I was prescribed Trimethoprim 200mg for 3 days for UT infection. The UTI cleared up but, after finishing the three day course, I began to feel incredibly run down. A week later and I was getting increasingly run down with fatigue, bloatedness, hyper-allergin skin reactions and lack of appetite. I felt generally exhausted and very run down indeed. I continued to feel worse and worse over the next two weeks. Only after more than two weeks did I begin to pull through and feel normal again.
La semana pasada me recetaron Trimetoprim para una infección urinaria durante 3 días. Soy sobreviviente de un accidente cerebrovascular. Dos días después de completar los 3 días de toma de este medicamento, mi médico de cabecera me contactó urgentemente para que recogiera al día siguiente otro medicamento para la infección urinaria, Co-amoxiclav, que debía tomar durante 2 semanas. Fue entonces cuando me di cuenta de que se había cometido un error y expliqué los vómitos, letargo y delirio que me asustaron, pues imaginaba que estaba a punto de sufrir un segundo accidente cerebrovascular; mi cerebro se sentía completamente desorientado. Acabo de empezar a tomar el nuevo medicamento y espero fervientemente mejorar, ya que la infección había cesado tras el ciclo de 3 días. Ahora he perdido la confianza en mi médico de cabecera.
También me han recetado Trimetoprima 200 mg, pero por 7 días (dos veces al día) para una infección urinaria. Parece que han funcionado contra la infección urinaria, pero me siento enfermo, muy débil, cansado y mareado, tengo un dolor de cabeza sordo y la boca, la lengua y la garganta secas y ásperas, lo que incluso hace que mi voz suene horrible y ronca. He perdido el apetito y he bajado 8 libras en 5 días.
Ya he completado 5 días del tratamiento de 7 días, pero voy a dejarlo ahora, ya que veo que tú hiciste un tratamiento de 3 días que funcionó, así que espero que 5 días sean suficientes.
Es muy útil saber que ya superaste lo peor de los efectos secundarios, que tardaron dos semanas en normalizarse. Gracias por compartir esa información.
I was prescribed Trimethoprim 200mgs twice a day for 7 days for UT infection. The UT cleared up quickly but I felt more ill each day, From the second day I was completely anorexic due to severe nausea. I found that even the smell of a teabag made me want to retch. I have never felt so ill in my life. By the fifth day I could only tolerate sips of water so I discontinued tablets. I am now making a slow recovery six weeks on I am reasonably enjoying meals but during this episode I have lost 6kgs in weight have a raised liver enzyme and reduced kidney function!
It was interesting to see one of the bloggers who has no faith in his GP.
Due to several occasions when I've even had a brush with death I too have a more serious attitude to many GPs. As of the last two years I have had a deep rooted
infection that was affecting my inner ear so as to cause dizzines out of the blue when I turned my head quickly, chest wheeziness severe bladder tenderness
all the time but fluctuating to nil to severe over years. Due to me being a male
my bladder symptoms I was fobbed off in no uncertain terms alast year and told
directly by a male GP that he would not prescibe any antibiotic for me despite
my wife having blood in her urine as did I months before she did.
The alarm bells ring when one sees about an eggcupfull of blood before urination so I thought it was time for KILL or CURE, I had a course of Septrin over a year
and so took the course over 10 days. After three tablets my inner ear was clear and after 3 days it was a pleasure to pee. After 2 years of having my sleep broken to get up to urinate I have now had unbroken sleep all night for 12 days
since the antibiotic course.......... I find it absolutely unbelievable that around 7
doctors did not referr my to conduct more in depth analysis in this scientific age.
My situation might not happen on a regular basis but I feel in this instance I have been treated with gross proffesional misconduct..... plus a blatant lack of basic care..... I have suffered miserably.... I am thankful now to feel about thirty years younger.
My previose post should say I had the antibiotic (septrin ) to hand over a year but did not take it till 19th October 2015. The tablets were genuine with exp date of 06-16.