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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR BIAXIN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 2 | Tonsillitis | I am on Biaxin XL, 1000 mg/day. I didn't notice any side effects at first, but after a few days, I had the following: nasty, bile-like taste in the mouth; extremely restless sleep; GI upset (cramps & loose stools, despite eating yogurt); near-paranoia at times. Also felt sort of out-of-it at times, but that may have been from the lack of sleep more than anything else. | It worked fast to clear up my infection, but the side effects are really unpleasant and completely unexpected (I wasn't warned about ANYTHING except the possible GI upset). I would have preferred to take something else, even if it might have taken longer to resolve my illness--I think I'm going to have my doctor add this on my "allergies" list. | F | 35 | 10 days | 7/11/2007 | 1 | Sinus Infection | Rancid taste & smell. Complete & total insomnia. Major hallusinations (ie, pigs flying in living room). Did not cure the infection. | I was on Biaxin for about 5 days (out of 7) and just couldn't take it anymore. I never experienced such a rancid taste and smell in my life. Total insomnia. I did not sleep even one wink for all 5 days plus 2 more nights because it was still in my system. On the 5th day I experienced horrible hallusinations of pigs & a piano flying into the living room. All the curtains flew around. My husband had to convince me the house wasn't haunted. I tell everyone including the dentist that I cannot take Biaxin. | F | 36 | 5 days | 7/11/2007 | 3 | Helicobacter pylori | revolting taste in mouth, esp. on belching/hiccuping, abdominal pain, nausea, flushed and feverish, constant slight headache, extreme lower back pain esp. at night, sleep disturbance/tiredness, frequent urination, hives/acne, distressing nightmares, overwhelming feeling of disinterest/apathy in usual activities= depressed, heart palpitations | Have had the drug under another name for pneumonia 4 years ago, but noted none of these side effects apart from extreme tiredness. It's hard to know if it's doing me good as I have 9 days to go, and another 2 weeks before testing- the GI disturbances are almost as bad as the H. pylori and undiagnosed coeliac. Am so glad to be on holidays as I doubt I'd function at work in this state. | F | 37 | 3 days | 7/9/2007 | 1 | sinus infection & bronchitis | Abdonimal pain, gas, bloating, depression (really severe), dizziness, "spaced out," disconnected feeling, fatigue, unable to concentrate. This drug has really messed up my week--I can't get anything done, just walk around in a daze. And my sinuses & cough aren't all that much better. | This is a horrible drug! Don't take it! I'm sick of these new "wonder" drugs (like Levaquin, even worse than Bioxin) that just make you worse than your illness, and I'm sick of doctors who prescribe them and then don't believe you when you have unbearable side effects. It should be taken off the market. | F | 54 | 4 days | 7/8/2007 | 1 | pneumonia | As mentioned two posts ago: Bad taste in mouth, weird dreams, near hallucinations, cold sweats at night, waking up 4-5 times each night soaking wet with sweat, diarrhea, general malaise, some depression, nothing suicidal but just very down. | Maybe it's hard to separate out the sickness from the possible side effects, but after 4-5 days on Biaxin the only time I would feel decent was when I was 10-12 hours post dose. Has Abbott possibly changed formulation or manufacturing process on Biaxin in recent years? This stuff has been around since 1991 and should be proven and stable, but the quantity and nature of comments here are scary. The drug sheet talks of the typical few percent having side effects, this site suggests a possibly much higher incidence. I know this "ain't statistics" but look at say Doxycycline and the number of patient comments vs the comments on Biaxin, relative to the official reported incidence of side effects. I've been off Biaxin for two weeks now and this may be coincidence. But for about a week I have had a weird numbness, feels odd to the touch, on the skin of my left arm above the wrist. At times it feels exactly as if water drops are rolling down my arm in that area. Very weird. I'm not | M | 52 | 10 days | 7/5/2007 | 3 | Chest pain and tightness | I have a horrible taste in mouth, nearly to the point of vomiting. I'm always hungry and thirsty, my eyes burnt so bad I couldn't see to work, I couldn't hear well out of one or both ears for hours at a time, constantly bloated