What happens if someone takes antibiotics for too long a period?!
Question: What happens if someone takes antibiotics for too long a period.?
Ive been self medicating myself with antibiotics because I don't have insurance and feel a little funny. Not sure if it's just my imagination or if I can really get sick. I'm trying to treat a UTI.Health Question & Answer
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you're playing a dangerous game.
all antibiotics are not the same - you cannot just pick a random antibiotic and expect it to help. You are much more likely doing yourself harm. Aside from allergic reactions, side effects, and yeast infection, you can also give yourself C. difficile colitis, which unfortunately can be fatal nowadays, even in a young healthy person.
You need a doctor visit.Health Question & Answer
all antibiotics are not the same - you cannot just pick a random antibiotic and expect it to help. You are much more likely doing yourself harm. Aside from allergic reactions, side effects, and yeast infection, you can also give yourself C. difficile colitis, which unfortunately can be fatal nowadays, even in a young healthy person.
You need a doctor visit.Health Question & Answer
Well, the problem with antibiotics for the individual is that they don't just kill the bad bacteria, they also kill the good bacteria. You have good bacteria, for instance the ones that help you digest food. Cipro is often taken to cure UTI's, but it also kills off your intestinal bacteria. If you kill off your body's helpful intestinal bacteria, sometimes unhealthy intestinal bacteria gets a chance to overgrow afterwards, and you can develop some unfortunate infections--for instance "C Diff" is a common cause of chronic diarrhea that we see from people who have been on long term antibiotics. Such infections are often antibiotic resistant, and difficult to get rid of.
also, some autoimmune disorders to which you might be genetically predisposed often take hold after you get a C Diff (or other) serious infection.
The gut is not the only place you have helpful, healthy bacteria, of course. The most common places to have problems are the vagina, mouth, and the skin--they all have natural, healthy, protective bacteria. When you disrupt the balance with antibiotics, you can get yeast infections in the mouth, vagina, and warm creases of the skin. You can get more infections and abscesses in wounds.
Additionally, if you have not picked the proper spectrum or type of antibiotic for your infection, you are actually helping the strongest most antibiotic resistant bacteria to survive. If you don't cure yourself, you have the strongest chance of getting an antibiotic resistant infection and passing that infection along to another person.
FYI Penicillin which is quite possibly what you have in your house is often not the proper antibiotic for UTIs. I would try going to a free women's clinic and claiming you think the burning of your UTI is a GYN problem...they will probably treat you for free.
Good luck. And try to stop self medicating.Health Question & Answer
also, some autoimmune disorders to which you might be genetically predisposed often take hold after you get a C Diff (or other) serious infection.
The gut is not the only place you have helpful, healthy bacteria, of course. The most common places to have problems are the vagina, mouth, and the skin--they all have natural, healthy, protective bacteria. When you disrupt the balance with antibiotics, you can get yeast infections in the mouth, vagina, and warm creases of the skin. You can get more infections and abscesses in wounds.
Additionally, if you have not picked the proper spectrum or type of antibiotic for your infection, you are actually helping the strongest most antibiotic resistant bacteria to survive. If you don't cure yourself, you have the strongest chance of getting an antibiotic resistant infection and passing that infection along to another person.
FYI Penicillin which is quite possibly what you have in your house is often not the proper antibiotic for UTIs. I would try going to a free women's clinic and claiming you think the burning of your UTI is a GYN problem...they will probably treat you for free.
Good luck. And try to stop self medicating.Health Question & Answer
You can definitely make yourself sick that way. The antibiotic wears off because the bacteria builds its own immunity, and your own immune system becomes weakened and you could develop internal problems because of it.Health Question & Answer
idk..
but it may develop
anxiety...idk but
thats my theory.
because last year
i was on antibiotics for
about 5-6 months and
other meds and then i slowly
started feeling wierd...and then
all that led to anxiety...which i have
now..Health Question & Answer
but it may develop
anxiety...idk but
thats my theory.
because last year
i was on antibiotics for
about 5-6 months and
other meds and then i slowly
started feeling wierd...and then
all that led to anxiety...which i have
now..Health Question & Answer
Your body will start to become immune to the drug, and then when you really need it to work it will be less effective.Health Question & Answer
anti biotics attack your immune system, thats why your not supposed to double dose. your body will probably get used to em soon too...
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