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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR TAMIFLU | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | H1N1 Flu | My 2 year old daughter took it 24 hours into a 102.4 fever. She had no appetite and 4 days into the treatment she awoke from an unusually long nap in a psycotic state that lasted 35 minutes. We were so scared. She's been off the medication for a week and is still not herself...tired, withdrawn, moody and droopy. Her flu symptoms were limited to fever, irritability and fatigue. The fever went away hours after the first dose of Tamaflu. I don't feel like calling the doctor yet again because it will be more of the same nonsense "Oh she's fine the drug's safe" | I called our family Dr and he called the script into the pharm w/o seeing her. | F | 2 | 5 days | 11/11/2009 | 1 | flu | Gave this to my 4 year old. Within 30 minutes was saying "ouch" and trying to stick her finger in her ear. Vomiting and extreme restlessness ensued. I would not give this stuff to my worst enemy. I could not get her to sleep longer than a few mins at a time. She would wake up screaming about the pain in her ear. Emptied the bottle of $50 liquid out right away. These people are robbing people blind AND hurting us and our loved ones with their products! Nice! | Pediatrician. | F | 4 | 1 days | 11/11/2009 | 1 | H1N1 | My 11 year old son was diagnosed with H1N1 two weeks ago. His fever was increasing so we filled our prescription for Tamiflu. He took 3 pills in 2 day. After his third dose he went to bed and woke up 2 hours later in a very different state of mind. He was terrified and paranoid and explaining he felt terrible and someone was after him. He exhibited paranoia and irrational fears of numbers and letters. It was terrifying and we were scared he might hurt himself as he seemed like he wanted to escape his own body. None of this behavior ever presented before. | We are so sorry we gave our son Tamiflu. It has now been two weeks since we stopped and he is still having residual effects. Has anybody out there had side effects that have then dissipated over time? We are worried this will not go away. Feel free to email we are looking for answers! | M | 11 | 2 days | 11/10/2009 | 3 | suspected H1N1 | After taking first dose my son vomited x 3. After that dose tolerated the rest well. The second day on medication started complaining that his lower lip hurt( no sores), intermittent back and neck pain, and headache (despite fevers being almost resolved) and complained of itching all over on/off (no rash). After taking the 4th dose he was complaining that his hands "felt funny and dusty" he was chatty and restless. He has been sleeping fine. | My son is asthmatic so when he began having symptoms (after his 2 older sisters had the flu) our doctor called in a prescription. He seemed a little strange last night (after 4 doses) with the whole "my hands feel funny" and chatty/restless behavior, but I may just be over analyzing it. It really worked great for the flu though. After the first day he was about 80% better. I was pretty impressed until last night and now I am wondering if I should continue. | M | 5 | 2 days | 11/9/2009 | 1 | flu, moderate asthma | My ten year old son took it once this past weekend. He had a completely psychotic reaction within ten minutes of taking it. He started ranting and hallucinating and was extremely paranoid. He finally calmed down. Took him to Childrens Hospital in Boston and nurse there said they had been seeing bad psychiatric reactions in the hospital as well. My son was extremely nauseated for several hours later. | My son was prescribed over the phone from urgent care. No warning from nurse or pharmacist. | M | 10 | 1 days | 11/9/2009 | 5 | H1N1 | No side effects noticed | 5 month old baby diagnosed with H1N1. Because she is high risk (was very ill when born) we started her on tamiflu immediately. After two doses her fever broke and she has been feeling better since. What a relief. I was TERRIFIED to give it to her ater reding the other side effects people noted but she is prone to pnuemonia so we could not chance letting her already weak body fight the flu alone. | F | 0 | 5 days | 11/8/2009 | 1 | H1N1 | Two-year-old daughter had severe vomiting within 30 minutes of first dose. | Got prescription in urgent care clinic, but this is also my regular doctor. Considered high risk because of her age. I am not going to give it to her again as she seemed more miserable after taking it than before. | F | 2 | 1 days | 11/8/2009 | 3 | Type A influenza | Vomitting after taking, but also vomitted prior to taking. | 5 1/2 year old prescribed Tamiflu at urgent care clinic after 36 hours of fever, spiking at 104 degrees. Too early to say whether drug lessens duration of Type A flu. 3 doses with third dose