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my consultant has put me on six months( antibiotics)has any one else been on antibiotics for such a long time, and did they have any side affects, i seem to have a bug that just will not go away. i have had bronchiectasis all my life i am seventy now and have managed my lung condition well, but now it is taking its toll as i get older but i am determined to fight on.
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ohara sylvia91360
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Do you know if you are colonising some bug or other ie.Psuedomonas?
what dose of AB has he put you on?
If its Azithromycin then many people with bronchiectasis are on that AB all the year round, usually 3 times a week, but can be every day
sylvia91360 ohara
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susan71068 ohara
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christiann74538 sylvia91360
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cofalot sylvia91360
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I too am a lifelong bronchi and I have also become much more intolerant of many drugs and many abs. As I am colonised with HI I only went a week at most at the end of an infection before another round of abs. This took its toll from a GI point of view.
If, like me, Amox is one of the abs which you tolerate fairly well, I am surprised, if your usual bugs are sensitive to it that it is not kept as a treatment ab. You don't say what pest you usually grow and what it is sensitive to - you might want to ask them. Has your consultant not mentioned a prophelactic antibiotic eg Asithromycin which you would only have to take 1 Mon, Wed and Fri or 1 a day? There is also nebulised antibiotics too. I neb Tobramycin 1 month on and 1 month off.
Wish you luck.
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sylvia91360 cofalot
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sam90709 sylvia91360
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Have been on various antibiotics for lengthy periods both as prophylactic and more intensive treatment.
Long periods per se no particular problem, it's really the choice of antibis.
Like you, amox generally gives me thrush. Since I always seem to have moraxella then they never bother giving me a amox by itself - Moraxella is resistant. Doxycycline and moxifloxicin make me photosensitive. Azithromycin gives me hideous GI problems.
But then the side effects are the same for short or long doses.
Good luck
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UK-Ven-medicate sylvia91360
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Urologist likes to call it a water infection and fob me off that is nothing and related to my spinal issue. On paper I was promised investigation on 2 occasions post hospital inpatient incidents.
Absolutely nothing, all I want is answers
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