Is it normal for AB's to make you feel queasy ??

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Had to start taking mine this morning as earache and throat getting worse. I took one at about 9:30 and now all of a sudden I feel really sick, is it the ab's or could it be something else ??

yes, they can make you feel sick, upset your stomach and sometimes give you diarrhoea. Sympathies.

Some types are worse than others. I found erithromycin (sp??) particularly bad when I had ear infection, but was fine on penicillin. If you find them really bad (i.e. making you feel worse than the original problem they're meant to be treating!) try going back to doc's and asking for a different kind.

yesw they can! I took a course a month back for an ear infection and was up all night being sick. then the rest of the week felt nauseous all day long!
hope it's not as bad for you.

make sure you take them after food unless otherwise indicated. Big mistake in my experience to take AB's on not enough food.

Thanks for the replies, things got alot worse before they got better.

Just after my first post I started being sick, and didn't stop until 4am xmas morning, also had awful dioreah. I have never been so sick so quickly in my whole life, I just couldn't not move from the bathroom and had to call my mum to come over and have the kids.

We couldn't decide if it was a bug or not, but I do now think it was the amoxycillin. I had taken it on an empty stomach as there was no leaflet in the packet to state otherwise.

By lunchtime yesterday I more or less fine again so it seems like my body just wanted it out as quick as possible.

I take it if I tell my doctor this I won't have to take them again ?

On the plus side, I lost 10lbs in 24 hours lol.

Doesn't sound like a standard reaction to Amox. - certainly not an allergy - could just be caused by what you originally started taking them for.

I was only taking them for a sore throat/earache.

Poor you. Sounds more like a bug to me. You won't have benefitted from ab's now anyway. can you eat live yoghurt and probiotics to help rebalance your gut ?

Thing is, it's hard to explain, but with any bug I have ever had before, I have always felt quite queasy for ages before I was sick and for ages afterwards. With this, one minute I was queasy, next minute I was sick, it was really weird.

My mum was fab, slept on the sofa on xmas eve night and came up to me every time she heard me be sick and basically kept the kids out of my way whilst I tried to sleep it off.

I did manage to get up and watch them open their pressies though which was nice.

No xmas dinner though

How rubbish for you . This sounds similar (but worse) to how I was on erythromycin.
Is your ear/throat still bad? If you go back to doc's for that, tell doc you had amoxycillin and reacted badly to it, so maybe they'll try you on a diff AB next.