CLINDAMYCIN HCL Reviews (CLINDAMYCIN HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 1.9 (321 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare CLINDAMYCIN HCL with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR CLINDAMYCIN HCL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | Dental Abscess | I was terrified to take this after I saw all the horrible reviews. But I had no choice. I'd already been on amoxicillin for 7 days for a dental abscess and had to try clindamycin. Let me say I have EXTREME anxiety and HATE taking anything. So I was nervous. Anyway I had read some people said drink LOTS of water with it and take a probiotic, so I did. I drank 30oz with every dose (3 times a day) and took a probiotic halfway between doses 2 and 3. I also sipped water throughout the day (no juice, coffee, soda etc. I had almost ZERO side effects. I did notice for about an hour after each dose, I felt a little dizzy/out of it. Nothing major (could have just been my anxiety too). I also did use the bathroom more often, but honestly with my level of anxiety I was not surprised. That was it. And it cleared up my infection totally! I will continue the probiotics and lots of water at least for a month to be sure. But this stuff works. Don't let the reviews scare you. I think lots of | F | 7 days 300 3X day | 9/6/2020 | 1 | Sinus infection | I fell drunk and dizzy an drained | Do not like or can not funtion | F | 66 | 5 days 150×4a d 4X day | 9/3/2020 | 2 | boil | Extreme panic attacks/anxiety. Lightheadedness. Palpitations. Pressure in chest. Mild cramping, mostly below sternum | As someone with bipolar/panic disorder, I am prone to having the worst panic from numerous antibiotics. This one caused me to nearly go inpatient after a very small dosage. If you also have a sensitivity to certain antibiotics, I would advise asking for a different med | F | 42 | 5 days 150 4X day | 8/9/2020 | 1 | Teeth clean after ankle fusion | Taste awful lots of belly gas slight diarrhea and poop is like a long rope of tootsie roll and been off them for 4 days and still am not regular | Wish I wouldn't have used it | F | 66 | 4 days 3X day | 8/1/2020 | 1 | Dental abcess | Headaches, heavy chest, numbness right side of face, cold tingly arms, nightmares, heartburn, panic attacks, stomach cramps all after finishing rx | Worst meds ever took it last year no problems, Im 6 days off and still have all side effects. | F | 39 | 7 days 300mg 4X day | 7/13/2020 | 1 | gum infections from rotted teeth | *See previous comment on June 19.* As prescribed this twice, many months apart, as teeth were pulled. About a week each time. Ended up with Clostridium difficile, a common result of clindamycin, necessitating 6 trips to ER due to dehydration from diarrhea and vomiting, including 3 hospitalizations of several days each. Fainted once in ER: Blood Pressure was 70/40! | Update Re: preceding entry 6/19/2020: Found out from pharmacist it was the dentist who prescribed clindamycin - pharmacist gave me a copy of the Rx from her. So my dentist in whom I'd fully trusted has told me a story, to put it kindly. Anyway, pharmacist should have changed the Rx knowing full well I had borderline severe kidney disease. Everyone's irresponsible at best. A cautionary tale, perhaps. Pharm. said all broad spectrum antibiotics can cause C. diff., but I looked that up on the web and found out that's a half-truth: clindamycin is up to 4 times more likely to cause C. diff. than any other broad-spectrum antibiotic! https://www.pharmacytimes.com/contributor/sean-kane-pharmd/2017/03/which-antibiotics-are-most-associated-with-causing-clostridium-difficile-diarrhea. From now on I will research any new med prescribed me BEFORE I fill the prescription. | M | 73 | 7 days 300 mg 3X day | 7/6/2020 | 1 | gum infections from rotted teeth | Was prescribed this twice, many months apart, as teeth were pulled. About a week each time. Ended up with Clostridium difficile, a common result of clindamycin, necessitating 6 trips to ER due to dehydration from diarrhea and vomiting, including 3 hospitalizations of several days each. Fainted once in ER: Blood Pressure was 70/40! | Given this med by pharmacist because dentist prescribed a penicillin derivative and my pharm records said I was allergic to it, at age 5. Found out later at hospital this was no longer the case. Plus I already had kidney disease and the pharmacist knew this and clindamycin