TAMIFLU Reviews (OSELTAMIVIR PHOSPHATE)Average Rating: 2.2 (1390 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare TAMIFLU with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR TAMIFLU | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 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 | 3 | H1N1 | STARTED FEELING QUEEZY ON THIRD DAY, VERY LIGHTHEADED, STOMACH UPSET KICKED IN, DIZZY, CONFUSED, MOOD SWINGS | WOULD NOT TAKE AGAIN!!!! | F | 46 | 2 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 | 1 | suspected h1n1 | Major irritability, personality changes, loose stools, possible abdominal cramping | both of my children (7 and 2 year-olds) ran 104 fevers on a Saturday evening. Upon calling the pediatrician, they ordered tamiflu for both (suspecting the flu) Both children had had the h1n1 vaccination 1 week prior. My son had congestion and lethargy and high fever. My daughter, 2 years old, only had high fever. She had no other symptoms - great appetite, no other issues at all.( I think the vaccination lessened flu symptoms) I didn't even want to give her the tamiflu (should have listened to my inner voice!) but kept thinking, what if she gets worse, etc. I stopped giving her the med after 5 doses because she just didn't have any major flu symptoms and it seemed crazy. I also stopped giving it to my son. He didn't seem to have an issues with the drug. However, my daughter, even after being off for over 24 hours, is such a different child, screaming at everything, upset over everything, loose stools, poor appetite, and my guess is, severe abdominal pain. I was so distraught and worried today becuase I had never seen her act like this, even during real major sickness or teething or severe double ear infections. Her reaction to this pain or mental discomfort has been almost unbearable for all. My husband and I are disgusted with the drug at this point. I regret giving it to her at all. Once you see how miserable a child can be while on it, you would know. I just hope it leaves her system soon so we can have our daughter back. | F | 35 | 2.5 days | 11/5/2009 | 1 | H1N! | After taking Tamiflu I feel extreme confusion/spaced out, disoriented,and dizzniness. You can't really function fully on this medication. | The dr. prescribed me Tamiflu after having a my regular doctors appointment. I had a temperature of 103, nights sweats, chills, sore throat, and chest pain when I coughed, and the doctor diagnosed me H1N1. My fever went away the next day after Tamiflu, but then I became disoriented. I don't want to take the last day of treatment because it makes me so spaced out. | M | 29 | 4 days | 11/5/2009 | 1 | i had flu since 4 days | after taking the first pill, after 2 hours or so, i felt so dizzy and then started vomiting. There was blood in it too. i was feeling worse than before. I didn't take naother pill after that. | I wont take it unless u had no other choice! | F | 54 | 1 days | 11/5/2009 | 1 | High/Fever, Flu | The side effects heavily outweighed the benefits. After starting my prescription of Tamiflu I had back and forth bouts of diarrhea and vomiting. I honestly felt like I was going crazy. I couldn't sleep, and would wake up from extremely bizarre, violent dreams. These were all things I experienced AFTER my fever had broken and would immediately get worse after each dose. All of my symptoms (other than my temperature) got worse after taking it rather than better. | I contacted my pharmacist explaining everything and she said I really need to finish the course much like antibiotics, or the flu may come back stronger. Now I have to deal with these side effects for a another two days, while I feel otherwise I would already be back on my feet. I really don't think Tamiflu helped fight the flu any faster than rest, hydration and over the counter drugs. I will never take this drug again. | M | 23 | 3 days | 11/5/2009 | 1 | swine flu | was dizzy,slow,tired,broke sweats,not hungry and had a huge HEAD ACHE! | DONT TAKE IT! Today would be my 3rd day taking it but I cant take the pain anymore, im suppose to be back to work tomorow and it will be inposible to work being on the tamiflu pill My fore head feels like its going to burst! Yes it fixed my fever but created 10 diffrent problems I did not have. NOT WORTH IT! | F | 20 | 3 days | 11/4/2009 | 1 | suspected flu | psychosis, angry, irritabilty, loss of memory, can't perform motor skills | My mother took 3 doses of this and has been in the hospital since. They are saying she is in a psychosis state. She is violent, does not know anyone in our family, mean, can't process what to do when people tell her, is in a trance like state sometimes, and too many more problems to list. This drug needs to be taken off the market. It was given to her without even being tested for the flu. | F | 59 | 2 days | 11/4/2009 | 1 | H1N1 or Normal Flu IDK | Raging Diarrhea, Sweating Heavily, feeling out of it, fever came back. | No word of a Lie, I could of put out