Sulfamethoxazole and prednisone

I started taking this on October 8 for a sinus infection. by the 13th I was suffering intense headaches, nausea, fever of 102 and anxiousness. I thought that on top of my original ailment I also had the flu. After 2 doctors and a trip to the hospital in which no one thought of the side effects of this drug, and with the discovery of a full body rash 2 days ago, I finally called my pharmacist yesterday who told me to drop the drug. I then looked up everything I could find myself and this is obviously the result that so many people describe. I am now on benadryl and prednisone and still quite miserable. I think they should take this off the market since so many people have a bad reaction!!!!!!!!!!!

I went to the doctor one day they told me that nothing was wrong with me and that is was just in my head needless to say i had not urine for a day and my back was killing me so we i got home i went to the ER and they told me that i had a really bad kidney infection and bladder infection and a UTI ya it hurt like you no what. they gave me sulfamethoxazole to take for 14 days well in the first week i felt funny and i didn't seem like something was wrong with me So a week into the medicine i was a work and the inside of my mouth started peeling yes peeling like the top layer was coming off and i started feel really funny so i called the doctor and they said everything was ok that it was a normal reaction to the drug not being a nurse or doctor i believe them so in middle of the night my face was swollen i had a rash on my face and my chest. I immedity went to the doctor ( a different doctor of course) he looked at me and said what have you being taking i pulled out the medication out of my pocketbook and he look at me in shock and said i know you have not being taken this you you are highly allergic to the medication ya i said the same thing i had no clue but he gave me a shot of something and gave me prednisone i not feeling that will he said it would take a couple of days to kick in but hey i need something now!!!!

Wish I had found this info last night.
Ive been on the medication for 8 days. All was well until yesterday afternoon when my face got beet red. I didn't think much of it since my face does flush at times.
Last night, it seemed to be traveling down my neck and shoulders.
When I woke this morning, red face was still there but now I had broken out is rashes all over my body. As of right now they are still there and starting to itch.
I was on this medication for ear infection and also for UTI.
Never would have thought with 1 pill left Id break out in a reaction like this.
Hope it goes away soon.
Benadryl isn't helping me much

I'll be sure to add this to my list of medications not to take.

I started taking two 160mg tablets of sulfameth a day about a week ago in conjunction with prednisone and hydroxyzine for a bad case of contact dermititis. Yesterday I woke up with a crazy fever, pressure in my sinuses and headache. I got off work and went to sleep at 5:30pm. Around 9pm I woke up covered in hives. The fever had broke, but this was a new beast. The hives started out all over, but there were not many. Over the next 24 hrs they spread so that now I am mostly a giant red splotch. It itches like hell and for some damn reason I feel wired. I can't get to sleep. I keep pacing around.

I went to the ER and they said it was probably the sulfameth. They told me to discontinue use and put me on a higher dose of prednisone, zantac and diphenhydramine.

I am almost sure it was the sulfameth. I have been on prednisone before without anything like this happening. I have never taken the sulfameth before this and I rarely took the hydroxyzine they gave me so I doubt it caused it.

The reaction to the sulfameth is seriously 100 times worse then what they gave it to me for. I would rather have just not gone to the doctor and suffered through what I had before than deal with this. It's a sleepless, itching hell. I will never take a sulfa drug again.

I can only wonder how bad it would have been had I not already been on prednisone when the allergic reaction hit. So 24 hrs into it and the hives are getting worse. Hopefully the prednisone and benadryl will end it soon.