Metronidazole Lasting Side Effects (Page 41)

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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Cyrill thanks for your long answer
But thats good that you have Come so far. That you can work and enjoy life Again
Sorry that you still have some pain. But you are even better and better with that? Arent you?
You seem to eaten good and healthy food, thats good. I also eat healthy. But for me, it has not start to improve. Just worse.
But keep us updated how it goes in the healing later on also. I hope you can be totally pain free one day. I hope we all can heal from this.

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Bjh
You are so right
It needs to come out there how Dangerous flagyl can be. It can destroy lifes. They should not be given, except a life or death situation.
Well, they have told me that to. "flagyl is out off your system a long time ago ". And that maybe is True. But it has left me with damage. neurotoxicity and nerve damage through out my body and The central nervous system. But The doctors are so in denal about this. They Will not admit that The drugs they prescribe are neurotoxic.

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My 86 y/o mom finished flagyl yesterday. How long will this awful diarrhea last

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Get her to the doctor fast... she could have that awful diarrhea that kills people. If you read the side effects it does mention that....clos.....difficille? I can't spell it or pronounce it...

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It's called c diff. And yes it's possible with Flagyl and a lot of other antibiotics, unfortunately. If she's having a lot of diarrhea, then getting a stool sample might be a good idea. Just in case.

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Been on metronidazole and cipro twice for diverticulitis. Both times I developed side effects late in the regime. I took Cypro once before for something else and don't remember anything too crazy so I attribute most of this to metronidazole. Nothing till my sixth day of seven. Then darker stool, dizziness, slight headache, twinges around the guy muscles, a bit sleepy, not bad. Seemed worse after a short night's sleep. Stool started to lighten 18 hours after last dose. Clear your schedule as best you can but still excercise and drink more water. This has something to do with your intestines being cleared of all bacteria both good and bad. Try yogurt, sauerkraut and ginger supppements. They help with the side effects.

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Mike, your suggestions are appreciated but this isn't just about lost gut flora. If I were you, I'd be very careful about being on metronidazole and/or cipro. Both can act as a neurotoxin on the brain (the FDA label even has warnings about this) and cipro is a fluoroquinolone antibiotic that can permanently damage your DNA. People have become disabled due to these meds. Plug fluoroquinilone toxicity or metronodaloze toxicity into Google and the medical literature will come up. Believe me, I wish it were as simple as getting in more fluids and probiotics. Unfortunately, not so much.

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Thank you Erin for stating the facts. Since 2009 I have been dealing with Floxing. I had a 3 hour debate with my son last night telling me that every time the pain is bad I need to push though it and it will go away. He was not around the first three years as he was away. He has no idea all that I went through holistically, herbal, physical, mental, diet, especially since I lived that way before even floxed. As my husband told him, my doctor 's words were"I do not understand, you are by far my healthiest patient", Go figure. Fecal transplants, blood diets, yeast diets, alkaline, ionic magnesium, abscorbic vit C, milk thistle, then backing away on things because it is too much, I ate antibiotic free and hormone free before floxed. In my mind, I knew 100 percent I was going to beat this. Still trying for sure. Will not give up. But I did have to stop trying so hard as it was actually making me worse than better. Two years of Glut. IVs two times a week for 6 months a stretch. The money I have spent trying to beat this floxing. When I read on Flagyl -my heart goes out to everyone. As I told my son, I was him, I was that person that when people had pain I would think,...you are doing something wrong, it is in your diet, you need to exercise, you need to live like I do...WOW, I was so wrong back then. I just did not know the facts. For some, yes, these things work, but for some of us it does not. That does not say we give up...never give up. I pray someday to awake with no pain, or less, and e able to walk better. My son says I depress him with how I have to live. That is hurtful. I did not choose this. I understand as well, he just wants his mom back even though he is 31. But he is tough on me. I have asked him repeatedly to look through my files and he might be able to help then be a critic as he would have a better understanding. $48,000+ later. I get very defensive--VERY. And I do not want anyone to walk in my shoes as it hurts. I have pain brushing my hair. So crazy. Then I think, they have yet to cure--not treat--cure, Parkinsons, Alz, MS, Lupus, MD, and many more so why should I be surprised with this. Difference is what did this to me. Probiotics are great - I used them before this and still do, but no cure for me. I do feel all should try these things as for some it works. I do not feel I have a chip on my shoulder about this, just the facts for my situation as we are all different living with this.

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Yes Erin and as a matter of fact I went back to the dr and my infection wasn't gone so now they gave me 2,000 mg again but spaced it out to 2x a day for seven days still worries me though cause it makes my neck and shoulders ache.

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Hi, Malinda. Yes, I understand what you mean. I took Flagyl for only seven days, and at the peak of my toxicity, lost the ability to walk and speak. Even after I stopped, there were problems both neurologically and psychiatrically, too many to get into here. It's been a year and a half but luckily most of the symptoms are gone. Other people I've spoken to are not as lucky. I am sorry you're still having problems--you are right, there are some things that can't be easily fixed.

