Any Side Affects Of The Rocephin Shot
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I have had bad pain in the upper part of my leg and my hip since iI got the rocephin shot. My leg got so sore about 2 hours after the shot, that I could barly walk on it.Now it hurts constanly and it catches and shots pain at where I sit down and stand up. I can hardly walk on my leg.
I am wondering is this suppose to happen after this shot. I didn't have this before.

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I'm 15 years old and I'm pretty tough when it comes to pain and shots. Shots to me are really no big deal. Not this one! Iv never experienced so much pain in my legs. It felt like someone shot me with a gun. The needle itself did not hurt but like 30 seconds after you feel it. It feels like venom. I got dizzy, I felt like I was going to throw up. The pain was so bad I passed out on the way home. After 7 hours it still hurts really bad! Good luck getting the shot!

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I went into anaphylactic shock and I quit breathing for a bit. I was taken by ambulance to the nearest ER and a over night stay. It started with itching all over and I couldnt breath and was real hot. I later had a pain in the crease of my leg that was so painful I screamed when I moved or lightly touched it. It is a dull ache now but is still there. I thought you should know and I had taken this shot many times but the doctor told me it was a different brand then they normally gave and think that is what caused the severe reaction.


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My name is michelle,
I too have a rocephin horror story...Early in june of 2010 my husband took me to the local ER because i was running a fever of 102, at this time i was almost 23, im 25 now. ( i didnt want to go, because i just wanted to sleep i was having trouble with my tonsils at the time, i had already seen my family doctor and was on antibiotics and i had decided to just let it run its course, my parents never rushed us to the ER, i can remember being to the ER once in my childhood for a bee sting.) anyway, so he rushes me in a panic to the local band aid shack....they take a look and basically confirm that it is tonsilitis ( already knew that duh!) they do sugest that i get an appointment with an EN&T dr to get them removed ( which my FD and i had talked about and figured i would have to get sick a few more times before they would take them..but they actually did take them out on june 8th that year) But while i was at the ER they decided to give me a shot of rocephin...i wish they never had.

The nurse that gave me the shot didnt choose the right spot, she actually gave it to me close to my SI joint( in the same line with the si joint but closer to my spine, by my L5-S1 area) as soon as she stuck the needle in i was in the most pain i have ever been in in my life, and as she started pushing the peanutbutter like substance they call rocephin intto my back the pain turned into an intense burning sensation that traveled to my hip joint( the back part of my hip as well on the inside of my hip by my groin) and down the back part of my upper leg and down my calf and to the ball of my foot anf my toes( on my left side) , i IMEDIATELY let them know there was a problem, i have a very high pain tolorance, but this made me cry, i told them about the burning pain that was creaping up my back as well ( this pain was instant and then worse when they started injecting the rocephin it got WAY worse!!) when i told them what i was experiencing they said to just rub it and it will help that it is a very painful shot....well a few months later when my hubby was in the ER i mentioned to them that i was still having problems with the injection ( this was like 6 months later) they told me there was absolutely no way that the rocephin could have caused it...i knew better. I had minor pain in my back and hip before this, as i have a stright spine and probably other countless problems passed down from my family, but NEVER this sever....now almost 2 years later i am still in intense pain, i have started seeing pain managment( and recently got a cortisone injection which made it WORSE than it was) im scheduled for a mri tomorrow, and have had Xrays...I have had to be on pain medication the entire time, because i cant work with the amount of pain it causes( i work as a union Welders helper, and have for about 7 years now, so i do "hard" labor, but know for a fact i didnt hurt myself at work) My pain medication isnt working after almost 2 years with out increased dose( s*** as it is now i might as well not take any) and anti-inflamitories dont help AT ALL, i have recently been put on nurontin as well, but havnt seen any improvement with the 300 mg 3 times a day, besides it makes me twitch and jump( especially when im falling asleep) and gives me "virtigo" like symptoms, and at times makes me very drowsy...maybe i need a higher dose, i know 300 mg 3 times a day is considdered a low dose.....I would LOVE to know if the recephin caused all of this, because this was my origional gut feeling, Im at my wits end....I just dont know what to do anymore, my back/hip/leg( as described above) are a constant level 7 pain....im trying to just deal with it but cant work and handel the pain( gets worse with activity), and i cant just not work, as my husband is now disabled due to a genitic disorder that was misdiegnosed as lyme....and to work i have to fill my perscription of pain medication, which when your 25 people just think that you want them to get high ( thankfully my DR doesnt think that, but there are 2 of his nurses, who have known me since i was like 4 years old, that apparently think that i just use them to get high, and treat me like im a drug addict when i call about my perscriptions....it is absolutely agravating!!!! and EXPENCIVE! I am VERY interested in a class action lawsuit. I live in the State of Pennsylvania. my email address is xxxxxxx@xxxxxx [1], contact me through email and i will supply my phone number and any other infromation that is nessacery. I will post the results of the xrays and MRI....( i have often wondered if the recephin eats away the soft tissue or the joint or something..didnt occure to me before that it could cause nerve damage....i see my PM doc next week sometime and will be sure to talk to him about the possibility of the rocephin shot causeing this. please do keep me updated about everyones situation? has anyone started feeling better?

