Metronidazole Lasting Side Effects (Page 27) (Top voted first)

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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Yes been suffering with anxiety and depression for 4 months now after taking it 6 times in last year and last time giving me the worst experience of my life. it def getting better but so so slowly. What Ash wrote online here helped me a lot. This med causes major chemical imbalances. Def start with vitamin d and excercise a lot. Still trying to heal hoping I return to my original self. Deep breathing meditation n counselor has helped. I never had experienced depression in my life was soo scary, maybe because depletes vit b n d out of system, the depression will go away. If I find anything else out I will let you know. Everytime I would take it it would cause severe mood swings then this time crazy vertigo depression anxiety I have felt like I was severely brain damaged. I will keep u updated so u know what to expect. Let me know how u are doing. Hope u feel better soon.

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Ant11, I a sorry that you are also dealing with the side effects of this medication. It does get better, slower than we would like. As stated, healing does begin from within. Have a positive attitude and know that this too shall pass. In the meantime there are things that we can do to help ourselves. I'm taking calcium, magnesium, and probiotics and seeing great results with the anxiety and it helps me to sleep at nights. Exercising in the evening also helps me. I'm still dealing with shakiness, off balanced, occasional nausea and lightheaded feeling, but I'm not sure if that's from the flagyl or gastritis and hiatal hernia. Be encouraged!

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Hi, has anyone taken any supplements that have helped depression or emotional numbness from metronidazole? It is now almost 4 and 1/2 mnths and although feel better then last month still having these issues and wondering If I will ever feel like myself again. Taking vitamin d has helped a lot I'm taking 2000 ui daily, my dr suggested 50000iu a week to get me back on track with vit d but was nervous of taking soo much. Thanks Melissa

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Melissa, I pray that you will feel better soon. I'm noticing more improvement as time passes. Exercising and taking probiotics, magnesium and calcium before I go to bed helps me to relax and sleep better. I'm also taking omega oil, B12, lutein, and vitamin D. Are you taking any prescription medication for depression? Be encouraged.

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Anyone dealing with memory issues/brain fog? I read that lecithin helps with this; so I've started taking the granules daily. Any other suggestions? Will be glad when this side effect passes.

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Hi, i have faith I was taking lowest dose of effexor when I took the metronadizole I do not know if that affected my reaction or not since many people here were not taking an antidepressant. But I took an antidepressant for being anxious was never depressed prior to the meyronidazole. I also have memory issues, I can't stand it! How long has it been for you again? How long did u take it? I called my drs office and figured out they have it to me 6 times in 12 months and each time I would feel worse and they told me it was all they had so I kept taking it. I'm soo mad at myself I should haven't have taken it. The last time felt like it broke some barrier like overload and now it's been 4 plus months. Thanks for ur kindness and response.

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I'm so blessed that I've found this page, everyone kept tellin me that I'm overreacting and that the Antibiotics are out of my system, and I knew It couldn't be, last week after it had been a week after finishing the aantibiotics I had started expiericing depression and It was bad because I was also going through PMS because I'm around the start of my period which only made my depression worst during all of this came my anxiety which I bbelieve got me yo the point where I stopped eating for 3-4 days I look up everything about the medication and found all of these pages where people are going through the samething then I also looked up how to eat when you've been starving yourself and it suggested me chicken broth, when I ffinished drinking the chicken broth I noticed my appetite was slowly coming back while not eating for that period of time I dropped from 166 to 158 now I'm gaining my weight back but not eating the same foods I use to eat more healthier and small portioned and I've eaten 3 meals a day with a lot of water. I'm only 18 and although these antibiotics kills the infection it mentally changes you.

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Anyone that has not fully healed--do not think that you have done anything wrong. I am living with this for over 6 years now. I have been living on EVERYTHING people have written and so much more for over 6 of these years. From vitamins-B12m b6, d, d3, iron, ionic magnesium, absorbic C, melatonin, val, mitochondria booster, and went through the year of Glut, IVs, vitamin IVs, went to a naturalpathic clinic for 2 years, THE DR. WAS GREAT--took me 2 hrs to get there but worth it as mentally he was helpful. I also saw many Drs. local in in NYC, spent almost a year with Accup, and cupping, and ALWAYS felt I was going to get better. My frame of mind NEVER felt this was permanent. Still I do not know but I can say that now I am over 6 years dealing with the pain, numbness in the face, hands, legs, nose and mouth are annoying, headaches, tendon PAIN, fasiculations (muscle twerks and jumps that ALWAYS jump me out of my sleep). I did the blood diet, the bone broth, all antibiotic free, and still do this, and through it all I am still depersonalized, flat, live in pain, and feel very out of sorts. Anxiety, depression, pain are some of it. It is NOTHING that I have not done. I worry that some read and feel as though they have done all that many post and are still not better so it must be in their mind. I am not writing that all give this thought to others--just want to be sure that for some of us, we have done everything people post for MORE years that them, and were the ones who started to post the things to do WAY back as it has been passed around, and some are very damaged. For me, it is THOUGHT by the drs. that because I was given these meds. along with the steroids, and the drs. did NOT know why I was in so much pain, that this is why the damage is so severe.

