Voyage to Elbonia

[mdlbear]

Saw my doctor this afternoon -- he took one look at my elbow and prescribed a 10-day course of cefalexin (Keflex). So Colleen and I are both taking it now; I picked hers up at the same time. Then had to go over to the main pharmacy to pick up the refill of her pain pills, which fall into the general category of Good Drugs.

So much for my 2:00 group meeting. :-(

He was also suitably grumpy about Colleen's misadventure in the surgery clinic this afternoon. Tomorrow she'll make sure she has an actual appointment...

Comments

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Keflex has the uncanny ability in me to bring on the lovely secondary effect in the female regions...the one that requires herbicides, if you catch my drift.

Wow. What did he think the etiology was?

[mdlbear]

Yeah; Colleen's quite familiar with that effect :(

Puncture wound or insect bite; my money's on the former given the fact that it feels like a bone bruise underneath the infection.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

Any time you're taking just about any antibiotic (but especially with the cephalosporins, it seems), you should consume one serving of yogurt with multiple active cultures per day. Just be sure not to eat the yogurt within a couple of hours either side of taking the pills, or the drug may kill off the cultures. Both of you should be doing this - believe me, it helps with the female-specific side effects of antibiotics, as well as the overall digestive effects. If you can't tolerate any milk products, you can probably get the same effect with acidophilus capsules or something.

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

I'm not exactly glad to hear you need the medicine, but since you do, I'm glad you got it!

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

Strange that you don't even remember damaging yourself. May be you rolled onto something in the bed.
Hope they get Colleen's body happy and she gets that surgery done.
I need to drop by on Wednesday. I've found some fill-in books. Figure even after she gets out of surgery there will be days bored at home.
*hugs*

[mdlbear]

Yeah; that's weird. There isn't even anything within reach in bed; I'm guessing it was a delayed reaction to something that happened earlier. But I don't remember that, either.

Thanks!

Keflex ??!?!?!

[texxgadget]

Keflex ? This scares me, ALOT !

Keflex is in the category of antibiotics they use when the preferred ones fail.
(IE: resistant strains)

If you are on Keflex, either they are WAY over reacting, or you have a particularly
nasty infection that they believe is resisistant to other meds. Im really hoping
they over reacted because I prefer not to deal with the idea that you actually need
it.

As said above, it tends to kill off the GOOD flora & fauna in your GI tract,
so you will need to rebuild the edo system afterwards.

Re: Keflex ??!?!?!

[mdlbear]

Colleen has been on it for over a month. Keflex appears to be the drug of choice these days for cellulitis, which is what caused the inflamed swelling on her leg; I appear to have a milder case on my elbow.

Will definitely be needing yogurt.