Pulling this up so that perhaps a medical professional on the board can throw some light on this. I never heard of people having withdrawal from antibiotics, but I have heard of people having conditions such as itching or fungal infections after a round of antibiotics.
You need to speak to your doctor again, enduring weeks of this itching just doesn’t make sense.
I was mostly itch free today, thank goodness. It only lasted a few days for me. I was on Clindamycin. I hope you feel better very soon!
Hey Panache, can I perhaps give you a suggestion that works for me?
I am mildly allergic to the adhesive, so I use telfa pads and a compression bandage wrapping to hold the pads in place. Saves me worlds of trouble and itchies. I am also diabetic, and don’t want to lose body parts. You do have to make sure that they don’t slide around, but given last time I used medical tape I had huge red welts it is worth the time and trouble!
When my penicillin alergy first arose, it was on the last couple of days of my antibiotic treatment. So it could have been simply that the reaction started just when you were taking your last couple of doses. It does take a while for all the meds to fully leave the body. I’d had no idea one could develop that allergy after decades of use with no problems. My doctor assured me that it certainly could, and that now that I’d had an allergic reaction once, it would likely be worse the next time. So I don’t get penicillin-type antibiotics any more.
My allergic reaction also waited until the last day of Amoxicillin-clav to come out.
Very unpleasant, covered in huge, welty hives.
Panache, maybe you’re having an allergic reaction to the Keflex? I’d advise you to find out for sure.
I only say this because I was on Keflex for two weeks. This happened about 3 months ago.
I took my first dose of it, and began itching, but after a couple of days of taking Benadryl along with the Keflex, it went away. I took the remainder of the Rx until it was gone.
When I took my last dose, about 10 minutes after I swallowed it, I began an intense itching. I went into the bathroom, and took some Benadryl. Then, all of a sudden, my lips felt like they were being poked with needles. I knew right then it wasn’t good. I walked into the dining room, and told my husband I needed to go to the ER. My face/neck/tongue was swelling up as I was telling him this.
I had been through this before…I was going into anaphylactic shock. It was scary for me, and scary for my husband, who had to watch all this shit happen. I ended up not being able to breathe, and they had to shoot me up with some sort of epi stuff, and that made me vomit. For at least an hour. I ended up in ICU. NOT pleasant.
They used too much of the epi stuff, and they thought I was having a heart attack.
My regular doctor came to see me that night, and told me, after reading my three different EKGs, he told me that my heart was fine, and I did not have a heart attack.
My husband even got yelled at by the doctor, because he didn’t call an ambulance for me, and brought me to the ER himself, especially when my husband told the doctor that I told him exactly was happening to me.
A somewhat funny thing happened on the way to the ER…
I could no longer see anything. It was as if someone painted my eyeballs with white paint.
The ER doctor told me, after I was out of danger, that the ‘white light’ I was seeing was the swelling pressing on my optic nerves, and effecting it to where I was seeing a ‘white light’.
Naw. I wasn’t dying! It was all because of the swelling! 