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Posted 10/21/2009 4:45 PM (GMT 0)
I started a z-pack (antibiotics) last night for strep and within an hour, I was doubled over in pain. After about 30 minutes, the explosions started and I was on the toilet for hours. Anyone else had this kind of reaction to antibiotics??
Posted 10/21/2009 5:31 PM (GMT 0)

I remember feeling like that after one dose of Lialda.  I never took it again or any other drug that had the same ingrediant.  It sounds like a allergic reaction.  I would call your doctor immediately.  I was about 2 minutes away from going to the hospital when everything subsided.

Feel better.

Posted 10/21/2009 5:36 PM (GMT 0)
I've taken it many times before, but never during a flare. Normally, it has no effect on me.
Posted 10/21/2009 6:03 PM (GMT 0)
Its not uncommon for us to have stomach reactions to antibiotics, but like everything else, which antibiotic is individual. I can take Z-packs, I just finished one, but I get really bad stomach (CD) pains from Doxy. I actually refused to take it for many years because it would just double me over in pain. But now I have developed anaphylactic (sp?) reactions to so many antibiotics that I sometimes have to take the Doxy because it is the best antibiotic for the job.
Posted 10/21/2009 9:19 PM (GMT 0)
I get the same reaction with Z-packs. The pains come in waves but they're very strong. Last time I took it I called the on call dr in the middle of the night, thinking something else had to be wrong. I won't be taking it again.
Posted 10/21/2009 9:32 PM (GMT 0)
I took a Z-Pak a couple years ago for bronchitis and it didn't do any thing bad to my Crohn's. For the record, it didn't do anything for the bronchitis, either.
Posted 10/21/2009 10:09 PM (GMT 0)

My daughter never has any trouble with Z-Pack. I, on the other hand, find the first dose (2 pills) especially rough - am sensitive even to ingredients in multivitamins.

BUT the doc told me to take a probiotic two hours after taking the Z-Pack (not sooner, or it would interfere with the med). So  I took just one pill of Solgar's Advanced 40+ Acidophilus and it worked like a charm. THe probiotic has 1.5 billion microorganisms:

Lactobacillus Acidophilus - 300 million
L. rhamnosus GG - 300 million

L paracasei - 300 million

B. lactis - 300 million

S thermophilus, 300 million

Posted 10/28/2009 8:52 PM (GMT 0)
Yes. Z pack does the same thing to me too.
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