Starting 23 July, I Took Augmentin For 3 Weeks And

Posted on Mon, 9 Nov 2020

Question: Starting 23 July, I took Augmentin for 3 weeks and Medrol for 2 weeks for an ear infection. nearing the end of 3 weeks, my urine was very cloudy, the urine did not come full force and seemed to be stuck in there, had to go often. Unfortunately, my city was in lock down from Covid starting 30 July so could not see a doctor. After 8 weeks, the cloudiness was much less. In 9 weeks, for 1 or 2 days, my urine had a very strong foul smell and had a greenish tint. a few days later after diner and a few drinks, I felt nausea and proceeded to feel freezing cold and shivering uncontrollably for a few hours. When that subsided, my body was in dull pain all over, but more around my kidneys. I also had a bad headache and could not sleep. What is going on? I see that Augmentin can cause cloudy urine. I did see a doctor, but since we don't speak the same language and other reasons, he didn't listen to what i said and attributed it to a urine infection. He gave me Cravit 500mg (1.5 cap per day) 2 days ago. I not feel great, but the headache and fever have gone. It seems to me that the ....The instructions for Augmentin clearly state:
Get emergency help immediately if any of the following symptoms of overdose occur while taking amoxicillin / clavulanate:

Symptoms of overdose

Abdominal or stomach pain
cloudy urine
diarrhea
greatly decreased frequency of urination or amount of urine
sleepiness

Note the symptoms I had taking Augmentin are cloudy urine and decreased amount of urine.

I don't believe urinary tract infection covers what happened here.

Answered by Dr. Vaishalee Punj (32 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Yes let us get tested

Detailed Answer:
Hello and welcome to Ask A Doctor service.

I am Dr Vaishalee, MD Pharmacology and I have been assigned your query.

I have read your query and here is what I think.

Prolonged use of medicines including antibiotics and steroids can cause side effects. When new symptoms start during medicine use, they are many times caused by it. If the symptom started due to the medicine, it will most probably resolve in few weeks after that medicine is stopped. If the symptom just happened to have occurred during use of medicine (but not related to medicine), then it requires intervention by physician.

Augmentin is one of the safest antibiotics available. Sometimes it may cause problems.

Pain around kidney could mean that kidneys got affected due to medicine use. We cannot come to a conclusion by just listening to symptoms. To find exact diagnosis, I will suggest that you get complete urinalysis done. Kidney function test and ultrasound of kidney ureter bladder may also be needed. You must drink lots of clean water including two glasses in morning and two glasses in evening.

You seem to have gotten better after Cravit use, so infection also had some role to play. Urine culture and sensitivity is the best test to find any urinary tract infection and effective antibiotics.

Hope this helps. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Dr Vaishalee

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