Metronidazole Lasting Side Effects (Page 72) (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 (# 1438)

It's hard to say, but visual changes can be caused by many things, blood pressure, caffeine intake & addiction, even age or lack of sleep. So please don't panic. Yes Metronidazole destroyed my vision. It took roughly 36 hours after it was started to blow out my eye. Sadly the destruction is permanent.

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Re: Dennis (# 1437)

WOW!!! That is horrible. Have you considered a lawsuit against your doctor and the drug maker?

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Hi Pat, How are you doing? I hope you haven't had any lasting side effects. :)

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I don't drink alcohol and I don't think the others on this thread have with this medication. It's quite clear on the write out given with this medication not to drink with it. The other possible severe side effects such as Peripheral Neuropathy isn't and that is so wrong.

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Medication clearly states "Do not consume Alcohol"

I have now been of for 6 days, still have spacey head feeling and a dull head ache, worse when I wake up.

How are you doing Dawn

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Hey Dgirl just wondering how you are going now? My panic has gotten a little bit better in the last few days but I am so foggy I feel half conscious I have the most severe depersonalization/derealization. I had no idea what this was and thought I was going mad until I jumped on google. Such a bizarre experience I really hope this clears up!! As someone who has had anxiety before is the DP/DR triggered by panic attacks? And does it go away? Because I have read people who had one panick attack and then months of DP/DR and I have literally had a month of solid panic so will it last ages?? I tried explaining the feeling to my father and the poor thing looked so worried I was losing my mind haha. Any help and info would be so greatly appreciated! Still can't believe and anti-biotic can cause all this suffering for so many people :( wish I could take it away for everyone

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After doing research online and finding what i think is going on with my hands, i am starting prednisone tomorrow. Hope it takes care of my hyper sensitivity and red hands and scalp. I feel for all of you that are going thru much worse than I. I'll post updates.

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Cyrill-do you mind me asking where you live? I am sorry you are in so much pain...I want you to know that if you have that pain from the medicine..you are not alone. We feel like we are..but we are not. I have that same pain. I really do. Yes, it feels like pain that no one else could possibly have or understand..that is what we all think..but the truth is...I have the same pain and symptoms as you. I always thought that with this much pain and problems the body should die..it never made sense to me that the human body could live through this much pain and agony. The Drs. do not know..how could they..unless they have someone they love the same. There are Drs. that are like us, and lawyers, teachers, and more. The Grumpy Old Dr. on Twitter is damaged. There is a Dr. that right after she had her son had pneumonia and was given levaquin, she had pain in her legs and each day more and stopped the medicine but it did not matter--she was not able to hold her son or care for him. Her husband is a Dr. as well and she had no help as well. The one thing I do know is that if someone is suicidal--it is time to find relief of some sorts...what is the point of not taking pain medication if you are suicidal either way. IF you can get out of some of the pain to function---that is more of an answer than the other. I WAS THERE..and had no choice...and the countless numbers of us. I believe there are more people on pain medication since the mid 80s and growing rapidly DUE TO these medications..that is the rise in pain meds. If you compare when these drugs came on the market heavy and when the pain meds. started to rise..it matches. You are not a failure or a drug addict for needing relief..absolutely NOT--we really need to talk about this...really...I am reaching out, in pain myself, as some people have truly gotten better after years of battling this...I know of them personally..two of them I helped not kill themselves and both are back at work and happy when they were before in so much pain they wanted to die. I get that way as well at times, tired of it all, tired of the weakness, the closed in feeling, loneliness, but we must fight for us and others. Would you please be willing to chat with me...not on here...you can {edited for privacy} and then we can chat. I am here for you and you can cry out as loud as you need to...it hurts and you have every right to scream and cry...but not to leave...NO--not now.... please let me know if we can connect {edited for privacy} so we can talk.
Melinda

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Am experience it right now.

