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 |
| 4 | ulcer | none that I could attribute to Protonix. | Took it for just over a year and it seemed to clear up most of the various stomach symptoms caused by the ulcer. | F | 44 | 1 years | 9/7/2007 | 1 | chest pressure, lump in throat | Stomach pain, gnawing chest pain,knee and lower back pain, fast heart rate and palpitations. | I continued taking this drug thinking my condition was worsening. The first day I stopped, all the side effects went away. Same experience with Prilosec and Aciphex (with first pill). Can't believe that digestive pain is the side effect for PPI drugs created to help digestive problems!!! | F | 49 | 11 days | 9/2/2007 | 3 | Bloody sinus. Stopped using it, bleeding went away, that's how I know. Developed a hyetal hernia though not sure it is tied to PROTONIX. | Good drug. Not sure of the hyetal hernia. | M | 45 | 5 years | 8/20/2007 | 1 | severe itching of scalp, eyelids, skin..mostly throat and tongue and upper mouth....was afraid to keep taking it, thinking my throat would close up.. | helped the GERD, and no anxiety or headaches like Aciphex did....but the itching gets more and more ...1st time at 2 weeks, then one week, then at 3 days, now the next day after I take it.....what's worse?? the burning throat from the acid or the itching that scares you that your throat may close with an allergic reaction???? | F | 54 | 30 days | 8/14/2007 | 1 | Gastritis, Nonulcer Dyspepsia | Drug effectively eliminated my nonulcer dyspepsia after a few days. But, at day 12 I noticed strange cramps & spasms in my legs, mostly in the right thigh. Then I started getting a mix of sharp / dull pains in my left rib cage (I thought it was my spleen), over my heart, left arm, and all over my back and shoulders. My hands and fingers were tingling. The pains would come and go, constantly moving around, lasting 10 mintues to hours at a time. I almost went to the ER several times due to chest pains over my heart, but I thought it was just anxiety. But the pains would hit me even when I felt relaxed. I couldn't sleep. At day 18, the lymph node under the left side of my neck started swelling, and my chin tingled, scared me to death. It went away after a few hours, but the swelling came back stronger the next day, and only then did I suspect Protonix! I immediately stopped (on day 20) and I felt much better after a few days (see my comments:). | Six days after stopping protonix, my gastritis came right back (but the bad side effects of Protonix were not completely gone). On day 26 I started on Pepcid AC 20mg twice daily. It worked well. However, at day 30, the chest pain, sharp rib-cage pain, back pain, and lymph node swelling came RIGHT back, stronger than ever! Perhaps any strong acid reducer would have caused the side effects? Two days after stopping the Pepcid AC, the pains went away again. I'm writing this on day 35 and the side effects are 99% gone. Overall, the side effects were FAR worse than my gastritis. Maybe I developed a nutrient deficiency? I've read that calcium deficiency can cause many of these odd symptoms, and calcium requires stomach acid for absorption, but who knows. I get plenty of dietary calcium. Maybe calcium citrate supplements (absorbed without acid?) can help. I had taken Prilosec OTC a long time ago for 14 days with no problems, so this whole experience was a shock. | M | 29 | 20 days | 7/20/2007 | 1 | chronic stomach inflammation | not acidic. more of a dull pain in my stomach. like someone was sawing a hole. had egd no ulcer. diagnosed with "chronic inflammation of the stomach lining" yeah it hurts but im alive | i would not recommend this med. it made me worse. it felt like it was eating my stomach alive. eeeeek. and if you dont have any insurance be prepared to pay alot of money. ask for samples from a doc if you can. | F | 23 | 5 months | 7/19/2007 | 5 | Night-time Acid reflux | None | I have had night-time acid reflux attacks since childhood. I would wake up with burning in my throat and sometimes my nose, have to get a drink of milk and slice of bread to ease the pain and sit up against my bedroom wall on my bed until it eased off, then went back to sleep. When older started eating earlier, taking 4 Tums Ultra and eating a bowl of vanilla ice cream every night to kill the acid before going to bed. Didn't always work. I went to my doctor (after getting medical coverage through my job) and was prescribed 40mg Protonix. Slept through the night for the first time in YEARS! Have had no problems. Now the only reason I have problems is from eating too much, something too acidic or eating too late at night. | F | 38 | 5 years | 6/13/2007 | 1 | GERD | Horrid headaches, stomach pain, nausea, muscle aches, numb arms and hands, increased reflux, weird dreams. | Normally I do not notice the reflux, but with this stuff I do. It's as if it stirred up my stomach. I do not need a drug that makes me feel far worse than usual. | F | 47 | 5 days | 5/24/2007 | 5 | Acid reflex, hypersecretion | None | Been using regularly for years to prevent ulcers from hypersecretion, often able to take it every other day or every 3rd day it is still just as effective for me. | M | 27 | 7 years | 5/7/2007 | 4 | GERD, H Hernia, Erosive Esophagitis | Mild nerve Pain in soles of feet, toes and hands. Increased