gah. after nearly 3 months of suffering from rivers of mucus, mountains of phlegm and a persistent cough, i finally threw in the towel and decided it was time to visit the doctor and hear what i had already surmised – that i had walking pneumonia and it was time to pummel the bugs in my respiratory tract with a course of that old antibiotic standby erythromycin.
i haven’t taken antibiotics in probably 10 or 15 years and while i’m happy that the drug is efficiently doing its thing, i don’t really recall it making me feel so, um, uncomfortable, which i presume is the result of it wiping out the good with the bad.
I think it’s the choice of antibiotic you got. E-mycin can make you miserable if you do or don’t do certain things. See drugs.com/erythromycin.html for one list of problems. I sure hope the Dr. and pharmacist pointed these out already.