has been known to cause kidney failure as well as life-threatening inflammation of the colon (Mayo Clinic website). So total incompetence. Anyway, my advice: NEVER take this drug. If you go to drugs.com it says: "...unfortunately the most severe common adverse effect of clindamycin is Clostridium difficile. If you have a mild C. difficile infection, the only treatment you may need is to stop taking the Clindamycin which has caused disruption of your bowel's usual bacteria." [It basically kills everything in your gut, i.e., including all the beneficial bacteria necessary for digestion.] After my last hospitalization I was sent to a specialist who does fecal transplants, as the docs had given up on antibiotics. Should have done this in 1st place: why give multiple courses of different antibiotics to get rid of a disease caused by antibiotics???!!! Ended up being totally exhausted, zombied out, for well over a year from my months-long ordeal with C. difficile. Transplant doc has campaigned for years against use of clindamycin; said there was no doubt it was the cause of my C. diff. Changing my gut flora via fecal transplant did get rid of C.diff. | M | 73 | 7 days 300 mg 3X day | 6/19/2020 | 1 | Staph Infection | Extreme nausea, neck and back pain, exhaustion (could barely walk down the hall), headache behind eye, neck muscle contraction/spasm, stomach pain, and joint pain. | Took 450mg 3x per day. This medication is horrendous and terrified me how quickly my body went from healthy to all those side effects but the staph infection needed to be healed so I endured. Side effects still persisting 3 days later and have gotten worse | F | 50 | 5 days 450 mg | 6/12/2020 | 2 | Spider bite | Head fog no energy stiff neck now done with it still have head fog and stomach cramping problems | Wish i would have seen this site befor i took it thaught it was the infection making me feel off ,fuckin worthless doctors bunch of idiots why would the perscribe this when i clearly could have taken penicillin or somthing with less side affects | M | 39 | 10 days 300mg | 5/17/2020 | 1 | lip piercing infection | only had 6 pills so far. prescription was 3 times a day for 7 days . since the first day, extremely irritated throat. now ulcers in my mouth. on my tongue. feels like i'm trying to chew and swallow thumb tacks every time i talk or swallow saliva or even water. don't take this. now that i'm reading the reviews i wish i had never started it honestly. my throat has been killer for days. hard to eat, drink or even talk and make facial expressions. painfulllll | 18 | 7 days 150 | 5/15/2020 | 5 | Impacted wisdom tooth infection | Diarrhea, burning stomach. Take this pill with lots of food and while you're resting! | I had a horrible, horrible infection in my tooth. Originally was given amoxicillin but it did nothing, had to go to the emergency room. They gave me 1 pill and a script, 15 minutes after taking it my jaw felt better! But my stomach was in pain, it was pretty bad. What a great antibiotic, very strong but it works real quick. | M | 38 | 1 weeks 1X day | 1/14/2020 | 1 | Implant after surgery | Heartburn, nauseated, back pain. | M | 45 | 3 days 300 | 12/13/2019 | 1 | Strep throat | Severe lower intestine problems after starting this antibiotic. A month later I am still having problems! Don’t risk your health with this antibiotic! | Crap drug! | 62 | 10 days | 12/10/2019 | 2 | Tooth Infection prior to Root Canal | I've been off the medication for 4 days now and have had terrible hearburn, strange cramping and pains in the upper abodom, below rib cage (around liver area), nauseous, dry heaving, chest pain, depression, dry mouth and thurst, head aches, anxiety from the side affects, insomnia because of the heart burn, foggy thinking | I've started pro-biotics today and omitting foods like sugar and refined carbs, also purchased some Kombucha and fermented products along with pre-biotics. I feel awful and it's very scary. | F | 47 | 5 days 150mg 4X day | 12/2/2019 | 1 | Cellulitis-from wound laceration | This medicine could kill you or cause permanent damage!!! Don’t presume you’re being a hypochondriac...you really are feeling the symptoms and the pain of exactly what you think you’re feeling. It’s REAL! You can barely even breathe “in or out” (just short breaths-otherwise it’s too painful). Basically constant pain! It’s quite alarming that it causes direct symptoms to emulate or actually truly