vomitting, however child had vomitted prior to taking the drug as well. No hallucinations, sleep interruption nor other strange side effects to date. | M | 5 | 1 days | 11/6/2009 | 1 | my 4 yr old taking it for H1N1 | after wrestling with him to take 3 doses (tastes horrible)...threw up and then threw up the 3rd dose. Had diarrhea for most of the afternoon. Discontinued use and started feeling better the next day. | call in prescription from pediatrician | M | 4 | 3 times | 11/6/2009 | 5 | Flu | diarrhea a couple times. | Overall helped a great deal. Felt better in a couple day's! | F | 4 | 5 days | 11/5/2009 | 1 | Flu | I am posting this about my son who took it four years ago and had horrible reactions to it. He was only 3 at the time, his flu seemed to be mild but his doctor recommended it anyway. I stopped after one dose. He couldn't keep anything down, he cried NON-STOP and it wasn't from the flu, he couldn't sleep even though he was exhausted, he screamed like we were killing him when we tried to pick him up in his sleep. He was irrational, aggressive and cried all the next day. Once the effects of the Tamiflu wore off, he was fine. He was still sick, but not like he had been on the Tamiflu. He was diagnosed with Swine Flu Sunday and when the Tamiflu was offered, I immediately turned it down. I'm using Elderberry, Vitamin C, Zinc and OTC meds. to treat him this go round and his illness has been mild. He's already on the mend w/out the terrible side effects of Tamiflu. My 17 year old neighbor also used Tamiflu for the swine flu and ended up blowing out a major blood vessel in his nose | M | 3 | 1 days | 11/5/2009 | 2 | H1N1 | My almost-2 year old daughter woke up from a dead sleep SCREAMING IN PAIN! Also seems irritable & unable to have a good sleep when she wasn't crying. | She was diagnosed on Halloween (Sat) w/ H1N1 & was prescribed Tamiflu. Sunday night she woke up screaming in pain & couldn't be comforted. This went on all night w/ only periods of 45 min or less between screaming fits. We were on our way to the ER when we realized a side effect was possible abdominal pain. so we waited & called the doctor. The nurse told us to add culturelle & see if that helped. It somewhat helped & only had 1 or 2 episodes lastnight. Then it happened again throughout the day & made the dr's office see her. They took her off the medicine. If they wouldn't have I was going to stop it. Thank God she is sleeping peacefully right not. I felt completely helpless watching my baby girl scream in pain. | F | 2 | 3 days | 11/3/2009 | 5 | H1N1 | NONE - Please read for counter-point. I thought it would be helpful to provide a full story. | My 5 year-old got H1N1 in school, it was going around and the symptoms were pretty clear. We generally resist medication and let illnesses run their usual course, and became even more resistant after reading the reviews on this site, which frankly scared me a LOT. We let things progress for the first 36 hours without medication. When she woke up the second day with 104 fever and clearly getting worse, we called a very close family friend, who is also the best doctor I know, and he encouraged us to start Tamiflu right away and also to give it to our 15-month-old as a preventative measure, even though he hadn't shown any symptoms yet. We hesitantly started Tamiflu and had NO problems whatsoever for either child. 24-hours after we started it, our daughter clearly started feeling MUCH better and has gotten better every since then. The baby hasn't shown any symptoms of the flu. I honestly cannot report ANY side effects whatsoever, other than *maybe* very mild irritability in the baby. But they have both slept great, much better than when the flu was causing her to wake up every hour. I don't think Tamiflu saved her life or anything, she probably WOULD have recovered just fine on her own. But it also could have developed into bronchitis, pneumonia, or other complications. Perhaps Tamilflu had no effect on her fast recovery, but it certainly seemed to help a LOT with ZERO downside for us. | F | 5 | 3 days | 11/2/2009 | 2 | Flu | Waking with screaming..... | My 3 month old had a fever of 101.3 F, so I had my husband take him to the E.R. My 3 yr old and 5 year old both had "suspected" flu earlier this week. No tests were actually done to confirm it. But I was worried about my infant. The E.R. said he had the flu (no test done) and prescribed Tamiflu. I had read some websites about the possible side affects, but worried with him so young, that he might have complications from the flu. After his 1st dose, I put him back to bed and he woke up crying after sleeping a while. He never cries when he wakes up...just makes noises until I come and feed him, then smiles at me. But he would cry and not seem all awake. Now tonight, after his 3rd dose, he's waking up absolutely high-pitched