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Cipro (Ciprofloxacin) - Reviews, Ratings, Comments by Patients

 

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Below are Cipro (Ciprofloxacin) reviews, ratings, comments submitted by patients and caregivers. This information is not vetted and should not be cosidered as clinical evidence.
 

Cipro review by 55 year old male patient

  Rating
Overall rating:  
Effectiveness:   Highly Effective
Side effects:   No Side Effects
  
Treatment Info
Condition / reason:   gastroenteritis
Dosage & duration:   500 mg taken twice daily for the period of 7 days
Other conditions:   none
Other drugs taken:   none
  
Reported Results
Benefits:   stopped symptoms within 1-2 days
Side effects:   none
Comments:   took cipro 500 mg twice daily for 7 days

 

Cipro review by 35 year old female patient

  Rating
Overall rating:  
Effectiveness:   Highly Effective
Side effects:   Moderate Side Effects
  
Treatment Info
Condition / reason:   Pneumonia
Dosage & duration:   500mg taken 2 times daily for the period of 10 days
Other conditions:   None
Other drugs taken:   None
  
Reported Results
Benefits:   By the 5th day, I was feeling much better.
Side effects:   I am female. Taking this drug caused me to get a yeast infection.
Comments:   2 times a day for 10 days.

 

Cipro review by 40 year old female patient

  Rating
Overall rating:  
Effectiveness:   Considerably Effective
Side effects:   Extremely Severe Side Effects
  
Treatment Info
Condition / reason:   UTI
Dosage & duration:   published dose (dosage frequency: as presccribed, twice daily) for the period of 1 week
Other conditions:   none
Other drugs taken:   none
  
Reported Results
Benefits:   the bacterial infection was treated effectively.
Side effects:   extremely low blood sugar, fainting, black outs, nausea, severe headache, GI pain
Comments:   i was treated for a UTI with ciprofloxacin first; i took the medicine as prescribed exactly. within two days i started having symptoms described above. the doctor told me to switch to tequin, an analogue. the same effects occurred, only more severely this time. i had to stop the medication after a few days, or it felt like i would have to go to the emergency room. i felt like i was dying. the week that i was on these drugs was enough to cure the UTI however. i recovered from the symptoms after about 5 days after stopping the meds.

 

Cipro review by 21 year old female patient

  Rating
Overall rating:  
Effectiveness:   Highly Effective
Side effects:   No Side Effects
  
Treatment Info
Condition / reason:   Urinary Tract Infection
Dosage & duration:   1 tablet taken twice daily for the period of 3 weeks
Other conditions:   None
Other drugs taken:   None
  
Reported Results
Benefits:   The treatment benefits included rapid pain-relief from the UTI. Pain and symptoms of the UTI disappeared after the first week. The drug was taken to completion to prevent reoccurance.
Side effects:   Side effects for the drug were minimal and mainly consisted of dry mouth.
Comments:   The treatment included the tablet twice daily as well as plenty of fluids. Use of the drug was supplemented by cranberry juice intake -- about 2 glasses per day.

 

Cipro review by 49 year old female patient

  Rating
Overall rating:  
Effectiveness:   Highly Effective
Side effects:   Mild Side Effects
  
Treatment Info
Condition / reason:   kidney infection
Dosage & duration:   21 tablets over 10 days taken 2 tablets, then 1 tablet twice per day for the period of 10 days
Other conditions:   none
Other drugs taken:   none
  
Reported Results
Benefits:   I had a kidney infection with a very high fever. Cipro reduced the fever from 104.2 to 97.6 within 5 or 6 day/cured the kidney infection..
Side effects:   I threw up the first dose, which was two tablets,approximately one hour after taking it. I also experienced headaches for one to two hours after taking the cipro for first few days. Other than that, I just kept getting better, day by day.
Comments:   I took 2 tablets, then I took 1 tablet twice a day after eating. I also drank lots and lots of water and cranberry juice. After approx. 5 days, I no longer had side effects and the fever was gone. I actually felt perfectly fine after about 6 days or so.

 

Cipro review by 57 year old female patient

  Rating
Overall rating:  
Effectiveness:   Ineffective
Side effects:   Extremely Severe Side Effects
  
Treatment Info
Condition / reason:   possible UTI
Dosage & duration:   500mg twice daily taken evry 12 hours for the period of a day and a half
Other conditions:   none
Other drugs taken:   none
  
Reported Results
Benefits:   none...I am reguired to write fifty words bon the treatment benefits but since I had to discontinue the drug or die there were no benefits and I would be telling a bald faced lie if I said there were and but I will keep on typing so that I comply with the request for the fifty word minimun
Side effects:   severe heart palpitations severe panic attack involving racing morbid thoughts with fear of dying that stuff is poison...google side effects I also suffered head aches and leg and foot cramps and this was from only three 500 mg doses which is very scarey in my opinion
Comments:   Cipro was started while waiting for the results of a urine culture after it was found that I had blood in my urine and I had a high white blood cell count in the urine specimen. The thought was I had a severe infection so she opted to hit it hard with the most potent medicine available
 


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