Has this or does this happen to anyone else?!
Question: i was prescribed penicillin for the first time last week because i had a tooth pulled. it says to take it 4 times a day but i've been taking 2 on work days and 3 on my days off. i don't want diarrhea the bottle says it might cause. i can handle the nasty taste i get from the pills because its only for a few seconds. i noticed if i take one on an empty stomach i feel nauseous. but the nauseousness goes away if i eat right after. so i've been taking them during meals. am i the only one who experiences this though?
Answers: i was prescribed penicillin for the first time last week because i had a tooth pulled. it says to take it 4 times a day but i've been taking 2 on work days and 3 on my days off. i don't want diarrhea the bottle says it might cause. i can handle the nasty taste i get from the pills because its only for a few seconds. i noticed if i take one on an empty stomach i feel nauseous. but the nauseousness goes away if i eat right after. so i've been taking them during meals. am i the only one who experiences this though?
If you don't take the medications as prescribed they will not work effectively. Take them with food or milk so you don't feel nauseous. And if they do give you diarrhea (which they probably won't) then take something like Pepto-bismol.
I had a pill (but not penicillin) that did that to me. My doctor told be to take it an hour before or after eating though, so it could be better digested. I always had to eat first or I'd feel sick.
Nausea is a common side effect. Totally normal.
You need to follow the dosage and if it requires you to take 4 a day, then that's what you should be doing. Penicillin is not the type of drug where you can skip dosage or only take when convenient. Also, it's very important to take the full course until you finish the bottle. Never stop taking them before you run out of the bottle. The reason your Dentist has prescribed Penicillin is because you have an infection. Take them with food if they upset your stomach. This is very common and is no reason to be alarmed. They upset my stomach too.
Folow the directions on the medication exactly. If otherwise take as your doctor wants you to.
your pharmacist should have counseled that you need to take most antibiotics on a full stomach! because the nausea is indeed a common side effect. also, be very careful with alcohol: it will not interfere with the antibiotics, but the antibiotics kill the 'good bacteria' in your digestive system, and you are far more likely to get really sick from it.