UGGHHH, antibiotics
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UGGHHH, antibiotics
SO frustrated! I'm away on vacation, having a dental issue. Go to an emergency dental practice, thinking I might be having an issue that will lead to a root canal. X-ray, dentist says he thinks I have an infection brewing. I have already made an appointment with my regular dentist at home for Monday AM. I tell this stranger dentist, I can't take NSAIDS, or any antibiotic that provokes diarrhea. He says okay, he's calling in a scrip. I get to CVS, wait an hour for the doc to call in the scrip. Clindamycin ( sp?) Says up front on the sheet it can cause unrelenting D/C diff. Goodbye, not taking that. Call my CT doc, he says, OH, that is the worst thing for you. He says, I'll call in levaquin/flagyl for when you get home tomorrow, based on previous scrips. Advice? I had levaquin for an ear/ sinus infection last spring, no problem. But what about flagyl?
Suze
Started with clindamycin for my infected bug bite.. twice a day.. then added doxycycline once a day. Then upped the clindamycin to three a day and doxycycline to two a day. Ran into problems a couple of times and had to back off for a day or two on the meds. I was lucky I tolerated them as long as I did.
I asked for levaquin since I have never had a problem with it. But the doc said it would NOT work for the staph infection on my leg (bug bite).
Hope you get your infection under control soon, once they get rolling they are hard to tackle.
grannyh
I asked for levaquin since I have never had a problem with it. But the doc said it would NOT work for the staph infection on my leg (bug bite).
Hope you get your infection under control soon, once they get rolling they are hard to tackle.
grannyh
Hi Suze,
Levaquin is one of the safer drugs for someone with MC to take, so that's a reasonably good choice. Flagyl causes problems for some of us, but it's definitely not one of the worst choices. Flagyl (metronidazole) is often used as the first round of antibiotics to tread C. diff (because it's a relatively low-priced antibiotic. Unfortunately, though, some strains of C. diff are immune to it, so in such a case that treatment can wipe out most of the competition and leave the C. diff bacteria free to romp and stomp. When that happens, it's necessary to retreat with vancomycin (which is a much more expensive antibiotic). Incidentally, don't be surprised if the metronidazole turns your urine brown.
Tex
Levaquin is one of the safer drugs for someone with MC to take, so that's a reasonably good choice. Flagyl causes problems for some of us, but it's definitely not one of the worst choices. Flagyl (metronidazole) is often used as the first round of antibiotics to tread C. diff (because it's a relatively low-priced antibiotic. Unfortunately, though, some strains of C. diff are immune to it, so in such a case that treatment can wipe out most of the competition and leave the C. diff bacteria free to romp and stomp. When that happens, it's necessary to retreat with vancomycin (which is a much more expensive antibiotic). Incidentally, don't be surprised if the metronidazole turns your urine brown.
Tex
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