and have gas. I feel uneasy and I can't get sleep, but I feel wide awake.I urinate every hour, and what scares me the most is the pressure I feel on my heart and chest. Never taking this drug again I have three more days and I'm done. | I feel like I'm on some kind of illegal drug and people think I'm not listening to them because I am so zoned out. | F | 18 | 7 days | 7/2/2007 | 1 | bronchitis and sinusitis | I have taken this twice now. The first time I finished all of the medication but the last couple of days of it I felt slightly off. But not enough to stop. This time has been very different. I was on a 7 day course I stopped with 1 1/2 days left to take. Everything started after the third day. All symptoms have gotten progressively more severe with each dose. Symptoms have been a lot like other peoples. Sever lack of appetite, I have lost 10 pounds in a week (not a diet I would recommend), decrease saliva, metallic taste, chest tightness, shortness of breath, night sweats, abdominal pains (I have IBS so I can not be sure which one is causing that), upper back pain and lower back pain, strange itching/burning sensations on skin, sleeplessness, increase in depression and anxiety. I think this is one very nasty drug. | I have stopped taking it. Plus it did not seem to help some of the things I was taking it for in the first place. | M | 38 | 5 days | 6/19/2007 | 1 | diagnosed with Pneumonia | Bad mouth taste (not terrible), mouth feels "yucky" now, gum bleeding, weird dreams bordering on hallucinations, after 9 days of the stuff I feel best when I'm the most hours since taking a pill, just don't feel right while on this stuff. Some diarrhea. | It worries me that I've been taking this toxic stuff for 9 days now. Pneumonia needed treatment, the ER doc chose this, hard to change once you start. If you look up many drugs here (Askapatient) you'll often see patient (user) posts that number 0-10, a few up to 200. The Biaxins have about 500 posts from people like us who are worried about side effects. I could not find any other drug with close to 500 posts!! The dreams, how about this one: I wake up a couple mornings ago, I'm clearly seeing my room. Except there are three wild boars with large tusks all bearing down on me, ready to attack. I blinked a few times and the boars went away (just as I had hoped). Also just a couple dreams where I saw patterns painting onto the ceiling, also seemed to vanish with a waking blink. I'm someone who seldom dreams, uses no drugs, gotta admit the boars were kinda cool. If this stuff has actually worked on my pneumonia I can live with these side effects. But was there a better or equally good c | M | 52 | 9 days | 6/18/2007 | 1 | sinus infection | nausea , rash , profuse sweating , weakness in limbs , severe lower back ache , diarrhea , fatigue , stomach cramps , confusion , dizzy , loss of appetite , metallic taste | I am Diabetic so to have side effects like loss of appetite is actually quite dangerous . On my 4th day of treatment now , 1000mg per day , 3 days left and feeling worse than when i first went to the doctor . I will report back after completing the course | M | 44 | 4 days | 6/7/2007 | 5 | Tooth Infection | None. | Use Bismuth when you have problems | M | 43 | 6 days | 6/6/2007 | 1 | Cellulitis from spider bite | First night, nausea, light headed, feeling very weak. Now have extreme body aches, skin very sore/sensitive - like having a sunburn over every inch of body, redness/flushing of face, neck and chest. I have puffed up and gained 5 lbs. in 5 days. | There is definitely something not right about this drug. I am not going to finish the treatment, I am almost to the point of not being able to function and the muscle weakness is scary. | F | 40 | 5 days | 6/6/2007 | 1 | False positive pertussis test | This medication ruined the first month of my summer when I got home from freshman year of college. I came home feeling not like myself, sinus headaches at night, swollen glands. For some reason my doctor tested for pertussis aka whooping cough and when it came back positive freaked out and placed me on this satan drug! (to this day the experience still haunts me a year later) AFter research we found out the type of test used was not accurate for whooping cough so I went on Biaxin and after two pills broke out in a full body rash that despite steroid injections in my butt and ungodly amounts of predinose lasted three weeks and messed up my skin even longer, it was thin from all the steroids. It took into the fall for my face and body swelling from the predinose to go back to normal. In pictures my face made me look like I weighed approx. 