allergic to most antibiotics

If anyone has seen my posts, I hope you will answer. I'm new to this so not certain how long it takes to have someone answer. Got up this a,m, with the Flu even tho I had the vaccine. Oh yes, forgot to say allergic to Latex also. Desperate in Illinois

Hi, I have many of the same allergies as you. Dr's never believe me when I tell them, I've had that! Can't take it. Next?? We need to find a website or holistic market we can go to. I feel your pain

I can recommend something that works for me. I can't take antibiotics either. I use SilverBiotics. It is ionized colloidal silver in purified water. I have cured a couple of UTI"s with it and working on my third right now. It worked for my sinus infection and bronchitis too. I get mine from a Pharmacy near me, but you can purchase it online, if you can't find it in your area. Also, I got Cranberry tablets at Walmart and I got Cranberry juice. Cranberry juice is very good to clean your urinary tract of bacteria, but alone will not cure my infection. And drink a lot of water. A gallon a day if you can and continue to do that after your infection is gone to help prevent another one. Limit your coffe and cola intake too or elimiunate them entirely. Bad for your kidneys. I hope this helps you too. Let me know if you have any questions. Bren  ***this post is edited by moderator *** *** private e-mails not allowed*** Please read our Terms of Use

I too have multiple drug allergies and I've taken Zithromax for so many years that staph bacteria on my skin and in my nose are not responsive to it. In fact, most of the mycins and cillins will not kill a staph outbreak on my skin. Which terrifies me. The last time I got a sinus infection, I took oil of oregano on the advice of my chiropractor who is very knowledgeable about complimentary and alternative therapies. It worked. The sinus infection cleared up rather quickly after starting on the oil of oregano. In the Bible, you can read where the people would make a paste out of figs and that would kill/heal a boil. I think we need to get back to the Bible days or the old days and learn more about what people did back then to treat infections before there were antibiotics. It seems we've caused more problems since antibiotics were invented.

I had Levaquin via IV in the hospital. When the bronchitis he had diagnosed me with just wouldn't get better on the many different antibiotics he had prescribed, my Dr admitted me. Three days of continuous administration of it combined with Prednisone, which they say co-administration makes the symptoms of the side effects worse. He released me but I didn't feel any better. I was still coughing constantly and I couldn't breathe and I asked to not be sent home, but insurance wouldn't let me stay any longer, which was actually a blessing in disguise since another day of that concoction and I don't know where I'd be now. What the doctor wasn't finding was that I was allergic to all those antibiotics and steroids and it was anaphylactic symptoms and not allergic bronchitis that I had and he was just making it worse. Then the Levaquin really did a number on me. I'm blessed they didn't kill me. On the day they released me, my husband took me to get something to eat. I was hungry. The hospital food hadn't been anything to brag about and I hadn't eaten much in 3 days. In the middle of cutting my steak, my hands began to cramp and draw into things that didn't even resemble my hands. I kept dropping my knife and fork because I couldn't hold them. Every time I tried, the same thing happened. It really scared me. My husband had to cut my steak for me and I ate with my fingers, .what little I wanted to eat after that happened. Since then, which was 20 years ago, I still can't do very much with my hands without the same thing happening. I used to paint very detailed little animals on river rocks. My sister-in-law thought one was looked very real and she petted it, then jumped and jerked her hand back quuckly. I asked her "what is wrong". She said "it's cold!" I said "well.... it is a rock". Lol She said "but it looks like fur and like it would be warm". I picked up one of my last ones I painted yesterday and turned it over and the date was 1998. I almost cried. I loved painting them so much. I still paint some things but I can' t do the detailed work that I used to do. My heel developed a pain that just gradually got to the point that I limped all the time because I couldn't stand to put weight in it. Xrays at a Pediatrist showed that I had a separation of a ligament, he said , from my heel and it had inflammation in it. Painful cortisone shots finally got the pain to tge pount to where I could walk on it and I said no more of those shots. I I got a painful icepick like pain in my knee after I had been picking strawberries. My Chiropractor said I had pulled or stretched a tendon. It still hurts. You would think it would have healed in 20 years. My feet are so sensitive that I wear my socks inside out because I can't stand the seams against my feet. It doesn't alleviate the pain, but lessons it. And trying to find a shoe that doesn't"t make my toes feel like they are being crushed is a horrible ordeal. If I try on the wrong shoe just once and it causes that pain, my shoe shopping is done for the day. I wear some little $10 shoes from Walmart because they don't hurt. I complained of my feet being cold one day and my son said no wonder, all you have on are houseshoes. They are a little more than a houseshoe. Lol It used to be that upon exertion, like working in my yard or garden would surely result in painful cramps in my hands, feet, legs and even my torso. I can't do any of that anymoire. I cannot take the pain from the cramping and drawing. Now I get them even when I don't do anything. They wake me from sleep almost every morning in my legs. Sometimes just one, sometimes both. They are different than Charlie Horses in that they oftentimes render my entire leg totally flexed to the point that it is rock hard rigid, I cannot move it at all and you can see the taut tendons and they look and feel like they will snap any second. All I can do is scream and cry. The first time it happened was a few years ago and my husband carried me to Vanderbilt ER. All they did was x-ray my leg because they thought it was broken because I couldn't move it. I told them all I did was squat to wipe something from the wall. They sent me home with pain pills, muscle relaxers and on crutches. My leg was rigid and immovable for about 9 hours, even with the muscle relaxers. I seriously don't think it could hurt any worse if someone were cutting my leg off at the hip. It actually feels like it is being twisted off because of the pressure in my hips. And last night just out of the blue, my left hand drew into one of those shapes again when I was about to have dinner. I heard about the Levaquin law suit too late to be involved, but it did help me understand what I believe is wrong with me. It scares me. I was in my late 30's, early 40's when I had it. And I had the capsules as well as the IV and it was always combined wuth Prednisone. I am now almost 63 and it is getting worse all the time. My ears ring and I hear crazy noises in my head to the point it just puts me in a trance sometimes because that's almost all I can hear. I tell my husband surely you could hear them if you put your ear close to mine. I had the blood vessels in my legs ultrasounded about 3 weeks ago to make sure I had no blockages or aneurisms. They were fine, so that is not the problem with my legs. I went to a Neurosurgeon week before last and last week he had MRIs done of my back and neck.. I had to get up off tge machine twice before they could do the MRI, because the back of my thigh kept cramping. I haven't heard from him yet. I didn't tell him about the Levaquin that I believe did this. Doctors don't like our preconceived diagnoses. I will tell him now that I've had the MRIs. Maybe there is something he can do for me. Someone seriously needs to come up with a treatment plan for people poisoned with Levaquin if it's possible. And the drug company who makes it should have to fund it for us.

