The one AB eye drops they list in my official list of allergies is trimethoprim-polymyxin B. Following the reaction to that, I had another reaction to the Gentamicin eye drops the doc at the clinic was not completely certain was allergy because it might have been some weird interaction between that and Naphcon A I was using concurrently to treat the original allergic reaction. The pharmacist at Walgreens gave the doc the side eye over that idea on the grounds that I was leaving sufficient time in between doses of the two eye drops that the two drugs shouldn't really mess with each other.
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Spike's Bitches 48: I Say, We Go Out There, and Kick a Little Demon Ass.
[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.
WindSparrow - Jan 08, 2014 5:31:05 am PST #7935 of 30002
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.
Trudy Booth - Jan 08, 2014 5:37:40 am PST #7936 of 30002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
So a sulfa allergy IS a "thing". Is it only in antibiotics?
Hil R. - Jan 08, 2014 5:42:54 am PST #7937 of 30002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Dana - Jan 08, 2014 5:45:30 am PST #7938 of 30002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I don't have an allergy, per se, but the one time I was on a sulfa drug, I didn't eat for three days.
Trudy Booth - Jan 08, 2014 5:50:42 am PST #7939 of 30002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
My one friend takes antibiotics baaaaaaadly. She just noticed that she seems to have less "coming out both ends" when the pill bottle smells sweet as opposed to sulphury.
Steph L. - Jan 08, 2014 5:58:55 am PST #7940 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
She just noticed that she seems to have less "coming out both ends"
Well, antibiotics will screw up intestinal flora with no remorse.
Trudy Booth - Jan 08, 2014 6:01:24 am PST #7941 of 30002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
They do. And she's better when she takes a pro-biotic along with it... but the sulfas seem to do her more wrong than the nons.
juliana - Jan 08, 2014 6:37:14 am PST #7942 of 30002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
And people just develop drug allergies. It's weird. I took penicillin forever and suddenly developed an allergy when I was 21.
I've been allergic to amoxycillin since I was a child.
Hey, me too! I keep thinking I should get one of those Med-Alert bracelets, but I don't.
I remember SF F2F meltdowns. I was at home, by myself for mine. Good times.
Zenkitty - Jan 08, 2014 7:48:46 am PST #7943 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I seem to have the opposite of a sulfa allergy: it's the only antibiotic I don't have a bad reaction to. I'm allergic to penicillin and its cousins, I had the weirdest most unsettling reaction ever to Levaquin, and the mycin family puts me in the bathroom and does horrible things to me.
beekaytee - Jan 08, 2014 7:53:16 am PST #7944 of 30002
Compassionately intolerant
I continue to be mystified by this ear infection. The lump in the lymph node seems smaller and I think is only tender because I keep poking it.
Still, no fever, headache, anything coming out...etc. The only two symptoms are the bump, slight tenderness right under the round part of the ear and red/itchy skin on the back on my ear.
Some of Dr. Internet's advice says such a thing might resolve itself. I just can't see going to a doctor without a fever.
A couple of people have been badgering me but...with all due respect to every medical professional everywhere...since my last two ventures into the medical industrial complex resulted in 'them' nearly killing me...yeah, I'm hesitant.