Thanks again
Michelle

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my 20 month old daughter just recieved the same antibiotic shot today, and she is shaking in pain. she hasnt been able to bear any weight on the leg that she recieved the injection in all day. after reading these posts, im terrified!!!! should this behavior persist... please let me know how to go about contacting whomever it is that has information in regards to a lawsuit

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My dear 21 year old, I empathize with you and feel the same way about drugs, whether injections or taken by mouth, because the side effects are worse than what the meds are suppose to treat. AND ONCE A DOCTOR GIVES YOU A MED THAT HARMS YOU, THEY AND THEIR MEDICAL FACILITY ARE THRU WITH YOU AND BEWARE OF RETURNING TO THEM, BECAUSE THEY WILL KILL YOU, AND NO ONE WILL BE THE WISER, DOCTORS ARE THE ONLY PROFESSION THAT CAN KILL AND GET AWAY WITH IT BY BLAMING DRUG REACTION OR SOME OTHER MED PROCEDURE. Get a lawyer, one that is'nt in need of cash, one who loves seeking true justice for his/her client. And contact a homeopathic or naturopathic doctor, or a local chiropractor, they will help you if they can. IF YOU WANT TO LIVE A LONG AND HEALTHY AS POSSIBLE LIFE IN THIS IMPERFECT WORLD, EAT RIGHT, EXERCISE, GET AS MUCH SLEEP AS POSSIBLE AND FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH STAY AS FAR AWAY FROM ALLOPATHIC MEDICAL DOCTORS AS POSSIBLE, FOR THE ARE NOTHING MORE THAN THE PUPPETS OF BIG PHARMA, THE DEVILS ADVOCATE AND THE MODERN DAY AL CAPONE OF THE LEGAL DRUG TRADE. DOCTORS AND THE MEDICINES THE PRESCRIBE DESTROY THE BODY AND THE MIND, SO THAT THEY CAN MAKE MONEY ON PEOPLE FROM THE CRADLE TO THE GRAVE. I SINCERLEY HOPE YOU ARE BETTER BY NOW.

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I got a rochepin inj yesterday R hip it hurt so bad I almost passed out & was screaming in pain, the dr came in & wanted to see where the nurse gave the shot, he said it was in the right spot, but she could of hit a nerve cuz there isn't much meat back there. He mae a note in chart I was to never have rochepin inj again.

