Metronidazole Lasting Side Effects (Page 16)

I have been taking this medication for 7 days and off of it since a week and still have severe side effects, abdominal cramps, severe headaches, dizziness, unsteadiness... How long is it expected to last? It was prescribed with Ciprofloxacin to me and I take Entrophen on a regular basis...

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So I took a Metronidazole tablet at 9pm....An hour later my hands are itching and on fire. There must be another antibiotic for diverticulitis. After reading all of this..I think I need to stop.

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Jean, I would stop! I wish someone would have told me about the horrible lasting side effects. You are right there must be another kind you can take. BB, I can only tell you from my experience, it's been over 2 years and I still weakness, dizziness, tingling etc., but it comes and goes. Like flare ups, I suppose. When I am stressed or overtired it seems. I don't feel the same as I did before I took it but I don't feel as bad as I did the first year after either so I'm glad. I hope that gives you some hope that you will feel better. When the symptoms come back, not as severe, I get scared thinking of how I was and not wanting to be that way again. However, after days or weeks they get better. Do as much as you can do to eat healthy and detoxify your body.

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I have been getting these weird sensations in my arms, legs, feet, back and even sometimes on the skin of my stomach. In some places a red blotch appears an doesn't go away. This all began when I started to have a glass of wine with dinner three or four times a week. I started with the wine just taking a sip every day for a week starting August 20. Had no reactions so I began to have a full glass with dinner. Went off Flagyl on June 30. Some days I can go all day without symptoms and then they begin early evening after dinner. Don't get them when I'm moving around, only when I'm sitting still. They don't wake me up at night. Going to see the doctor tomorrow. Other than these crazy shock feelings and some itching, all other symptoms of this horrible drug which I experienced while taking it are gone. I never had these symptoms while I was taking the Flagyl or before I took it. I think the wine started something because the remnants of the drug is still in my system or it did something to my nerve endings. I'll report what the doctor says tomorrow.

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I still have the same symptom..red hands and burning feet.irritated mouth &discolor whitish tongue. It flairs after certain foods, dr still doesn't know and wants me to see another ENT. Not sureally how that will help with hands/feet, so haven't went. Agree it flairs..wish it would go away. Been alost a year. Very interest to hear what your doctor says jean.

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What pharmaceutical company did you get it from? The one i had issues with was teva from cvs. I HAD the same sensation.

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If ANY are able-would you write if you were on Cipro, Levaquin, or Avelox before, same time, or near after Flagyl. I know some were given the Flagyl FOR symptoms from these meds. that the drs. did not even KNOW of... In reading many of the posts, it reads as though so many have had an adverse reaction to the Fluoroquinolones...the Cipro, levaquin, and avelox. This is due to the list people write--especially the body jumps and jerks--like severe twitches all over. The Periph. Neuropathy is severe with the Floxing. So MUCH of what I read is what hundreds of thousands have reported to the FDA and Med-Watch and Drs. still turn a "You are a CRAZY PATIENT EYE" on us. Yet-the report was put out in Aug. 2013 that ALL IS TRUE AND PROVEN. This was a report sent to hospitals and drs. MY DR. received it and informed me right away. In Europe, they knew of these side effects in the 1980s THIS IS THE ARTICLE ON THESE MEDS- PLEASE READ THE SIDE EFFECTS and if anyone could please look back CAREFULLY at their pharmacy records to see what might have actually been the cause JUST IN CASE of a mix up on which meds were the culprit. I am not judging what is truth--just want to see who has same situation as myself...Flagyl was not what ended up destroying me and I actually should have figured it out and not sure why I did not look more closely. Thanks all....

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I was on Cipro and Metronidazole in August, then Levequen in September, then BOTH Metronidazole and Fluconazole in early October. I stopped everything on October 6. Now I'm back at full strength (THANK THE GODS!), but I still have the PN on and off, tremors in my hands, and sometimes a pounding heart. The neurologist thinks it's just panic attacks, but I'm having an MRI tomorrow and an EEG net week to rule out other stuff. I will post again when I have other news.

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Can Flagyl cause extreme bloating??
I haven't gained any weight, but have been very bloated..

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I just survived a 7 day "treatment" of Cipro and Flagyl for a Colitis...I must say that ALL of you posting here are in my heart and prayers. By the seventh day I was having the most horrible nightmares, nausea, shortness of breath....the horrible metal taste (which still lingers) and a feeling of unbelievable despair. That certainty that you are going to die...Totally helpless. With all my heart I wish everyone here a full and quick recovery.
I agree 100% that this drug is more of a poison than a cure.

