Metronidazole Lasting Side Effects (Page 66) (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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Re: Galina (# 1304)

FYI, Metronidazole is the generic name for Flagyl ® ... same thing.

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Re: Dennis (# 1305)

Hi Dennis, Have you red about Erin's treatment of metronidazole toxicity? She did a research and connected metronidazole/FLAGYL toxicity to thiamine deficiency. I read her blog on line about treatment and her own thiamine and magnesium treatment for metronidazole. I just started taking thiamine with ionic magnesium and hoping that it will help my neuropathy and joint pain. Have you tried thiamine and magnesium supplements? Also have you checked you vitamin B 1 level? I checked my B 1 level two months after I finished metronidazole and it was normal but I don’t know if it is normal level now, but I am planning to recheck it next week. How are you doing lately? Any improvements in health? I hope you are doing better!!!!

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Note: We have removed a few posts from this thread because they were deemed non-clinical and off topic.

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Hi Dennis and other people who took metronidazole, I wanted to ask if anyone has experienced sharp eye pain, blurry vision, and gradual decrease in vision. When I finished the medication, my left side of head went numb and I started losing vision in my left eye. One week after that, I went to ER and they did a brain MRI and did not find anything wrong with my brain and sent me home. After that I visited my eye doctor twice to check my eyes and he did the scan of my eyes and did not find anything that causes my eye vision to continue deteriorate. I will see him again in January 2019 to check my left eye. I feel that my eye vision is slowly deteriorating and it is so scary. I recently started seeing my new doctor who is a Naturopatic doctor and he said that I may have MS but I told him that I had 2 MRIs on my brain and neck and spine and there is no lesions and my neurologist said that I don’t have MS. I don’t know what to think about my eye vision and would like to ask you guys if any of you experience similar symptoms. Thank you so much for your input!!!!

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Re: Galina (# 1310)

Within 24 hours after taking Flagyl, it was like a bomb had gone off in my head. My left eye went instantly dark, then I felt massive pressure behind each eye, then a pop! It instantaneously went from 20/20 to 20/2200 in one second flat. Besides that, I have severe neuropathy in my face and scalp. I also instantly lost all sense of balance and stability, then my ears started to scream out with siren-like tinnitus. MRI’s showed that my pre existing lesions had severely worsened, and my retinal macular had sevely distorted... I lost my vision, unable to drive, watch TV, read... etc... since then my life has been completely destroyed.

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Re: Dennis (# 1311)

Hello Dennis! I also have a neuropathy in my head, face, and burning sculp. I feel the nerve pain in my head every day and fortunately the intensity of the pain has lessened over the past 5 months but the pain doesn’t won’t to live my head completely. I used to have burning eyes and lips but for very short time. Dennis, has your facial and head neuropathy got any less over the 15 months? Also, do you have any neuropathy in your feet, legs, and hands? The peripheral neuropathy is very annoying and I hope it will go away with time. Thank you for your replies!!!!

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Yes, yes and no... my upper body neuropathy is both cyclical and fleeting, confined mostly to the face, head with occasional muscle weakness, pain and numbness down my right arm and hand. Other symptoms include, but are not limited to balance disorder, severe vision loss and eye pain, chronic migraine, severe tinnitus in both ears, chronic low grade fever, along with nausea, sweating, and fatigue etc etc.

But unlike most here, I had a pre-existing condition the administering physician ignored. This drug is specifically not for those with pre-existing CNS conditions especially diseases of the brain in any stage of development. Apparently it either accelerates, exacerbates, and/or permanently worsens such conditions... here's a link to the document:

[1] Metronidiazole: Flagyl Warning PDF

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Re: Galina (# 1315)

Thank you Galina! It means a lot to me. My prayers and warm hugs reach out to you as well.

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Re: Galina (# 1315)

FYI - One more thing Galina, there are many studies and case reports on peripheral neuropathy following Metronidazole use. I'm sure you have seen them but this case report struck me as rather peculiar on how quick the onset was.

[1] Rapid onset peripheral neuropathy: A rare complication of metronidazole

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Re: Dennis (# 1317)

Hello Dennis, Thank you so much for the article. It is very interesting and explains why my right calf started to burn on the 11th day of metronidazole. I had very intense burning sensation in my calf for 5-6 months. But now it is very mild thanks to God. But all of the sudden my both feet started to burn after 2-3 months after I finished the medication. My doctor doesn’t believe that it is metronidazole because my feet started to burn way after I finished the medication. Now I wanted to tell you interesting thing Dennis! I had 2 MRIs with gadolinium contrast before my feet started to burn. I had them 5 weeks apart. So recently I had a heavy metal 24 hour urine test done and it showed that I retained above the normal range amount of the gadolinium in my system. Gadolinium is used in an MRI contrast to enchance the clarity of the image, however gadolinium is a heavy metal and is very toxic to the body. I believe that gadolinium that I retained caused or compounded my neuropathy in my feet. Now I will be doing a chelation therapy once a week to remove the gas as much as possible from my body. Also, people excrete this metal naturally through the urine and sweating. So it does leaves the body over time. In my case, I will try the IV infusions to see if it helps me with the burning symptoms. I wanted to mention to you about the use of an MRI with contrast because it is not as safe as our doctors such as neurologists say. So if you need to have a MRI, try to avoid using a contrast injection or have it no more that once a year or less. Try to space it far from each other so your body can excrete it and don’t accumulate the burden that can cause the symptoms. If you look up a Gadolinium Toxicity on line, you will see that it can cause neurological symptoms as well as joint and bone pain, head aches, vision problems and more. I just want you to be aware of the problems with the use of an MRI contrasts. In my case, I am not sure whether the MRI contrast caused my new symptoms or it is metronidazole, but I will never use these two in my life again. I asked my neurologist about the safety of the MRI contrast and she said that people do retain the gadolinium but some people don’t have any symptoms of sickness and some do have. So please be careful using the MRI contrast in the future!!! Dennis, I will show your article to my Naturopatic doctor and see what he has to say. He doesn’t know much about metronidazole causing neurological symptoms. Dennis, I hope you feel better today and thank you for your research!!!