I agree about getting back to natural healing. They have created new infections that they call super bugs with over treatments with antibiotics. Reaslly not new infections but resistant infections.

B. J. I have a very bad reaction to Doxycycline Hyclate, I have been suffering from it since 2011. And now being told I am or may lose my eye sight. Plus all the other side effects I have from that pill. Which I was told by a Doctor it was for dry eyes. Now I may lose my sight from those pills. The Doctor has vanished. Please help me.   ***this post is edited by moderator *** *** private e-mails not allowed*** Please read our Terms of Use

I think you are correct. The natural way seems best. Havwe you seen a Holistic dictir for your staph? I have been using a Holistic Chiropractor for 5 years. He treats all my health issues with natural supplements. Before I met him, I thought I must have had a crippling disease. I walked with a cane and it was painful. I could barely get up by myself from a seated position. I had an overgrowth of yeast in my body and it was killing me. And it was probably started from all the antibiotics and steroids that I had previously taken years before, when I could still take them, and they had killed all my good bacteria in my body. I never knew I could take something to build up my good bacteria; Probiotics. Why don't you start on live probiotics and see if your immune system will build up so that it can fight the staph itself? First, find yourself a Holistic Doctor. He or she can help you find the correct supplements to get rid of the infections. I use SilverBiotics. (Colloidal Silver). They make a salve also that might heal your infections. Search for it on the Web. I have healed places on my skin with it. I had a really dark spot come up on my ear thatvreally worried me, and I kept using that salve on it until it left. It is available online if you xan't find it near you. I bought mine at a local pharmacy. The Pharmacist there told me he healed a skin cancer with it. Antibiotics have been altered by chemists to the point that they no longer even resemble anything in the natural world. They blame misuse by consumers and overuse by doctors, but I think the real problem is the mutations they have presented to us. The generics are not the same chemical compounds they say they are. They claim to be and do exactly the same thing. You can easily read that they are not . And they don't treat the same symptoms as broadly as Brand name. Hope you find relief from your staph infections. Bren

What other symptoms are you having from the Doxycycline Hycate besides your sight loss?

Sorry, did I ask them to e-mail me? Did I include my email address or what? I don't understand.

I'm a hypnotherapist. Did you know before they had anesthetic they used hypnosis during surgery for pain control. There is quite often an emotional cause brought on by the allergy. At the very least hypnosis can help with pain management and the very best it can help your body heal it's self so the allergy is gone. It's something I will look for treating my self. I am allergic to penicillin and now Clindamycin. I'm scared to try other meds,, wondering if i'll get another reaction.

I have the same problem. The doctor would give me different antibiotics every time I need them, but each time they make me feel sick, stomache cramps, diarrhoea and rash on my chin. I would often get ingrown toenails and get a 12 day worth of the antibiotics each time I give up on day 4. Instead I have taken to a holistic healing way. Trying herbal poultices and taking natural antibiotics. It has worked much better than the drugs.

I am so glad I came here…I was never allergic to antibiotics. Three years ago I encountered by first allergic reaction with a drug - Flagyl - I had taken comfortably…it started off with a peripheral discomfort and pain in my face. I stopped taking it - this happened in 2013 - and only had to take Amoxicillian one time following ear surgery…In 2016, I took Ceftin and then a week later z-pack. Then just last week I just got a horrible case of cellulitis - I didn't every think I would ever get these symptoms again…they gave my Clyndomycin and Doxy…Monday and then on Thurs they gave me Rozefin and an hour later I started feeling strange - itchy…I thought it was the Rozefin but after Saturday the symptoms continued..I have no rash, no breathing problems, very minor itching - just a nerve and muscle discomfort in my face…I am 6 days into my meds and my infection has cleared up…but this is really frightening me and I thought I was alone…why is no-one trying to do research on this? Why are we suddenly becoming allergic to medications we once had no problem taking?

Get some D-Mannose at the health food store. I have used it for years and it WORKS. UTI probiotics will also help.

I'm up a creek with no paddle. I am allergic to ALL antibiotics. I have a tooth infection and strep throat at the same time. The colloidal silver is handling the strep throat very nicely, but not my tooth. I'm getting ready to try some other things in hopes I can get it cleared. The doctors look at me as if I have two heads when I tell them that I'm allergic to all of their antibiotics. They don't know what to do with me. I have a mitral valve prolapse, and the dentist will not work on me until this infection is nearly gone. I hope they don't have to put me in the hospital.... because I'm truly terrified of having a reaction there too. I've lost my trust in doctors because they treat me like I'm some kind of weirdo. All they can do is stand there with a dumbfounded look on their face. I feel like giving up sometimes.