systemic antibiotics

[indrep]

Has anyone noticed their eyes feel better when they have been on systemic antibiotics for an infection?

[GeorgeT]

Hi
I haven't been on systemic antibiotic. Could you share your story ?
What antibiotic did you take?
Regards,

George

[neil0502]

You know how this works: you can pay meticulous attention and still not know what's what, if it's really better or not, etc.

After returning from the Boston Foundation for Sight, I got a nasty sinus bug. Ten days of amoxicillin helped, but ... a few days later, it came back.

Jumped on Doxycycline (I should open a darned pharmacy, I swear!). Been on that, now, for over three weeks. Wasn't helping the sinus thing. IT migrated into my lungs.

Got on Amoxicillin, 250mg tid, on 2/26. Wasn't getting better.

Got on Zithromax suspension, 1g qd, two days ago.

I hadn't/haven't stopped the others, so ... right now, I'm on three antibiotics simultaneously (oh, yeah. I know how to party....)

Today might be the first day that I felt any better overall (sinus and lung stuff trying to resolve). Who knows? Maybe it was viral, fungal, or simply vicious AND bacterial.

But ... to your question ... I tried really hard--as we all prolly' do--to stay tuned into my eyes throughout.

Despite pretty consistent humidity, INactivity, etc., etc. -- if anything, my eyes felt worse, and were definitely more red ... throughout all this antibiotic onslaught.

Hmm.

[Danny_]

You know how this works: you can pay meticulous attention and still not know what's what, if it's really better or not, etc.

After returning from the Boston Foundation for Sight, I got a nasty sinus bug. Ten days of amoxicillin helped, but ... a few days later, it came back.

Jumped on Doxycycline (I should open a darned pharmacy, I swear!). Been on that, now, for over three weeks. Wasn't helping the sinus thing. IT migrated into my lungs.

Got on Amoxicillin, 250mg tid, on 2/26. Wasn't getting better.

Got on Zithromax suspension, 1g qd, two days ago.

I hadn't/haven't stopped the others, so ... right now, I'm on three antibiotics simultaneously (oh, yeah. I know how to party....)

Today might be the first day that I felt any better overall (sinus and lung stuff trying to resolve). Who knows? Maybe it was viral, fungal, or simply vicious AND bacterial.

But ... to your question ... I tried really hard--as we all prolly' do--to stay tuned into my eyes throughout.

Despite pretty consistent humidity, INactivity, etc., etc. -- if anything, my eyes felt worse, and were definitely more red ... throughout all this antibiotic onslaught.

Hmm.

Neil,

This is a home remedy that a doctor suggested to me once but it's worth a try since the drugs aren't working. He said that the best thing to do is boil a kettle and breathe the steam in. It's supposed to help clear our your sinus passages.

[neil0502]

Thanks, Danny.

At least three times a week, I've made it to the gym ... for the sole purpose of spending time in the steam bath.

Now that I have the scleral lenses, at least it feels good. Overall, I'm still pretty medically beaten up, though. I'm really not sure that steam, or nasal irrigation, is doing a whole lot of good.

I finally gave up and made an appointment with a highly respected ENT in Southern California. He's creative, aggressive, and really, really smart.

Another MD.

Sigh.

[Lucy]

He's creative, aggressive, and really, really smart.

Neil, I just have to ask............how do you know this? Did he tell you?

Luce

[neil0502]

Nah. It's actually the opposite. He was the first guy NOT to say he was all those things.

I figured out how wonderful he was when he ... well ... reminded me so much of you