having a cardiac arrest or heart attack!!! This is exactly how you feel & it’s a trip to the ER!! Your chest is full of pressure inhibiting your breathing proper oxygen... & your lower stomach, and upper abdomen, back, neck, head, throat feels as though they are soon to EXPLODE! It’s horrific! I’m already on acid reflux medication, so I shouldn’t have experienced any acid reflex symptoms or GERD, and this caused my esophagus to bleed!!. Constant nausea, severe neck & back pain- Can barely swallow. I was absolutely appalled when it cause painful bloody diarrhea!! You are constantly on the toilet in deadly pain. It comes on real fast also, like you’re hit by a Mac Truck...so you almost blame it on “having the flu;” but instead... it’s the deadly side effects of this crappy med called “Clindamycin.” You can’t breathe your stomach has so much bloating and pressure, and is Massively enlarged. I had constant diarrhea (bloody). Your throat feels like it’s clo | Kill this med from the market ASAP- before it kills someone! | F | 48 | 7 days 300 | 11/14/2019 | 1 | Tooth infection | Major confusion, blurred vision, loss of appetite, neck pain, also it felt like the back of my brain to a little bit of the top is being eaten alive, sleeplessness, feel down and like I just wanna stay in bed forever almost as if I didn't care anymore about life, major head foggyness, also felt like I had strep throat or something like that it hurt to swallow and mainly on my right side. | This drug I've taken before about 2 months ago and didn't feel anything, then this time after 3rd day I feel all the side effects, I believe it eventually builds up in your blood stream enough to cause the adverse effects, If it wasn't for the pain in my neck by my throat, And the pain in my temple I wouldn't of taken this drug, but this drug did help with the pain of the infection but the side effects are horrible to the point it's not worth taking it, this drug is not for everyone and should honestly be moved off the market unless of emergencies. | M | 30 | 6 days 300mg | 11/9/2019 | 1 | Abscessed tooth /root canal | I’ve felt mentally strange, my husband thought I was taking some kind of other drug because I was completely not myself after I started taking it. I’ve had extremely crazy dreams, I’ve been depressed, I’ve not wanted to get out, not myself at all. Nauseous and running to the bathroom for days. Mostly I’ve felt completely off, not clear headed and not normally functioning mentally. | I can’t take penicillin because I have a severe allergic reaction to it and would go into anaphylaxis shock so I was given this medication. | 58 | 8 days 300 | 11/5/2019 | 1 | Respiratory infection | Horrible antibiotics!!! 1st dose felt a little weird about an hour after taking first dose. By day 2 I felt off, tightness in stomach and intestines, burning in stomach, bloated, generally off not myself, dizzy weak dehydrated even after drinking tons of water no diarrhea or vomiting. Just generally feel exhausted weak,dizzy and mentally off,confused... definitely ask for another antibiotic if prescribed this head the black box warning it's there because its dangerous medicine. | F | 52 | 3 days 150 | 11/4/2019 | 1 | Tooth infection | I needed to have my tooth extracted gave me this med took it first time ok second dose OMG i am here dying in pain I cant even swallow it feels like something is stuck in my throat, I have the chills do not want to eat, weak, foggy, and nothing is helping. I had to think what could have caused this and happen to google CLINDAMYCIN HCL that bought me here now i know. Does anyone have any idea when this will go away?? I only took 3 doses. I cant take it | WORST MED EVER TAKE OFF MARKET | F | 48 | 2 days 300 2X day | 9/19/2019 | 2 | Abscessed wisdom tooth | Have taken it 2 times.. 1st time was given shot in ER and left with a prescription to continue 4 times a day for 7 days.. I did fine with it that time,no side effects just a little heartburn and gas.. this time when I started taking it for another abscessed tooth after day 2 the diarrhea started and had the sensation something was stuck in my throat.. I stopped taking it..am now just using peroxide mouth rinses and salt water rinses. Waiting for my appt for sept 30th to get the tooth extracted.. hope it doesnt get infected after extraction.. I dont know what I will take cause I am allergic to many antibiotics. | F | 59 | 7 days 300mg 4xda | 9/3/2019 |