Your experience of metronidazole

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Prescribed it on sat for a dental infection and I feel totally exhausted today. Also keep feeling a bit dizzy when I stand up for too long.

Planning to get in touch with the dentist in the morning to see if I can change antibiotics but not sure if I can do anything else?

Is it normal to feel totally washed out? Last time I felt like this I'd had the flu. Its worrying me a bit but have health anxiety anyway so I'm not sure if I'm freaking out over nothing!

Thanks!

I'm allergic to it - my skin came up in big red welts and my lips swelling. I had no idea until this thread that it was known for having such horrendous side effects!

Vile stuff. Makes me feel really rough and constantly nauseous. I refuse to take it anymore and request an alternative.

My dad has taken it quite a few times however and drinks like a fish while taking it and has never even felt queasy.

Feeling queasy isn’t the reason that alcohol is prohibited. Metronidazole together with alcohol is dangerous as the combination can cause difficulty in breathing.

Took them this morning and threw my guts up. Dentist has advised to stop taking them and I'm picking up a prescription for something else later today. I've never felt so weird and out of it as I did yesterday.

Hope you're feeling better today OP. My DH has an abcess at the moment and is on antibiotics until Friday. Luckily he's not on this one.

I feel so much better today. I actually have energy and don't feel like I'm a nervous wreck any more. The horrible hanging feeling has gone.

Turned me into a raving psycho

Same here. I took it for a dental infection and while the dental pain did go away really quickly once I started taking them I also cried uncontrollably, had paranoid thoughts and was suddenly really confused and forgetful. I thought I was going mad. My dentist has put a note on my file to say I shouldn't be given them again.

I had it once, it's horrible stuff. Made me feel sick and tired and I had a foul taste in my mouth too.

I've taken it a few times for various issues and had no side effects whatsoever - obviously I'm one of the lucky ones.

Oh horrible things. I had it via IV after surgery and I swear they made me sicker than I was before the surgery. Constant vomiting

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Hi Meredithgrey1 sorry I know this is an old thread but did your miscarriage infection clear up with metronidazole?

Having an infection wipes you out! Your body is desperately working to get rid of it, which uses lots of wpenergy, even if you re not physically doing anything.
Please stick with them

I posted that in 2019!

Currently on these, day 4 of 5 start getting dizziness and then tingling in hands and feet (think this was just anxiety). Then read the instructions again and it turns out I’d been taking them 6 hours apart instead of 8. 111 and poisons centre they rang didn’t seem concerned, got to finish them but they are awful, never felt so rubbish on antibiotics. The infection has gone though. When does the dizziness go?

Awful - I'd never take it again. Have had no issues with other antibiotics, just this one.
Upset stomach then thrush and a UTI that lasted for months and meant I had to have more antibiotics. I've rarely had either before and never that bad.

I had it for amoebic dysentery and I may have had side effects, after reading this thread. I had an awful metallic taste, but I put that down to being ill, rather than the drug. Everything tasted awful for about 4 weeks, I was on the metronizadole for 2 weeks.

Wtf - this is an extremely dangerous thing to do. You might have an infection that is only treatable with metronidazole (eg if you have bowel surgery) or end up using one of the specialist antibiotics so helping to increase antibiotic resistance

It's because you stop being able to process alcohol so are now likely to reach a toxic amount in your blood stream. Not everyone gets this side effect though.

OP my experience with any antibiotic is that you take the rough with the smooth. I can't have penicillin because of allergies but I've had metronidazole, erythromycin, clarithromycin, at various times and find metronidazole to be far and away the easiest one. I do feel poor on day 1, with maybe some stomach discomfort, but by day 3 I'm fine.

If you just feeling a bit rough I'd stick with them, there's no guarantee of an easier time on the alternatives

Oh yeah wow proper zombie.

Looks like you pulled through OP 🍺

As my dentist is highly unlikely to be performing bowel surgery I'm not too worried. It's also not been too much of a problem in the 5 years since I posted that comment.

God can't believe this thread has been dragged up again.

It's fucking awful stuff and I shudder when I remember how absolutely awful I felt. I laid on the floor at one point and couldn't get back up.

Good for you.

In general there is a move to try and "delabel" (refers to the red allergy label stuck on medication charts in hospital) who are in hospital when they are reported to have allergies particularly to penicillin which are really just side effects (diarrhoea nausea vomiting thrush etc) even a mild rash may try penicillins under careful monitoring for severe infections

I had bad light-headedness and literally couldn’t get out of bed when I took it.

I rang the dentist and they told me to stop taking it straight away and gave me a different one. They then marked me down as “intolerant” to it- as it wasn’t allergic, just bad side effects.