Clarithromycin?

RE: Clarithromycin?

Julian Earl — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 16:04:12 GMT

[quote userid="8182" url="~/001/nonclinical/f/off-duty-discussions/29980/clarithromycin/232865#232865"] was given Clarithromycin but had to stop taking it due to general malaise and a skin rash. [/quote]

Thank you Eamon. My signs are ertainly fatigue but no rash. At leat my V snd D hsas stopped, which counts for a lot!

My medication for the depression has been rudely interrupted causing a severe relapse of depression I am afraid. Being vet, I am fully aware of people feeling this low or worse and taking their own life but I have said for ages I am glad not to be in practice now, so am away from the Euthatal and other barbiturates in case my resolve completely crumbles!! I just could not inflict this on my beloved wife Annika nor my son, and not my sister who lost her husband Chris to thyroid cancer some months ago! I love them all too much for that! Plus I have unfinished business on my bike, races to do and hopefully prizes to win??! = OR IS this an inappropriate emoji here?? Even the idea of the S-word is upsetting to me t.b.h!

Thank you all on here and elsewhere for support in the last few years inn fact!!

RE: Clarithromycin?

Eamon McAllister — Sat, 04 Sep 2021 13:20:16 GMT

I was given Clarithromycin but had to stop taking it due to general malaise and a skin rash.

RE: Clarithromycin?

Julian Earl — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 21:45:24 GMT

[quote userid="4256" url="~/001/nonclinical/f/off-duty-discussions/29980/clarithromycin/232845#232845"]t is prescribed when they suspect atypical infections - the classic one is 'walking pneumonia' which is I believe a mycoplasma pneumonia that is diagnosed on radiographs rather than anything else - the trigger for the radiograph is respiratory signs with fever that lasts some weeks with an associated fever and poor or no response to first choice antibiotics. [/quote]

Thanks Stephen. i almost fit nto that description: unlateral pneumonia ofunknown origin! But we believed that I reacted so badly to the iv amoxy/clav that they needed to change and this is what the consultant chose. So far so good re. side effects I think? Touches-wood hastily!!

Thank you again...

RE: Clarithromycin?

Stephen Courtney — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 20:08:36 GMT

I had it for a chest infection. it is safer than erythromycin, and only needs to be given BID rather than TID

It has lesser side effects as well - namely nausea and diarrhoea due to stimulation of the whatever receptors of the thingy system but it still shares them.

It is prescribed when they suspect atypical infections - the classic one is 'walking pneumonia' which is I believe a mycoplasma pneumonia that is diagnosed on radiographs rather than anything else - the trigger for the radiograph is respiratory signs with fever that lasts some weeks with an associated fever and poor or no response to first choice antibiotics.

RE: Clarithromycin?

Jill Butterworth — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 16:35:50 GMT

I am not familiar with the drug in a veterinary context but think I had a reaction to it (or could have been delirium due to the infection).