Clarythramicin 500 mg

Hi Marareta,

Im posting you my experience of taking Clarithromycin. I know you only posted 5 days ago but it would be good to know how you are now? Are you feeling any better? I am just posting this experience everywhere I can trying to get a response from anyone. I think sharing experiences will help..

I took 2 of these tablets 5 days ago. After the first one I felt a bit better after weeks of tonsillitis and penicillin not having worked. I took one again in the evening. After an hour or so I started to feel very odd. I felt scared, extremely anxious and starting shaking/shivering uncontrollably. Later that evening I rang for an ambulance. The paramedics checked my obs which were all fine. I think the outcome was a panic attack which I felt very embarrassed about. I had since read the leaflet of side effects from clarithromycin. I couldn't believe what I was reading and how extreme it could be. I was a bit concerned but it did say these were rare and I didn't think it likely that I would be affected in this way. After having the paramedics out I did some research online about other experiences and found very similar reactions. The next morning I decided to stop taking this drug (also under medical advice). I vowed to never go near it again just after this one experience. This was only the beginning. Over the next few days things got worse and worse. I have had extreme/acute anxiety, trembling, shaking and shivering. I have never over abused the health services but I have been phoning 111 multiple times daily, going to A&E on two separate occasions, the first time talking to a psychiatric team. My record doesn't look good but its clear I have been very very distressed. My anxiety has been so extreme I haven't been able to look after my two year old and luckily my family have helped with this. I have lost a lot of weight as I have hardly eaten a thing, Im still having delusional feelings and thoughts at night, hearing voices when I try to sleep. My doctor has now put me on diazepam and sleeping tablets but it is hasn't totally taken the edge off. The experiences I have read on here and other sources are similar but possibly not as extreme as Im taking it, however I have read about a few instances of psychosis seemingly caused by the drug. 

Today I have actually had breakfast which is a massive breakthrough and I haven't paced up and down looking out windows as I been doing but I don't know if thats the sleeping tablets and diazepam masking it a bit. I am desperately hopeful that this will start to ease but I think it will be a slow process.

I have a history of mental health (anxiety and depression) although I have read others with this experience having no previous issues. I would say my previous was fairly mild and I have never experienced something like this in my life. I have phoned people saying I think I need to be taken away and hospitalised.

So, I do hope this is a breakthrough, having had breakfast and being able to write all this. My mission here is try and get any answers or response to the time it has taken for similar symptoms to ease. If anyone can respond I would be so grateful. This has turned my life upside down, I can't work and my daughter has gone away to other family members as I can barely care for myself.

When I get better I will decide what I will do about all this, how I raise awareness and possibly make somebody accountable for the loss and severe distress I have experienced.

I was on this, the first one I took within half an hour I was sick and brought up yellow bile and been feeling sick and lost my appetite ever since, constant stomach grumbles, started taking this on 19/04/18 and doctor advised me to stop because of those side effects, and I'm still feeling sick! HORRIBLE ANTIBIOTICS

Hey marareta,

I can definitely relate. I've been on clarithromycin and linezolid since Octover 2017 and have to be on them until September 2018. I've had terrible anxiety and even worse depression, with suicidal thoughts and everything. I even had to take a leave from school because the side effects are so bad.

Has your anxiety and mood improved? It's hard to keep in perspective that it's the mess when I've been feeling so horrible for so long

I know these posts are old but someone please tell me you guys recovered with time. 😦 I tool two 500mg Clarythramicin pills for H Pylori almost two months ago, and my life has literally gone downhill since then. I woke up that night with horrendous stomach pains, diarrhea but also shaking and extreme anxiety. Ended up in the hospital where they checked everything and I managed to calm down a little, they told me to stop the pills. Was looking forward to sleeping that night but I was quickly awake feeling extremely sick again with intense anxiety, no sleep for the second night in a row... and usually I love sleeping. Went to the ER, where the attending doctor didn't take my condition seriously and left me to take an uber home, terrified. This went on for two weeks, hardly sleep, anxiety absolutely getting out of control, unable to eat, bowel movements completely in distress, I've lost 5kgs and ended up in a psych ward where they've had me on lorazepam for 5 weeks now, adjusting the dose and they've put me on an anti-depressant that's currently giving me horrible side effects and I just feel like my life has become a nightmare. I've suffered so much thanks to two pills. And nobody in this hospital seems to acknowledge how quickly and suddenly I deteriorated after one day, they just think I'm depressed. Before that day, I was a normal person with hopes, goals, optimism, looking forward to travel... now I feel so so sick and I need to know I will get better. Please, someone give me hope, I really hope you've all made a full reovery now.

Sounds like effects from anxiety, not entirely the medication. A healthy heart is a healthy mind, and a healthy mind is a healthy heart.