Oral Antibiotics

[Bumblebee]

hey hey
I have tried cipro and septrin (which is bactrim but in the UK format). The best they do for me now is keep me at an even keel for a couple of weeks if i really need to put off IV's. but if they were by themselves they wouldn't even do that. My clinic here synergises the action of those antibiotics with rifampicin (actually a TB antiobiotic) and that helps a little....it's still IV's in the end though. Also cultures aren't an exact science, you can be resistant on paper but the antiobiotics work and vice versa, but they are a guide. Think of it this way, a culture dish is an entirely different environment to your lung - things are going to behave differently. Oh and even nebulised TOBI (which i'm on continuously anyway) doesn't do it for me - i need the pure blood/drug goodness! hehe. Good luck, but if your cough is that bad and you've left it for a month and a half i can't see anything other than iv's doing anything. (but everyone is different of course)
xxxx

 

[Bumblebee]

hey hey
I have tried cipro and septrin (which is bactrim but in the UK format). The best they do for me now is keep me at an even keel for a couple of weeks if i really need to put off IV's. but if they were by themselves they wouldn't even do that. My clinic here synergises the action of those antibiotics with rifampicin (actually a TB antiobiotic) and that helps a little....it's still IV's in the end though. Also cultures aren't an exact science, you can be resistant on paper but the antiobiotics work and vice versa, but they are a guide. Think of it this way, a culture dish is an entirely different environment to your lung - things are going to behave differently. Oh and even nebulised TOBI (which i'm on continuously anyway) doesn't do it for me - i need the pure blood/drug goodness! hehe. Good luck, but if your cough is that bad and you've left it for a month and a half i can't see anything other than iv's doing anything. (but everyone is different of course)
xxxx

 

[anonymous]

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>karenanne99</b></i>

hey everyone,
Thanks so much for taking time to reply, I get cultures every week so my doc does know what I am growing but she keeps prescribing the same thing, I have switched to my adult doctor though so I am making an apt with him and see what he thinks, I am also going to ask about levaquin, everyone seems to have used it and I haven't even heard of it and my brother hasn't used it either.
Well SPANKS!!


Karen</end quote></div>

i would caution you about levaquin... if cipro isn't working, levaquin isn't going to.

make sure that you have a good microbiologist to consult with before you waste time letting an exacerbation go and causing more irreversable lung damage

 

[anonymous]

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>karenanne99</b></i>

hey everyone,
Thanks so much for taking time to reply, I get cultures every week so my doc does know what I am growing but she keeps prescribing the same thing, I have switched to my adult doctor though so I am making an apt with him and see what he thinks, I am also going to ask about levaquin, everyone seems to have used it and I haven't even heard of it and my brother hasn't used it either.
Well SPANKS!!


Karen</end quote></div>

i would caution you about levaquin... if cipro isn't working, levaquin isn't going to.

make sure that you have a good microbiologist to consult with before you waste time letting an exacerbation go and causing more irreversable lung damage

 

[anonymous]

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>karenanne99</b></i>

hey everyone,
Thanks so much for taking time to reply, I get cultures every week so my doc does know what I am growing but she keeps prescribing the same thing, I have switched to my adult doctor though so I am making an apt with him and see what he thinks, I am also going to ask about levaquin, everyone seems to have used it and I haven't even heard of it and my brother hasn't used it either.
Well SPANKS!!


Karen</end quote></div>

i would caution you about levaquin... if cipro isn't working, levaquin isn't going to.

make sure that you have a good microbiologist to consult with before you waste time letting an exacerbation go and causing more irreversable lung damage

 

[anonymous]

I hate to disagree but Levaquin has worked for me...and worked wonders at that when cultures were showing I was resistant to Cipro. Its a newer generation quinolone and IMO just because an antibiotic in one class doesnt work it doesn't mean something else in the same class will be the same.

750mg of Levaquin is my miracle. Levaquin is also A LOT harder to build resistance to than CIpro . 750mg of levaquin for 14-21 dyas has kept me off IVs several times. despite the fact that one of those times I was running a 104 temp even on Cipro (and had been on Cipro for over a week at that point) and had pneumonia. Cipro did nothing but levaquin kept me out of the hospital

I can't say enough good things about Levaquin lol.

 

[anonymous]

I hate to disagree but Levaquin has worked for me...and worked wonders at that when cultures were showing I was resistant to Cipro. Its a newer generation quinolone and IMO just because an antibiotic in one class doesnt work it doesn't mean something else in the same class will be the same.

750mg of Levaquin is my miracle. Levaquin is also A LOT harder to build resistance to than CIpro . 750mg of levaquin for 14-21 dyas has kept me off IVs several times. despite the fact that one of those times I was running a 104 temp even on Cipro (and had been on Cipro for over a week at that point) and had pneumonia. Cipro did nothing but levaquin kept me out of the hospital

I can't say enough good things about Levaquin lol.

 

[anonymous]

I hate to disagree but Levaquin has worked for me...and worked wonders at that when cultures were showing I was resistant to Cipro. Its a newer generation quinolone and IMO just because an antibiotic in one class doesnt work it doesn't mean something else in the same class will be the same.

