CEFTIN Reviews (CEFUROXIME AXETIL)Average Rating: 2.1 (135 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare CEFTIN with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR CEFTIN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | sinus infection | My doc prescribed Ceftin, 500 MG 2x/day for 10 days. I'm on day 3 and I am so nauseous, lightheaded, I have a fever that won't go away, I'm extremely tired, and my urine has a foul odor, which started 8 hours after the first dose. Today my jaw started hurting, off and on, on the left side. This medication is doing weird things to my body. I can't stop taking it because pneumonia and a 3 month bronchitis bug has been going around my work and I can't catch it. I have asthma and have had a lung collapse about 1.5 years ago, so my doc doesn't want to take a chance of me catching it or having my sinus infection get into my lungs. Wish me luck! | F | 38 | 10 days 500 MG | 2/9/2014 | 1 | Possible lung infection | After my second pill I feel very strange. My ears are funny, like I'm in a tunnel. Dizzy and off feeling. I feel worse than I did before I took them so I'm not taking anymore. | F | 37 | 2 days 500 | 2/4/2014 | 1 | sinus infection | severe nausea, anxiety, dry mouth, brain fog, drowsy | The entire time was extremely nauseated, felt anxiety due to constant feeling that I was going to throw up. Stopped after 8 days, could not tolerate for 10 days. Still feel nauseated after stopping yesterday. Please be careful of this drug as it can tear your stomach up. | F | 71 | 8 days 250 2X day | 2/2/2014 | 2 | Klebsiella Oxytoca | From day one the main symptom Hot flushes and extreme heat, minor side effects bad headache and nausea Doctor stopped me taking the medication because of the side effects he was suspecting an allergic reaction to the medication. I only took it for 5 days. | F | 45 | 10 days 500gr 2X day | 10/22/2013 | 2 | For a bacterial infection | Nasea, skin rash, pain around my armpits | F | 27 | 5 days 500mg | 10/21/2013 | 1 | Sinus Infection | I have been taking this medicine for 9th day and the side effects appeared on 5th day of medicine. I am having bad diarrhea, chills/hot flashes, weaknesses, anxiety and nausea. Dehydration was also an issue, drank lots of water, changes in my urine color and odor. I was surprised to see that there are many people experienced the same thing as I am right now. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone, this medicine is just too harsh!! | M | 22 | 10 days 250 MG | 9/27/2013 | 1 | Kidney Infection while pregnant | Mouth/lip ulcers (not cold sores), severely bleeding gums, loss of appetite, back pain, stomach aches, high fever, extreme fatigue, sore throat (that they thought was strep...it wasn't) | I would NOT recommend taking this drug unless absolutely necessary & to stop if you have any severe side effects. I was misdiagnosed w/ a kidney infection while 31 weeks pregnant. This drug exacerbated my illness & left me with 2 weeks of side effect complications. Please question the need for this drug if it is suggested for you (especially if you're pregnant!) | F | 32 | 10 days 500mg 2X day | 9/2/2013 | 1 | sinus infection | Within two hours, I experienced nausea, began vomiting and having diarrhea, and profusely sweating. This continued for several hours. It was miserable! I almost went to the ER for nausea and dehydration. I will never take this medication again! | F | 38 | 1 days 2X day | 8/2/2013 | 5 | Upper respiratory bacterial infecti | Diarrhea toward end of treatment, expected; eat yogurt with live cultures and ask your doctor for oral nystatin and, if you're female, use a vaginal yeast antagonist as a (harmless) antagonist to vaginal yeast overgrowth. | Went to Europe in October, contracted bacterial infection (most likely strep, I've had a lifelong tendency to this), started course of Augmentin I had with me but, although it kept the illness from proceeding, it did not give me total relief. Upon early return, I was given Ceftin. Didn't even have to finish the full ten day. Learn your medications and how they affect you. This past two days, I felt the same vague symptoms of a similar bacterial infection. Woke today with fever spiking, horribly painful sore throat, took 500 MG Ceftin 8AM and sat it out. After only one dose, I caught this bacterial infection in time so I will now continue until I see gastrointestinal reaction (which means the "bad" bacteria is gone and now it's killing the "good" bacteria.) You have a responsibility to know your body and to know how it reacts to medication. Any rash of any sort with any medication can be an emergency, go to the ER. | F | 66 | 10 days 500 MG 2X day | 6/30/2013 | 1 | Rash that had become infected | The first day I had no problems, but the last 72 hrs have been pure hell for me. In addition to lots of really severe gastric issues (incredible diarrhea, gas, bloating, and nausea), it has made me extremely restless and hyper, both physically as well as mentally. For anyone who has ever had too much caffeine, think of that and multiply it by 100. Not good. No matter what I do, I can't seem to concentrate or sit still, and found myself leaving work early today as things were so bad. I've also been having insomnia and pretty severe sleep disturbances the last couple nights. If I am lucky enough to fall asleep it's only for a short period of time (an hour or