190 lbs instead of 145. It was horrible they did not know what was wrong and I felt like a chronically ill patient. I am in healthcare and it was | DO NOT TAKE THIS! metallic taste awful too.... that really made me feel chronic because my mom always spoke of the metallic taste when she was going through chemo | F | 19 | 1 days | 6/5/2007 | 3 | Ear Infection | Took pill one (500mg) last night at midnight. Woke up with bitter taste in mouth. On 2 tabs dose a day. Now 10.37am. Feeling very light headed and very out of it. Eating bio yoghurt as per pharmacists recommendations. Will update as I go along. | M | 33 | 1 days | 5/30/2007 | 3 | Pneumonia | I have been on Biaxin for 10 days (to treat Pneumonia) during the 10 days I had that nasty mouth taste, loose stool, slight headache, day/night sweats, cramps, fatigue, stomach pains and lack of appetite. but now after 10 days of stoping Biaxin XL I still feel some symptoms: mild stomach pains, fatigue, mild cramps and lack of appetite. If anyone had the same please let me know | M | 33 | 10 days | 5/28/2007 | 1 | sinusitis | just want to amend my entry below and add that I had only been on the drug for one day when I began to experience the negative side effects. Also, I did experience some mild palpitations too. Altogether, a bad experience. | M | 38 | 10 days | 5/25/2007 | 1 | sinusitis | mild stomach cramps; nausea; lightheadedness; headache; pain in hip joints; extreme fatigue; blurry vision (scary while driving my kids around). Paradoxically, an increased appetite. The medicine made me feel like I had a moderate case of the flu, plus a floaty, lost-in-space feeling. I would avoid this drug in the future. | If your doctor recommends this drug, I would ask him or her for something else. | F | 38 | 10 days | 5/25/2007 | 1 | H Poli | I am on day 7 and have had very intense mood swings (depression-like), weak legs, can't sleep, dirreah, stomach cramps and heartburn. The doctor prescibed Prevpac for my H. Poli. I am scared to stop because I don't want my symptoms to return however after reading this blog i am so concerned. What should I do????? | I will never ever take this drug again. I will finish the rest of my medication | M | 25 | 7 days | 5/24/2007 | 1 | bronchitis | It felt like my mind was not sharp...like it was missing synapses. I would forget to breath. Irritable, taste like I was eating metal shavings, like I had an axe in my head, soar neck, stomache pain, ate alot, nervous, anxious, panic attacks, loose bowel movements, major headache like I had a migraine my eyes wouldnt open all the way due to the pain. | I was prescribed 500mg's twice a day by a asst nurse at Bristol Park Medical. On day 1 I took two, woke up irritable, but took the medicine in the AM with food. Then I started feeling weird. So I called the nurse and told them I refuse to take the medicine to prescribe Keflex. So they did. This medicine is very scary and after reading everyones input, should be removed from the market. I plan to print this and send it to the medical center. So they STOP prescribing it, seems the percentage of bad reactions are higher than the good reactions. This is not good considering there are many other anti-biotics. I wonder if any doctors or nurses read into medicines???? | F | 45 | 1.5 days | 5/24/2007 | 2 | Sinus Infection | Guess I spoke too soon. I thought the only problem was the bitter taste in your mouth from the biaxin, but now I'm having ridiculous palpitations! I'm actually quite concerned because my resting heart rate is far above what it would be if I were exercising! | Do not take this drug! If you are prescribed it and do begin to experience even the slightest problem, call your PCP/doc immediately and get switched to something else. | F | 27 | 7 days | 5/22/2007 | 3 | Sinus Infection | Thank goodness for this site, I thought I was going crazy. I've been on this med for 4 days and I experienced the bitter mouth thing on the second night. I had no idea what it was and even after brushing in the morning the taste is still there, it actually persists until late morning/early afternoon. I'm not too happy with the results so far because it doesn't seem to be clearing my issue up the way Bactrim or another antibiotic would. Fortunately, I haven't had any other wierd side effects besides the bitter mouth thing. | If you're prescribed this I'd recommend insisting on something else from your doc/PCP. The bitter tongue/mouth thing is by far one of the most disgusting things I've ever experienced. | F | 27 | 7 days | 5/21/2007 |