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Reviewer: Ike, 35-44 Male on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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I have been taking this medication for 5 day and my lips are numb and I'm starting to itch all over. Contacted my doctor and he has told me to stop but the reaction keeps getting worse.
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this medcine put a bad taste in my mouth i have run to the bathroom twice felt nausea it made feel depressed i took it for 2 days and don't think i will finish this medicine i also have very dry mouth and feel tired
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Reviewer: cne, 25-34 Female on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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I have three days left of this medication and it seems to be working. The first day I took it I had extreme nausea and chest pains. I ended up going to urgent care and they gave me something for the nausea and the chest pains did go away. I did have trouble sleeping and the metal taste in my mouth strangely only occured at night. However, 11 days in I am having the vaginal and rectal side effects
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Reviewer: Deena551, 25-34 Female on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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I am satisfied with the medicine because it seems to be working-but the taste in my mouth i can barely stand. There is constant dry mouth(worse than i ever have had) and a metal type taste in my mouth-constantly. It doesn't matter what I drink or eat, i cant get rid of the taste and dry mouth-its really terrible!! Dealing with this for 14 days(length of my treatment)is very hard, but I have
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Reviewer: 65-74 Male on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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I took this medications but I substituted Nexium for Prevacid and I found it worked so much better without side effects of mouth-ache (bitter metallic taste etc) Nexium has always worked so much better for me than prevacid. Nexium with the two antibiotics probably works just as well to kill the bug.
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