ooh rebecca , i know you dont like taking tablets but i really would have finished the course of antibiotics ! , some have a terrible taste and can make you feel sick after taking them , we give our patients actimel when they are taking antibiotics and some say it helps .

hope your okay
love

lana xx

Wasn't Metronidazole was it?

The first time I took it I got a really bitter taste in my mouth all the time. Horrible and was so bad I didn't want to eat anything. Like a cross between bitterness and metallic type of taste. The tablets tasted bitter/metallic as I swallowed them and taste never left my mouth, so I just assumed it was in my system.

The 2nd course I had of them I put the tablets on the very back on my tongue and washed them down really fast with water with a spoonful of cider vinegar in it. Didn't get the bitter taste this time. I found that if they didn't get a chance to make my mouth bitter then the bad taste never appeared at all.

Sorry that's a bit rambling, hope it makes sense.

Agree you should have finished the course, though.

Hello Lana & W124,

Yes it was Metronidazole. It turned out I didn't need them after all as I was misgiagnosed with a water infection which my GP later decided it a musclar/skeltol issue so on this occasion it did no harm to throw them away.
The taste is a teeny bit better today but it's lingering and makes me feel sick all the time and I don't want to eat anything.
Thank you for replying.

Love

Rebecca x

They say you shouldn't stop antibiotics before the end of the course, but that doesn't include adverse reactions. If it plainly disagrees with you then there is a case for stopping any drug. That's still something to run by the person who prescribed it all the same.

What else to suggest depends on more information - eg why are you on antibiotics to begin with?

I notice an earlier thread about neck and limb symptoms treated by a chiropractor. How's that coming along? 4 months prognosis to start making a difference sounds like a lot, but I don't know how he works. Nevertheless, here we are at nearly 4 months on antibiotics - coincidence? Perhaps you'd better mention this to the chiropractor also, many a healing crisis has been mistaken for an 'infection' and treated medically. Sometimes the body can reject the medical treatment as a result. I've seen antibiotics thrown up, dental fillings go bad, all sorts.

On the other hand, treatment for one problem without regard for the global context can drive the situation deeper. So this illness, if that's what it is, could be a worsening or an improvement. It'd be interesting to hear the chiro's take on it. Even then, we can only begin to deal with the 'what to do'.

In any case, what was the chiro's diagnosis? From here that problem looks like a bit more than a few stuck joints, but there's never a spinal lesion in isolation of other matters, they happen for a reason. So big questions about the big picture needed here to even hope to help further.

Oops, just saw that you were posting as I was. On the point of disposal of medication, 'throwing them away', if taken literally is probably not a good idea, although most people do this. Old meds should be taken back to the pharmacy for safe destruction. This avoids them becoming an environmental contaminant, eg hormones and antibiotics in the water supply from flushing down the loo, leaching into groundwater out of landfill etc.

Hello KVDP,

Thank you for your reply, no I gave them back to my loopy quack yesterday, the pills that is.
Re the chiro I stopped going ages ago, my going was a mixture of laziness and not wanting to look at the issue which I knew was emotional, the chiro changed his mind on several occasions about the root cause of my mountain of back/shoulder/neck problems. The problem turned out to be happening because I felt as though I had the weight of the world on my shoulders, the dynamic in the ralationship between me and my other half was very unhealthy that of me Mother and him child, I did EFT and went to see a psychic lady who deals with chakra cleansing and balancing then told my b/f to bloody well grow up or else lol! My issue is now sorted.

Love

Rebecca

Sorry, was that a slip? Not continuing with the chiropractor because you didn't want to address the emotional side of things?

Interesting that having worked with the chiro for a while these things became pressing nevertheless.

The mind is reflected in the body and vice-versa, when we unravel the bodily imprint of stress, the situations that cause the imprint become very clear, hence long before problems resolve, awareness is the first step, whatever therapy you take. Same for back pain, same for depression, if these are ever completely seperate.

The pity is that many practitioners are great at kicking-off healing, but very few are good guides through the roller-coaster that follows.

Well done setting important boundaries, that bodes well for recovery.

The thing is that when strain leaves the body, it's often quite visible and manifests in symptoms of elimination. These are often mistaken for infection, sometimes a germ is involved, but that is the product of the process, not the cause. Antibiotics do not help the process, they just stomp on one aspect of it. Of course infection can be dangerous, that's why if the process follows an holistic intervention then it merits an holistic interpretation and guidance, to help the body with what it is trying to do, but safely. It's a rare practitioner who steps up to the plate when needed most.

We've all met people with mental symptoms following medical treatment for, say ear nose and throat events. The converse is true also, that when mental and emotional problems resolve, they do so via a more 'earthy' acute process. You say the issue is sorted, but then what of these antibiotics?

ooh rebecca , i know you dont like taking tablets but i really would have finished the course of antibiotics ! , some have a terrible taste and can make you feel sick after taking them , we give our patients actimel when they are taking antibiotics and some say it helps .

hope your okay
love

lana xx

I have had this for 12 days such a bad taste I can not eat am on day 9 of nothing to ?eat any help for this

I have had this for 12 days such a bad taste I can not eat am on day 9 of nothing to ?eat any help for this

Hello Nteter. This thread is 6 years old ! I am not sure Rosie red is still active. Is your problem linked to antibiotics? Or are you taking another type of medication?

Hello Nteter. This thread is 6 years old ! I am not sure Rosie red is still active. Is your problem linked to antibiotics? Or are you taking another type of medication?

It is I had taken 10 days of bactrim.