May 11th
2009
5:05 PM
for everyone who developed a rash, how long did it take to go away? i was on sulfa for three days and now i have little red bumps that kind of look like small pimples all over my ankles and feet and my arms and hands...is this a normal side effect? i am so freaked out that it will be permanent...i stopped taking the meds.
also, i had such bad nausea i couldn't move and could not eat anything
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January 23th
2009
10:34 AM
i started taking SMZ-TMP 400mg/80mg 2 times daily. It helped my Bronchitis but i have also had trouble sleeping and the sweaty hot flashes,and also an annoying headache everyday for the last
9 days. Then today, the last day i'm supposed to take my last 2 pills, i got a rash! They are little red bumps and don't really itch much. I took Benadryl and maybe that helped it not to itch. The rash is on the top of my thighs, on my arms. stomach and back. Pretty much everywhere!
December 12th
2008
3:22 PM
I was prescribed Sulfameth/Trimeth 800/160 for a possible infection in my epididymis. I was given a 15-day prescription and had absolutely no side effects for the first 9 days. When I woke up on day 10, I noticed little red bumps pretty much everywhere on my body. Some of the bigger bumps were pretty itchy too. While it's not getting worse (day 11 now), it did spread further down my hands and I have a very stiff neck and had a moderate headache last night. Luckily for me, my face wasn't affected by the bumps; it just looks mildly red. I can't wait to get off this medication!!!!
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November 17th
2008
7:41 PM
I haven't read this side effect in anyone's posts yet... my spouse and I have had to deal with painful, chafed skin on our genitals after intercourse. Poor guy, he has weird abrasions, redness, and swelling behind the head of his penis while I have external burning and itching. I actually feel like the pH of my vaginal canal has altered and is eating him alive!! I also have had to cope with extreme moodiness and hair loss the past five months since I had it inserted. Needless to say, I'm glad I looked up these side effects to prove I'm not crazy and that neither of us have an STD. I'm making an appointment tomorrow to remove this horrible thing.
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March 2th
2008
8:51 PM
I've been on Yasmin for about 5 or 6 months..The first couple of months were fine, I still had energy, a little added size to the breasts, cleared my acne completely. Now people are asking my if I got a boob job, they're freaking huge! Or if I'm pregnant because it looks like I gained about 20 pounds and I feel awful about myself. I'm an avid gym goer and I can't drag myself to gym if my life depended on it, or the fact that I have a layer of fat all over my body that developed after starting the pill. I read another comment about little red bumps someone was having problems with..me too, some of them are itchy, and my acne is slowly coming back. I'm stopping the Yasmin as soon as I get home from vacation next week, hopefully I won't have any of the side effects I've read about after people have come off the pill.
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January 21th
2008
7:56 PM
I started taking Bactrim last Monday evening. When I started to have tightens in the chest and feeling very tired on Thursday evening, I didn't contribute it to the medicine. I went to bed and woke up at 2:30 am because of the chest discomfort. I didn't take my Thursday evening and Friday morning dosages because I felt yucky. By Friday morning, my chest was tight and under my left arm ached. I called my doctor's office and told the receptionist that my chest was hurting and I needed to come in on Monday and that I stopped taking Bactrim. Yes told me that I shouldn't have stopped. So I took another pill on Friday evening. I forgot to take one on Saturday morning because I didn't eat breakfast at home and I didn't take the medicine with me. Started retaking them on Saturday night. Within one to two hours of taking the pill, I started to itch. I still didn't know what was wrong. I finally went to bed and I woke up at 3:30 am itching like crazy. Now I noticed I had red bumps and splotches all over my body (legs, arms, back, stomach, chest, and etc). I have been itching since Saturday night and it is now Monday night. I went to the doctor today and I was told that I should stop taking Bactrim.
I will never take this again.
-- By smcccorvey67 | Reply | (1) replies | Private Message me
January 9th
2008
10:20 PM
I am taking sulfameth/trimethoprim and after one week started breaking out in a strange measle-like rash too. this is my first night with the rash, and its not itchy yet but something is definitely wrong. hope this helps the next person.
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November 13th
2007
3:18 PM
Moodiness, face swelling, little red bumps on neck, chest, sholders and back, tiredness and always hungry.