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The metronidazole is causing neck and shoulder pain? Neck pain is listed as an adverse reaction to the drug--on my pharmaceutical insert, it said to stop the drug immediately if neck pain and or stiffness occurred. I had neck pain and still have it a little but I don't know if I'm the best example as that was one of about thirty symptoms for me.

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Marie
If I where you i should ask for another antibiotics. 14 months for me since flagyl, and im just getting worse.

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I had a stool sample done and no blood. I'm going to ask for something else if it's prescribed again. Stool got slowlylighter and the overall grogginess slowlt lifted. The second time I took it the effects seemed to last longer but it was winter and I was less active.

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Malinda
Im so sorry you going through this. I am to. 14 months out and just getting worse and worse
Can i ask you. When did you try The glutation ivs? In the beginning off The floxing or later on?
I have tried so many supplements, probiotics, eating healthy, nothing works.

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As far as I've been able to determine my gut is finally working ok. All this started with my being diagnosed with H. Pylori.... about a week into the 2 week regime I was having trouble walking and getting very depressed and not eating. Last pill was taken Sept 8th. I was finally able to get my gut to work right by working with a nutritionist who suggested I take Ox Bile because I have no gall bladder and HCL with Pepsin as I had too little acid in my stomach and food was not digesting and there was major pain because it wasn't moving through my gut. I had one month before all this started when I lost 10 lbs because I couldn't eat... When I took miralax it move the bowels it would clear but when I ate again it would start all over. Oddly this lack of bowel motility was causing a lot of back pain. Meanwhile, within 24 hrs of starting the regime of the bile and hcl my bowels started acting very normal. Today if I forget to take it at 1 or 2 meals I'm in trouble the next day. So that is how I've finally fixed my bowel issue..

As for the balance and dizziness issue I'm still dealing with it but getting better by working with a tai chi instructor to focus my balance in the gut rather than in my brain. Next Friday I finally have an appt with a neurologist.... they are too busy because they seem to focus a lot of their practice on inj. botox into people's faces so they look younger...

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I started the IVs 4 months after floxing started. I was given Levaquin for a sinus infection on April 17, 2009. Each day odd things were happening but I was not in tune and Dr. said it was probably just a flu. By day three, on the couch in such pain in my limbs, stomach pains that I could not eat a bite as my stomach was so tight, head pain so bad that if anyone spoke in a normal tone without whispering my head would feel like it was going to explode. I laid there like I was mummified and did not move as it hurt so much and if someone touched me --unreal. My husband and sister in law drove me to a center for the IVs and the whole way there I lied on the back seat of the car screaming in pain to bring me to the hospital again and they made me go to the IVs first. A few days later I was in the hospital for a week. Drs. sent me back out because they could not find what was causing the pain and felt I was looking for drugs. I was so insulted and angry as I never even had Marjuana in my life. I will say I tried that later on for the first time. Anyway, absolutely try as I do know of a few people that were successful with the IVs. Also, even if the ionic magnesium has not shown any improvement, still stay with it. I have an in-law relative that was in bed suicidal and I could only think of the Ionic Mag. and three months later she was fine. Chances are she would have improved either way in my opinion but if you ask her, she thinks I saved her life by suggesting this and I know the difference. But with that info, I feel it is worth staying with for sure. Best of luck.

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What are these IVs about? and what is Floxing? Can you clarify please?

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Malinda
Im so sorry, and that you still going through this. But is it like it was in the beginning then?
Im scared to death to live like this. I know about that it feels like The head are about to explode when People Talk. Everything hurts The head and ears, every sound.
I have extreme neuropathy from head to toe, muscle pain, joint pain, headpressure and headaches, light and sound sensitive. Hard to breath and swallow. Dizziness and off balance. No bloodcirkulation. Cold hands and feets. extreme high heart rate, high and low blood pressure, alot off heart problems now, nightmares, insomnia, shaking bad, anxiethy, depression, crying for no reason, extreme fatigue ,gut problems, nausea, tinggling and numbness through out my body and more. I belive im not one off The Lucky ones.
About magnesium, i wished that i could take it, but i react to it really bad.
About The ivs, we dont have it here in sweden. But im a little afraid off that. I have read that some for better from it, but some got even worse.

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Hi bjh
Floxing is a name for People Who got Hurt from fluoroqinolone antibiotics. Toxicity like us, but They took fluoroqinolone, and They call that toxicity floxing. You can look at a site called floxiehope.
Ivs are treatments you can get, with gluthation. An antioxidant. Who can help with nervedamage and so on. There are also other things like ozone Theraphy, h202 and so on. Some People get better after taking this kind off ivs. But i also have read some People Who got even worse.

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Thanks for the information.. it is uncomfortable when I don't know what people are talking about... sounds like we have to do all the advocating for ourselves.

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