Flucloxacillin

[Jude]

Hi Everyone,

Am on my second 7 day course of Flucloxacillin 500mg x 4 daily - does anyone know if these affect blood sugars ?? I am struggling at the moment as it is and could just do without this. The tablets are due to an infected toe which is due to ingrowing toe nail - just because I don't have enough to deal with!!

Many thanks.

 

[satindoll]

I doubt its the antibiotics more likely the infection putting up your numbers, try and drink a little more of the fluid of your preference just not booze with that particular antibiotic.

 

[ButtterflyLady]

I've had an infected ingrown toenail a few times. If it wasn't for a good podiatrist I would have ended up needing surgery. She also said being overweight had contributed to it. I feel for you, it's a miserable thing to have. Hugs.

 

[4ratbags]

Just concentrate on getting yourself better and try not to worry about it as stressing out won't help. As stated above it might pay to make an appointment with a podiatrist to prevent it from happening again as diabetes is enough to deal with without any extra stresses.

 

[eddie1968]

Being diabetic for 5 years now I have had hundreds of courses of Fluxclox and never noticed any increases in BGs as they were always due to the infection. I found the fact of not being able to eat for an hour after taking them and the 4 x 500mg capsules was a bit much for a diabetic on insulin. I now get Lymecycline 408mg 1 cap a day when I get skin infections and you can eat straight away after taking them.

 

[nicolarse01]

As above, its the infection causing the raised blood sugars. Stress can also cause high blood sugars so try to chill out a bit, let the anti biotics do their thing and keep testing and fixing your bm's.

 

[Jude]

I have been seeing a private chiropodist for 20 years now and we had managed to contain my problems. However today I have had part of my one big toenail removed so, fingers crossed, when that has healed I should not have any more trouble with that one. And I have decided that if this one heals ok I will go and get the other one done. My GP did it as she does minor surgeries at the surgery every week.

 

[graj0]

Hi Everyone,

Am on my second 7 day course of Flucloxacillin 500mg x 4 daily - does anyone know if these affect blood sugars ?? I am struggling at the moment as it is and could just do without this. The tablets are due to an infected toe which is due to ingrowing toe nail - just because I don't have enough to deal with!!

Many thanks.

As satindoll says, it'll be the infection rather than the antibiotic. I've just taken antibiotics for 2 weeks because believe it or not I have had appendicitis. Luckily it didn't burst, just grew a little sac. It took them from July 13th until last Wednesday 19th August to tell me what the heck was going on. I was told it was Gall Stones at one point. The one thing I take away from this experience is never underestimate the effects of an infection, my BG was all over the place, even when I was hardly eating.
My father lost a toe because of an ingrowing toenail which he kept telling everyone was "OK". When the infection set in, it was obvious something was not right. He was lucky.
I decided at that point that I'd get my feet checked properly and regularly, it might be twice the price of a haircut, but long hair shouldn't be killing me any time soon. I'm very pleased that you caught the infection in time, it could have been worse, much worse.