OMNICEF Reviews (CEFDINIR)Average Rating: 1.8 (201 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare OMNICEF with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR OMNICEF | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | bronchial - cold | very bad stomach cramps and diarrhea - very ill - because of medicine I got intestinal infection - DON'T TAKE THIS MEDICINE | F | 50 | 5 days 500 2X day | 4/5/2012 | 1 | Sinus & Ear Infection | Loss of Appetite, Nausea, GI distress, Insomnia, Acid Reflux, Loose Stools | After reading all of the bad reviews on Omnicef all I have to say is "ditto". I was prescribed this medication with Vicodin for a severe sinus/ear infection. By the second day of taking this medication, I was waking up at night with dizziness, nausea, vomitting, and stomach pain. I thought it was the combination b/w the two meds, so I stopped taking Vicodin. I started feeling a little better. However, it has been a week on this medication and I feel horrible. I can barely make it off the couch. I can't eat anything, and I keep spitting up whatever I manage to eat with my dosage. I, along with another reviewer, have felt like death this week. I kept making excuses as to what could be causing the GI distress. However, I had to work late last night and accidently forgot to take my dose last night. I woke up this morning feeling so much better...until I took Omnicef. I will never take this again...BEWARE!!! | F | 35 | 2X day | 1/30/2012 | 1 | doctor insisted I use it | vaginal itching | This stuff doesn't work. When I started to run out, I emailed the doctor's office and asked it either be renewed or for them to prescribe me something different. Preferably the latter. Instead they renewed the prescription for another 10 days, but it's still not working. I am exceedingly cynical about doctors. Why would you re-prescribe something your patient says is not helping? What's wrong with trying amoxycillin or something different? Do they get kickbacks for prescribing | F | 42 | 12 days 300 MG 2X day | 1/15/2012 | 4 | sinus infection | Well I had diarrhea before I started taking it and it cleared up once I started taking it, despite it supposedly causes it. Cramps but could be from my upcoming period, also a metallic taste in the capsules but nothing lingering. Pretty good for me atleast. | F | 18 | 10 days 2x d | 1/7/2012 | 1 | Ear infection | Nausea, severe diarrhea. My daughter who is 16 months just got off this medication as well and she is very sick on her stomach as well. Please stay away from this medicine!!! It will mess up your GI tract!!!! | F | 28 | 4 days | 12/31/2011 | 1 | Sinusitis | Superinfection: Black furry tongue, vaginal discharge, fungal skin infection, hives. The sinus infection did not clear up all the way. I started eating 4 cloves of garlic per day and this cleared up all of my issues. I would recommend garlic--just make sure you eat it with other food and chew the cloves in small bites. | In Europe, doctors are not using antibiotics for sinusitis, but nasal spray. Antibiotics do not clear up sinusitis because it's hard to reach sinuses (absorption rate is poor). EAT GARLIC INSTEAD!!!! | F | 36 | 11 days 30 mg 2X day | 4/7/2011 | 2 | Sinus infection | Severe diarrhea | I am currently being treated with flagyl for suspected antibiotic c-diff after taking a z-pack, augmentin, cipro, and omnicef within a month for a persistent sinus infection. I had no problems until I started the Omnicef - on day three I started having diarrhea and my doctor took me off of it. The next day, I had diarrhea 10 times in a 12-hour period and was started on flagyl. I had three days total of diarrhea. | F | 29 | 3 days 600 MG 1X day | 3/2/2011 | 5 | Strep | None, Worked great | Cleared up my strep issues in about 2days. would use agian | M | 32 | 10 days 2X day | 2/28/2011 | 1 | Sinus infection | Heart palpitations stomach pain vomiting headaches burning stomach possible ulcer | My son has not been the same since starting it. Horrible stomach issues for over five weeks now. Possible stomach ulcer and has not had a regular bowel movement for five weeks. Seeing many doctors and no one knows what to do. This all started within first week on it. Do not take ever. Severley constipated due to that strong of antibiotic took all good bacteria out of him. | M | 8 | 15 days 300 mg 1X day | 1/2/2011 | 1 | respiratory. infection | Horrible diarrhea starting on the third day. Couldn't reach doctor, called pharmacy and they told me to take imodium. I was slamming that down and now a week after last omnicef dose, finally less needed. Thrush mouth as well. | A strange thing was the shrinking of tissue on my hands (who knows where else). this concerns me as it indicates more issues. | F | 67 | 10 days 600 1X day | 12/31/2010 | 1 | sinus infection, ear infection, URI | The worse side effects was stomach issues. I doubled over from stomach cramps. Felt like I could throw up but never did, just kind of spit up in my mouth. Heart felt like it was racing. I have been on the medication for 4 full days and I have had no relief from the sinus infection yet. | I will never take this medication again. | F | 49 | 10 days 300 mg 2X day | 12/27/2010 | 5 | UTI | I had taken this drug twice before (for UTI) without problems, but this time I had the lot - gastric pain, frequent loose stools, skin rash and irritation and red skin eruptions. I began to fear an episode of Crohn's though I have been free of symptoms for 12 years. However, on completing the course of treatment, the diarrhea and stomach pain cleared up. and only the skin problems remain. | It works on UTI! | M | 75 | 5 days 100 Mg 3X day | 10/7/2010 | 1 | Sinus/Bronchitis | This drug made me violently ill: stomach, head, pretty much my whole body. I have MS & was on MS therapy, so that may have been a factor. | Nasty. | F | 39 | 2 days 1X day | 8/24/2010 | 4 | UTI | Indigestion and chronic gas, but it cleared the infection! | M | 74 | 5 days | 12/18/2009 | 1 | Sinus Infection | Blood in my stools after third day of treatment. Called Dr. and he said stop now. I am worried now that I will have this colitis issue for months to come. | Don't take it, it is not worth the long range effects. | F | 52 | 3 days | 11/27/2009 | 2 | sinus infection | The antibiotic side effects were worse than my infection. terrible diarrhea, nausea, chills, hot flashes, loss of appetite, fatigue and just feeling awful. I don't know whether this was because of the infection or the meds but I felt way worse while being on Omnicef. It may have kicked my infection, but it was a high price to pay! I have been off it for a week now and am feeling better and finally my digestive system is getting back on track. As soon as I stopped taking it, my appetite came back. | I will try to avoid taking this one again. I felt like death being on it. | F | 38 | 10 days | 4/2/2009 | 4 | Acute Otitis Media (Ear infection) | Heart Burn! Conspation, Haven't had a BM in 5 days! | The side effects were worth it! If only I were prescribed this earlier! I had to have myringotomy because of the severe infection, but it cleared it up! | M | 15 | 7 days | 1/7/2009 | 2 | sinus infection | severe nausea, cold chills, loss of appetite, foggy head, no results at day 7 | frustrating because i only have two days left of the prescription, however that could be the time when my sinus infection clears up? i feel like i'm in limbo till then... | M | 36 | 10 days | 12/19/2008 | 3 | Strep Throat | Taking the omnicef wasn't so bad, but it did give me C-diff, which I battled for 3 months. | If you normally take amoxicillin for sinus/bacterial infections, and it works ok, stick with it! It is much easier on the GI tract than Omnicef. If you must take Omnicef, take it with a healthy dose of probiotics! | F | 31 | 10 days | 11/10/2008 | 1 | sinus infection | Severe diarrhea and gave me C-diff for 8 months. Red stools, nausea, no appetite. | NEVER again will I take this stuff. It is HORRIBLE. | F | 24 | 3 days | 11/4/2008 |