I am extremely particular with my antibiotics and needed to use a few due to serious chest infections this year. Number one - fluroquinolones are out and is on my medical file unless needed to save my life. If you lift - don't touch these. Even if you don't, in many countries they are an antibiotic of last resort as they can completely destroy your life and essentially poison you and the results are terrible. I watched a good friend who jogged everyday, had a great life with her family, end up with 6 herniated disks, terrible arthritis, in pain all the time, years later still dealing with it. She had fluroquinolone toxicity and it came from 3 pills of the most popular drug they give to women for bladder infections.
Another warning not so dangerous, but worth considering. This is a strong antibiotic and I used it previously with no issues. I started it this year and ended with chronic diarrhea - whatever I ate just ran through me. I was dehydrated which increased my hemocrit and hemoglobin. I could not properly digest anything and I was taking probiotics, digestive enzymes, kefer, and sauerkraut, etc. Could not understand why it occurred. One day it just went back to normal.
Got another chest infection - rinse/repeat so I did a deep dive into this medication and it can cause diarhea for 3 months after you finish or longer.
If you are trying to build muscle or just have a life - spending hours in the bathroom everyday makes it pretty much impossible.
Just a friendly wanting before you take this antibiotic - there may be better options especially if you end up with walking pneumonia as this drug is useless against walking but works against community acquired pneumonia. It has to do with the inability to penetrate the cell wall of the bacteria. I am paraphrasing, but read my medical books and after 10 days of amoxi-clav was no better, off to another one that has me feeling better in days - Doxycycline.
Drugs will be fine for most people, but if all of the sudden something is off - it is worth reading that insert or going to the Mayo Clinic's website and reading up on the drug.
I am finally over it, but made it hard to push it at the gym for a while when I could not digest my food no matter what I did to help digestion.
Food for thought!
Another warning not so dangerous, but worth considering. This is a strong antibiotic and I used it previously with no issues. I started it this year and ended with chronic diarrhea - whatever I ate just ran through me. I was dehydrated which increased my hemocrit and hemoglobin. I could not properly digest anything and I was taking probiotics, digestive enzymes, kefer, and sauerkraut, etc. Could not understand why it occurred. One day it just went back to normal.
Got another chest infection - rinse/repeat so I did a deep dive into this medication and it can cause diarhea for 3 months after you finish or longer.
If you are trying to build muscle or just have a life - spending hours in the bathroom everyday makes it pretty much impossible.
Just a friendly wanting before you take this antibiotic - there may be better options especially if you end up with walking pneumonia as this drug is useless against walking but works against community acquired pneumonia. It has to do with the inability to penetrate the cell wall of the bacteria. I am paraphrasing, but read my medical books and after 10 days of amoxi-clav was no better, off to another one that has me feeling better in days - Doxycycline.
Drugs will be fine for most people, but if all of the sudden something is off - it is worth reading that insert or going to the Mayo Clinic's website and reading up on the drug.
I am finally over it, but made it hard to push it at the gym for a while when I could not digest my food no matter what I did to help digestion.
Food for thought!