I read on the med insert that "careful monitoring may be needed in patients that are also taking a macrolide"
Zith is a macrolide, I dont understand why CAREFUL monitoring would be needed if on Septra and Zith??? Makes me not want to take it.
Has anyone else been on these two meds at the same time???
My LLMD also wants me to take Samento for inflammation...
I was just wondering if anyone has had any experiences with it??
Can I ask how you all schedule your meds... I am having a REAL tough time with scheuling meds.. knowing when to take them, what I can take together and what I cant.. how to space them.. etc etc...
Do you have any suugestions??
Thank you!!
Posted by UnexpectedIlls (Member # 15144) on :
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Help!!... Posted by cantgiveupyet (Member # 8165) on :
my llmd just put me on this, they didnt say anything about interactions and cvs didnt catch it, and they usually will catch all interactions.
I will have to read the insert tomorrow.
Im working on my med schedule too, its tough to juggle everything and remember when to take which supplement.
i will see what I can find out about the zith/septra
Posted by pamoisondelune (Member # 11846) on :
Suggestion about establishing a meds schedule---- Keep a written record. Start with an attempted schedule, and maybe it doesn't work because it doesn't fit naturally into your day or with your body rhythms; then adjust it. It's best if the pills fall naturally into place at the right times.
Posted by SmurfyMom (Member # 13688) on :
I don't know about the zith and the septra (or the samento, for that matter) together, but I totally understand the problem with scheduling the meds!
Oh my word I have had such a hard time with this! I just could not figure out when to take what, so I had hubby sit down with the bottles and a spreadsheet on the computer.
That worked 'ok', but a couple of weeks later I noticed it couldn't be "right" because one med said on the bottle "time release 12hr" and I knew I wasn't taking them 12hr apart.
Thank goodness my mom took pity and came in and rearranged the schedule. She found lots of other errors, too. Like meds I was taking with food that I shouldn't have been and taking stuff too close together.
Mom put it all on the computer spreadsheet and then labeled my pill boxes and filled them for the first week. I've worked with them this way for a couple of weeks now, so I've noticed some things that might help...
First she completely isolated the antibiotics from everything else. There are a lot of abx that are made ineffective if you take certain things close to them.
Isolating the abx and making sure to take no other pills for 2hr before and 2hr after makes sure I don't mess up the effectiveness of the abx by taking a vitamin or something at the same time.
She also 'timed' out the abx. That is, if they are 2/day, she put them 12 hr apart, and if they are 3/day, she put them 8h apart.
Once the abx were on the schedule she started with the rest of the stuff.
Anything time released got dealt with and put in the schedule first. At least 2hr away from the abx, though.
Then she basically separated the "take with food" and "take on empty stomach" and the "take with or without food". Turns out I only had one that was preferred on an empty stomach.
She filled up the "meal" spots on the schedule next. I have to eat something with my doxy or my stomach revolts, so I actually have 4x a day I'm eating something. My 3 meals and then a bedtime snack to go with the bedtime doxy.
If the pills had to go with food, those obviously went in the meal slots... She also put all the "take with or without food" in the meal slots, too.
That just left the "take on an empty stomach" pills. Well, there was really only one, but she found a couple that couple from the either/or pile that she put in a non-meal slot, too, since the bottles said take 3/day and she was really only using 2 meal slots.
That batch of pills is at 2pm, and I've learned that if I don't get it right then (or before), I'll have to bump my 4pm abx, and then I won't be able to eat dinner at 6pm (because of my pills I have to wait the two hours after abx).
I hope this helps. I definitely couldn't have figured it out on my own. I know. I tried. =/
I understand what Mom did and why and all that now that it's done, but I never could have sorted it myself. I hope you can get someone to sit down and help you with the sorting.
And be sure to write it all down on a chart somewhere so that when the pill boxes need refilled, you won't have to sort through it all again.
I can even fill my pill boxes myself as long as I have the chart printed out! It takes me awhile to do it solo, though, so mostly I try to get my hubby do it, so else I enlist the kids' help. They get a kick out of it.
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