numbness in feet and hands. Stomach pain at the 20 mg. twice a day dose. Constipation. | I have Peripheral Neuropathy, and on the 40 mg. dose, experienced an exascerbation of my neuropoathy. When I bumped the dose down to 20 mg. 1 hour before dinner, it was tolerable, although I've only been on the drug for 1 week. Still experiencing some constipation which is controllable via Milk of Magnesia or Mylanta (I also have IBS). The drug has stopped my awful heartburn which always starts 3 hours after eating, and I wish I could take the higher 40 mg. a day dose. I have also had good success taking 2 of the Cherry Gaviscon Tablets for heartburn. It works very well in combination with the Protonix, fwiw...Also, drinking lots of water helps to dilute the stomach acid. I've tried EVERY other PPI and H2 Blocker on the market,with the exception of Prevacid i.e., Nexium, Pepcid AC, Zantac, Tagamet, AciPhex, & Prilosec, and all have given me terrible colon pain so had to stop them, (headaches with the Pepcid AC and head so screwed up with the AciPhex I couldn't drive!). So fa | F | 65 | 7 days | 4/4/2007 | 4 | GERD, H Hernia, Erosive Esophagitis | continued... | so far, so good, and I'm hoping to be able to continue taking Protonix! | F | 65 | 7 days | 4/4/2007 | 5 | acid reflux | none | F | 53 | 5 years | 3/15/2007 | 5 | GERD; Dyspepsia;post ulcer therapy | On the 40 mg. dose, I experienced headaches and greater reflus; I told my MD to reduce Rx to 20mg (half the adult dose)and experienced immediate success. I now take Protonix on an as needed basis versus the two years of taking it once or twice daily.If I awaken with acid in my throat, I take it. I called the manufacturer and encouraged them to continue producing this half-dose which seems more tolerable to my body (I have several drug allergies). I called the distributor for my pharmacy and asked them to make the 20 mg. readily available to my pharmacy. I keep the pills bedside and take with water first thing in the morning on an empty stomach. If you eat first, then take it, it reduces the efficacy by up to 50%. Be your own advocate when it comes to your health. Be a good detective and keep a journal of any adverse effects as well as any improvements in your case when you ate such and such a food or took this or that pill. Report any strange side effects immediately to your doctor, e | Sometimes people say they put on weight with PPIs (proton pump inhibotors); I read in a health mag. that they increase your body's ghrelin and may cause an appetite increase. If you are physically able, exercise to reduce your stress and counter any greater eating you may do. Also, as you all know, exercise reduces appetite somewhat.I gained a small amount of weight, but I am very pleased in that I can eat, so I am grateful for that. | F | 51 | 3 years | 3/6/2007 | 2 | GERD | Headaches, dizziness, fatigue, stabbing hip pain, urinary incotinence, ears ringing, pressure in neck and head, burning mouth, anxiety, weight gain, muscle cramps, lower back pain, nausea, finger inflamation, blurry eyes, nightmares. | Very expensive and too many side effects. | F | 46 | 6 weeks | 2/10/2007 | 4 | GERD | Everything was fine until 2 days after stopping the treatment. Had joint pain, inflammation in both index joints, muscles pain in feet, arms and hands. It did solve my GERD problem however. | I know I am susceptible to have a type of "Gout", a sort of arthritis caused by acid in your joints. I thus hypothesized that the side-effects I experienced are caused by the sudden increase of acid level in my organism following the end of the treatment??? | M | 28 | 8 weeks | 1/25/2007 | 1 | acid reflux | Approximately 12 hours after taking protonix I got severe pains in my stomach and intestines - like they were filled with broken glass. The pains were severe for about 6 hours and then tapered off. This seemed to happen each time I took protonix. As soon as I made the correlation, I stopped taking it. | I don't know if it worked. | F | 64 | 3 days | 1/11/2007 | 4 | per cardiologist after ACS | none | I just stopped taking protonix for 2 reasons. I always felt that the relief it gave me during a 3 day hospital stay for angioplasty with 2 stents was really unnecessary in the post-hospital period. I am a possible candidate for the infamous "donut hole" in my drug coverage and need to reduce costs. New studies question the wisdom of long-term protonix use so I stopped protonix 3 days ago with no symptoms of reflux or anything else. I had been on it for 33 months. | M | 75 | 33 months | 12/30/2006 | 2 | GERD | Anxiety and depression, Tremor. | It worked really well for my GERD but have stopped taking it because realized it was causing anxiety disorder and tremor. Turns out that lots of these drugs can have that as a side effect (Aciphex, Prevacid), so am going back to prilosec. | F | 3 months | 12/20/2006 | 3 | reflux | increase flatulence, but not greatly | stopped working effectively for me after 1 month | M | 52 | 30 days | 11/25/2006 | 2 | Erosive Gastritis | I have severe headaches on and off. | My doctor said it would take at least SIX MONTHS before I MIGHT see results. I stay home, don't go to school, and have no job. I have been ill for 2 years. I don't have time for medicine that works so slowly, even if it works at all. | F | 19 | 2 months | 11/2/2006 |