antibiotics

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I've been off of the list for a few months, but now I'm back & have a

couple of questions about antibiotics. I know some of you were

taking

long-term antibiotics for mycoplasma infections, etc., and I'm

wondering if those on abx still think they are a good idea? I'm also

wondering if anyone has gone off of the antibiotics after long-term

use, and if this resulted in a relapse or if you still had

improvement.

My second question is this. I had a series of what I thought were

urinary tract infections, for which I took antibiotics a couple of

times. A little over a week ago, I had another one, and since I'm

too

sick to get to the doctor, they prescribed antibiotics over the

phone.

Almost immediately, they were giving me headaches and nausea, even

though I had taken these antibiotics before. Then, 7 days into a

2-week prescription, I completely crashed with a high fever, severe

chills, lots of pain, and other symptoms. Eventually, after hours of

feeling so ill I felt I had no other choice, I went to the ER, but

they found no trace of a urinary tract infection, and simply gave me

a

different type of antibiotics (levaquin). As soon as I took the

second type of abx, I got even sicker. This continued for most of

the

day until tonight. I'm still feeling much worse than usual, still

running a fever, still having chills, but I'm doing somewhat better.

Does anyone have any speculation as to whether or not this could

simply be a Herximer reaction, or if instead it is similar to another

type of infection. Has anyone had similar symptoms? A couple of

times over the past few years, I went to the ER with similar symptoms

(chills, fever, pins and needles feeling in the spine, etc.). My

doctor is unhelpful, and the ER docs were unhelpful. But I worry

that

something unusual is going on. Thoughts?