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I finally got better after 2 months. What really worked was physical therapy during which they did ultra sound. I saw a neurologist who put me on Neurontin which could have helped also. I'm staying on it until I see the dr. again in March. I had gotten a prescription for an anti inflammatory that did nothing. Also got a prescription for Prednisone & it did nothing. Neurontin works on the nerve. What most likely happened to you, like me, is the needle hit the sciatic nerve. The pain was excruciating for 8 weeks! I messed around with the GP until I finally said I wanted to see a neurologist. So physical therapy, heat, ultra sound & Neurontin I'd say did the trick! But I'll never have one of those injections again!!!! Good Luck & let me know how you're coming along.

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im replying to Tom message, i saw ur post and i would love to speak with you regarding this matter. please contact me and ill send u my other contact info from there.

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I got the Rocephin shot about 30 minutes ago.....OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Had I known the excrutiating pain I would go through, I would have refused that sh**!! I was crying and shaking so bad I could barely take the pills they gave me!! I have the flu and bronchitis & I have been in horrible pain from my chest and my body and have barely slept or eaten in days.....NOW I have to deal with this pain on top of everything else! I have back problems & get 10 to 12 shots in my spine every so often...and I would get 20 of those before I would take one more of thise rocephin shots!!!! anyone have any idea how long Im gonna have to deal with this too??!!

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I received my Rocephin shot at the end of November and I still have occasional sharp pains in my hip and now I have a huge knot at the injection site, any ideas how to get rid of it?

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I have a crater in my right hip the size of a ping pong ball from a Rocephin shot. The area is painful to touch. If I sit to long my right butt cheek starts hurting and then it will go numb. My email is I would like to be part of this

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I am interested in this action lawsuit you're talking about but don't want to give my personal information online. If you could contact me at I would be happy to tell you my story. Thank You....Tom

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On Dec. 5, 2011 I was given an injection of Ceftriaxone , which is the ingredient in Rocehpin. It was given to me in the buttox/hip & the pain has been unbearable ever since. The doctor, after a week gave me an RX for an anti inflammatory which didn't touch the pain. I went to see another doctor who gave me prednisone on Dec. 23rd with no results. It just keeps getting worse & worse. The pain goes down my thigh into my calf & has began to go into my other leg also. Sitting is the ultimate worst but the pain is constant. On a scale from 1 -10 it's 10 in the mornings. I've now seen a chiropractor who is going to order an MRI for me today & I'm trying to get a referral to a neurologist from the 2nd doctor I saw. I'm interested in the class action suit mentioned by LaTasha G but would like to know how to contact her. After all I've read on this site it's very scary. I'll keep you updated.

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I just had the shot a few hours ago to treat uvulitis(sp). also got a shot of prednisone. the nurse was really nice and warned me it would hurt and said she added lidocane to help. i felt the med going down from my hip, turn to the inside of my thigh and run to my knee and then to my ankle! it was like a traveling bruise!! it was the wierdest feeling. i wanted to tell her to stop but i was desperate to get immediate jump on helping my throat! she did stop and make sure she was truely in a muscle and she was. interesting post you guys have going for sure....... i will definately be letting you know about the next few days. oh, and for comparison reason ill tell you ive become a fat person after having horrible complicatiosn of a csection, i now take hydrocodone 10mg every day and my csection was 3.5 yrs ago

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I'm replying to all the comments regarding the rocephin shot. I received the rocephin shot on 11/2/2011 in the butt/hip area. The nurse advised it would burn, hurt and that I would some muscle pain the next. She advised me to move around so I wouldn't feel the pain as much. So I did what I was told. I went to sleep and when I woke up I could barely sit up because there was a terrible pain in my lower back. Over the next couple of days the pain in my back got worse. As I would sleep I felt shots of pain hit my back, hip and leg. Mind you I never had these pains before the rocephin shot. I took muscle relaxers, tylenol and other pain pills to try and take the pain away, but nothing helped. As of now I'm still having the pain in my back but now I can't bend over, touch my toes, tie my shoes, pickup the baby or feed the dog, any kind of movement the requires me to have stress on my back hurts to the point where i m crying, I haven't had a good night sleep since 11/2/11. I went back to the doctor after a month of terrible pain to tell them my situation and they did nothing but referred me to a orthopedic doctor and put me on robaxin and
prednisone.
So I fully do believe that there is a secret about this shot that causes some kind of damage, I'm currently looking into a class action lawsuit. Why? Because after reading this I see not only myself but other also who are having the same problems with this rocephin shot as well. If you would like to partake in this please contact me with your name, address, phone so when I do speak with a lawyer I can include you in on this lawsuit as well. Thank you

