| Posted at 12:29 AM on Jun 26, 2007 by kfarrell707, #21996 |
Thank God for this web site. When you are on medications you don't know if you are getting sicker with something else or if it is side effects from a drug. I am 56 yrs old and never sick. I hate to take any medications. I got an infection in my prostrate doctor said this is not uncommon. The symptoms were having problems urinating. The doctor put me on 30 days of Sulfameth Trimethoprim. I have been on it for 7 days only. The good news is the infection is and has been subsiding. I can now urinate no problem. The bad news is I have gone through a whole gamete of side effects on Sulfameth Trimethoprim. It started out in the first 2 days with a sore throat and a cough. Then I lost my appetite for a good 4 days and felt nauseated just looking at food. Now much of that has passed. Now I get these intense chills for 2 hours sometimes for 30 minutes usually with no fever. The chills usually come with in 2 hours after I have taken a dose. I think I am going to suffer through this dosage for a while yet because I do think the infection is subsiding. I worry about being on this for another 23 days though.
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