Nitro Macro for Urinary Tract Infection User Reviews
- van...
- January 29, 2019
"27-year-old female. Day 1 of this medication, I had horrible stomach problems. Flu-like symptoms, crazy cramping. Ibuprofen was not helping. Later that night, I had unbearable, severe stabbing pains in my 'area', they were so bad I went in the bathroom, debated on going to the ER. Looked online at reviews for this antibiotic. I wasn't sure if it was this drug, or my UTI, or maybe my endometriosis. After looking online and seeing a lot of other people with similar side effects, I immediately stopped taking this drug. Most of the symptoms stopped, so I do know it was this drug. This is day 2 of me being off the drug, and I feel so dizzy, like I am about to pass out, and I can barely keep my eyes open, even after I got over 8 hrs of sleep. It will not surprise me if there is a recall on this medication."
- Hap...
- February 1, 2018
"Just like Cipro, Nitro made it impossible to walk on my right foot. Cipro made my arch feel like I had creamed the edge of a brick (and left me limping in the hospital before my surgery, and too messed up to drive to the doctor after discharge). Nitro, without a drip, took longer, first making my right wrist tendons feel like a sprain, and then made my right heel suddenly hurt, literally, like I stepped on a spike in the center of the heel. I needed a cane to get back to my bed. I stopped the drug, and my heel recovered immediately. My right wrist still hurts today, three weeks later, with little recovery. The hurt begins outside of my little finger knuckle, goes below my wrist bone, and fades out towards the forearm. I use my left hand more than ever before in my 72-year-old life."
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"This is my second time taking this. I used it in February after having been on Doxycycline for 10 days. After a check, I still had an infection. A culture suggested Macrodantin. I don’t have any side effects. I don’t have to eat. I feel better after 3 pills. I get really dizzy when I have a UTI. I had to be hospitalized before. Given 3 days of IV antibiotics. The germs now are real. But, it’s all the practice of medicine."