Antibiotics

[tissie1]

Ceftin sounds my best best so far.

Of course they always take the products that "work" for us off the market... it never fails!

Levaquin ... I found this about it: ""I've received hundreds of e-mails from people suffering from devastating, long-lasting side effects associated with Cipro, Levaquin, Floxin, and other fluoroquinolone antibiotics. Most of these people are young and had been healthy and active. These antibiotics have legitimate uses in treating infectious diseases, but they are overused for minor conditions such as sinusitis, prostatitis, and bladder infections. My stance is that Cipro, Levaquin, and similar antibiotics should be used only when other, safer drugs are ineffective, or for organisms that are only sensitive to fluoroquinolones.""

Avelox sounds like it could have more side effects for sure. Augmentin was hard enough on my stomach! I still am going to the bath room many times a day but it was a bit more solid once this morning so that is good.

Also when I first started taking the Augmentin I would wake up at night and hallucinate I guess you would call it and sweat and was dizzy although I still sweat at night. I am not having heart palpations but my chest does feel odd.

I think I would pass on the Doxycycline! I feel ill enough without something like that! I lost about 5lbs already during this ordeal.

WOW MG you are a medical box!

[mkgbrook]

Tissie1,

Aye. I am allergic to many things (food, plants, dust...) and am allergic to three of the main antibiotic groups (cillens, e-mycins, and sulfur)... it is my mom's fault, she is the same way. So, I have to take the hard stuff... but other than a few liveable side effects, I have had no adverse effects. But I hope that all the stress and head aches I have as a result of allergies and chronic sinusitus can allow me to pass on a little practical experience. I check in while I am at the computer... which as a computer engineer is often... I will be checking on your progress and hoping for the best.

MG

[tissie1]

Thanks for all your help really! Sorry to hear you are allergic to so many things and have to take the hard stuff!! My mom is allergic to cillens too but I don't seem to be. I went to an allergist last summer and they did skin tests and blood tests and said I was fine and even an asthma test so I don't get it!

Well I didn't pick up the Ketek last night and I didn't call today for a different prescription because a friend of mine is pushing me to cancel the appt. with the nurse practioner that I have been seeing for several years and to schedule an appt. with a "real" Dr. they keep telling me. I don't know if this will provide beneficial since she would give me another antibiotic if I called and told her my concerns or go in to see her if I go to the Dr. and have to start my whole story and basically will end up at the same point won't I? I am such a pessimist... I don't know what other options he could offer.

On and off through the day my glands swell, I get hot, etc. My tougne has a white coating, my ears are still draining and I had a bit of a headache last night but it isn't as bad today just the usually head swimming thing which my mom questioned me about "inner ear" trouble because she has a lot of that.

COmputer Engineer eh! Sounds pretty neat! I sit at a computer all day myself too but not an engineer more like adminstritive assistant!

[mkgbrook]

Tissie1,

CE is not really fancy. A lot of math to program a computer to simulate physical phenomena... Administrative Assistant? Well I have nothing but respect for all of you, with out you we would lose our heads when we stray to far from the glowing boxes with flashy lights.

You should contact your nurse practitioner and get a new script... getting back on antibiotics is a must, but you should also make an appointment with the doctor and transfer yourself into his care as a patient.

Getting well is the overall goal at this point.

Good luck.

MG