Side effect of Pred ?

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Yesterday evening the soles of my feet became very red, burning, felt very hot and prickling.  I had to leave them uncovered to get to sleep. Its the first time it has happened in 3 years of taking Pred.  This morning they were back to normal.  Has anyone else experienced this ?   I mentioned it to the doc this morning, but he had no idea what it was.  I have been on Amoxicillin for nearly 4 days, but he didnt think it was that either.

 

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    I get very prickly on my stomach. I think it's because either PMR or the steroid have turned my skin very dry although I used to get it with hay-fever and had to dangle my feet out of the bed even it was a cool night

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      Hi Porgi, Do you mean you had burning feet because of hay fever ?   My skin is also very dry.  It gets flaky at times, so lots of creams needed.  
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      Yes it only seemed to be during the hay-fever season, for me from April/May time until end of September. I'm wondering now if my very dry, flaky skin is due to Sjogren's Syndrome which someone in an earlier post mentioned. It can come with PMR and causes dry skin, dry eyes, dry mouth and throat - which means I have trouble swallowing food without a drink, fungal infections and gastritis - all of which I have. The dry eyes were put down to recent cataract operations and  have just had an endoscopy for the swallowing that showed I have a fungal infection in my oesophagus and gastritis, so I'm due to see a consultant for  all that soon and am going to mention Sjogrens.

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    I have had hot feet at various stages of PMR - mostly while without pred it has to be said. 

    But why is he so sure it isn't the amoxicillin?

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      He showed me picture of Erythema Multiforme which is a side effect of Amoxicilin and it didnt look at all like it.  Mine was an overall hot red, just the soles of my feet, it didnt itch, it sort of prickled and burned.   It was completely gone this morning.  Normally my feet are cold because of the Betablockers.  Both feet were exactly the same !   Very weird.
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      Bet no-one has told amoxicillin it can only cause the sort of side effects in the textbooks!!!!!!
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      Very true !!   He didnt want me to be allergic to Penicillin !   Hopefully it wont come back again tonight.

      i have had Ampicillin many times in the past with no problems, apart from the usual, feeling lousy all the time !

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      “He didn’t want me to be allergic to PCN”? Duh!

        An allergy can develop  any time to anything . A drug can turn on you any time.

      I was receiving an anti fungal IV for an abdominal abcess. I received it daily for days on end-,I had “dead bowel” which was removed-  but one day while the infusion was running, my body started to “burn up” and the pain was unbearable. I shut off the IV because it took forever for the nurses to come. The burning stopped and never again that medicine for me.

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      As karinjaninaz saus - you never react allergically the first time. It could be the second time, the hundred and second time the thousand and second time. Or anything inbetween!!
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      I realise that, I was being facetious !   The trouble is, when you are taking several different meds, how can you possibly know which one it is ?   Or if it is a symptom of one of your problems ?
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      It is very difficult - but something that a lot of doctors apper to dismiss...
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      Oh huff!!!! appear...
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      Basically they just dont know.   He said if it happened again to stop the Amoxicillin and he gave me some Clarithromycin to take instead.  I have just looked it up and it is not recommended to take with Pred.  So I have no idea what to do.   
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      First you wait and see - it may not happen again. In the meantime, go to the local duty chemist (itbeing a long weekend) and ask to speak to the pharmacist and ask their advice about taking clarithromycin with pred. I suspect it is a case that pred potentiates the effects of the antibiotic - and that means any potential side effects could be worse. It doesn't mean they will happen.

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      I admit I didn't look far for which way round it is - and often it does work both ways. If it potentiates the effect of pred then that may not be a bad thing. - you are after all on a reducing dose of pred so it'll be the same as being on slightly more. It probably isn't anything to get too worried about - just be aware.

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      Thanks Eileen.   I shall go to the duty chemist tomorrow morning anyway to get his advice.  
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      I'm allergic to ampicillin, but not to penicillin, it makes me very sick, the doctor who prescribed it  - not the present one - told me it must be whatever the penicillin is mixed with. I'm also allergic to erythromycin.

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