a house fire with the amount of liquid I've expelled from my anus in the last 8 hours. Now, thanks to tamiflu, I'm dealing with probable low grade dehydration even though I've drank a small Kenyan river dry. Never again. | M | 31 | 1 days | 11/4/2009 | 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 | 1 | Flu | i thought i was going to die | DO NOT take TAMIFLU! i took it for 3 days and i stopped myself, i could not take it any more.. just thinking about how i felt while on it makes me cry.. im still confussed. The FDA needs to take this off the market.. its DANGEROUS! DO NOT TAKE CHILDREN OR ADULTS! | F | 28 | 3 days | 11/3/2009 | 1 | H1N1 | I had one of the less common, yet all too serious side effect - a seizure. Less than 1% of people experience this, so I guess I fall into that category. The seizure caused me to fall, get a concussion, and pass out. This happened the FIRST DAY I was on the medication! | DO NOT TAKE THIS! | M | 51 | 1 days | 11/3/2009 | 5 | h1n1 | Slight queasy or spacy feeling, not sure if is from the flu or the tamiflu | I give this a 4.5 rating. I went to the doctor halloween night after 24 hrs of vomiting, nausea, chills, terrible aches in my joints. I was severely ill, had a fever of 102, hadn't really slept for almost two days due to flu symptoms. I was the sickest I have ever been and pretty miserable. I had a positive flu test and was given tamiflu. I took the pills right away. I was finally comfortable enough to sleep that night and the next morning my fever was down to 99. Today is my 3rd day on the drug and I am almost fully recovered. The flu didn't go to my chest which is the main danger of this flu, which I contribute to the tamiflu. I have had some slight quesiness, but I am not sure if it is the tamiflu or the h1n1. One of the characteristics of the h1n1 flu is nausea and vomiting, which is how my illness started, so I wonder if some people mistake this as being cause by tamiflu when it is really the flu. For me personally, the nausea has gone way down since I started taking tamiflu, enough to allow me to drink plenty fluids and eat small meals, which I could not do before I got tamiflu. I have not experienced any nightmares or hallucinations. Just maybe a slight quesyness or spacyness, but considering I am recovering from the flu and 3 days of having a fever I think thats pretty good. I general I feel the tamiflu shorten the duration of the flu and took the edge of the symptoms right after I started taking it. | F | 27 | 3 days | 11/2/2009 | 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 | 4 | Preventative for HIGH RISK | Adult by Injection: I had a very sore arm from the injection site. The muscle ached a great deal more than it usually does from flu shots (i get them every year). It abated the third day. CHILD (2-3 years)1st dose by injection: My son ran a fever for two days off and on. On the third day was very dazed and lethargic, especially when trying to wake up. It was a little alarming. | While we both had side effects, they were fairly common. Considering we were both high risk, I have more peace of mind knowing we'd had it. | F | 35 | 3 days | 11/2/2009 | 4 | H1N1 | The only thing I noticed was I was very alert after taking. Was up until 2am most nights. Other than that no nasty side effects at all. I am surprised because I seem to get side effects from EVERY drug I've ever taken. | I took Tamiflu only because we have a young infant at home who was very ill when born and is still immunosuppressed (sp?) I was told that it would be in our best interest to take the Tamiflu when I tested + for Influenza A. They also prescribed it to my 4 1/2 month old as a preventative treatment. I chose not to give it to her considering it is not even approved for under one year old. She is still healthy, knock on wood. My older daughter is nine and was sent home from school today with a 101 fever... Once again we were prescribed tamiflu to try to shorten the duration and have less chance of passing in on to our little one. Im nervous to give it to her but have talked about what she might feel and that she needs to tell me ASAP if she gets any funny effects... I hope I'm doing the right thing here.... | F | 28 | 5 days | 11/2/2009 | 2 | hot feeling in my throat/face weird mindset, not feeling like myself, very anxious; I have a VERY STRANGE taste in my mouth and also my eye sockets hurt when I move my eyes.. | Started this on Thurs after being diagnosed with H1N1. It made me feel much better than the flu did for the first couple days, but now that the flu symptoms are gone, I still have to take it for 1 more day. I can't concentrate or help my 7 yr old with her homework. I feel like I have to get out of my house and I feel hot. My face and throat and saliva feel hot. I am thinking about not taking my last 2 doses... Any thoughts people? I just don't want to waste my $120 I spent on the damn stuff!! | F | 27 | 5 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 |