Help Please -- antibiotic misuse / H pylori / systemic pain

[tmichaelg]

Hello Doctor... please take time to read my post and provide insight.  

1. When I was born, I was very ill (CF tentative diagnosis) and kept on antibiotics for the first year of my life just in order to survive.  Growing up, I was always rather weakly and sick.... had asthma.

2. Around 21, I woke up with stabbing lower abdom. pain after unprotected sex.  I lost my appetite for about 2 weeks and felt totally nauseous all the time.  I saw a doctor who thought it was an STD.  I was given Valtrex (b/c of a sore on my penis -- negative for HSV), amoxicilin (twice), doxycycline, and another gigantic red pill they give you so you don't have to take them over a long period of time.  This was all within a 5 moth period, about 5 years ago.  

Since then... I had debilitating digestive pains.

a. stabbing, obstructive pain
b. burning stomach
c. fatigue
d. dizziness and brain fog
e. constipation / loose stools alternating -- mainly constipation.

This went on from about 21 - 23.  I finally saw a doctor after nearly dying, and the doc did some tests.  They found I had SIBO and H Pylori.  I was given PYLERA (tetracycline and flagyl).  This stuff cured me.... it litereally cleared up ALL of my symptoms 100% for 3.5 months.  Then (about a year ago... im 26 now) I got strep throat.  The doctors, OF COURSE, gave me Penicillin vk 500 mg pills and they literally ruined my body.  

It's been a year now, and my intestines are paralyzed, they feel infected, my kidneys hurt, my eyes hurt, im fatuged daily, I have brain fog daily, i feel literally like I am dying.  

Does my extensive history w/ antibiotics make me more prone to this sort of chronic illness after using them?
Can I use Pylera again to cure me of whatever the Penicillin did not kill off?

I feel like I am dying.... any sort of help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

t

[Sunshinesmiles426]

Have any of you with these issues had your blood toxin levels checked? All these medications, not to mention our food supply are filled with toxins that can build up in your system. Even enough to cross the blood brain barrier and create a brain disease that causes extremely foggy thought process. This happened to me and once I found out I was able to receive the correct treatment and am doing and feeling so much better. I have to take 2 meds a day to keep the toxins out of my body now but it is worth the benefits I've gained! The best to you all!

[Ruth_L]

As I told others, one thing is to drink kefir, I'm also doing an aloe vera stomach formula, and that really helps me too.  Hope this helps.

I am not a physician.

[LOVESEAT]

I too have felt like i am dieing after amoxicillin.  I can't do anything. can hardly go to the bathroom.  I have been doing much research and i think we are suffering from mal absorption cus the antibiotics hurt our stomachs.  I am having a really hard time getting any help, my doc and most of them suck.  I am going to get a b complex liquid and iron and have started on magnesium. the mag has helped my anxiety and panic but still feel like i'm dieing.  we need natural docs to help us heal our gut and get it working right.  i don't know if we should take enzymes for digestion or digestive salts.  I have been on Prilosec for 8 yrs and i can't digest or absorb many nutrients.  research b vitamins, leaky gut and try to find a natural doc.   but that's hard to do when you feel like you are dieing and can't get out of bed or even feed yourself like me.  I hope you feel better very soon. I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL.  GOD BLESS YOU.

[brackney]

I am not a Doctor .  I do not know how you get a Dr. to answer your question here.  I hope one does.  I hope you see a gastrointestinal specialist so you can your life back to normal.   Good luck.