two at the most), and then I wake up not only all restless and wound up, but feeling as though I'm losing control as well as my mind. I nearly came close to calling 911 last night because I felt so out of sorts. Never had to deal with side effects as bad as these and am planning on discontinuing them ASAP as soon as I talk with my do | F | 47 | 4 days 500 2X day | 5/23/2013 | 2 | Sinus, infection | Diarrhea, nervousness, nausea, pounding heart, difficulty breathing, bad taste in mouth | F | 43 | 2 days 1,000 mg | 4/23/2013 | 1 | Sinus, ear & throat infection | This antibiotic is a tough one. I did ok the first week then got so sleepy & nauseated & joints ached. No heartburn with coated pills. I ate meals first, yogurt & acidophilus but still felt awful. No strength at all. Had potassium checked & it was very low from this medication. Bingo! That's tiredness & muscle aches. Beware this lowers potassium & Blood pressure ( 115/60 ). I stopped the medication 3 days ago & am pushing high potassium foods & straying to feel human again. Works great on sinuses but too hard to tolerate. Good luck! | F | 60 | 3 weeks 500 | 4/5/2013 | 1 | Sinus infection | Developed severe hives and urticaria that still has not resolved in two days with Benadryl. | M | 50 | 1 days 250 1X day | 1/1/2013 | 3 | Pilonidal Cyst w/E coli infection | I was prescribed Ceftin after taking Bactrim and Keflex for 2 weeks. When the doctor found out my infection was e coli and not mrsa, she prescribed Ceftin because Bactrim did absolutely nothing to it and the Keflex pretty much just suppressed it. I was prescribed 1 500 mg pill 2xday. The first 4 days were fine. I got a bit of nausea, but nothing I couldn't tolerate. After the first pill on day 5, I started to notice scaly little rashes all-over my arm. I ignored them..until I started itching all-over. I called my pharmacist and was told to take Benadryl and to go to the ER if I started having difficulty breathing. The Benadryl helped and I put hydrocortisone cream on my arm. That was two days ago and I am still itching. My arm looks like someone grabbed me and tried to squeeze my arm until it fell off. I have little rashes covering about 80 percent of it. | F | 30 | 4 days 500 mg 2xd | 10/15/2012 | 4 | strep throat | if i am luckey, i fall asleep for 1 to 2 hours. then, and every night, i experience intense restlessness that keeps me from falling asleep. quite agonizing trying to fall asleep. thank god this is day 10. the anxiety feeling created is wearing on me. it did cure a bad case of strep throat in 2-days, however. | M | 49 | 10 days 500 mg 2X day | 3/14/2012 | 1 | chronic cystitis | My 90 yr old mother has had nausea for 3 months since taking this drug. She also felt so bad while on it that they had to stop it 1 day short. Tons of test done with negative results still and no idea what is going on. This all started with intreveneous antibiotic for chronic cystitus. This drug may cause her demise-ideas?! | F | 90 | 14 days 2 grams 1X day | 12/30/2011 | 3 | UTI | Severe lower back pain and body aches. Took one course 10 days was off for about a week and dr put me back on cause still had bacteria back pain came back the first night | F | 34 | 20 days 500mg 2X day | 12/20/2011 | 1 | Upper Respiratory Infection | Diarrhea. No other immediate side effects, but I developed a C. Diff infection which was the worst experience of my life (30+ daily BMs, incontinence, bloody stool and a 3 day hospitalization for dehydration). | It seems to me that this medicine is extremely harsh and should not be prescribed lightly. | F | 25 | 7 days 500 2X day | 10/11/2011 | 2 | sinus infection | No side effects, but the stuff did not work at all for me. | If you want to get your sinus infection healed...talk to your ENT about ordering medication from Sinus Dynamics...they provide you with a nebulizer and a sinus medication that turns into a mist via the nebulizer to be sniffed up into the sinuses. They have a 90% success rate...many people that have had sinus infections for as long as 20 years have had success with this type of treatment. I am only on my second day of treatment and already can feel the difference. I have had a chronic sinus infection since 2003 and have been on anti-biotics just about non stop since 2003. I have had six surgeries in an effort to be rid of this sinus infection. It appears that I may have finally found something that is going to work for me. A topical treatment rather than oral antibiotics. | M | 57 | 14 days 500 2X day | 10/4/2011 | 4 | chronic sinusitis | they'd work well when I took them, but everytime I got to the end of my 3wk dose I would get sick and have a flare up, always! I'm just trying to get my sinuses to clear up, so my ENT won't perscribe them anymore so I'm back to other drugs with other side effects. ho hum. | I have really bad chronic sinusitis, and have recently had my 2nd surgery. and have been on different antibiotics continuously for over a year now. And after all of the antibiotics, it wasn't until I was using this one that I FINALLY felt like myself again! However they'd work well when I took them, but everytime I got to the end of my 3wk dose I would get sick and have a flare up, always! I'm just trying to get my sinuses to clear up, so my ENT won't perscribe them anymore so I'm back to other drugs with other side effects. ho hum. | F | 27 | 3 weeks 2X day | 3/25/2011 |