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drew
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Hi All,

Saw Dr. H in NY about a week ago, never been treated before (bit by a tick about 5 years ago). I was prescribed 5 meds. Cefdinir, Plaquenil, Nystatin, probenicid and Zitromax.

So, I started one medication every other day. The last one I started was this morning and it was zitromax and like an hour and a 1/2 later I was feeling overwhelmingly exhausted, kinda clammy as well, no headache, but almost like all the side effects of a headache without actually having one.. I somehow made it into work, but am struggling bad today to keep my eyes open. I just feel SOOOO off. Very hard to describe.

My question is, does anyone know if what I described is a side effect of Zithro? Can't be a herx just a few hours into the medication can it?

I had barely any reactions to any of the other meds (a few bouts of nausia that passed and 1 or 2 headaches, but nothing consistant)...

Just curious if anyone could comment...

Thanks!

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dmc
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Member # 5102

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google is great-

http://www.drugs.com/sfx/zithromax-side-effects.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herxheimer_reaction

We all react different. Call you LLMD if concerned.

[ 05-20-2010, 03:55 PM: Message edited by: dmc ]

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