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I got the shot after i was disgnosed with a kidney infection. The next two days were the worst days of my life. I was fine the next day until about 1:00pm then I noticed it really was hurting me to walk so I took a nap. When I woke up I couldn't move from being in so much pain. I am just glad that I grabbed the phone before I went to sleep. Nothing more scary than waking up and being in so much pain that you can't move. The nurse told me it would be sore but nothing like this. I also experienced upset stomach , couldn't eat, and vomiting.

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I was diagnosed with Pylonephritis(kidney infection),
got an injection of Rocephen in my left vento gluteal muscle. Did not hurt at all. I waited 15 minutes before leaving the office, For the next 36 hours my legs spasmed,they were stiff and hurt so bad I could not walk. My husband had to carry me to the bathroom.It is still sore. I can walk but I am limping.

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I received the shot in Dec 09, when the nurse gave the shot in my right hip my leg jerked up and out and hurt like no other shot I have ever gotten. This was not my first rocephin shot. The pain never went away and the area got discolored and sank in like a hole on my hip. It kept getting worse, pain in my hip, leg and tingling down to my toes. When I went back to the dr that gave the shot she said I had an allergic reaction and all I could do was see a Cosmetic Surgeon to have something injected into the area that sunk in to give "cushion" to my nerves. I saw Cosmetic Surgeons, Neurologist, Neuro Surgeons, Dermatologist, Orthapedic, Pain Management, you name it I saw them, probably at least 8 different doctors who all said they have never seen anything like this and nothing could be done. The Neuro Surgeons said I had nerve damage to the small nerves in the hip and its like " a needle in a hay stack" to try to find which nerve or nerves are damaged. I have been in therapy three times, I hurt when I do anything that involves moving my hip and working the muscle, driving for any long period of time is awful. Going grocery shopping and trying to push a full basket of groceries causes it to hurt among other things. I still get a shooting pain where the shot was given and its been over two years. I have now caused my spine to curve and have pain down the left side of my body from overcompensating and leaning to the left to stay off of the right. There is still an indenture where the shot was given. I sit at work for 8 hours a day and they say sitting is the worse thing for me. Anything would be helpful at this point from anyone.

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I got a shot of rocephin about 2 weeks ago because of an absess in my gums and it hurt so bad the day I got the shot as well as a couple days later. Today, I still have pain in the area where the shot was given and that pain goes up my back. I went to the doctor and told them and they told me not to worry it was just my reaction to the needle because I hate needles. They said I probably tensed up.

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i got the shot yesterday for strep throat. I was told it would hurt, however my mom is a nurse and had given the shot before to STD patients and they hadnt had excessive pain. The needle went in and it was a struggle not to scream, they told me that it would feel better if i rubbed it and kept moving it, so i feverishly marched around the room for 15 minutes in severe pain, i tried touching the injection site very gently, but it was way too much pain to take. The pain was getting a little better until we got into the car and I had the worst pain in my life next to kidney stones and i was hardly able to talk because i only wanted to scream, though i have a high pain tollerance. My mother was shocked at the amount of pain I had because she had never run into this before. The nurse injected me with the L-thing mentioned by someone else earlier, not sterile water so i have no idea what caused so much pain, as i am still experiencing bad pain today with advil. i dont know if this helps, but i am curious why it hurt so bad as well, im not lying when i say it hurts worse than broken bones, i was crying for over an hour yesterday

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