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Can I Take Another Round Of Antibiotics If Cold And Cough Persist?
I am on my 27th day of my lmp cycle. I am being worked up and on my 2nd month of chlomyd. I ovulated with 2 eggs on the 15th day. But I recently had UTI 2 weeks ago and my OB prescribed me ZINNAT for 7 days. On the 8th day after taking ZINNAT, I caught a bad colds and coughs. I took neozep, bioflu and vicks cough syrup 3 times a day but didn t work on the 5th day so my doctor told me to stop and flush all Meds then take ambroxol for 7 days once a day. My bbt dropped from 37 to 36.2 last Friday then went up to 37 yesterday and 36.8 today. I have been experiencing cramps the past 2 days too and I have symptoms of having my menstruation. Question: can I take another round of antibiotics already since my coughs and colds are getting really bad? Could I be pregnant?
Thu, 22 Oct 2020
Hello,
Pregnancy is always a possibility but with all of the medications you are taking the likelihood that your cycle is out of synchronization is also very high. This can cause your menstrual cycle to be very irregular. The Zinnat is a very good antibiotic, but sometimes another treatment course with a different antibiotic is needed (something like Azithromycin or Doxycycline).
I would recommend you do speak with your prescribing physician about another antibiotic prescription. If a second course is not effective then you likely need referred to a lung specialist to see what exactly is going on, but I do feel treating this infection again is a good idea. Please also watch out for any developing yeast infection that may occur as being on antibiotics as you know does make this more probable. Purchase some probiotics to help prevent this if you can.
Take care. Hope I have answered your question. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Regards,
Dr. David Girardi, Internal Medicine Specialist
Pregnancy is always a possibility but with all of the medications you are taking the likelihood that your cycle is out of synchronization is also very high. This can cause your menstrual cycle to be very irregular. The Zinnat is a very good antibiotic, but sometimes another treatment course with a different antibiotic is needed (something like Azithromycin or Doxycycline).
I would recommend you do speak with your prescribing physician about another antibiotic prescription. If a second course is not effective then you likely need referred to a lung specialist to see what exactly is going on, but I do feel treating this infection again is a good idea. Please also watch out for any developing yeast infection that may occur as being on antibiotics as you know does make this more probable. Purchase some probiotics to help prevent this if you can.
Take care. Hope I have answered your question. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Regards,
Dr. David Girardi, Internal Medicine Specialist
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