Omnicef and sleep

I'm a sixteen-year-old girl and I was put on Amoxacillin after the doctor said I had Bronchitis, along with liquid codeine.. The codeine caused me to pass out less than 4 hours after first dose. Along with passing out I also went blind for about 20 minutes and couldn't hear. When I didn't get better from that my doctor prescribed me Omnicef. I threw up the next day after taking it and I also am constantly nauseous and sleep way too much. I am really tired all the time too, no matter how much I sleep. And my 'private area' smells like alcohol. I also am having back and lower pelvic pain. This is ridiculous. Screw this drug. The FDA should NOT have okay'd it. Anyone else have these problems?

i'm a 19 year old college student, and i'm on my last 3 days of this medication, and while i had bad side effects at first, i waited them out, and now they're mostly gone. i had stomach cramps, that gassy feeling, i was dizzy and felt faint...i felt like i was in a cloud and couldn't function. however, it was better than the misery i was experiencing from the sinus infection, where i was only able to sleep. i can return to work, and some side effects still linger , but its def. done its job as an antibiotic. i did develop a yeast infection from the antibiotic i took before omnicef, which is why i didn't want to change medicines again. i was on another antibiotic, which made me deathly sick. omnicef is supposed to have less severe side effects than other bacterial infection antibiotics out there. i did take a probiotic with the omnicef, i recommend taking one with any antibiotic. it levels out your bacteria levels, which may stop stomach problems altogether.

My 9 month little girl took omnicef and developed a rash after her second dose. I took her to the doctor - they thought she had either roseola or hand foot and mouth.....By the time I got her home that afternoon and some time had passed - it developed more and looked awful. I called the doctor back and she informed me that with roseola or hand, foot and mouth it would get worse before it got better. That night my baby was very uncomfortable, could not sleep and kept trying to scratch the rash through . The next morning, I called the doctor back because by this time she looked like she had a horrible sunburn and it continued to worsen. The pediatrician then thought she was having a reaction, suggested benadryl for two days and then switched her to augmentin. We will begin taking that tomorrow morning - I am a little nervous because I hope not only that it will work but that she will not have any side effects like she had with ominicef. As far as taking omnicef, my other children have taken it and they were fine -but as for my baby I had it documented on her chart at the doctors office and at the pharmacist so that they will stay away from all medicines that are in the omnicef family. I hope that I will never have to see this again nor deal with it. Jenifer

Our 3 year old son took Omnicef starting on a Friday. By Sunday, we were at the end of our rope. He was screaming constantly, we could not get him to go to sleep, he started being VERY aggressive.... kicking growling, hitting and just acting out in ways we'd never seen. My husband finally started looking online after our son had a fit and screamed in a corner of our house for 30 minutes, then looked at us and started laughing and acting like nothing had happened. We found this web site, and to our relief, realized our son was not just acting out. I have NO DOUBT it was the antibiotic and I can't believe this medicine made it onto the market!!! I threw the bottle away and intend to talk to our pediatrician asap.

My child was prescribed Omnicef for an ear infection on Tuesday and we ended up taking him off on Friday night. He is normally a happy, hyper, normal 3 yr old but he became very mean!! We didn't know what was going on with him. We just thought that maybe he was acting out, until we talked to some one who knows about food allergies who asked if anything was different in his diet. The only thing that was different was he started this new anti-biotic. He had an allergic reaction to Amoxicillin and we told the doctor. but he still put him on this medication anyway. Our son changed so much in this last week it is just unbelievable. On the second day of this medication he actually tried to bite some older gentleman at a dental clinic. Just not his normal behavior. He didn't sleep well, would literally kick, hit, punch, pinch and bite us and his siblings. Since we took him off this medicine he is finally acting like his normal only self. We had not realized until he started to giggle about something that he had not laughed since he started his medicine. There is no way that he will ever take this medicine again and after reading all the information on OMNICEF I do not understand why they keep pushing this drug since there are so many harmful side effects (half of which they do not list)!! I just hope that this has not done any other damage to my son internally as well...

I'd like to start off by saying though many people have had some very bad reactions to this medication, that it is not a reason for it to be taken off the market. everyones body's have different reactions to different medications and while for some it may be a very negative reaction, for others it may be a very good or significant one. I'm 17 years old and currently taking Omnicef for a sinus infection. I am having side effects but the fact is a few days ago I was miserably sick, and now I am feeling significantly better. so though I am having side effects, the benefit of this medication, or at least for me, is that my sinus infection is most definitely getting better. my side effects have been gas and nausea (which I usually have regardless from GERD), bad dreams and restless sleep, and this is quite odd but fowl smelling urine and body odor. I haven't read about anyone else noticing body odor after taking it though so if someone has noticed this can you please let me know? thank you.

My 16 yr old son was prescribed this drug 9 days ago for a severe sinus infection. He came home from school yesterday with several small raised welts on the creases of his arms. I took him immediately back to his Dr who said he was having an allergic reaction, prescribed steroids and said it would get worse before it got better. Within a few hours his elbows had visible knots in different places, then his knees did the same thing, then his feet started getting knots on the bottom and he had different whelps breaking out on his torso and lower stomach. We immediately took him to the ER last night when he said his tongue "felt funny". The attending immediately diagnosed an acute severe allergic reaction and gave him a huge steroid and Benadryl dose. He released him because the itching had stopped and his tongue no longer felt funny. Last night he kept drenching himself with sweat during sleep. Today so far some of the whelps are gone but he has some pretty severe joint involvement with visible knots around the elbow and knees and feet.