screaming!!!! So scary! Luckily he is consoled easily, but it keeps happening. And I don't even know of he's in pain or anything. I am stopping the Tamiflu!!! Is this going to cause lasting damage? Is my happy boy going to go through this every night? Yes, his fever is gone, but to get rid of one evil to replace it with another is awful! I hope he gets back to normal with no lasting side affects. He also has a red dotted rash on his face, neck, and chest, and he keeps rubbing his hands on his face like he's trying to scratch it. Awful medicine!!! And did you know one of the ingredients is antifreeze? Awful! | M | 0 | 1 days | 11/2/2009 | 1 | Suspected H1N1 early symptoms | My child (aged 2/1/2) developed Irritable bowel and diarrhea within 12 hours. He's been off of it for 3 days and still has gastritis symptoms. No appetite and crying with stomache pain. He's lost 3 of his 23 pounds and developed an aversion to milk. | I worry about my children & flu but this is a terrible drug! I was not pre-warned of the GI symptoms at all by our pediatrician. It seems that peoples' anxiety is permitting lower standards of diligence about avoiding harm...even the "lesser of two evils" is still an evil. | M | 2 | 3 days | 11/2/2009 | 3 | High Risk Group w/some flu symptoms | Main thing I am concerned about is sudden onset of nosebleeds. | After reading the possible side effects, I was quite nervous about giving this drug to my 10 yr. old daughter. Her flu symptoms were minor. It was prescribed b/c she has a history of getting asthma when sick and the doctor heard some wheezing in her chest. She also had a fever. After 2nd pill, she had a nosebleed midday, then another nosebleed that evening. I skipped the dose the next morning and she was fine. Gave her a dose after dinner and she came into my room in the middle of the night with another nosebleed. She never gets nosebleeds, so this is VERY UNUSUAL! I came to this site to see if others are reporting nosebleeds, but haven't seen any posts citing nosebleeds. She has a cough now, but is otherwise fine. I am considering discontinuing Tamiflu. | F | 10 | 3 days | 10/31/2009 | 1 | Friend's son taking for the flu | Absolute horror. THIS DRUG SHOULD BE TAKEN OFF the MARKET! Nausea, aggression, insomnia, restlessness. Probably more but because of the age his mum stopped the drug as soon as she realized what this drug was doing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DO NOT LET ANYONE SAY THIS DRUG IS SAFE! | NO one should be on this drug! If one says it helps they are probably saying this because the flu has probably run its course anyway and that is why they are better. It has NOTHING to do with tamiflu. | M | 4 | 2 days | 10/31/2009 | 1 | H1N1 | Anger, irritability, nightmares, aggression, emotional. | I have contacted the FDA about the dangerous side effects this medicine caused my daughter after only 2 doses. Please contact the FDA and report any side effects you or your child have experienced. | F | 12 | 1 days | 10/30/2009 | 5 | H1N1 | No side effects so far. | Starting taking it within hours of diagnoses and same day the symptoms started. By the next afternoon the fever was gone. Symptoms are now like a mild cold. Never had to deal with vomiting, diarrhea, or other severe flu symptoms other than cough and fever. | F | 7 | 2 days | 10/29/2009 | 1 | Suspected H1N1 | Anger, irritability, nightmares, aggression, emotional. | My 12 year old daughter was prescribed this medicine because she had all the symptoms of H1N1. After the first dose, she could not keep her eyes open and fell asleep within 30 minutes. I gave her the second dose the next day at 3:50pm. She complained of a tummy ache, nothing real bad. Then at about 1am in the morning I woke up to her standing up in the middle of the room screaming. I called her name and she turned to me and started hitting me in the face! The look on her face was horror, I could tell she was scared. She was screaming and crying. i finally got her calmed down and she said that she had a dream that I was trying to kill her. My daughter was petrified to go back to sleep. She kept begging me to keep her awake so that she would not have to go through that experience again. She kept looking at me like she was afraid of me. She said she was afraid that it was not a dream because it felt so real. She kept asking me if she was awake or was she dreaming. It was awful! I never want my daughter to experience something like this again. I felt so bad for her. She kept telling me she was sorry for hitting me and she kept kissing my face. I told her that it was not her fault, that it was the medicine. She finally fell back asleep 2 hours later.I am throwing the medicine out! I am also going to do whatever I can to get this drug off the market! If anyone would like to join me please email me. | F | 12 | 1 days | 10/29/2009 |