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Use of Azithromycin

8 years ago•8 Replies

I have been taking 250 mg Azithromycin 3 time a week for the last 11 years and have no side effects after my lung transplant and Bactrim 800/160 tabs 3 days a week.

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sassy598 years ago

That's good and hope your lung transplant had worked well for you. Pete takes Azithromycin too and gets on well with it.

Wishing you well. Xxxx

PastMeBest8 years ago

Hi Jhart111 my wife has been taking Azithromycin 250mg 3 times a week for the past 18mths since she had Pneumonia which she very nearly didn't recover from.

She has had only one infection since starting the Azithromycin and had had no side effects with it. We both think that taking it had been the reason why she hasn't had as many infections. She used to get infections every couple of months but not now, thank goodness.

Don't know what the Bactrim 800/160 tablets are. Do they have something to do with your Lung Transplant?

You say you have been taking Azithromycin for 11yrs but is that when you had your transplant or did you have that more recently. It is good to talk to anyone who has had a transplant as it gives encouragement and reassurance to those on the transplant list.

I wish you well.

Regards. John

Katinka468 years ago

There is very good evidence that Azithromycin can help with post transplant patients who develop Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome. So your having that is preventative, I assume? Or did you develop BOS?

We would love to know a little more about your story, being passionate about all things to do with lungs. There are several people here who are being assessed for transplants or who are on the list.

All the best

K xx

8 years ago

Hi, I take Clarythemycin 3 times a week and have done for around a year now as the first prescription for Azithromycin affect my stomach quite badly (I have a lot of issues there and very limited in what i can take in ) I was getting chest infections so often I barely had more than a week or two between. Then they reduced but what I have had this year seem to have been more resistant ( I now have very strong AB's to keep on standby) and just got over my last infection at the weekend.

Symes8 years ago

I've been on Azithromycin three times a week for around 2 years now. Seems to help me, I've had a few infections, but not as many as previously, and it's helped with the constant breathlessness. Things aren't as bad now compared to before I was put on Azithromycin.

I've just started on a two week dose of Clrithromycin as well, thanks to problems due to this little heat wave we're having, so I'm hoping the combination of the two will help.

Billiejean_2• in reply toSymes8 years ago

Symes, please check with your pharmacy. You should not continue taking Azithromycin while you're on the Clarithromycin. Just last week my consultant reminded me of this.

Symes• in reply toBilliejean_28 years ago

Hi Billiejean_2 - the GP I saw knew I was on Azithromycin. She asked me whether it was a temporary thing or whether I was on it all year round. I'm on it all year round.

I'm thinking if I was only on Azithromycin for a couple weeks, she would have taken me off it before prescribing the Clarithromycin. But because I'm on it all year round is why she didn't.

The only one of my pills she told me to stop taking while I'm on the Clarithromycin is the Atorvastatin I'm on, because Statins react badly against it apparently.

This will be my third day of a two week course on the Clarithromycin, and I've not yet noticed any ill effects. But if I do, I'll be straight back to the doctors.

Billiejean_2• in reply toSymes8 years ago

I don't think you would have a bad reaction to both these drugs together. It's just that they are very similar and usually the advice is to stop one while taking the other. Because you only take Azithromax three times a week, maybe it's okay but I just thought I'd point this out to you , as it's been pointed out to me many times by pharmacists and doctors.

I was unaware of Clarithromycin and Diltiazem interacting until I read it in your post last week. It's good that we can share our information here.

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