Experiences with

Genticin

I took my first gentamicin injection last Wednesday and will have two more over the next two weeks. My doctor mentioned that I will feel wobbly after these injections. While I didn't experience any side effects after the first one, I'm unsure what to expect after the second and third. In theory, it should

Hi guys, (Pictures deleted) What do you think? Have it since 3 months now already , had some betamethason ointment and momentason cream short term 2-4 weeks max. - but not really worked out, doctor do not think it’s LS … just a reg. “balanitis” and send me back Home with a drug called Tannosynt

HiI have bronchiectasis and pseudomonas colonisation. I have been on Colomycin for 10 years but have now seeked a second opinion for my condition (maybe a bit late but I took Littlepom's advice). They are looking to change me to Gentamicin instead. At present I am on IV antibiotics for 14 days. Fifth

AN 22.3mm Recently I have noticed a loss of taste, salty taste on tongue, Was managing with balance, but that seems to have got worse, in the morning I feel fuzzy headed and nausea and on the odd occasion been sick with the nausea. Are all the above side effects of AN, All the above has come together

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I was wondering what antibiotic everyone is using to take care of their Pd catheter exit site. I am currently using (since May) gentamicin sulfate cream. I am convinced that it makes me itchy around the site and I can't scratch it. The doctors and nurses suggested benadryl. That hasn't worked either

I have Bronchiectasis and have had it a long time .I have a New Consultant and she has put me on inhaled Gentamicin one month on ,one month off ,which I have just started..My main concern is hearing loss which they say c an happen. .I wear hearing aids already which is a recent experience.My Consultant

Oh goodness me definitely Morph for me ! After the wkend from hell. Unable to start duritics for heart due to being on nasty gentamicin iv + another iv antibiotics feeling bloated and really uncomfortable. Back and ribs in bits from chest infection chest clearance difficult due to pain and icing

In praise of GP yes you heard it here. New GP called me to say she has latest sputum result. Explained it to me in detail Asked what my advice had been from respiratory team as they had results also. I explained team had not contacted me and l was managing as best l could. Her next words were l think

Hi folks .Looking for a bit of advice. I am struggling with psydonemn infection at the moment. Trying to nail it with nebulised gentamicin to avoid the dreaded hospital. Not doing too well with gentamicin as it effects mobility however l will persever for now. My concern is that l have stared to get

Have given up on Gentamicin tried it for 8days thought l was getting better. Woke up 9the day breathless struggling to walk at all . Has anyone else had similar symptoms have left message with respiratory team but still no answer.

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Hi I’ve just discovered this web site and thought I’d join if only to learn and share and maybe help others with my condition Cryptogenic Organising Pneumonia. I was diagnosed over 3 years ago have endured bronchoscomy x 2 and am currently on predisolone 20 mg daily, nebulised sabutomol and gentamicin

Can i have your help everyone my antibotic klaricid clarithromycin appantly now resistant to my chest infection I hate changing as I'm worried about side effects doc supposed to ring me 25 mins ago lol to tell me what his gonna be offering me I'm allergic to penicillin so options will be doxycycline

Well my friends, I have had the lung function tests (or posh spirometry, as I think of them), and the Consultant told me nothing has really changed, which is good news. They are going to teach me how to administer IV Antibiotics myself at home, so going for a PICC line sometime soon. Should be good

Bronchiectasis with colonised psudamonas. I am new on here, and having trouble with medication given to me through a nebuliser. Been tried on Colomicin twice, but causing breathing problems, also given tobramycin and gentamicin, same problem. Consultant says he can't give me anything else, just have

Hi, my consultant believes that probably as a result of gentamicin my inner ear has been damaged. This means I have balance problems and my eyes "jiggle" i.e. when my head moves my eyes seem to bounce. I was wondering if anyone else has had (got) these problems and how they are trying to overcome them

Hi everyone, My daughter ( she'll be 4 tomorrow) had sputum collected just before Christmas last year and came back she had pseudomonas. She had been put on gentamicin(antibiotics) for a month and took another sputum test afterwards its still there. So been put another 4 weeks course of gentamicin but

Hello everyone - I’m looking for some advice if anyone could help? My mother is currently in hospital and is fighting another chest infection. She has been on gentamicin through IV and her chest infection is slowly clearing. However this is the normal pattern of things. My mother also has bronchiectasis

Hi, I have been asked to consider hypertonic saline in-between my twice daily salbutamol and gentamicin nebuliser. I am sure it would help with thick sputum clearance but i have had swollen ankles for about 15 years for which i take bendroflumethiazide but this does not make the swelling disappear. I