Antibiotics

[Cavalierrubie]

l have just had 7 days of taking Fluxacillin for ear infection. Do antibiotics make anxiety and panic attacks worse? I am having heightened anxiety in the morning and feel generally unwell. Thanks in advance.

[mizzou7016]

I would say that it is probably more of the medical condition than the medications....anxiety about being sick.....anxiety about getting better...

[Cavalierrubie in reply to mizzou7016]

You are perhaps correct. At the moment l am anxious about everthing and feel strung up all the time. It never stops does it? 😥😥😩

[mizzou7016 in reply to Cavalierrubie]

Unfortunately....and I'm speaking only for me...it never stops...especially in my line of work....the unpredictability of human nature keeps my anxiety at an all time high

[Cavalierrubie in reply to mizzou7016]

Life is hard enough without this on top. No one knows,unless you suffer the same. There are lots of us …….. who are brave and courageous going into this battle every day. I have had a good rant 😩. Tomorrow will be a better day. Wishing you peace.

[mizzou7016 in reply to Cavalierrubie]

Peace won't completely come at me again.....I've learned to take things 1 at a time.....deal with each thing....and move on....my environment won't ever allow me to completely heal

[Cavalierrubie in reply to mizzou7016]

🙏❤️

[Yumz199725]

That happend to me after being on that for a week, especially 4 days into taking them. Plus my problem didnt even go away been meaning to go back to the doctors. Hope you feel better soon x

[Cavalierrubie in reply to Yumz199725]

Hi Yumz, l am sure it’s the antibiotics. You have to take them for one thing and they give you another. Did you have panic attacks? ❤️

[Yumz199725 in reply to Cavalierrubie]

Yeah I think I did, I got pain in my chest, short of breath and I felt really weird and then it passed? So I think this is a side effect from antibiotics. ❤️. I still have problem with my foot I took it for infection in my foot and still have it!

[Cavalierrubie in reply to Yumz199725]

Sorry you are still not well. Sometimes you have to have two lots antibiotics. I hope you don’t as they are horrible to take. I hope you soon get better.These were on an empty stomach and my stomach is still not right. I felt very weird, like you did, this morning. It scared me to be honest. Not sure if it was panic or something else. I just came over ill and then it passed off like panic does, but left me shaky. Thanks for reply. Hope you soon feel better xx

[Yumz199725 in reply to Cavalierrubie]

Yeah it's awful having to take it on an empty stomach. Yeah that's how it made me feel glad it wasn't just me! I will have to go back for more antibiotics but I don't know why it won't go away had this problem for about 6 weeks now it's affecting everything! It's hard to walk can't even go to the gym! 💔😔. Hope you feel better soon xx

[Cavalierrubie in reply to Yumz199725]

Aww. Hope you soon get it better. My ear went on for weeks as well. I had Amoxicillin to start off with, then put on Fluxacillin for 7 days. My ear is better thankfully but l am sure antibiotics have left me like this. They make you very run down. Infections seem to go on for a long time these days. It gets you down feeling ill all the time, so really hope you soon feel well again. Take care and thanks for your reply. Let us know how you are. ❤️🥰

[mizzou7016 in reply to Yumz199725]

Are you a diabetic.....wounds...especially on the feet....don't heal well if you are a diabetic...need to make sure at any rate that you go back.....it's nothing to mess around with

[Yumz199725 in reply to mizzou7016]

I'm not diabetic, I don't know how I got a skin infection on my foot it feels hot, looks red and it's swollen on the patch where its hot and red. x

[mizzou7016 in reply to Yumz199725]

could be a number of different things....just make sure to get it taken care of before it gets worse

[Yumz199725 in reply to mizzou7016]

I couldn't go because I suddenly came down I'll on Friday and felt worse on Saturday by Sunday was awful and then time of the month so Monday will definitely be the only day I can go about it, I might need more antibiotics or an Xray.

[LilyMistri2]

Hi there, I had an ear infection and possibly urine infection a year and a half a go and was put on amoxyl and was fine on that, but it didn’t clear up the infections, so they put me on antibiotic you describe or macrobid, I can’t remember the name and I automatically within 20 mins had a panic sensation and physical symptoms you describe. I told my doc and she prescribed the other antibiotic and instead of panic attack sensation, I had depression drop in mood after 20 mins which would last all day and lift in the evening. By day 5 I just couldn’t take the 5th dose the depression accumulated so bad. It took me 2 weeks to feel more like myself and months and months to get my stomach back together. I actually just came onto the site now to check if anyone else had this happen and to find an antibiotic that doesn’t do this as I currently have an ear infection. Going to see a doc tomorrow hopefully. I truly feel, hearing that the gut and brain are connected, that maybe there’s something wrong with my gut microbiome and that these antibiotics make it worse by imbalancing something that is already imbalanced making it worse and there giving these symptoms. I wish I could take an antibiotic that didn’t have this effect.