Question: Is there any reason to fear taking one antibiotic right after the other?
Nope. You'll be fine.
Lorne: Once the word spreads you beat up an innocent old man, well, the truly terrible will think twice before going toe-to-toe with our Avenging Angel. Spike: Yes. The geriatric community will be soiling their nappies when they hear you're on the case. Bravo.
'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Steph L. - Mar 23, 2009 6:28:13 am PDT #4423 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Ginger - Mar 23, 2009 6:33:29 am PDT #4424 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Going from one antibiotic to another to find one that works is pretty standard, Bonnie. That's what they've been doing to me for the last six weeks. Between the antibiotics for the sinus infection and the antifungals for the mouth, I doubt if I have many microbes left. They should come up with a giant dose of good bacteria to give to you after antibiotics. My doctor did recommend probiotics and emphasized that pill form was important, because most of the probiotics in yogurt and its ilk are destroyed in the stomach.
The tongue is better, at least. It still hurts a little, but looks much less like alien special effects. Sore tongue and prednisone munchies are not a good combination.
Nora Deirdre - Mar 23, 2009 6:44:38 am PDT #4425 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
God, Ginger. I really hope this disappears SOON.
beekaytee - Mar 23, 2009 6:44:47 am PDT #4426 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
Thanks women.
I feel better about it now. I'm so resistant to taking things for their own sake that doing two antibiotics at once is a little scary.
sj, I really appreciate the probiotic tip. I've never read that but, now that you mention it, it makes so much common sense!
Much obliged to all.
DavidS - Mar 23, 2009 7:26:05 am PDT #4427 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I had the MOST bizarre dream this morning.
Me too. Well, not bizarre so much as disturbing. In my dream there was a news story about a crunchy granola mom/writer (think...Annie Lamott?) and her decision to remove the cochlear implant from her 9 y.o. son that he'd had since he was very young. Basically making him deaf over his objections. And she had some sort of all-natural, pro-deaf rationale for this (in crazy dream logic). And the dream was just making me so upset that even after I woke I had to parse it through my head to figure out that it wasn't a news story I was remembering.
erikaj - Mar 23, 2009 7:27:35 am PDT #4428 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
People really do that, though.
DavidS - Mar 23, 2009 7:31:51 am PDT #4429 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
People really do that, though.
I know! It was a disturbing thought based in plausibility. But not the actual, specific case in my dream.
Glamcookie - Mar 23, 2009 7:34:02 am PDT #4430 of 30000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I had a dream involving me, Rachel Maddow, and an airplane yesterday morning. No, I didn't want to wake up.
Emily - Mar 23, 2009 7:46:01 am PDT #4431 of 30000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
I had a dream which bores me in retrospect. A fairly wealthy woman married to a nightclub owner who turned out to have tried to kill herself in a variety of ways. It's as though my brain got left on a channel I wasn't interested in.
WindSparrow - Mar 23, 2009 8:01:10 am PDT #4432 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Barb, much ~ma for your surgery, and after. I'm looking forward to drugged-up Barb posts.