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Doctors Help!!!????
I am in my first year of college and I live in a dorm with many other students so naturally bacteria and infections run amok.
In August, I caught a cold. It went away within a week or so. No problem.
In October, I got sick again, only this time, I was coughing up some nasty phlegm. I waited and battled with it, don't think I ever had a fever, for weeks. I got better slowly with a lot of sleep and cough medicine, but in November it came back (I'm guessing it never really left?). In November, my mother decided that since I had been sick for a long time I should take some antibiotics so she sent me some that she said would help me. Within 3 days of taking them I was completely better. I felt great. A week or so later I started noticing that I still had a little phlegm in my throat but it did not bother me at all I thought it was just remainder of what I had and it would go away. Now I am home on break (three weeks later) and two days ago my throat started KILLING me with pain. It hurt really bad, I took a Tylenol and stayed put for a bit, and it went away I carried on my usual business. I also started coughing and feeling sick randomly but it would go in and out. Just the pain in my throat is what hurts really bad sometimes. I'm also noticing the phlegm in my throat, not a lot, but enough.
Now my question is, will the antibiotic Ampicillin TR cure whatever bacterial (because I'm guessing this must be bacterial) infection I have? Can I take Ampicillin? Because my mother wants me to take it but I don't want it to be the wrong thing or to make the bacteria stronger or immune to antibiotics, I'm afraid that's what it did the first time I took it in November, but that wasn't Ampicillin it was some other form of it my mom says.
*Oh and just as a side note, we are not from the US originally and have several prescription medications for different symptoms from back home where you can buy them at a pharmacy legally without prescription. My mother always buys when she visits and brings it over (legally of course)
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I have had this same thing. Cough up some of the phlegm and spit it out, and take alot of cough drops, if you feel you need antibiotics, you should consult a doctor. (:
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I briefly read your question, and eventually stopped because i got the premise of it. Heres my answer:
- Prescription Antibiotics are given out by doctors only. They vary in strength, and uses. The antibiotics given to you by your mother should not have been taken by you, because they weren't for you.
- Presumebely, It wasnt a full pack of antibiotics, as your mother must have taken some. This is completely useless. You must ALWAYS finish a course of antibiotics given to you by a doctor.
- The reason for this, if you take the "i feel better, i'll stop taking them" route, bacteria will still linger. When you stop taking the medication, they will start to grow, and make you ill again.
- But taking the same medication will probably not work now. Because the bacteria that was lingering, would have died if you had completely finished a prescribed course of antibiotics. However, they have probably gained an immunity by it now. Meaning, that medication may have no affect on the bacteria whatsoever because they are used to it.
- Go to the doctors, and explain what happened. Because he/she will have to give you a stronger dose or a different type of antibiotic now, because the prior was used irresponsibly.
- When you get a prescription from the doctor, finish it, completely, no matter how good you feel.
- The above is why most countries dont just sell antibiotics over the counter, because this will eventually lead to superviruses, which kill, and which there are no antibiotics to kill,e.g. MRSA.
Hope i helped
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You should never take medication not perscribed for you by your doctor. in this country it is illegal to take medication dispensed without prescription even from your mother. The medication your mother bought back home haves been legal, i am not so sure it was legal to bring it into this country.
You need to see a doctor and be properly diagnosed and prescribed for.
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