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What Causes Lower Back Pain That Radiates To The Shoulder?

Hi. I ve had a cough for about six weeks. I completed one regimine of Doxycycline. I notived last thursday i had left lower back/flank pain i thought maybe i had pulled a muscle. Went back in Saturday and had a chest x-ray (normal) was put on five days of Zithromyacin; have completed four days. Flank pain is worse and now radiates into shoulder and left lower costal margin area Thoughts
Thu, 7 Jun 2018
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Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice.
Antibiotic (Doxycycline) can only be taken in cough symptom if this is due to some infection. Else no need to take antibiotic, most of the time the cough is due to allergic condition and it may not need any treatment. If this is not the infection and then antibiotic will not help at all, sometime it may be due to increased eosinophilic count (It is not the direct cause of cough but it increases due to some allergen). Correcting the numbers of eosinophil count may helps in treating cough symptoms.
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What Causes Lower Back Pain That Radiates To The Shoulder?

Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice. Antibiotic (Doxycycline) can only be taken in cough symptom if this is due to some infection. Else no need to take antibiotic, most of the time the cough is due to allergic condition and it may not need any treatment. If this is not the infection and then antibiotic will not help at all, sometime it may be due to increased eosinophilic count (It is not the direct cause of cough but it increases due to some allergen). Correcting the numbers of eosinophil count may helps in treating cough symptoms. Hope I have answered your query, let me know if I can assist you any further.