To be pissed off about what I've been prescribed?

[Luckydog7]

Perhaps someone can advise. I've had a series of nasty infections and the dr has thrown everything at it this time. Been prescribed two different antibiotic pills.

Pill one. 3 times per day, needs to be taken with food.

Pill 2. 4 times per day needs to be taken on an empty stomach so 2 hours after food and one hour before.

Can anyone advise how important it is to stick exactly to this? Should I evenly space both as much as possible or as long as I'm taking one roughly every 2 hours its fine?! They are really strong too so feeling queezy all day especially when not able to eat.

O goodness, its a bit like a logic puzzle, isnt it.

How's this;

pill 2 at 6am

Breakfast and pill 1 at 8am

Pill 2 at 11 am

Lunch and pill 1 at 2pm

Pill 2 at 5 pm

dinner at 7pm

pill 2 at 9 pm

supper and pill 1 at 11 pm

It might need some jiggling to get the spacing more even, perhaps

I think you need a spread sheet!

Just to note that I think pill 2 will be on an empty stomach that is either 2 hours after OR 1 hour before.

Pill 2 is 1 hour before food OR two hours after food. So take pill 2 with each meal, and take pill 1 an hour before each meal and at bedtime. WA

I've just finished a course of antibiotics that had the same instructions as pill 2. Tbh it wasn't always possible to stick to the instructions and at times I took it when there was food in my stomach and my infection still cleared up. If that's at all helpful to you. If I were you I'd buy some probiotics to take when you've finished your course of antibiotics to repopulate your good bacteria again. I've ended up with bloody thrush after my course of them 😩

It is a bit of a nightmare

however you decide to do it I would write it down

It is important to take each one at the correct intervals and in the correct way so that they work
Hope you feel better soon

Its important to take them as directed otherwise they wont do their job

I'm a nurse and when these are prescribed on the ward we just give them at set times. We don't mess about with giving them around food times. Just take them evenly spaced out, breakfast, lunch, dinner and bedtime.

That's very sensible.

I'm on antibiotics too, wondering if I'll have an arse hole left by the time the course finishes 🙈

I was recently on a similar regime with my breast abscess and the doctor said do my best but not to overly worry as long as I was managing to get the pills into my system! She said that the morning and evening ones are fairly easy to schedule in so it's just the day time ones really where I might struggle so just to do what I could with those.