How long should anti-biotics take to work or to put it another way when will I start to feel better?

[KatyMac]

Bad chest infection
I started anti-biotics on Monday
I don't feel significantly better
I also look like crap

Should they be working by now - or do I have unrealistic expectations?

Well I have woken up feeling loads better this am & I slept lying down last night - so I am monitoring the situation - I could go this afternoon or tomorrow am....but I am not sure if I'm still ill enough - I know I was yesterday

I think you need hour obs miss....and straight back if you don't coninue improving.

Glad you are feeling better though. Don't rush things.

OK by about 11 I was flagging by 2 I was back in bed

My appointment is at 9:10 tomorrow (with the same doc)

Ok,

I expect a report back by 9:15.....

...well given the likely wait at surgery and pharmacy to get your new ABs (I predict Erythro) I will expect you back by 12:00.

Seriously though. I hope you get this sorted. You know as well as any how poorly these things can make you if you don't get on top of them.

Ah no I live in the country - so I walk out of the Dr's room and queue up for my prescription there & then - it's lovely

Tbh I am not sure it isn't just post-viral/a relapse of my ME but I think I am best going t o the Doc to be sure

I really don't want it to be a relapse

Ah but so do I (just about).

I still had to wait 45mins for Abs and bronchodilators to be made up for a child with pneumonia that spent the whole time (literally) running rings round me in the pharmacist on friday

Whatever it is - I hope you do get sorted.

Good luck, Katy, hope its just plain ordinary postviral fatigue and doctor prescribes something like a good holiday

fwiw, dh is beginning to think he's going to cough and be phlegmy forever, so I suspect these chesty coughy coldy infections are just stubborn bastards. Hope you have a good night.

That is the thing that is worrying me - I am really not coughing

I cough maybe 6-10 times during the day - which is wierd the way my chest feels

We had a long talk about being stressed/depressed & whether I needed Anti depressants then she asked how I was with the anti-biotics last week then she listened to my chest.

All the infection that was there last week is still there....so I am on Clarithromycin - 1 a day for 7 days

So I have decided I like this dr

I am so relieved that there is still a chest infection - I was so scared I was having a relapse

Katy that actually sounds like good news in a round about way.

As we said above Clathrimycin is teh bees knees so should do the job.

I am sorry you still have an infection, but you sound quite positive about it?

Hope you feel better physically and emotionally soon.

I agree - I am so relieved

Good, positive action and no relapse. Understand the relief - we were beginning to think worse things than chest infections with dh, and were happy with the x-ray results that showed infection and nothing else.

And he does'nt cough at night at all, which is equally odd IME, but there you go - infection does not necessarily = cough!

Get well soon, Katy

Mind you ......I still feel crap

Am sure you will see an improvement by late tomorrow. As I said earlier in thread when they put dd on clathromycin we saw a dramatic improvement in less than 48 hours. Hope you feel better soon.

Vaguely starting to feel not as crap - but I am a long way from feeling better

plus I have had a new crop of white hair - I guess being ill for 4 weeks takes it's toll

Poor you sorry to hear you are still under the weather. Go back to docs on Monday if you are still not feeling right.

at crop of white hair!

My chest has started to get a bit looser tonight - so fingers crossed