Avelox antibiotic

[packrat]

I'm still sick so I ran up to the office today to get checked out since I have to work tomorrow and can't take a nap in the morning like I've been doing. Got put on Avelox. Never heard of it, never been on it. Took it after lunch, so about12:30/1:00 thereabouts. Felt kind of..off this afternoon, really tired and warm, heart kind of pitter pattery and then started to feel nauseated this evening. Didn't think anything of it b/c I've not been sleeping well and only took a short nap this am, figured I was just overtired and overexerted myself running London to dance, cleaning etc when I don't feel good to begin with. The nausea I assumed was b/c I hadn't eaten since lunch but I'd been drinking a protein drink w/caffeine in it so maybe it got me a little wired.

Ate a late supper and thought I would start to feel better once I got something in my stomach. No. Put the kids to bed and remembered I'd forgotten to ask if I could take the cough syrup w/codeine in it that I'd gotten yesterday to help me sleep thru the night. (not that it worked at all last night) So I thought, I'll just google it.

Now I'm scared to go to sleep. Could feel a panic attack coming on while I was reading so I just clicked out of it. I'm going to see if I can get a different antibiotic tomorrow at work and I'm tossing these. But criminey sakes, I'm still kinda scared. I'm a pansy about medicine anyway, I just don't like it and try to go as long as I can w/out it. If I wasn't working tomorrow I wouldn't even have gone in today..and maybe I won't make it to work anyway but still.

I know you can't believe everything you read and there are other explanations for how I felt/feel besides the antibiotic. And, there's about 9 hours in between when I took the medicine and when I was planning on taking the cough syrup..I think one of the reviewers who thought he was going to end up in the ER w/breathing and heart problems took them fairly close together.

I'm not the type to read the warning label and the "could cause" things on meds and then instantly experience them, but I am the type to feel a little weird and wonder if it's the med and then read about it and get freaked out, so then afterward, I'm really concentrating on how I feel. Ha, like when you think you hear a noise, you stop and cock your head and look up and off to the side. I keep doing that..

JD won't be home for another 3 hours and I can't stay up that long if I plan on working tomorrow.

I'm a bit of a spaz about this stuff, sorry!

 

[TooPatient]

How are you feeling?

I hadn't ever heard of this but just did a search on it... wow.
They suggest NOT taking antacids or even vitamins with this stuff. (could make it less effective)

If you haven't done so yet, you should call your doctor. The pittery-pattery heart you described (plus nausea) is a side affect listed on the info about the drug.

Did the doctor say why he wanted you on this and not one of the more common antibiotics?

 

[MagsyMay]

I was on this a number of years ago, I honestly can't even remember what for. All I know is I still have like 5 or 6 left over (the ones I received were individually packaged/sealed). I did not experience any adverse side effects I can recall, but if you are, definitely talk to your doctor!

I do tend to not get overly hyped about medication side effect/adverse reaction lists because just about everything will scare you to death if you read the fine print!

 

[packrat]

Thanks guys! I settled down last night and went to bed right after I posted above. I "listened" to how I felt and I was fine. Didn't take the cough syrup, tho I will tonight. Of course, the second I went to bed I ended up coughing and gagging and this god awful hoarking until 2:30 and up about 10 times before my alarm went off at 6:30. I made it thru the work day tho and got a Zpak instead. I've never had that happen w/an antibiotic before, ever. I've had where they made my stomach hurt and I'd spend time in the bathroom but not problems like yesterday.

Seems kinda dumb to waste a whole thread on that but..sometimes it's better to talk about it when you're freaked I guess!

 

[RockHugger]

fluoroquinolones antibiotics are wine of those 'be careful' drugs. They can have serious effects if you have underlying conditions. They are known to cause neuromuscular complications and different manufacturers have been sued because of nerve damage and tendon damage. I took them (a different antibiotic but still a fluoroquinolone) and 3 of my toes went completely numb for days. I was only on it a day before my heart raced.

 

[packrat]

Holy crap RH, that's scary! I never even thought twice about taking it, never thought about an antibiotic making a person feel that way. I ask about any other medicine I've ever been on but not antibiotics. Now I know to pay a little more attention!

 

[RockHugger]

Most antibiotics are pretty harmless, but for some reason that type is just bad news. There's another type as well, but it's hospital grade that causes serum sickness more so then others. Starts with a c but I can't remember the name right now.

I'm like you, super careful about any type of drugs. I'm asked for jobs and dr appointments if I take any drugs or alcohol, and I say they are lucky if they find Tylenol In me!

 

[jstarfireb]

Yeah, everyone reacts a little bit differently to different medications. Some people will experience side effects while others won't. Unfortunately, there's no way of knowing beforehand.