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 | Acid reflux | Side effects included terrible muscle spasms and cramps in my leg, foot, and toes, trembling, sweating profusely, and I ended up in the ER today diagnosed with pleurisy! Can Protonix be causing all of this? I did NOT have any of these problems 9 days ago... | F | 51 | 9 days 40mg | 7/15/2014 | 2 | Prevacid Quit working for Acid Refl | Gas increased. Causing me to go to ER after one week. After checking that heart was okay. Took xrays showed excess gas in stomach and sigmoid colon. Doctor says its takes three weeks to help. Not sure about that. | M | 56 | 2 days 40 Mg | 7/11/2014 | 1 | Acid Reflux | Joint Pains | At first I didn't put it together....but as soon as I started this drug I had severe joint pains. My left knee felt like I was a golden girl. Then it was my right leg that started hurting. I went to the doctor several times complaining about these problems. They just looked at me dumbfounded and suggested anxiety meds. Not one of them said....hey maybe it's a side effect of what your taking. Before Acid Reflux I never really took any medication regularly so I never thought about side effects before. And the sad part is, the Protonix didn't even help my Acid Refux problems and I had to go on a different medicine. And unfortunately I get joint pain on all PPIs. Please warn your friends about these drugs and suggest they not start them. | F | 35 | 6 weeks 20mg 2X day | 7/8/2014 | 3 | Mild Gastritis | Brain fog, feeling like a zombie, hand and ankle pain, left eye twitching and feeling like something in it, balance/motion sickness, fatigue, shoulder and back pain. It seems like I cannot obtain a deep, restorative sleep. | It worked within a day or two to stop my pain from mild gastirits but after about a month the side effects caused me to stop cold turkey. Inability to keep a thought and impaired memory recall scared me off it. | M | 43 | 7 weeks 20 2X day | 7/7/2014 | 4 | GERD/excess stomach acid | None. | I had a mostly great experience with Protonix. It helped me a lot for the better part of 10 years. Thing is, it just randomly stopped working for me about a month ago and since then it's been agony. I have been on just about every anti-reflux medication that exists so it's basically back to square one. | F | 32 | 8 years 40mg 2X day | 6/24/2014 | 1 | GERD | Horrible! Put me in hospital! | F | 33 | 3 months 40 | 5/28/2014 | 1 | GERD, reflux, gallbladder removed | After taking 40mg/day for a year started having following symptoms...strange dreams, severe numbness/burning pain of toes and balls of feet, tingling in fingers, cramping in abdominal area, fatigue. Also 40mg/day did not totally eliminate my reflux. | After researching side effects, immediately took myself off meds. Went cold turkey. After 3 days, numbness/tingling in my feet and hands are lessening.Hope to be back to normal soon. Joints are not as achy (knees/lower back/shoulders) however still feeling somewhat fatigued. Started taking vitamins to try and turn around the fatigue and boost energy. Downside...Reflux is now absolutely terrible and can hardly eat anything...but will tough it out before trying another med. Using Tums and taking ginger, and mixed enzyme capsules to lessen symptoms. Only eat soup of light meal for dinner. Losing weight in a not good way. | F | 57 | 1.5 years 40mg 1X day | 5/18/2014 | 1 | Reflux | Severe headache, jabs joint pain, preasure in head and anxiety. | F | 49 | 3 days 40mg | 5/10/2014 | 1 | gerd, asthma | Experiencing brain fog, fatigue, poor sleep, muscle spasmz and cramping and joint pain. Stopping immediately after reading about so many with similar side effects. | F | 47 | 3 weeks 40mg | 5/8/2014 | 1 | GERD | Very dry, very oddly flaky skin on my face led to a raw, angry, red facial rash. Foot and toe cramps. | F | 46 | 1 weeks 20 | 5/2/2014 | 1 | Stomach Ulcers (2) | Pantoprazole 40mg: Anxiety, Severe Insomnia, Blood Pressure problems, drastic weight loss, THIS STUFF IS RUINING MY LIFE!!! | If anyone else experienced this, please tell me how long it took to get it out of your system, and did the side affect subside?!? PLEASE HELP! I have been to the ER three times, been back to the GI specialist, primary care DR, no one seems to think the PPI's cause these problems, but I see many others on here with them! I have no health history at all, healthy as can be until i took the Pantoprazole. My health and my life have deteriorated so much in these 5 weeks. Any advise could save my sanity and my life... | M | 31 | 5 weeks 40 1X day | 5/1/2014 | 2 | Esophagitis | Just took a pill last night. My legs and arms feel tingly and week. | M | 30 | 1 days 40mg | 4/29/2014 | 5 | Acid reflux | Was given in hospital for gallbladder life saver when compared to nexium | F | 28 | 2 years 40mg | 4/21/2014 | 1 | To heal ulcer | HORRIBLE drug! Ran out of sample Dexilant which had been causing NO problems and doc sent in script for Protonix even though I told him I had horrible side-effects from Prilosec. Protonix is worse than Prilosec: terrible tinnitis, swimming vision, awful headache and stiff neck, felt EXTREMELY ill, head felt like it was stuffed with cotton and I was in a different universe, heart palpitations, terrible sleep and muscle cramps. Never had a drug cause this many terrible side-effects after taking only two days. Unbelievable. STAY AWAY FROM THIS DRUG!!! | M | 62 | 2 days 40mg 1X day | 4/18/2014 | 1 | Esophegial ulcer and GERD | Horrible and constant nausea, debilitating stomach pain, bowel pain and cramping, dizziness, diarrhea. The nausea was the worst part. I felt like i couldnt breath out of my mouth or i was gonna throw up. Symptoms resolved two days after stopping. | F | 26 | 1 months 40mg | 4/14/2014 | 2 | Acid reflux | Terrible dizziness and increased neck pain. Tiredness and more bowel movements than usual. Stopping it. | F | 28 | 3 days 40mg 1xday | 4/1/2014 | 5 | Gastric ulcer- no. Other meds worke | None | This med saved my life! I have a horrific bleeding gastric ulcer from taking steroids for other medical conditions. This med has given me my life back! | F | 45 | 8 years 40mg 1X day | 3/25/2014 | 1 | Possible GERD with asthma | Extreme anxiety, unable to relax physically, palpitations and increased heart rate. | Other PPIs may not have the same side effects or intensity od side effects. | F | 54 | 3 days 40 mg 1X day | 3/16/2014 | 2 | GERD | Sore throat, headache, stiff neck, pain in back of neck, feeling of hair in throat, tingling burning legs at night, ear pain. | I was prescribed Protonix after six weeks of Prilosec which was even worse. While Protonix was a slight improvement, it is still causing overwhelming side effects. Sore throat, pain in back of neck like a feeling of stiffness, pain at base of neck near lymph nodes, feeling of hair in throat, shooting headaches, problems with contrast in vision, legs feel hot at night. I'm weening myself off and never trying getting on another PPI again. | M | 45 | 10 days 20 MG 2X day | 3/13/2014 | 1 | Acidity | Severe leg cramps- could not sleep all night | F | 31 | 8 days 40 | 3/12/2014 |