Macrodantin and Chills: What Users Say

• Mis...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• November 8, 2019

For Urinary Tract Infection "I felt the medication would have worked, my symptoms of UTI were easing. Unfortunately, after just 1 day of taking Macrodantin, I had the most awful sudden reaction: cough, uncontrollable shaking, chills, high temperature, body aches, and chest tightness. I didn't have enough energy to shower or leave my bed. I decided to stop and felt I was getting better from the side effects. Twenty-four hours later, I started the medication again. After the 2nd dose, I woke up during the night with the same symptoms. I had pneumonia years ago, these symptoms felt the same. I know I can never take this medication again."

• Amc...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• October 6, 2019

For Bladder Infection "I got prescribed Macrodantin before I read these reviews. I’ve been on it now for only 2 days, and I’m dying sick. However, it cleared up my bladder infection almost immediately! I have awful flu symptoms, exhausted, and no appetite at all. I’m cold all the time and just feel terrible overall. I’ve decided to come off the antibiotic because I can’t continue feeling this way. Seriously consider what this drug does to your body before taking it!"

• Hil...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• March 16, 2021

For Urinary Tract Infection "Scary experience. I started to get very ill a few hours after starting the medication, nausea, headache, vomiting, and sensitivity to light. Two days later, a GP told me I may have the flu. I went home, went to bed. So weak, low fever, chills, could not get warm, still vomiting, horrendous headache. A few days feeling the same, I noticed a rash on my body. Went to the emergency department by ambulance. The antibiotic had caused acute liver failure. I had been on day five of a seven-day course. Lucky enough, the doctor in the hospital put the connection together, and the medication was stopped. It took a few months to recover from the fatigue, especially, but I'm lucky to be alive also. Another few days at home alone, I would probably have passed out. I was delirious most days, so they were blurry and confusing. No more Macrodantin for me. Even have an emergency bracelet if I need to travel outside Ireland."

• Lee...
• October 8, 2017

For Prevention of Bladder infection "Macrodantin was prescribed to me to prevent UTI. I only have to take one when needed. During one month, I got four fever attacks with chills, headaches, and muscle cramps. Very much like flu symptoms. It goes on for 2 days, then I am fine again. Eventually, I realized that it might be this medication since I took one on a Friday evening, and the next day when I woke up, I got these horrible symptoms again. I read about the side effects and realized that this might be the cause."

• Bos...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• May 29, 2018

For Urinary Tract Infection "Poison. I’m having severe side effects after four days. They came on gradually. Ears are very sensitive to noise, constantly ringing. My eyes almost feel like they have mini seizures when I watch something that moves too fast. My hands and feet tingled and got very cold to the touch, even when it was 90 outside. I quit taking it, and this morning I still woke up with a new side effect, difficulty breathing. I even asked the doctor for something else when he prescribed this, and he insisted this is what I needed. To top it all off, it wasn’t helping the UTI at all, my symptoms only got worse! Going to start Keflex today, and I pray it works!"

• los...
• November 30, 2020

For Urinary Tract Infection "I was prescribed 50 mg Macrodantin capsules to be used over the course of 7 days for treatment of a UTI. Let me tell you right now that this medicine not only doesn't work and that I still have a UTI after completing the course; the side effects were like nothing I had ever felt before, and my infection actually progressed to a kidney infection. First off, I started to feel nauseous while taking this medicine and thought that it would be alright after a few days. However, by day 3, I was in agony with abdominal pain, chest pain, lower back pain, fever, and chills. The nausea was also still there. I decided to call my doctor, and they advised that I finish my 7-day course and then call back if symptoms did not stop by day 7. By day 7, I still had a UTI, as well as chest pain, abdominal pain, headaches, nausea, dizziness, fever, and chills, all of which only started to happen once I took these antibiotics. This medicine may as well be a placebo."

• Jul...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• August 17, 2018

For Urinary Tract Infection "I have had 3 experiences with Macrodantin, and they have all been bad! I am sure that this drug works very well for those that can tolerate it, but it is not for me! I have had recurring kidney infections all of my life, and the first time I was put on it, I became nauseous, vomited, and felt very ill. This doctor told me that he would not be giving that drug to me again. Several years later, I had a UTI, and my new doctor gave it to me, but it was under another name, so I didn’t make the correlation. Again, fever, chills, nausea, and vomiting. When I researched the medication, I realized it was a generic name for Macrodantin and stopped taking it immediately. This last time, after having been told by my doctor that it was just a coincidence, I tried again! Again, I had the same symptoms as before! I felt miserable for 2 days. I’m off Macrodantin for life!"

• Lee...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• April 28, 2021

For Urinary Tract Infection "No one should be taking this drug. I was prescribed this for a kidney infection when I have chronic kidney disease on 4/22/21. I will be alerting the doctor who prescribed this that they nearly killed me. Was prescribed a dosage of 100 mg 4 times a day for 7 days. Took it till 4/27/21. Made me feel like I was dying with extreme chills and fever, excruciating back pain, whole body aching, diarrhea, abdominal aching, gave me asthma and filled my chest with fluid, was very weepy, extreme anxiety, difficulty walking - felt like walking through cement, dizziness, retained fluid, and dropped my kidney function significantly. Was too sick to realize it was the tablets until the last day, stopped them, and went to another doctor on 4/28/21, who wanted me to go to the hospital to go on IV, etc. Stopped taking the tablets, started a different antibiotic yesterday, 4/28/21, and have started to feel better already."