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Posted 2/8/2012 9:20 PM (GMT 0)
I took Flagyl for 17 days having stopped I think about two weeks ago.  Ever since, I seem to have really upset my digestive system.  I've been having problems with having to constantly clear my throat.  I don't know if it's an acid reflux problem.  I'm going to start taking Prilosec tomorrow for a couple of weeks to see if this helps and I'm going to take Clariton in-case it's an allergy thing.  All I know, is this throat clearing thing is driving my nuts and then my throat gets irrated from all the clearing.

It's ALWAYS something!!!!

I'm taking Florastor in the morning and at night with my ABX (Rifampin and Zithro).  Should I add a regular probiotic in the middle of the day?  I think I might have a yeast issue developing too...but I'm not sure yet. 

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.  I'm trying to avoid dairy so I haven't been eating yogurt....I don't know if this is a good thing or not.

Hope you are all doing well!

Posted 2/9/2012 3:50 AM (GMT 0)
I don't know...I have a bunch of stomach issues. As far as my ND and I guess, some of it is actually FROM Lyme (and gets better with antibiotics), some of it is probably from antibiotics, and we won't know if anything else is there until I get off antibiotics.

Flagyl goes after bacteria in the stomach. That is why it is so prone to causing yeast. But it will also get bad bacteria that you have there. I've never had the throat clearing. Biaxin gave my horrendous heartburn though.

You take a probiotic with antibiotics??? Don't they cancel each other out? I don't know much about florastor.

I can usually get buy with two probiotics at night, 2 hours away from everything. But right now I am doing probiotics 3x a day- away from antibiotics
Posted 2/9/2012 6:29 PM (GMT 0)
Please do keep your probiotics at least two hours away from your abx dose. The abx will kill off some of the probiotics and the probiotics inhibit the abx from being absorbed as well.

I have found ginger capsules to be of great value, as I had nausea that couldn't be controlled by any of the pharmaceuticals that my last doc was willing to prescribe, but the ginger did the trick! My nausea is so much under control that I can even read if I am in the front passenger's seat while hubby drives on twisty mountain roads! Ginger won't interfere with any abx either.
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