I am allergic to Penicillin, Cipro, Vincamyacin, and maybe sulfa based - anyone have same? on Macrodatin.?

Question

Took Cipro in college went into horrible hives - parents have always told me that is what happened to me when I was a child with penicillin. Pharmacist told me to rub the sulfa one on my hand first to see if I would have a reaction before taking the pill and I did. Now I'm on Macrodatin - so far, so good. Except I'm very sleepy.I'm wondering if there's anything else I should stay away from or why I would have a reaction to such a wide base. I have no allergies to food or anything.. Thankfully, I hardly get infections..I have taken zithromax and clyndamyacin in the past (for dentist).

Answer 1

I am exactly the same. The only anti-biotic i can take is called kaflex. It sucks. But if Macrodatin is making you tired, maybe ask your doctor about kaflex?
hope that helped!

Answer 2

You're incredibly unlucky in terms of allergies.
You had a penicillin reaction when you were young. There are different schools of thought about giving a drug which you had an allergic reaction to years ago. Some say in extreme circumstances, it is worth a try. Others say no, don't do that. You'll have to careful about other penicillins. There is some cross-reactivity between penicillin and carbapenems and cephalosporins.
Ciprofloxacin is a fluroquinolone. Others in that class are levofloxacin, moxifloxacin, and gatifloxacin.
Vancomycin is a drug within its own class. It is a last line antibiotic.
Sulfa is not that commonly used anymore. You should be careful about Bactrim.
Zithromax is a macrolide and Clindamycin is a lincosamide antibiotic.
You are allergic to two major classes of antibiotics. You should hope to never have a major injection. There aren't too many new antibiotics in development.

Answer 3

Yes! I can understand what you're saying exactly.

I was never allergic to anything as a kid, and now, I am in very reasonably good health, but seem to react to everything.

And I hate it. I drives me nuts.

I had a very bad reaction to sulfa. My whole body turned green! And my breath was terrible...

Much later I also became very allergic to aspirin, even though I had no allergy to aspirin at the time. Broke out in hives and couldn't breath, which is connected to a kind of shock.

The only thing I know is that allergies can be connected with COPD, Cronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, and that seems to be very hard to diagnose.

With me, one doctor says I have it, and another says that's totally impossible.

I don't breath well on almost any medicines, So, I think I'm gonna listen to the one who says I've got it.

Better safe than sorry, right?