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Re: Galina (# 1318)

thanks for this info... it reminded me that I see a naturopath that does a foot soak that actually pulls heavy metals and other stuff out of your body.. see if you can find on locally. and next time I have an appt I'm going to ask for another treatment.. thanks

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Re: Betty (# 1319)

Hello Betty, Thanknyou for this information about the chelation of heavy metals by using a foot soak. I never heard of this method before. Do you know what medication is used in this foot soak procedure? Have you try this before? I will see my Naturopatic doctor this Thursday and ask him about a foot soak for heavy metals as an addition to my IV infusion, but if you can tell me the name for this foot soak, it would be very helpful. Thank you, Betty and I hope you are doing well and your symptoms are decreasing.

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Re: Galina (# 1320)

I'm sorry but I do not know what they use. I know it has water in a foot bath kind of thing and know that there is some kind of electrical or energy device and as you watch this black stuff comes out of your skin...sometimes it is brown, sometimes green, depending on what is coming out and sometimes it has bubbles.....I really don't know but I'll ask at the next appt I have...which is think is another month. I'll email and ask them...see what it is called.

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Re: Galina (# 1318)

Thanks! I would print and show your doctor the Flagyl document from my earlier post #1314 as well. Print them both out and highlight the important parts. Also, you may wish to watch this short Youtube video on Gadolinium MRI contrast retention in the brain titled "Epidural Steroid Injections / FDA Issues Gadolinium MRI Contrast Alert!".

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Re: Dennis (# 1322)

Hi Dennis, Yes, I will print both of the articles and show it to my Naturopatic doctor. I know he is not aware of such adverse side effects of metronidazole and I hope that the this information can show to him what this dangerous medication is capable of. I don’t know why my doctors deny that the medication can cause very adverse reactions and tend to blame everything on some kind of health illness. In my case, my neurologist initially contributed my symptoms to viral meningitis which was rediculous because 5 days after my face and head went numb and I had extreme head pressure, I went to the ER and had a Cat Scan and an MRI and it did not show anything wrong with my bran. When I said that to my neurologist, she started blaming everything on a misterious virus. It is so ridiculous how the doctors attend to the patients’ needs. It is pure negligence. I also think that my current Naturopatic doctor contributes my symptoms to MS not the adverse reaction to the metronidazole. But I don’t want to fight them anymore because I feel that they are not accepting the truth. So I just want to live my life and try to improve my health over time. Dennis, thank you so much for your research and I hope you are feeling well today!!!!

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Re: Betty (# 1321)

Hello Betty, it would be so helpful if you can contact your Naturopatic doctor and ask what is this foot soak treatment and what medication they use. If you find out the name of the treatment, please let me know, so I can talk to my Naturopatic doctor and see if he does this treatment at his office. Thank you so much and have a great day!!!

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During an IV drug administration, a vein collapsed and/or missed the vein altogether causing a lump. Concerned about an abscess. Can PLIVA 334 Metronidazole be used to prevent or treat an abscess?

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Re: Cutepsu25 (# 1325)

Hi Cutepsu25, I don’t know how bad or infected your abscess is but if it possible, I would avoid using metronidazole antibiotic. This antibiotic is very strong and can cause so many side effects. I have been suffering for 7 plus months very debilitating neurological symptoms from this medication. If you can, ask for another antibiotic such as amoxicillin if you are not allergic to it, but stay away from Cipro, levoquin, or Avelox. These are very fan dangeons antibiotics!!!!

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Re: Galina (# 1324)

Here is the reply:

Hi Betty,
It is called an Ion foot cleanse. It draws waste and toxins from the body with positive and negative electric current. During the foot bath, the ions enter your body and neutralize the waste, through a process called reverse osmosis. The color and consistency of the water is due to the salt added to the water and the toxic metals, acidity and alkalinity of the person getting the foot bath. It does help the body to cleanse of toxic metals as well as others wastes. Please let us know if you have any other questions.

Thanks,
Casey

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Re: Galina (# 1323)

Thanks again for the kind words Galina! : ) BTW, you may wish to know Gadolinium cannot be detoxed. In fact its been found that people who have had one or multiple MRI imaging studies with contrast have most likely retained deposits of the contrast metal in their brain, kidneys and liver tissue. It does not stay in the blood to be filtered by the kidneys as originally thought. Therefore it lodges in organ tissue and cannot be removed except by surgical removal of the affected organ. (Not recommended. The FDA claims there is not enough data yet to support a contraindication. The FDA has asked that patients please file a MedWatch report with them to report any serious adverse events.) So far the greatest risk from Gadolinium Based Contrast Agents (GBCAs) is a severe skin and organ disease called Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis or NSF. It is severe and can be life threatening.

Secondly, the latest medical literature, along with 4 independent trial studies by reputable clinics have found that Ion Foot Detoxification is neither efficacious or beneficial. It's basically utilizes the placebo effect.

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