Doc wants me on abx for bronchitis and sinus infection, but I have history of C. Diff.

Did your doctor tell you what abx they want to put you on? Some are safer than others. Sorry, I don't know much about Buhner.

Safe and Unsafe Antibiotics:

LIKELY TO CAUSE C. DIFFICILE:
Clindamycin
Keflex
Ceftin
Ceclor
All other cephalosporins
Amoxicillin
Augmentin

MIDDLE OF THE ROAD:
Cipro
Levoflex (also Levaquin)
Tequin
Avelox
Bactrim
Erythromycin
Biaxin
Zithromax

SAFE TO TAKE:
Macrodantin (Macrobid)
Sulfa
Aminoglycoside
Flagyl (metronidiazole)
Oral and IV Vancomycin

http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info/knowledge_base/detail/clostridium-difficile-safe-and-unsafe-antibiotics/

Wow, they prescribed Ceftin, and they were mad at me, bc I hadn't provided a list of abx I was "allergic to." So she said I would have to wait until tomorrow.

M

She didn't say anything. It was the receptionist, who said she would just get the doctor to call something in. I told the receptionist I was reluctant to take abx, but I can't remember if I told her about the C. Diff. or not. But the doctor knows, and it's on my chart. She should have known better.

I might try my LLMD or my ENT doctor tomorrow.

Margaret

LOL Trav! It looks like I'M the doctor. So for now, I'm taking two 450 gr. caps of Olive Leaf Extract 3 times a day. Plus 3 drops cryptolepsis in saline nose rinse. We'll see how it goes! M

I see here you posted yesterday so you probably have the answers & you have so much knowledge anyway. But I found a 2011 article that vancomycin is allegedly the abx w/cases of C-diff-?

http://www.webmd.com/digestive-disorders/news/20110202/new-antibiotic-fights-c-diff-infections

Know you are drinking your kefir & taking your probiotics. Hope you are feeling better :)

Hi Happy and P,

Yes, I know about Vanco. It was used, unsuccessfully, to treat c. diff. when I had it. I would resort to it or Vanco. if I did have some kind of unresolved infection.

Thx. for the reminder about kefir though.

P., No, I don't think we had that discussion. I have had Chronic Bronchitis at least twice in my life so far. And while I don't take oral steroids, I am forced to rely on a steroidal inhaler, as that's the only kind of maintenance inhaler available for asthma, which I also have.

This is a bit TMI, but would my sputum be thick and yellow if the infection were fungal?

When I was in grad. school bf Lyme dx, my doc used to say, ironically, that I was having repeat bouts of acute mycoplasma pneumonia, since it traveled readily among undergrads.

Having said all that, I haven't always had the yellow sputum w. my chronic coughs, and after the yellow stuff goes away, my coughs sometimes di bc. Chronic.

Usually my sinusitis goes away with the use of Goldenseal or Ceyptolepsis in my saline rinse, and I'm currently using Crypto. For now, I think the sinuses are getting better, and while the lung sputum is starting to thin out post Olive Leaf extract (which I'm still taking), I'm stull coughing a lot, still coughing a lot, and my O2 sat rate is below what it should be.

I don't think my sputum has ever been cultured;doctors are such idiots. I don't remember if and how the acute myco was dxed, except that it follows a certain cluster of symptoms, which, I might add, I just had, i.e. bad sore throat, cold symptoms, and cough. This is the acute version of Myco to which I'm referring.

I'll have to see how things go, and if they don't resolve, I could ask for a culture. My doc. never did call in another abx!

M

Margaret

Are you taking a mucolytic like acetylcysteine to dissolve the mucus?
I always need that with bronchitis, it always speeds up my recovery. I used to get bronchitis every 2 months for many years.

PS,

P, what was the name of the pharmacy?

I am collecting names.

Margaret