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 |
| 1 | Gerd | Belching, stomach pain, Anxiety with racing thoughts | I feel like it helped with the reflux at first but then it stopped after the 2nd month. I have had the most horrible anxiety. I am a mom and a wife and literally feel like my life has been stolen from me. I started to wonder if I needed medication for anxiety. After lots of praying, I decided to look online for protonix side effects and low and behold, there are lots of ppl going through the same things. Today is my second day off the med and am still having side effects with a headache. I think it will take a few days to feel better. I will be searching for something natural for Gerd. I miss the way I was before taking this med. i miss my old self and cannot wait to get that back!! | F | 33 | 3 months 40 MG | 8/14/2015 | 1 | GERD | i was on protonix for 7 days and it was the worst feeling. It gave me anxiety some heart palpitations abdominal spasms and making my family think I'm crazy. It gave me insomnia making me afraid to go to sleep. | i do not recommend protonix. | M | 35 | 7 days 40mg | 7/31/2015 | 4 | Heartburn | Leg cramps, sore breast, hungry | I took two pregnancy tests because of the side effects of this drug. The heartburn went away but the side effects felt like pregnancy symptoms. | F | 32 | 1 months | 7/29/2015 | 1 | Acid in my stomach | F | 24 | 1 weeks 75 MG 1X day | 7/23/2015 Patient History | 1 | GERD plus Hernia | After 2 years on Protonix I really believe my body is falling apart. I'm still having burning and pain in my chest with the slightest pinch of anything spicy. Now I'm having bad low back pain due to it sucking the calcium out of my body. The worse thing now is it's messed up my stomach, which that had never bothered me. Just a few bites of any kind of food I will feel so bloated and uncomfortable for hours !! All this new stuff happening to me. Before all I really had was a little burning in my stomach and throat ... | Please for anyone reading this If at all possible NEVER get on Protonix , try everything natural first !! Even change the way you eat it's far better to change now, than suffer long term affects of this Body Killing Drug !! I am scared to death to try to go off after all this time . | F | 55 | 2 years 20mg 1X day | 7/17/2015 | 1 | acid rlux. only real symptom was lump in throat | Did not help lump in throat. Terrible anxiety. Hard to function went to get on ativan to stay claim. Lord. Never had anxiety until this and tried prilosec. Same thing. Just going cold turkey. Cannot take anxiety or panic attacks. Three days off. Still anxiety and stomach knots. Hoping that will end soon. Still lump in throat. Nothing ever worked. Boo | F | 52 | 1 months 40mg | 7/9/2015 | 4 | Acid reflux | I didn't experience any side effects aside from getting a little stress but that's most likely work related, just remember that after a while your stomach will produce resistance so you'll have to switch to another drug of probably the same family.my doctor said the key to reducing side effects of any drugs is regular exercise and a healthy diet. | In cases like mine taking it is safer than not taking it at all. | M | 25 | 2 months 20mg | 7/8/2015 | 1 | esophagitis | Headache, muscle aches, severe joint pain and swelling, vomiting. | I have been off of it for over a week and the side effects are just starting to go away. | F | 45 | 1 weeks 40MG 2X day | 7/8/2015 | 1 | gerd | Got chronic gastritis but Dr left me on it and it got worse,lost appetite,weight,stayed nauseated,and more symptoms kept coming. | I am stopping this med against Dr wishes but like some one else said the drs.are in cahoots with the drug companys and don't care how we feel or what the med is doing to us,side effects worse than what you are taking them for.Ill just go natural with what God put on this earth to heal us. | F | 48 | 1 years 40 mg | 7/7/2015 | 5 | Reflux | Zero side effects | This reflux med is the only one that helped take away the acid! Highly recommended and hoping it goes OTC because the generic versions are just not the same! | F | 48 | 10 years 40mg | 7/1/2015 | 1 | gerd | I feel lightheaded stomach hurt confused anxiety | I want take them meds any more | F | 35 | 1 days | 6/28/2015 | 1 | Acid reflux | Anxiety and diarrhea | whenever i have any hint of diarrhea my anxiety goes up. This seemed to cause both to increase over 3 days. Today is my 2nd day off it and I still dont feel as good as i did before taking it. | M | 33 | 3 days 40 1X day | 6/19/2015 | 3 | Gerd | first, thank you for letting me know it's not in my mind! I have had heart palpitations, nausea vomiting, rise in blood pressure, and just feeling strange. also very emotional!this is all just shown up since I started taking medication. the medication works wonderfully but the side effects I just can't handle anymore.would love to hear from anyone else having these problems so I know I'm not alone. | F | 51 | 7 days 40 | 5/27/2015 | 1 | Gerd | horroble Anxiety, depression, no appetite, lost a lot of weight, diarrhea, nausea, | I was on this medication for 4 weeks. This medication made my feel worse. I swear I thought I was going crazy, I was not understanding why I'm feeling all of a sudden depressed and anxiety. I'm a very upbeat person