The first 6 months I could not sit up, walk, eat, every night like clock work I felt sick to my stomach, I developed slow emptying stomach, visual issues that are hard to express, deep pain, insomnia for the first few months that lead to hallucinations, and more. I was hospitalized and seen by drs. and a few psychiatrists--all said I was mentally stable that this was a medically induced condition. I was given the meds and in three days was down and never recovered fully. The first few months were by far the worst. But this year has also been trying. I am getting weak even though I PUSH my body everyday to get up and do things. I DO a lot...go outside and push through the pain. People do not think I have all this pain as they see me do things--I have lots of pain I just do not complain and push through as it does not good to complain anymore. I really actually hurt, feel disonnected, but do not tell to many around me. I see drs. every other month as every month got to be ridiculous. When first with this, I lived at Drs. and hospitals. I was under Failure to THrive==an infant syndrome--but applied. They could not figure out why this was happening and my body was just shutting down. I do not SAY I did all these things to try to get better to JUST SAY THEM--I did these and much much more. I have traveled far for help.
I would like to be healed and back at work teaching. I never knew there could be such a condition that the body could have SO MUCH PAIN and still live. I pray every morning and evening for healing. My faith is strong. I still feel that someday I will heal. BUT I am suffering as of right now and for many years--April 17th 2009 was the day I took my first dose of medication that I thought was a simple medication--wow was I wrong.

If anyone is like myself, dealing with severe damage that is seen on EMGs, punch biopsies, and more, keep pace, and you are not alone. I know MANY all over the world on another site that are going through the same. We are strong people that will survive. It may take me three hours to move in the a.m. and a nap during the day as I cannot sleep more than 3 - 4 hours in a row due to fasiculations waking me up, but I still PUSH everyday to work outside and inside. For those that healed or have healed somewhat thus far, you are the inspiration and hope that MAYBE my body will someday do the same.

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Hi Ash,
Did you happen to notice that the times after taking metronidazole had anything to do with the time of your period? I thought I was done with these crying spells and now I have them again with my period and severe depression. I never had this prior to this medication. You said these lasted for you til like 6 months right? God I hope this is my last wave of this, cannot bear it. I wish I knew a doctor that could help. Also did you have any issues with blood pressure after this med, since I took it my bottom number on blood pressure has been high. Thanks Melissa

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I have just finished a 5day course of metronidazole i have a rash all over my body with headache backache and tiredness is there anything i can do

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My mom took flagyl 5 months ago for one week. She is still having side effects from the meds. It started out with weakness, numb, tingling sensation in legs and feet, dizziness and no appetite. We have moved on to depression bc we can't get better to now severe abdominal cramps, sinus issues and ringing in ears. We have had every test done (colonoscopy, CT scans, nerve test, neuropathy test, EKG's and been to the ER 5 times with normal results on everything. She is taking vitamins and trying to eat when she has an appetite to keep her energy level up however we are at a loss on how to help her have a normal day! We have been to primary cares, GI dr's, neurologist, specialist no one thinks the Flagyl should still be in her system after 5 months. We are developing new side effects that we didn't have in the beginning...is this even possible or could there be another issue that we are over looking?

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Linda, I hope your mother begins to feel better as these symptoms subside. It
has been almost three months since I took Flagyl and many of the symptoms have stopped. Now I'm not sure if what remains is from the gastritis/hiatal hernia or still Flagyl.

Has your mother seen improvement with any of the symptoms?

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Yes some symptoms have gotten better like the tingling and numbness BUT others have gotten worse like the weak no appetite spells. And now we have this crazy stomach pain. The worse is the sense of helplessness because Dr's do NOT know how to treat her. Thank you for your reply.

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Don't take b12 shot, the only thing I hadsince flagyl was sleep now haven't slept in days since the shot. Did this happen to anyone else? Did it getbetter?

