Urgent advice

[kickassangel]

I have been taking anti biotic Azithromycin.

Now have truly severe stomach pains, mild nausea and mild diarrhea.

I would write this off as a bad case of side effects except that I have now read that it can cause c-diff, which I had about 18 months ago. The packet says to contact a doctor if you get stomach pain.

I am in the US, going to the go will make it all super medicakized, more appointments and prescriptions etc.

Anyone know anything about thus and whether I really need to go to the doctor?

Can you call your GP in the UK and discuss it over the phone? (Assuming you are normally UK-based.) I've had azithromycin before. It's a bastard and I felt really ill whilst taking it.

I'm US based.

Called the gp and spoke to a nurse. Probably a bug or food poisoning, but could be appendicitis. Waiting it out to see if the pain gets less otherwise I need an argent care clinic.

Throwing up every half hour as well now.

DS takes Azithromycin daily, I know a lot of the children in the clinic he goes to suffer with it, it's an unpleasant one, call your GP to be on the safe side.

I felt crap, too. Took a while to feel better.

Can you get a telephone consultation or talk to pharmacist? Guess only you know how ill you feel.

kissass, have you had Azithromycin before and tolerated it better?
It is well known to cause upset stomachs - mainly diarrhoea, but some some nausea and sometimes vomiting too.
Did you take a course of it or 1g (=4x250mg) as a single dose?

Stop taking it just now.
If you have any antiemetics, try and take one and see if it stays down.
If not, take nothing by mouth for a few hours and then try small sips of room temperature water.

If you get worse (particularly the pain), see your own doc.
Good luck.

How are you doing today?
Hopefully a bit better...

So, 24 hours in hospital and now lacking an appendix.

oh get well soon x

Hi love, I'm a veteran of US healthcare! Get well soon! Well done for getting it sorted out, appendixes are dodgy things!

Bloody hell. Feel better! XX

Well, there you go! Not the antibiotic's fault after all..

Hope you fell back to normal soon.