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Odd Effect Of Penicillin


Nantzie

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I ended up getting strep throat, so they put me on Amoxicillin. Not only did my sore throat go away, which I had had for 3-4 days, but my energy level is great. I feel just as good as I did right after going gluten-free.

I had been having problems with my energy level a lot, not wanting to do anything, just blah and getting worse, for a few months now.

Yesterday, after a day and a half on Amoxicillin, I was bouncy and enjoying life. Very odd. Just like I was right after going gluten-free.

I had been planning on starting Threelac in the next few days because I was pretty sure my downhill decline was due to candida.

I'm not sure though if Amoxicillin can kill candida or if it just is killing off some other thing that was causing my sluggishness. Because I know being on a strong antibiotic can cause candida overgrowth afterwards, but I've never heard of it as a treatment. So I'm not sure what's happening with that.

I am going to be taking probiotics so that I don't get any complications/aftereffects from this.

Any thoughts?

Nancy


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I'm wondering if your infection was causing your fatigue/sluggishness?

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I had something like this happen to me years ago. I assumed at the time that the antibiotics had cleared up some asymptomatic infection that was sapping my energy.

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Strep will drain your energy in a heartbeat. Even if it is only in your throat, it somehow affects all of your body. The amoxycillin is killing off the strep, so your body can use your energy for something other than fighting the strep. I'm glad you are feeling so much better!

Nantzie Collaborator

My energy level has been horrible for about three months or so. The strep has only been for a few days. Even if you factor in how long it takes from exposure to symptoms, that's still only a week. So it's not that the strep was when the energy level dropped.

It's kind of sad that my energy was so low from whatever that I didn't even notice a dip in energy from the strep. :blink: Yikes!

There must have been some other thing going on that's being addressed by the med. I'm guessing it might be candida overgrowth because that's how I feel when I've got that issue going on. If not that, than something related.

Either way, I'm just happy to be energized again.

:)

Nancy

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It was most likely a low-level infection that was draining your energy but not causing other symptoms that the antibiotics cleared up. (Antibiotics do not clear up yeast.) I also, however, would not rule out a placebo effect here, unfortunately.

Nantzie Collaborator

Tiffany!

I was hoping you'd see this. That's what I was wondering; if antibiotics deal with yeast. Yep, must have been some sort of low-level infection of some sort. Although the placebo effect wouldn't bother me in the least either. Sometimes that just happens too.

I was thinking my low energy was situational depression due to some really painful back problems that started a couple months ago and have only gotten marginally better even with physical therapy. But the last couple of days, even though the pain is the same as it has been for a couple of weeks or more, I've been downright perky and getting all sorts of stuff done.

Well, good to know. Guess I know I don't have candida now either. B)

:)

Nancy


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