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.