Please read if you are having Head ache, back pain, nausea

i've taken Trimethoprim 3 or 4 times for UTI's and[b:9d67d08601] i have never had any problems[/b:9d67d08601] what so ever. The only thing i'm conserned about is it affecting my pill.

After taking trimethoprim and my UTI cleared up and gone, i started to feel rather stomach sick and was experiancing mild cramps - so fingers crossed it is just my imagination playing tricks on me and not what i think it could be

I was prescribed a 6 month course of trimethoprim for acne, 4 tablets a day, within 3 days I began to feel ill with flu like symptoms, my husband had just had flu so I assumed I had caught it off him. By the 4th day I couldnt even keep a drink of water down, my knees and ankles were swollen and sore and my finger joints were agony and I had a blinding headache. I went to the docs he said I had had a reaction and prescribed me antihistamines, i stopped taking the trimethoprim. The day after visiting the doctor I was covered in a rash from head to foot & my skin was shedding, I also had huge lumps growing out of the back of my head. I phoned go to doc & they asked me to go up, as soon as I got there and was examined I was sent straight to hospital with suspected meningitis. I ended up staying in hospital for four days in an isolation ward, as when they did my bloods I was neutropenic, which basically means my bone marrow was suppressed due to a severe allergic reaction to trimethoprim, my body had also gone into shock. I was put on steroids for a month and it was almost 6 months before I was fully recovered. It was the most horrendous experience I have ever had and would urge anyone taking this or any other drug not to dismiss symptoms as although the literature says they are rare this is not always the case. My doctors surgery no longer prescribe trimethoprim due to the high incidence of sever reactions.

Thank you for putting my mind at rest, my little boy has just been prescribed this and I was getting worried xx