750mg of Levaquin is my miracle. Levaquin is also A LOT harder to build resistance to than CIpro . 750mg of levaquin for 14-21 dyas has kept me off IVs several times. despite the fact that one of those times I was running a 104 temp even on Cipro (and had been on Cipro for over a week at that point) and had pneumonia. Cipro did nothing but levaquin kept me out of the hospital

I can't say enough good things about Levaquin lol.

 

[Diane]

I used to take levaquin years ago and really liked it. The only reason i dont take it these days is because my insurance wont pay for it. They do however pay for Tequin which they say is the same, but it doesnt seem to do the same good job that i remember levaquin doing.

 

[Diane]

I used to take levaquin years ago and really liked it. The only reason i dont take it these days is because my insurance wont pay for it. They do however pay for Tequin which they say is the same, but it doesnt seem to do the same good job that i remember levaquin doing.

 

[Diane]

I used to take levaquin years ago and really liked it. The only reason i dont take it these days is because my insurance wont pay for it. They do however pay for Tequin which they say is the same, but it doesnt seem to do the same good job that i remember levaquin doing.

 

[NoExcuses]

when was the last time you checked your insurance?

tequin was pulled from the market in mid 2006 because BMS decided it was no longer profitable to make...

 

[NoExcuses]

when was the last time you checked your insurance?

tequin was pulled from the market in mid 2006 because BMS decided it was no longer profitable to make...

 

[NoExcuses]

when was the last time you checked your insurance?

tequin was pulled from the market in mid 2006 because BMS decided it was no longer profitable to make...

 

[mom2lillian]

Yes also wanted to say that levaquin can work when cipro is not and vice versa. ONly way I can think to explain this because it is a bunch of microbiological mumbo jumbo otherwise is via analogy.

Just because they are in the same family does not mean they work the same way. Example is that say the job they are tryign to do is deflating a tire, well since they are in same family they both will deflate the tire BUT they may do it a slightly different way. i.e. levaquin may use valve stem on tire to let air out and your body may have 'caught on to this trick' so to speak and thus become resistant Cipro will also let air out but may do so by cutting the tire open.

hope this made sense and didnt seem too crazy

Bumblebee also brought out a veyr good point that in the dish does not behave same as in body it is just best tool we have. Someone can be resistant to every antibiotic there is both oral and IV and still have infections clear up when put on mutliple antibiotics (there is a lady at my clinic like this) and then you can take something it says you are sensitive too and develop a worsening infection despite it (this happened to me when only a bit sick with cipro at wich time they stopped rx for over a year and now I am sensitive again)

 

[mom2lillian]

Yes also wanted to say that levaquin can work when cipro is not and vice versa. ONly way I can think to explain this because it is a bunch of microbiological mumbo jumbo otherwise is via analogy.

Just because they are in the same family does not mean they work the same way. Example is that say the job they are tryign to do is deflating a tire, well since they are in same family they both will deflate the tire BUT they may do it a slightly different way. i.e. levaquin may use valve stem on tire to let air out and your body may have 'caught on to this trick' so to speak and thus become resistant Cipro will also let air out but may do so by cutting the tire open.

hope this made sense and didnt seem too crazy

Bumblebee also brought out a veyr good point that in the dish does not behave same as in body it is just best tool we have. Someone can be resistant to every antibiotic there is both oral and IV and still have infections clear up when put on mutliple antibiotics (there is a lady at my clinic like this) and then you can take something it says you are sensitive too and develop a worsening infection despite it (this happened to me when only a bit sick with cipro at wich time they stopped rx for over a year and now I am sensitive again)

 

[mom2lillian]

Yes also wanted to say that levaquin can work when cipro is not and vice versa. ONly way I can think to explain this because it is a bunch of microbiological mumbo jumbo otherwise is via analogy.

Just because they are in the same family does not mean they work the same way. Example is that say the job they are tryign to do is deflating a tire, well since they are in same family they both will deflate the tire BUT they may do it a slightly different way. i.e. levaquin may use valve stem on tire to let air out and your body may have 'caught on to this trick' so to speak and thus become resistant Cipro will also let air out but may do so by cutting the tire open.

hope this made sense and didnt seem too crazy

Bumblebee also brought out a veyr good point that in the dish does not behave same as in body it is just best tool we have. Someone can be resistant to every antibiotic there is both oral and IV and still have infections clear up when put on mutliple antibiotics (there is a lady at my clinic like this) and then you can take something it says you are sensitive too and develop a worsening infection despite it (this happened to me when only a bit sick with cipro at wich time they stopped rx for over a year and now I am sensitive again)

 

[Diane]

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>sakasuka</b></i>

when was the last time you checked your insurance?



tequin was pulled from the market in mid 2006 because BMS decided it was no longer profitable to make...</end quote></div>
Thanks for telling me that <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> , I will ask my doctor to prescribe it again and see if it goes thru with my insurance.

 

[Diane]

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>sakasuka</b></i>

when was the last time you checked your insurance?



tequin was pulled from the market in mid 2006 because BMS decided it was no longer profitable to make...</end quote></div>
Thanks for telling me that <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> , I will ask my doctor to prescribe it again and see if it goes thru with my insurance.

 

[Diane]

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>sakasuka</b></i>

when was the last time you checked your insurance?



tequin was pulled from the market in mid 2006 because BMS decided it was no longer profitable to make...</end quote></div>
Thanks for telling me that <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> , I will ask my doctor to prescribe it again and see if it goes thru with my insurance.