that enjoys life and enjoys being a mother and a wife. This made me scared of life. My doc switched me to Nexium after telling her it was working for me. The Nexium was even worse. I will never take these medications again. I'm only 2 days off but I'm still feeling the side effects. I hope this goes away fast and I can get back to my normal self. I feel so bad for my family for going through this with me. I would never recommend these medications. If anyone that reads this and can give me a similar experience as me and tell me I will be ok and be back to my normal self please email me. | F | 32 | 4 weeks 20mg | 5/24/2015 | 1 | Ulcer | SEVERE DIARRHEA!, Mild anxiety, & restless leg syndrome. The diarrhea is by far the worst & most debilitating!! Every single thing I eat goes right through me. I was prescribed Protonix 40 mg 1x daily in March for an ulcer. At first they thought it was a gallbladder issue & they did an EGD & found an ulcer. Weeks later I still had symptoms, they upped my dosage to 2xs daily. I still had issues so hey removed my gallbladder and said to continue the Protonix. Once my gallbladder was out I have had non-stop diarrhea. I can't even go grocery shopping or in public anywhere unless I KNOW that there's a bathroom, where it is, & don't need an employee to unlock it! And heaven forbid I'm in a traffic jam! And there's no way I can work like this! At one appointment they were talking about putting a pic line in, (a portable IV that I can have at home), which they mentioned before but I didn't want to do. Instead they wrote me a prescription for Lomotil which stops diarrhea, in my case slowed down some. Yesterday they mentioned the pic line again since I'm getting dehydrated & losing nutrients, at this point I don't care, I just want to feel good again!! Im normally an active person. Fed up, I googled to see if Protonix can cause diarrhea & sure enough IT CAN! Possibly even C-Diff which I was tested for & luckily it was negative. Which getting the stool sample was disgisting!!! I work in OR so knowing what C-Diff is, this possibility was ver | This should not be used except in dire situations. Too many bad side effects definitely outweigh the benefits! | F | 38 | 10 weeks 40mg 2xs/d | 5/20/2015 | 1 | Ulcer, GERD, Esophageal Spasm | Severe upper abdominal pains, worsening over time; episodic lightheadedness; also, worsened venous insufficiency. | Stopping this PPI was deliverance from suffering. | F | 54 | 80 days 40 MG 2X day | 5/8/2015 | 1 | gastritis | bad headache fog brain, Horrible feeling when I was on this medication. THE DRUG REPS give the doctors a good sounding story, and we are the test tubes for their profit | DO NOT TAKE THIS MEDICATION...... | F | 61 | 1 months 40 mg 1X day | 4/25/2015 | 1 | GERD | Severe Anxiety | I am not one to take medication but because of the amount of nausea I was having I decided to try this. I took one 20 MG pill before bed which was at 11. I had nightmares and woke up in the morning with severe anxiety. By noon the anxiety started to calm down but did not go away until around 5:00. I had taken this medication a few months prior for esophagitis. At that time I believed the anxiety was being caused by the stress of a newborn as well as being sick. I thought I was going crazy and doctors were quick to agree. They believed I had postpartum depression. As I gradually stopped taking the medication life got so much better. At the time I thought my diet changes were causing me to get back to myself. I had not realized that once I stopped the medication the symptoms had all stopped. This recent experience was a flashback to the worse experience in my life (and I have gone through cancer). I am not one to post comments but I want to warn those who are considering this medication. Anxiety is a real symptom caused by this medication. | F | 27 | 1 days 20 MG 1X day | 4/14/2015 | 1 | Gerd | Leg pains pins and needles in fingers and toes backache pressure in head neck ache shoulder pain severe anxiety. | I started taking this med after my cardio did an angio after I was having chest pains angio was after stress test overnight stays in the hospital EKG eko and hyda scan for my gallbladder. After the first dose I felt a little unbalanced and figured it would go away and it did about the second week I started to get the pressure in my head and the constant feeling something was wrong like after many trips to my primary I started to have muscle spasms and facial twitching also numbness in my lips and flutters in my stomach as well I experienced so many side affects I quit it and I'm 4 days off and still feeling the side affects they are not as often but I am still having the tension headaches daily and muscle spasms and occasionally a cold like running water dripping down my forehead and running in my arms and legs. I just pray that it will stop in the next week or so. This medicine is awful and should not be given out I can't believe they still are able to prescribe it. I want to know if these side affects ever stop !!! | F | 32 | 3 weeks 40 mg | 3/31/2015 | 1 | GERD | I experienced anxiety and my ears were ringing. I called the pharmacist and said there was no way that Protonix could cause anxiety. She was dead wrong! Do not take this drug!! | F | 49 | 6 months 40 MG 2X day | 3/27/2015 |