ZITHROMAX Reviews (AZITHROMYCIN DIHYDRATE)Average Rating: 2.2 (1276 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare ZITHROMAX with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ZITHROMAX | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Anti-Biotic | Swollen hands and feet. Hospitalization | I took Zithromax about 3 years ago and it landed me in the hospital. My hands and feet were swollen to about 2 times their normal size. I will never take it again for that reason. However, I have heard it works very well with those who aren't allergic to it. | M | 24 | 1 days | 10/22/2007 | 5 | strep infection during childbirth | none | Saved my life (literally). | F | 38 | 2 weeks | 10/18/2007 | 5 | bronchitis | on 3rd day I had a massive headache and slight fever | I am very pleased with the results of taking this 5-day pack. By day 2 my cough had subsided and my voice was back. I did have a bad headache that sent me home from work, but I was not surprised as taking this medicine is the equivalent of taking 30 doses of conventional antibiotics. When bacteria is killed and it floats in your blood it can cause your body to have a fever. The headache was not pleasant, but the bronchitis was much worse. I was coughing a lot and that could also cause a headache. | F | 36 | 5 days | 10/16/2007 | 5 | Sinus Infection | None - and I am usually sensitive to medications. | F | 50 | | 10/16/2007 | 2 | Bronchitis | Within half an hour I had a MASSIVE panic attack! I am very sensitive to medication side effects. I thought I'd made that perfectly clear with the Dr. and pharmacist. I told them of my history of anxiety problems and concerns. They assured me that there was NO SIDE EFFECT! So, I took it. The panic attack was so horrible. I thought I was dying. It started out with me getting a little flushed, then racing heart, then racing thoughts, dizziness, confusion, terror... | Be very careful with this or any antibiotic. An interesting article was published in the Harvard Review of Psychiatry called Antibiotics: Neuropsychiatric Effects and Psychotropic Interactions, by Harvey Sternbach, MD. | M | 41 | 1 days | 10/14/2007 | 4 | sinus infection | little stomach sensitivity, little tired. | This is my 2nd time using this drug. The first time was awesome, the magic bullet. I am on day 2 and much slower recovery/results. I am eating yogart to help restore my digestive tract. | M | 39 | 5 days | 10/9/2007 | 2 | bronchitis | slight nausea, insomnia, irregular heartbeat,anxiety, itching, peeling skin | It cleared up my brochitis in 3 days, but after 4 pills of a 5-day course, the side effects were too bad, which surprised me because I had taken this anitibiotic before with minimal side effects. This time I could only sleep 2-3 hours a night with the help of Tylenol PM. The itching was so bad that it felt like bugs were crawling in my ears, eyebrows, scalp and genital area. Thank you to others who wrote in this column about this - I thought I was losing it. It's been almost a month since I've been off the medication, and I'm still itching and not sleeping well as a result. Hope this clears up by itself. | F | 49 | 4 days | 9/23/2007 | 3 | Sinusitis, bronchitis | Headache, diarrhea, nausea, Anxiety | I'm on my third dose of Zithromax for a terrible sinus infection. The medicine has cleared up the majority of my symptoms, but the side effects are a bit rough. I have generalized anxiety, and this medicine has made it much worse. The headache and nausea are not that bad. Today was the first time that I had watery diarrhea. I plan on finishing the treatment, but I do not think I will use this antibiotic again. | M | 32 | 3 days | 9/22/2007 | 1 | potential sinus or ear infection | Shingles. I had a cold and was taking cold medicine which includes an antihistamine, and had been working out the morning before I felt pain on the right side of my back. I thought I had some sort of scrape or sore, but there was no sign of anything on my skin. Later that same evening I had very sharp pain on the right side of my back and had great difficulty sleeping as the pain was intense and unrelenting, even breathing hurt it and bed sheets or clothing touching the area. I thought I'd probably pulled a muscle working out since I had just started a new workout routine. I went to the doctor the next day who prescribed muscle relaxants and prescription naprozen for pain and to apply heat compress to the site. He also prescribed z-pak (i.e. zithromax) for potential ear, throat or sinus injection as I had been coughing up sputum and had congestion. The next day I had some mild pink rash running along my right side. The following day the rash was red and forming small blisters and the p | Sure enough I was later diagnosed with shingles. I believe the cold medication might have