Quote Originally Posted by psprowler View Post
Z-pack = amoxicillin of the 2000's. When they first came out they killed some bacteria. Nowadays after years of over-prescribing, not so much. I always joke with some of my patients about seeing the brighter side: "look at it this way, at least the doctor feels your condition is not terminal because he only prescribed you a z-pack".

Elnut is your allergy to vancomycin a true allergy or did they try to infuse it too fast the first time you got it? That ***** to be allergic to vancomycin and prone to MRSA infections. They ever try Zyvox (linezolid) on you for MRSA? Very pricey but an option nonetheless.
Yea I remember when they gave me the Lasix on time as a bolus. They have to push it into me over a period of a few minutes as the infuser thing was broken. So they had to do that by hand.

All the other IV stuff they used an infusion machine and gave it to me over a period of several hours. Of course one time the Nurse could not get the infusion machine to program for 2 hours so she had to 1/2 the regular dose and give it to me for 4 hours. That kept me tied to the IV for 4 long hours. If I was forced to go walk the halls I had to drag the IV pole beside me. And the wheels on the IV pole were rusted and the bearings were all shot so the wheels didn't turn right. They would mope around the IV pole's wheels and get mop threads wrapped around the wheels and that would stop the wheels from turning. If you have ever been to Wal-mart and tried to push a shopping cart that had bad wheels or dirt and other thread like material wrapped around the wheel's axle you know that I'm talking about.

My family doctor prescribed Amoxicillin to me for an ulcer ( bacteria Heilobactor pyloric ) cause ulcers and that can lead to acid reflux. I took the Amoxicillin pills and some Tetracycline pills and got violently sick soon afterward. I had stuff coming out both ends. So later I tried taking just one of those two at a time and each one taken separately gave me the squirts and the pucks. I mean without 30 minutes I was puking guts out and had the runs.

So if they ask me if I'm allergic to any thing I tell them those two antibiotics won't work on me. Too bad as they are less expensive than some of the other antibiotics.