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September 21th
2007
8:23 PM
I have been taking 200 mg of lamictal for about 3 years. I am on no other medication. I too have the dry hacking cough that never ever goes away. All day and all night. Dry hacking cough that sometimes leads to gagging. It is terrible. I have had chest xrays, breathing tests and no one can find a reason for the cough. It started about the same time I started this medication and I believe it is the cause. I also experience pain in muscles, it's a roving pain that seems to show up in different places daily, sometimes muscle spasms. My stomach is always nauseated. Very little short term memory, runny nose all the time, constant feeling of having a cold, blurry vision, sensitive to light, little red bumps that appear on my skin, itch, then when they disappear, a scar is left like a cigarette burn. I am reducing the amount of lamictal I take as of this week. I am now only taking 175 mg and will for another week then go down to 150 mg. I am hoping some of these side effects will go away, if not I have to get off of it altogether. It's funny, because I didn't have all these side effects when I first started taking it. Seems the longer I take it the worse it gets. Just can't handle it anymore. wf
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September 26th
2006
7:58 PM
I was taking doxy twice a day for one week with food and noticed around a day or two after I was finished with it, my face broke out. It looks more like a rash than acne. I have a bunch of tiny little red bumps all over my cheeks (some on my forehead) with tiny little white heads similar to an ant bite. When I sweat, it gets twice as bad, and I feel a tightness in my skin where the bumps are.
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July 22th
2006
2:48 PM
I started taking Sulfamethoxazole for a bladder infection. The 3rd day I experienced joint pain in my legs, the advise nurse told me to continue with the meds, I did. The fifth day I suffered lower back pain, joint pain, and by the evening had a temp of a 101. The advise nurse told me to continue with my meds. The 6th day, I had a fever, nausious, went to my DR, my fever was at 101, abdominal pain, chills;I gave more blood, after 3 hrs of waiting for results, she looked at me and said she didn't know what was wrong with me...she had discussed my symptoms with a disease specialist and said I was probably experiencing drug fever and to stop the meds (2 pills left). When I got home my fever was at 103.5...
The next day, my fever had broke, I had a migraine all day, I went back in to give more blood. The 8th day, I woke up which appeared to be a sun burn on my face and ears...which led to little red bumps all over my body. The advise nurse looked at my chart and said she didn't believe this medication would cause this...I told her I was allergic to this medication, she wanted to know why I thought that...
July 24th
2005
8:35 AM
I took this medication and about 20 minutes later i broke out with little red bumps all over me and it itched. My face got numb , my lips were tingling, it was awfulll.. This is the second time this has happeded to me , but the first time I didnt realize it was the medicine.. NOW I KNOW>>
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Sulfamethoxazole (3) Mirena (2) Sulfamethoxazole-Trimethoprim (2) Bactrim (1) Prednisone Anhydrous (1) Lamictal (1) SMZ-TMP DS (1) Yasmin (1) Doxycycline Hyclate (1)
July 2th
2009
8:53 PM
I feel so relieved to have found this website. I am going to call the doctor and have my Mirena removed ASAP! I have been experiencing many different random health problems lately. Which is strange because I am an extremely healthy person. My husband was laid off from his job and we lost his health insurance, so through all my symptoms I have just been suffering through it because I couldn't afford to go to a million doctors and have a million different tests run to find out the source of my symptoms. It started with itchy hives on all of my joints, elbows, knees, knuckles, toes and fingers. Then a symptom I had gotten during my pregnancies called PUPPP which is basically ugly, little, red bumps that ooze a clear liquid and itch like the dickens on my hands, fingers and legs. Then a big knot developed under the skin on my right wrist. The pain started on top and started radiating all the way around my wrist. Then the numbness, tightness and pin-prick pain occurred in my fingertips, then my hand, then my entire arm went numb from the elbow down. I also had horrible pain in my reproductive area on two different occasions that had me doubled over in pain. It felt exactly like contractions. I also have been bleeding every day for several months. Not enough to call it a full blown period, but bleeding every day. Some days, blood streaked mucus, other days full on blood clots would drain out of me. I've has horrible back pain and have been very fatigued even when I am careful to take care of myself. I also am naturally a very optimistic person who can handle bumps in the road of life, but lately, even though I hate to admit it, I have been down-right depressed. I have lost interest in all my interests, have a hard time shaking off life's set-backs, find myself on the verge of tears a lot, and basically have just wanted to pull the covers over my head and not wake up until I can just feel like myself again. Then last night my lips started to tingle, numb and swell. Then the same thing happened again tonight. I told my husband I am just falling apart and don't know what's wrong with me! I have never had any health problems before and now it's a new symptom practically daily. He said he had been doing some research and that he thought I was allergic to my IUD. I immediately Googled "Allergic reactions + Mirena" and found this website. It is such a relief to know that I might actually have an answer to all my problems. I can hardly wait for the doctor's office to open in the morning, I want this thing out right now and I want my life and ME back!
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