been masking the onset of shingles, and that the zithromax, probably along with the cold, may have weakened my immune system bringing about an outbreak of shingles after only two does of zithromax. Given the comments I read on this site I felt compelled to write my experience related to shingles outbreak soon after taking zithromax. I have stopped taking zithromax and am following up with antiviral medication and narocotic pain med for the nerve pain, and topical applications of calomine lotion and cool compresses, not heat. I also was told to avoid contact with anybody who has not had chicken pox, including my soon to be new grandchild unitil the affected skin blistering and liquid rash has stopped and is dried up and flaking. Thanks to your information I have saved my grandchildren from an outbreak of chicken pox that would be detrimental to their health. I was also told not to travel for at lea | F | 54 | 2 days | 9/22/2007 | 5 | Sinusitis | Some ring/buzz in the ear at first, but I am stuffed up anyway an it's not like it lasted more than a couple seconds. | I take this for every sinusitis or sinus infection I get. I am on the 3 day dose right now, which I have taken before and will take again. It stays in your body for 10 days past the 3 day dose so there is no constant pill taking or overdose possibility. I like this verses amoxicillan because amox upsets my stomach horribly and zithromax doesn't really have any side effects for me. It depends on the person. Every persons body chemistry is different. I am also on birth control, so I don't have to worry about yeast infections as with zithromax like I would with other antibiotics. Zithromax works great and I will definitely use it again. Out of all the antibiotics, any doctor will tell you this is the least of the drugs to give you diarrhea problems while treating a sinus infection. | F | 26 | 3 days | 9/21/2007 | 1 | Chest cold | Random pains, jaw pain when able to eat, anxiety, palpatations,heavy feeling in arms and legs, chest pains, stomach bloating, tingeling in arms, lighthead, disorientation, restlessness, overwhelming fatigue, inability to sleep,blurred vision and too many more to remember due to confusion. | It was supposed to be a 5 day treatment, but I only took it for 4 days. At first I noticed palpitations that lasted for several minutes, then progressively got worse. Stomach bloating to the point that I had to sit in positions to alleviate the pains. Terrible pain in my jaw when I ate hard food, to the point that I thought I dislocated my jaw. Anxiety was overwhelming. Feeling of unwellness. Blurry vision. Disorientation, burning feeling to skin, but no signs of rash. Shivers and cold hands. Back pain, feeling of swelling in my neck and arms. This started when I began to take the meds and has continued now for 3 days since ending treatment. The weird dreams are exciting at least. Although I haven't gotten a full nights sleep in a week. Irritability and a sense of doom. As for the ones who believe that this is a consiracy theory concocted for what ever reasons, I just want you to know that perhaps you've lost your ability to reason or read then understand COMMON side effects. This is n | M | 44 | 4 days | 9/20/2007 | 5 | sinus infection | No side effects. | I'm surprised to see all the negative comments. I've taken Zith several times, for bacterial respiratory infections (sinusitus, bronchitis) and have never had a problem. My doctor said it is slow-acting, so I didn't really feel it kick in strongly until today (day 3). But today I feel *much* better. I noticed a slight improvement the day after starting the 1st dose, and I was starting to worry if I was taking the right abx, but I think this is going to do the trick. | F | 43 | 5 days | 9/18/2007 | 1 | Throat infection | HORRIBLE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE!!! About an hour after the first set of two pills came terrible diarrhea. The next day was ok, just slightly loose stool, so I thought everything would be fine. The third day, i took the pill and about two hours later I was doubled up with the worst stomach pain of my life, extremely nauseous and thought I was going to die. I was gasping for breath and kept swooning, couldn't get up off of the bathroom floor. It lasted about an hour and then the symptoms suddenly faded. That was last night and now only slight stomache pains remain. I will NOT take the last two doses, that stuff is death in a capsule. | F | 18 | 3 days | 9/13/2007 | 3 | Throat infection | Side effects bearable. Slight nausea and loose stool. Some heart palpitations a few times the first 24 hours. Decreased appetite. | I took a 3 day prescription of the generic, azithromycin at 500mg a day. It was finished 2 days ago, and my throat is still itchy. I am wondering if the