is doing to my other vital organs | F | 41 | 5 days 40mg 1X day | 10/12/2015 | 1 | gerd | feet swelling, really bad, numbness in my hands, shakiness in my hands, blurred vision, soft stools, everything i eat,no energy, feeling just crappy, | at first i thought my feet swellung was from my symbicort, now after reading these reviews, it s from the protonix | F | 64 | 4 weeks | 10/5/2015 | 1 | Gerd, Hernia, Barretts | Pain in legs, bone pain, hip pain, leg cramps. Stopped by accident no pain the next day at all. Talked to doctor wanted to try Zantac even though it didn't work as good. Said not to stop taking protonix cold turkey could have rebound acid reflux. He was right so tried zantac had leg pain with that too. Tried going down from 300 mg zantac then 150mg then 75 mg. still leg pain stopped when I didn't take it for a day but came back when I tried to go off slowly BIG mistake now have leg pain with being off all stomach meds Hard to sleep at night. Tried Tonic water only last a couple hours have to take more would need a whole bottle for one night. Had blood test potassium, magnesium, B12 all normal. I read water works very well for heartburn, tried it their right, and it works in a couple minutes as they said. I also have to not eat the things that really bother me. | F | 68 | 2 years 40 mg 2X day | 9/29/2015 | 1 | Gerd stomach ulcer | I have dizzy nausea and feel like tingling and nerve break down in fingers and feet. Anxiety im sure the worse feeling yet... | M | 50 | 1 months 40 1X day | 9/12/2015 | 1 | reflux | Swelling, sinus, bronchitis, rectal bleeding, anxiety, restless leg, blood pressure got high all of sudden and i had low blood pressure. Cant swallow after getting my throat stretched prior to taking this.fast heart beat one day and now my heart skips beats.Kidney lrobs with high blood pressure along with blood in urine. | I was totally healthy except for Gerd and was having breakthrough reflux ffrom my fundiication done ten years earlier. Nightmare medicine. Drs find hard to believe.i am wishing someone would tell me how long it will take to vet out of my system. Its been month. | F | 61 | 1 months 40mg | 9/12/2015 | 1 | reflux | Terrible headache, eye pain, jaw pain, digestive system pain, dizziness, blood pressure shot up 40 points, has sodium be careful, and also be careful if you have macula can affect the eye and lead to blindness, scary! | It is a scary medicine, did not help the reflux at all. One day after stopping it, my blood pressure dropped and the eye, jaw and headache are almost gone. | F | 76 | 6 days 2X day | 9/10/2015 | 3 | acid reflux | On 40 mg in June and July.Experienced weakness dizziness nausea lost 15 lbs. Switched to 20 felt better in 4 days. | Don't take 40 unless you are bad off. | 87 | 3 months 40 | 8/29/2015 | 1 | GERD | dizziness, slight head aches, felt out of it, nausea, tingling muscles etc. | have been off the meds for 2 days, seems that some side effects have started to diminish but I still don't feel normal. does anyone know how long it takes to come down from this? email me | M | 27 | 10 days 40mg 1X day | 8/28/2015 | 1 | For nausea | head aches anxiety sweating back pain nausea chest pain muscle aches panick attacks stomach pain | I don't know why doctors are able to prescribe this nightmare to any person I have never felt so sick in my life. I have gone to the e r have gotten mri catscans allergy doctors this is the worst I have ever felt in my life just hope it leaves my system soon second day not taking this poison | M | 54 | 1 months 40 | 8/27/2015 | 1 | acid reflux | Had aniexty joint pain heaviness in chest it took care of my reflux but the side effects are terrible I'm getting off of it today | Dont recommend | M | 43 | 6 months 1 30mg | 8/25/2015 | 1 | Acid reflux | Extreme Anxiety, muscle pain, weakness, diareaha, nauseous, dry mouth, headaches, muscle twitches. Stopped taking it a week ago most symptoms gone now still have some joint and muscle pain but not as frequent. | F | 40 | 2 weeks 40MG | 8/23/2015 | 1 | gastritis | The worst drug. I was constantly neauseous, dizzy, sweating, weak. The Drs insisted it wasn't from Protonix and I should keep taking it. I have been off for 2 days and I am still sick. This was the only change in my medication. | M | 62 | 10 days 40mg | 8/22/2015 | 1 | Acid reflux | Severe anxiety, bloated, loss of appetite, joint pain, back and shoulder pain | F | 48 | 15 days 40 mg 1X day | 8/21/2015 | 1 | acid reflux, hernia | From the first day I began to notice subtle side effects that grew. Headache, dizziness, upper back aches, vision blurred, hands tingling, fatigued. .. just in a few days too. Can't believe how bad I feel. Hope it goes away soon. Never again. | Should never have been prescribed. I told doctor ppi was not good but yet he insisted!! | F | 50 | 5 days 40 mg | 8/15/2015 |