Antibiotics

[S-J-L]

I was wondering if celiacc disease somehow makes you more sensitive to antibiotics? Ive only been on them like 3 times in my life, but im on them again cos i have an infection around my wisdom tooth. Everytime ive been on them, they burn my stomach real bad, and i get so tired, but i cant sleep. This happens to me even on a small dose.

[lizard00]

It's pretty common for them to cause burning in the stomach. Do you take them with food? And not crackers... like with a meal? My husband is not Celiac and in Jan he was on abx. The first night or so he was in a tremendous amount of pain because he took them right before he went to bed. And by that point he didn't have enough in his stomach to buffer it. The doc told him (don't know why he did tell him when he prescribed them) to take the them with a full meal. After that he had no problems.

[Kat25]

I was wondering if celiacc disease somehow makes you more sensitive to antibiotics? Ive only been on them like 3 times in my life, but im on them again cos i have an infection around my wisdom tooth. Everytime ive been on them, they burn my stomach real bad, and i get so tired, but i cant sleep. This happens to me even on a small dose.

Whenever I am on any medication, from Tylenol to antibiotics, I get foggy and very sleepy, almost like I had a glass of wine except really disoriented...I was told it is probably because I have the leaky gut and everything goes right through me instead of being digested the way it is supposed to. I only resort to medications if it is crucial, otherwise I try to do it with home remedies, but recently I had a UTI and had to be on an antibiotic, and everytime I took it I felt sleepy and a little foggy and my stomach hurt. I also get tired but antsy at the same time, I want to do a lot of stuff like cleaning and run my errands but I feel so tired.

[home-based-mom]

The doc told him (don't know why he did tell him when he prescribed them) to take the them with a full meal.

I don't know where you are, but my experience is that doctors don't usually tell you those things unless you ask.

HOWEVER, the pharmacy should tell you when you pick up the prescription, it should be on the bottle, and if your pharmacy gives you a big printout about the medication, it should be somewhere in there. That printout is beyond dry tiresome reading and usually qualifies as TMI, but the labels on the bottle are neon colors with huge print - because they don't want you to miss that info. They say things like "take with meals" or "don't take with alcohol" or "may cause drowsiness" and short but essential stuff like that.

[RiceGuy]

In addition to what others have said, I'll just add that antibiotics do tend to kill off helpful intestinal bacteria, allowing candida to proliferate afterwards. This doesn't sound like that is happening in your case, but it's something to keep in mind.

[purple]

Any person taking antibiotics NEEDS to take probiotics. Read up on probiotics there is too much info to type it out. Yogurt is not enough.