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Yes she did take Cipro too. We are actually in the hospital now. We just finished a hydascan, endoscopy and another CT scan of organs which are all normal. We are now moving to the heart to rule out anything with it because the weakness and pain in stomach continues. It's been 5 months since she took the flagyl and the Cipro and all the dr's tell us it should be out of her system by now. I'm sorry for all your trouble and pain as well. Prayers for you on your recovery. The failure to thrive ....is that nutrition related?? Should I mention that to any of the nurses??

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Your problem isn't metronidazole, it's the ciprofloxacin that's causing the neuropathy, etc. Cipro shouldn't be used unless you have anthrax or an infection that has remained after EVERY other antibiotic has been tried. Ciprofloxacin is a failed CHEMOTHERAPY drug, countless people have been permanently disabled by flouroquinolones, often after just a few doses. It destroys mitochondrial DNA and there's very little that can be done to repair it once it's been damaged. Cipro also can't be removed from your body once it's in there.

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Hi melissa,

Its sad to hear that you still suffer, since 2009 :-( okay so you also had trouble swallowing. Did that go away? Or do you still have that? Yes you are right. If this had not happen to me, could i understand all this weird things, if some one else had told me this? Should i be honest, maybe i couldnt. But i should have give that person support. Yes love from friends and family is important. But should i be honest, many friends and even family has not been there for me since this happen. I now know Who truly are my friends and family. My fiance and my parents has been there so much, and has believed me in all this. That support has been so so important. And then i have found new friends, Who have been there, Who goes through The same thing. Like you wrote melissa.... This is Hard to explain. I said to The doctors it feels like my eyes can take in what im seeing... He looked like me like im crazy. But how can i explain it better? Its The truth. Its been 6 months now since this happen to me. I really hope that it can get better, but i feel, to be honest that i have damage that i have to live with. But im trying to go back to some what a life... In some way. Im not giving up, even though its very Hard. Hugs to you melissa And i hope we all can get that miracle, so we Will not suffer anymore.

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Trish, you seem like a nice person, but you losing the ability to walk is a clear indicator that you had lesions on your brain, specifically the cerebellum. Your vision issues...probably damage to the midbrain. Aka, brain damage, and if you had done an MRI when you lost your ability to walk, there's a 93% chance those lesions would have been visible on the scan.

Thankfully, the lesions disappear 83% of the time, but there's a poor connection between symptoms resolving and those lesions going away. You have a 65% chance of a full recovery, 29% chance of improvement but not fully recovery, and then the remaining 6% of people have permanent cognitive impairment. Some people do die from this.

This isn't a matter of willpower. This drug causes neurological changes. Since we've all stopped taking the drug and it didn't cause us to slip into a coma, we probably don't need to worry about dying now. It's out of the body 16 hours after you take it, but it can cause damage before it's gone.

I'm not saying this to scare anyone, but I work off research. I want to know what I'm dealing with in order to learn how to fight it. This is the research, and most drugs can be dangerous to certain individuals. Tylenol killed about 500 people last year--it happens. People need to find out what they have, understand it, and learn to cope with and treat the symptoms, for however long they remain.

If it's any consolation, when the drug is out of the system, the symptoms are unlikely to worsen. Some drugs have a delayed reaction, but I don't think metronidazole does that.

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Janey, you have not told us how you are doing since your post. What is going on with you now?

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What is a bla bla kidney liver? I was unable to figure out what you were saying without any real punctuation.

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yoyo, mine took about 4 months with physical therapy and yoga, etc... and working on the vagus nerve myself.

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Thanks for caring, I am now on my 2nd day of but still feel a bit spacey, I have carried on taking the probiotics and think they have helped. I have never had this type of side effect before . How are you feeling

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Thank you i do want to know how you are getting on and like you I am a great believer in faith healing.

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I don't know if everyone is aware of the side effects of Metronidazole taken while consuming alcohole. Mind you Alcohole is strictly prohibitted during the course of Metronidazol(and its derivatives)..

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