Prescribed Bactrim DS and it didn't work, so then was prescribed Cipro.
Cipro didn't touch it either.
Next med prescribed was Macrobid. That was Tuesday afternoon. Took the first pill at dinnertime. Dosing was 1-2x a day.
Now the horror story begins.
Woke up Wednesday morning with a Migraine type headache, I have never had a migraine in my life. It was one that no over the counter med would kick. Layed on the couch most of the day.
Woke up Wednesday morning with a headache, whole body aching, flu-like symptoms, chills, and a very odd delayed left upper eyelid twitch.
Went back to bed and slept until 3pm.
Thursday woke up with the same symptoms but more severe.
My doctor called with the results of my urine culture and I expressed the symptom issues, and she stated she has not had a patient have adverse effects from the macrobid, and was told to take the full dose as there is not another med to treat the UTI. Slept again most of the day.
Friday woke up to my pj top being wringing wet, and the other same symptoms. Was back in bed most of the day.
Stopped the med on my own yesterday morning, and called the doctor.
She had me take my temperature because of thinking the infection could have been moving up into my kidneys. If it was high I would have had to go to the ER. Temp-98.5.. Of course, then told to stop the medication because of having an allergic reaction.
The drug was still in my system yesterday, and I slept until 4pm. The side effects seemed to diminish some during the day. At 10:30 last night, out of nowhere, the headache, neckache & the weird delayed eyelid twitch surfaced.
I have never in my life had an adverse reaction to any prescribed meds.
The Macrobid was like putting poison into my body.
All of the symptoms described are not on the print out sheet that you get from the pharmacy.
I did do a search on side effects and found a website with patient reveiws and the people that reported their experiences were just like mine.
I have no idea how long this med will stay in my system, but I'm hoping not much longer.
The weight that I had gained is now gone. DARNNIT!!! I fight so hard to put it on.......
Trying to eat even if I'm not feeling hungry just to regain my strength.
The past 4 days have really taken the wind out of my sails..
Now on to saying
to all the new members!Happy Birthday to anyone I may have missed.
Looks like I have alot of catching up to do when I really feel up to it.
Also, please keep Nicole and all Iowans in your prayers. Nicole works for a very large insurance company in Iowa City and by Friday after she got off of work, she had total meltdown from the thousands of calls she received at work from people, and her feeling of being just helpless to the ones that have no flood insurance. She & Ben were getting up early Saturday morning to go volunteer.
Love
Dee~~~~~
(it's a tiny one so it won't hurt) but ment to be a HUGE hug!
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So sorry to hear that you ad such a bad reaction to the med's. Start with cranberry juice if you can have it, I have had UTI probems for years, till I started drinking it on a regular basis and at least it beats the daylights out of the other options.
