Metronidazole for Skin or Soft Tissue Infection User Reviews

• Jad...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• October 14, 2023

Metronidazole "Amazing! So, I used this medication many years ago when I was well but needed it for BV. I remembered feeling fatigue etc. and a general yucky feeling. After reading reviews this year before taking it, it freaked me out! There are even groups online dedicated to its damage apparently. Well, after chronic infections and being in and out of the hospital, adding Flagyl to my other medications is what is saving my life. I have been extremely unwell the past 2 years and am on long-term antibiotics for resistant infections, but doing 14 days on Flagyl with a break and then another 5 has given me my life back. I take it in combination with Clarith and an antifungal as I have complex issues, but adding Flagyl was the main medication that gave me the main hope of survival. Just remember it does fatigue you, I had to have an hour nap after every dose, but I have to rest regularly anyway because of my health. But, as soon as you stop, within 2 days you feel totally normal again. You can feel it leave your system."

• ENa...
• September 14, 2011

"Diagnosed with rosacea. I have taken this medicine for almost 60 days now, 250 mg twice a day. It seemed to surface all blemishes, small and papules, within 40 days, and my face broke out horribly. It is now healing, and I see the light. I must have had all that trapped underneath my skin for a long time, it was a cleansing of sorts. I am almost done with my prescription, and I hope my skin will heal quickly. I am able to do another course of the medicine, but will see how my skin heals for a few weeks first. I had no real side effects, urgency to urinate at times, and I drank a lot of water and cranberry juice. Give it a shot, nothing else worked for me."

• Wil...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• January 5, 2020

Metronidazole "Absolutely awful reaction to this drug, Flagyl. I have never been so sick on any medication. Was prescribed for a puncture wound to avoid infection but honestly cannot say if it worked or not, although the infection was prevented. However, I was completely dysfunctional with side effects from the Flagyl, including shocking headache, sore throat, hallucinations, dizziness, sore back, upset stomach, sinus reaction, and extreme fatigue."

• Sur...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• October 13, 2017

"I had an incisional hernia open surgery and developed a nasty surgical infection. I was placed on this 500 mg (3x daily) with cipro 500 mg (2x daily). I had 2 problems, one was the metallic mouth taste, and the other was smell and insomnia (worse than I had before). It took 4 days, but together this did what it was supposed to do, and my surgical infection started clearing up."

• Owa...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• July 30, 2018

"It's actually for endometritis following endometrial ablation. It's working on the infection, but after three days, I was itching horribly, mainly on my face. That has mostly subsided, but now the nausea is getting intense. I'm not able to function very well."

• lar...
• July 16, 2017

"I was given 10 days' worth of tablets by my GP. On the second, I could not eat anything, just thinking of food would make me extremely sick. But the worst thing was not being able to drink anything. I couldn't even put a glass of water to my mouth without throwing up, which eventually got to the point when I had to go to A&E and be put on a saline drip to rehydrate me. Dizziness, a feeling of being 'out of it,' was horrible, and the fatigue was awful. I stopped taking the pills, against my GP's advice, because I couldn't take any more. I will never accept this medication again. I'm two days without it and still can't eat anything, and am forcing myself to drink fluids."

• Boo...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• March 21, 2015

Metronidazole "I was put on this drug, intravenously, following emergency surgery for an anal abscess. When I awoke in the hospital several hours after surgery, the first reaction felt like hot, fluid fire being poured down my throat... burning my mouth, throat, esophagus, and stomach. After that, I immediately began having horrid hallucinations... saw several dark, death shadows hovering over me and flying across the ceiling and walls. I immediately called the nurse and told her about the symptoms, and insisted that she remove all IVs (she wasn't very sympathetic). I finally slept for a couple of hours, but when I awoke, I had an awful metallic taste in my mouth that lasted for 2 weeks after I was released."

• Anonymous
• Taken for less than 1 month
• November 17, 2019

"So I’m on day 2 of combined 3 x 400 mg metronidazole and 2 x 100 mg doxycycline post-op, having had a marsupialization of a Bartholin cyst. I have two weeks of the antibiotics to complete. At the moment, I’d say there’s zero chance of me getting that far. Despite taking the prescribed dose partway through each meal (that I’ve been able to stomach), with a large glass of water, I’ve had terrible indigestion, nausea, and headache. I feel just awful. Definitely not for me. Doc’s tomorrow to seek alternatives."

• mar...
• August 11, 2017

"I had a very severe reaction to the drug. It started after two doses (1 day). My skin erupted in small blisters. That night, the whole of my skin erupted with not only the blisters but also very large welts and extreme reddening of the skin all over my body, all of which itched more than I have ever experienced before. In the middle of the night, I took a bath to try to alleviate the itching. It didn't. I then took an antihistamine, which controlled the itching, but only now, after a week, have the blisters finally started to disappear, even though I only took two doses of the drug. It was an extremely unpleasant and frightening experience."

• fio...
• May 1, 2011

Metronidazole "Further course of the medication needed as infection did not clear up the first time around. I experienced no side effects at all."

• Joh...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• July 25, 2016

"The first day I started to use it, I've noticed the infection started to go away. But, it has very bad side effects. Nausea, dizziness, vomit, chills."