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Ceasar, I appreciate your compassion, prayers and thoughts for what others are going through. Thank you. I hope you have a full recovery and I pray that your Colitis improves as well.

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Thank you, and I wish all the best for you too... I am slowly getting better, thank God!

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Hi I am really interested in dicussing how you are doing now. Please let me know.

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All my tests came back normal. All symptoms are gone except for a tremor which comes and goes in my right hand. Doctors look at me blankly when I suggest the antibiotics were part of the cause, and chalk it up to panic attacks.

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Hi All,

Just wondering how everyone is doing really.

I took this posion for Hypylori, it was hell. I only realised it was the meds on the last say of the course. Its been since 6 weeks and I have started to get a burning senstaion in my feet legs arm and hands....

I am scared can this get worse??? I had eye pain, had eye tests done. All healthy and now the eye pain has gone. (Thank god) slight heavy feeling one one side of my face. I am 27 and was healthy before all this.

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Does the burning seem to flare after eating/drinking certain things or activities. I still have slight burning in hand and feet. Sometimes tongue inflammation. Mine is better than it used to be but it has been a year since meds reaction.

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To be honest I can't link it to anything and it has started 6 weeks after the meds to be precise...I have had it persistent for the past few days...and there is no pain just a creepy burning sensation

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I was taking amoxcillin, flagyl and omprezole 3x a day for 7 days. On the last day when my face began to go numb. I stopped. Just wondering if the burning sensation is a sign that things are getting worse or that things are healing??

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I could not find the area to just POST on my own --so I am just sending a reply to let ALL KNOW of the Dr. Mercola article that is basically a re-post from him but a stricter warning. I see so many with the adverse side effects of these meds-and so many think it is one when it often might be the antibiotic-Levaquin,Cipro, or Avelox and the generic versions of these--people take ONE PILL of these and get the side effects and some have died. I know of people in wheel chairs after two pills and never better in 6 years. For me it was LEVAQUIN. I pray for a Miracle for all of us damaged and hurting from all of these medications -especially during this Christmas season. I pray for Drs. to hear our voices so we feel validated -as that is the first step to getting TRUE help...so many Drs. are still ?ing people when the facts are right in front of them and on paper. Mine is so obvious--nothing on my RX paperwork for years--then given Levaquin and in two days--in so much pain cannot move and all started after that...my pharmacy paperwork is a Levaquin adverse reaction story in of itself and of course the Dr. that gave me the meds, Dr. Otero, would admit to nothing. So please-always check to see if it is the METRO., CIPRO, LEVAQUIN, or AVELOX-or both --I often see these mixed together and people thinking that is must be the Metro. as the other is an antibiotic. Not true. Cipro, Avelox, and Levaquin are originally Chemo Drugs-so be careful as it could be either or even both drugs. Hopefully our prayers are heard and 2015 will bring our healing and answers...as I have been waiting for so long...2009

articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/11/01/fluoroquinolone-antibiotic-side-effects.aspx

Hope this site comes up for all if you have not seen it. If not Google Dr. Mercola and Fluoroquinolones and you should find it....

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I went doctors today. Explained my symptoms and he said they are all psychological...

I am too scared to go to a neuro incase there is something majorly wrong. My symptoms have creeped up weeks later taking the meds.

Esp the burning sensations. Just scares you of diseases like MS! I dont have any numbness or tingling. But the burning is persistent. In my face. Head. Feet. Hands. Knees. Elbows. Randoma and sudden. Comes and goes.

I have made an appt to see a naturalist. No more meds.

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Ashl, It isn't all in your head. It's real. I suffered from the burning too, but mine also included tingling as well. I as you thought about MS and it scared me, but I knew it was the meds since it started the third day of taking them. For me it lasted a long time but gradually the flare ups became less. My feet still burn at times but not as much as before and I still get dizzy, lose my balance. I took metronidazole over 2 years ago now. I thought my life was over. It took a lot out of me. I may not be the same but I'm not as bad as I thought I would be when I was going through the worst of it. For me it has gotten better. I hope it does for you as well. You are wise to go the natural way to heal your body. I waited too long before I did. My prayers are with you on your road to healing. Lynda

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