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How long do side effects from Erythromycin go? I got these pills monday from my GP for acne.......since I been taking these I have vomitting twice on weds also had diarha, and all of a sudden this abdomal pain come along.....I still have this pain, I lost my appeatie, I keep burping and peeing every 10 mins, my doctor came round friday afternoon and checked up on me and said everything appears normal and gave me some desolve paracemtom you add with water and some Merbently sryup to calm the pain, well I wanted a second opinion on this and was wondering when do these side effects tend to go? and are these normal stytoms to have while taking this? and has anyone had any paitence with this before?

Answer 1

nausea vomiting and diarrhea are very common side effects of erythromycin. Ask your doctor for a different antibiotic and save your stomach

Answer 2

I am not a doctor, but I will not take Erythromycin because the side effects are so bad for me. There are other antibiotics the doctor can prescribe that don't have the same severe side effects.

Answer 3

Broad spectrum Antibiotics, which erythromycin is, kills not only bacteria but intestinal flora too. Hence you are having this problem. It is always prescribed with Vit B.complex. Take Vit B complex & in 3-4 days you will be al right.

Answer 4

Erythromycin is gone 12 hours (or less) after you took last pill, it’s probably you’ve got another infection, perhaps GI or urinary infection, even an acute gastritis caused by Erythromycin

ADD1.These symptoms are pretty common, nothing new and certainly your doctor know about them because Erythromycin side effects had been comprehensibly studied.
Erythromycin is very useful but an important gastric irritant, pharmaceutical industry had tried to avoid these side effects making different salts:
1.Erythromycin estolate (generic)
2.Erythromycin stearate (Erythrocin or generic)
3.Erythromycin ethylsuccinate ( E.E.S or generic)
Or the Erythromycin base (E-mycin, Ery-Tab, Eryc, generic)
But till this day none of these salt forms has proven be side-effects free (Erythromycin estolate causes more adverse reactions than others). Symptoms may vary from vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain to a very dangerous reaction known as Steven-Johnson syndrome (skin turns reddish with a lot of blisters).
But don’t be afraid, I’m sure what you’ve got is just gastritis secondary to Erythromycin; we cannot know who is going to have gastritis all we can do is ask if the patient has gastritis already if so, it’s likely to worse with erythromycin. Every time you take Erythromycin you’re going to develop gastritis (pain) also vomiting and diarrhea, so you have to say your doctors in the future to avoid it.
Ok, so don’t take more Erythomycin and keep taking Merbentyl (dicycloverine hydrochloride) this is used to relieve abdominal pain (not muscle pain just abdominal pain) and it’s fine, your stomach and bowel don’t like Erythromycin and both of them were contacted tightly and this causes pain (spasm) and Merbentyl makes your bowel to relax.
Stay calm because stress worsens gastritis and be kind with your stomach, you’ll be fine
I do not think of Pseudomembranous Colitis (that is diarrhea caused by alterations of intestinal flora) because of seems you don’t have diarrhea anymore (diarrhea of Pseudomembranous colitis is aqueous and green and usually with fever). And in case you’ve got a light form of this Pseudomembranous Colitis the main measure is the same: stop taking Erythromycin.

ADD2.What? These data are clue “can barely breathe” and the pain in your back, because they point to the gall bladder. Another well known adverse effect Erythromycin is the ERYTHROMYCIN-INDUCED CHOLESTASIS, Erythromycin causes bile to be thicker and that causes slow flow from gall bladder to small intestine, and eventually blocks the thin bile ducts (between gall bladder and small intestine). Bile is very irritant even for walls of the gall bladder and develops an inflammatory reaction, bile may reach the liver and damage it causing you jaundice, also when there’s an inflammatory reaction in a part of the gastrointestinal tract, bowel stop moving, but gas production by bacteria goes on, gas can not flow down normally and has find an exit, so you are burping a lot, and you lost appetite, because your bowel is not moving, if you eat something it will stay in your stomach and will cause you pain and with so much difficulty it’ll pass to your small intestine (probably you’ll throw it out). When gastrointestinal tract stops moving we call it a “Paralytic ileus”.
Till now probably you’ve got two diseases:
1. Erythromycin-induced cholestasis (bile don’t flow)
2. Paralytic ileus
3. Probably Cholecystitis (inflammation of the gall bladder)
All these conditions are more than enough reason to be admitted in an ER. Gall bladder problems usually affect women, with overweight, over fifty years old and resolves with non-surgical treatment (even if there’re gallstones).
1. We need a “Liver and biliary tree ultrasound” to see if is just the cholestasis or there is also an obstruction caused by a gallstone,
2. We need to run some blood test to check your liver.

Stop taking Erythromycin, also avoid: anabolic steroids, oral contraceptives, chlorpromazine, and penicillin-based antibiotics.
Also avoid fats in your meals because fatty food cause gallbladder to produce bile, and bile by now cannot flow easily and it’ll just irritate gall bladder.
We need to relieve pain with Meperidine (Demerol) intramuscular injection adjusted to your weight; stopping nausea with Promethazine (Phenergan) intramuscular injection adjusted to your weight too.
Acute cholecystitis improves in 4 to 5 days if not a surgical consultation is needed. Even if this problem resolves it’s likely to reappear again.

ADD3. Of course this can be treated with an excellent prognosis as long as we relieve pain. Pain causes gall bladder contraction --> Gall bladder contraction-- > pain (a vicious circle) IV analgesics is preferred to IM analgesics and in turn these are preferred to oral analgesics because your bowel is not moving well if you take a pill or water it will stay a very long long time in your stomach doing nothing ( paralytic ileus).
Probably you become constipated now; stool accumulates in the sigmoid colon at the bottom left of abdomen.
It’s likely you’ll develop another biliary colic attack in the future (almost two thirds of the patients with a previous attack have another attack within 2 years). If you are overweight you need to loss weight.

Answer 5

these are irratating your stomach,i hope you are not still taking them as they can cause stomach bleeds if continued,did you take them with food as this is an important factor to reduce side affects like this