Experiences with

Amoxicillin / Clavulanate

The primary care doctor has offered me amoxicillin clavulanate or doxycycline. Has anyone found from past experiences that one impacted your stomach less than the other? (I know they both list diarrhea as a side effect.)

Completed a 5 day course of Flucloxacillin for what looks like a small abscess around my nether regions but alas it isn't any better so may have to have another course depending on what my GP says tomorrow when I am booked in for a home visit and I really really do NOT want to take another course because

I was diagnosed last night with acute diverticulitis and was prescribed amoxicillin clavulanate. Reading the pamphlet that came with it really concerns me.

I’ve been living with bronchiectasis for most of my 73 years and colonised pseudomonas the past 10 years or so. I’ve been doing ok but I've had a couple of chest infections since November for which I’ve taken my emergency antibiotics, namely co-amoxiclav. I had to submit a sputum sample recently and

It was the day I laid my dad to rest, I’d been feeling a bit unwell due to the circumstances maybe. After the service I went to the wake and couldn’t breathe properly, my partner took me to a+e I couldn’t even walk to the door by then and that’s all I remember till I woke up in icu 14 days later!! What

Hi, just started taking Co-amoxiclav as an antibiotic, and now seem to be getting an increase in AF symptoms. Still taking Disopyramide, but this seems to be less effective at rate control than it has been previously. No Caffeine, no alcohol, so no obvious triggers. Anyone else experienced this?

Hi all, following chemo last week I then started with cellulitis infection in my leg. I began taking co-amoxiclav antibiotics but found i couldn’t take them orally due to sickness. On Saturday ended up in a &e having injectable antibiotics. They sent me home with the same pills and told me to take

Hi,I was diagnosed with mild asthma in 20 14, but rarely needed blue inhaler. During the pandemic I fell ill with a tubo ovarian abcess which I was hospitalised for week . This made me quite ill for a few months and as a result I didn't exercise as much and gained some weight. After everything went back

Morning allSo here I am again, 8 weeks post op and another setback! I was prescribed amoxicillin 500mg because I had picked up a cold which left me with a noisy chest and because I had pneumonia in hospital they didn't want to take any chances. I wasn't feeling too bad just a bit painful when I coughed

Hi. One hour ago I suddenly started having pounding tachycardia (133bpm) which lasted around 3 minutes, it wasn't afib since the rhythm was normal . I got really scared, thought I was gonna drop dead. Fast breathing and dizziness. And then suddenly it went down to 80bpms. Since I've started taking

Hi guys. After more than 15 days of abdomen pains and nausea, I made few tests and I've been diagnosed with helicobacter pylori. From yesterday I'm on metronidazol, amoxicillin and rabeprazol. Two of them are antibiotics and the last one is a proton pump inhibitor. I need to take this for the next

Hello everyone, I thought I would give an update… I had a lung CT scan in October showing bronchiectasis. A bronchoscopy and biopsy showed haemophilus influenza beta bacteria resulting in pneumonia. I am currently taking doxycycline and amoxicillin and weaning off prednisone. I am starting to improve

Due sigmoidoscopy on Friday morning but just had recent calprotectin back 🙂For a year it stayed at 1800 but now in the space of three months it has dropped down to 610 magically by itself as I have no answers to what has created all this yet 😞 that I hope to find out on Friday 🙂 but I'm just wondering

I have been prescribed the above , I’m told can cause upset stomach’s and have to have a ECG and liver tests annually to check ok . Is this as bad as it sounds ? i only get asthma in the winter and chest infections so told to have in those winter months only . Anyone on this and symptoms ? does it work

I was admitted in June with ALT of almost 3000 and bilirubin 130, jaundiced and ill. After ultra sound, CT scan and biopsy , moderate hepatitis with mild fibrosis was found . Possible causes alcohol (I did drink, probably unhealthy levels but not dangerous eg 30 units a week) or drug injury (I had

my husband had a full knee replacement just over two years ago. Dentist wants him to premeditate with amoxicillin. Will this bump up his RL?

male here having inguinal hernia recurrent repair for the fifth time. not young anymore 81. now also recovering from a two week cold. was on amoxicillin for 10days. have a lot of fear about this coming event. not being able to urinate before being released from the hospital.. getting very weak as

I have three crusty skin lesions on one ear. On the cartilage or skin just above where the lobe ends. These haven’t responded to a week of amoxicillin. The first GP I saw thought they went along with a middle or inner ear infection, because when they appeared my ear lobe was swollen and so was the

I am getting my teeth cleaned (scaled) next week, it's been 6 + years since I had it done. (prior to CLL dx) . It's a new dentist , I explained about having CLL. The prescription reads 500 MG , Amoxicillin, take 4 , One hour before cleaning. 2000 Mg in my gut sounds too high to me. Due to not having

Here I am another chest infection. Back on amoxicillin and prednisone. How much longer can I go on. This time as always it's due to covid. I must have picked up every variant since this wretched virus began. I also have long covid and only one lung. Virtually housebound now. It's only amoxicillin keeping