medicine worked. It did help, the symptoms have improved compared to what they were when I went to the doctor. I hope this clears up soon. As for the medicine itself, I have no complaints. It upset my stomach like most antibiotics do. I am surprised I didnt have panic attacks like others have mentioned here, even though I am very prone to having them and I usually have them when I try a new medicine (medicine in general scares me, haha!) but I havent experienced anything more than mild palpitations with this medicine. One thing that I did appreciate about this medicine is that it did not require me to avoid being in the sun, so I was still able to enjoy my outdoor plans on the weekend while taking it (as much as a person can enjoy being outdoors while sick, haha!). I am thankful I didnt have to cancel my weekend for the sake of my fam | F | 33 | 3 days | 9/10/2007 | 2 | sinus infection | My stomach became a bit upset, but the worst side effect was the tingling all over my body. I felt like bugs were crawling from my head to my feet. This went away about 3 days after I stopped the medication. | My sinus infection got better after 3 days of the 5 day course of medicine, so my dr took me off of it. It worked well, but the side effects were too nasty for me to ever take it again. After being completely freaked out, I looked online and found that many others had the same side effects. I really think this should be better communicated to doctors and pharamcists, since neither knew about this in my case. | F | 31 | 3 days | 9/6/2007 | 3 | 8 mos. old with Bronchitis | After giving my son ZITHROMAX for 4 days out of 5, I noticed a bad rash on my son's face and then began to notice tiny bumps all over his body. I contacted the doctor and she suggested not to give him his last dose. But now that I look back on it, he did seem more irritable, cranky, not wanting to sleep, sometimes out of it, and at times he even seemed to belly ache. I hope that there was nothing else going on that we do not know about. I really don't like giving medicine to my son because he can't tell us how he feels. I think I am going to try harder to follow the naturopathic and homeopathic route. | M | 4 days | 9/4/2007 | 1 | adult strep throat | Although my throat cleared up quite fast, I have been so sick otherwise. I have two more pills to take and I cannot sleep, wake up in hot sweats and have diarhhea every couple hours. I am miserable. I will finish the two days and I will never take this pill again. | F | 26 | 5 days | 8/23/2007 | 5 | Throat and Lung infection | First day I had nausia that was pretty strong, about 6 hours after taking my first two pills..but I think part of it was because of the vitamins I was also taking. So STOP any usual vitamins, fish oils, B vitamins etc. The reaction should be less. My second day was small amount of intestial distribance, but totally dealable. | WOW!!!! What 5 days of pencillin could not help, this stuff stopped dead in it's tracks. Day two, my cough is now productive, my throat is only mildly annoyed, no more horrible fighing just to swallow water and I can stop taking the strong pain meds that I had to take the previous 5 days. I am already starting to feel better. Still tired, but wow is this better than the last 5 days of my life. It is worth dealing with the nausa in the beginning. Just keep taking it. I have 3 more days left. Will continue the treatment and continue to rest. 10 stars! | M | 46 | 2 days | 8/22/2007 | 4 | GENERIC | Stomach cramps and diarreha 30-40 minutes post dose (common). EXTREME extremity itching once antibiotic course was finished (ears, fingers, ankles, face and genitals). | Some research on generics in general leads me to believe that some of the fillers used inthe generic vs. the branded medications have this very common itching side effect. I have taken the Z-pak 4 or 5 times (branded) and never had this side effect. It is brutual itching | M | 35 | 5 days | 8/22/2007 | 2 | Pneumonia | Anxiety, insomnia, racing heart, etc. | I was taking Tussionex cough syrup which contains Vicodin last week for about 3 days when I started having hallucinations, high anxiety, and panic attacks. My doctor stopped it immediately but had me continue with Biaxin. It seemed to work as my fever stopped, which is great. However, I have continued to struggle with anxiety mostly when I try to lay down (I start to doze off when anxiety hits out of nowhere about nothing and I get tense and start sweating) but also sometimes while awake. I have never had problems with anxiety until now. My doctor started me on Z-pack yesterday and I am still having the same problems. I can't tell if I am still reacting to the Vicodin, Biaxin, or Zithromax.....or if I am nuts. I haven't slept now for 27+ hours. | M | 28 | 1 days | 8/22/2007 |