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Linda--I wanted to ask if you mother was on any of the fluoroquinolones at the time of the Flagyl or soon before or after--reason I am asking is every single symptom ALL that you wrote I have had or still have and they were from Levaquin. Cipro, Avelox, and Levaquin are KNOWN drugs to give the side effects you listed. I started with the weakness, pain deep inside and out, hip pain, hands and feet, and back, soon after insomnia, ears ringing non-stop, could not hold my eyes open, and the lack of appetite is hard to describe--it is not like you do not want to eat, it is as it your brain is not able to feel hunger in a way--it is such an odd thing. I had nausea every night for months the same time every night. It was awful. I would lie in pain 24/7 and then around 7-8 each night the nausea would start --it was worse than that--the pain would have me reeling all over the couch, trying everything to make it stop. Any noise hurt my ears and head so much I could jump out of by skin. I had muscle twerks and jumps that would jerk my entire body out of trying to rest. I tried for help with the ER room and they always sent me home even though I could not hold me head up and my husband had to help me with everything. All diagnostics showed fine. All the ones mentioned and more. The gastro issues only ended up showing slow emptying stomach. I knew it was much more than that...Flagyl is similar in side effects but your mom sounds so much like she is Floxed. Levaquin, Cipro, Avelox--please check her records....just like the Flagyl--drs. do not know a darn of what they are looking at....I ended up in the hospital with failure to thrive four months later and it is an infant syndrome but absolutely applied to me at the time. My body was shutting down and no one knew why. And the pain was so bad I did not understand how my body could live through it. I had to have 24/7 care. Please let me know if she had any other meds. Thanks

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Homoeopathic remedy Nux Vomica200 every night for 7days will desolves these symptoms

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LINDA--I was in the hospital ER so many times and each time I tested fine of what was found was not enough to keep me YET the pain was so severe I wanted to die. This is a TYPICAL reading on what happens to many of us. This is NOT something that is rare. It is something that is commonly ignored by drs. and not getting the attention it needs. She is going through hell. By the way--I spent two years doing homeopathic meds, IVs, and more from Glut, to vitamins, and I would have to pull out my sheets to read the rest. I was 100% sure that would fix the issue. I was already an organic gu-ru before the floxing. As a matter of fact, it was so many years since any meds were in my body as I did not like to take any. So when the Levaquin did this...unreal. You will hear all sorts of things from people to do this and that and it will work. Not for all. It is upsetting for us that is did not work and many of us were very fit and ate great--even vegetarian. Some not. It does not seem to matter--it takes all prisoners. Some get better and some do not. Be careful for her to not get diagnosed as PROBABLE MS. They tried that on me just because of the white matter the Levaquin(cipro is the same) caused in the brain. I had this diagnosis as nothing was found. I never had a spinal positive for this. I truly feel that Cipro is her culprit. Side effects for Cipro can appear a couple of years later. THIS IS TRUE. If you need that information, it is easy to find on the web. Plenty of articles of research and Drs. that KNOW of this and writing on this. Ignorance is an issue with drs. here.

Please read up on this as you will be able to contact many who went and are going through the same exact thing. One thing I do know is that if while on Cipro is one takes Magnesium is lessens the way Cipro works. So I WOULD take Ionic Magnesium and vit d3. Sounds simple but for some it may have worked. No one know if those people might have just healed of if that was something that helped them. Worth for sure trying. Yes, the Cipro is out of her body--the damage is not. This is not hives. This is cellular damage and nitochondria damage. There is research going on at University Hospitals currently to find out why so many have this reaction. I wish they would remove these meds. The pain is real. Do not feel it is not. IT IS--If I showed you a picture of myself from teen to when I was floxed and one now, at 49, 44 when floxed, you would not know it is the same person and that is the same for many of us. I PROMISE I have done so much to try to better myself. When people write to this or that--I have not seen one yet that I have not done....and most of the time I did it for longer. I keep hope that something will pop up that has promise but it will probably come from the research drs. August of 2013 Cirpo, Avelox, and Levaquin were blackboxed AGAIN for periph. neuropathy, and more. Oddly, they call it that but when I talk to others with the neuropathy it never sounds quite right to people that are floxed. It is a label for now. The pain the body feel when floxed does not seem to fit in a certain place. I was just like the post added at the bottom of this. please keep us informed.

survivingcipro.com/about-us/my-cipro-story

PLEASE READ THIS AND OTHERS--it will help you connect to what is going on

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hi to everyone , im living this side effects for coming two years on february .and i might say that i struggle many things ths year the only thing i really hate is i get acne .. im living this condition although sometimes i feel like my normal days . i still can work and also i go many trip to many places .. im cant feel happy anymore even what i do .. but its okay .. i dont care how it hurts now i can ease it but the only thing really make me deppress is acne ..i dont any supplements only the cow colostrum to get my calcium there .. i have many oppurtunity but with this condition i cant make that all . i still hope that it will pass . i cant up my weight .i lose 5 kilo and still in there . i feel inflammation on my gut everytime i was high in carb thats why still hoping that we all pass this .. its really a struggle to live everyday .. not like before that i dont worry anything and i can make my self happy .. cheer up ,call to god believe he will heal you .. believe in yourself that you will be better soon . thanks

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It has been over 2 months since I took Flagyl. Surely, there are others who have gone through the dizziness, off balanced, lethargic side effects and are now doing A LOT better. Please encourage those who are still on this recovery journey. I'm still dealing with feeling dizzy and off balanced when walking. There has been improvement, but when does this all subside?

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Hi Ali,
How have you been? Has anything helped you? Thanks Melissa

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