Can anyone tell me what their experience has been with this and also is this a similar drug as Omnicef?
Posted by 5dana8 (Member # 7935) on :
Sorry I don't have much experience on either med but hopefully someone here might
hang in there
Posted by Moosie (Member # 10033) on :
I've had keflex for pyleonephritis (kidney infection). It is a antibiotic used for bacterial infections of the blood, bone, urinary and reproductive organs. It's a nuclear powered antibiotic.
It's important that the doctor know if you are allergic to penicillin or cephalosporin antibiotics. I'm allergic to penicillin and it didn't cause a conflict for me at first. I began to get a rash from it the last time it was used, but it had done its job. However, I will not take it again because of the reaction I seemed to be having. Since then, my doc used cipro, flagyl, and levaquin.
The only real problem I had with it before the rash thing is that when I was receiving it IV, it was kind of rough on the veins, burns kind of bad, and my IV line had to be changed quite frequently as a result. If you have a real good flush with saline after they put it through, it doesn't hurt as bad. You can get a bad tummy ache from it orally too, but for me, that didn't happen until I was almost done with it.
Anyway, don't know if I have lyme, suspect it, and keflex took care of my problem for a number of years in between bouts. Good luck. Moosie