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Taking Co-amoxiclav

BraveSirRobin

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Hi All,

I’m taking co-amoxiclav for a stubborn UTI that won’t go away. This is my third course of antibiotics in 6 weeks.

I finish this course in 2 days time but the fatigue is horrendous, I was taking Co-codamol for other complications associated with the UTI and assumed it was those that were causing the fatigue. However, I stopped taking the co-codamol for 24 hours and this morning I took the co-amoxiclav dose at the normal time but within an hour the fatigue I was experiencing meant I had no choice but to sleep. The leaflet that comes with them doesn’t mention anything about fatigue, just dizziness. I’m also experiencing very stubborn highs, prior to breakfast this morning my reading was 12.1, I know an infection can play havoc with glucose levels so it might be the infection still.

Is anyone currently taking this, or taken it in the past, and had issues with stubborn highs and fatigue?
 
Don't want to worry you but that med can itself cause thrush, which is a yeast or fungal infection that needs a different treatment. It may be you have thrush anyway if an antibiotic does not shift it. The common name for thrush is candida albicans. I had it once due to a medication I was taking, and it needed a med called Deflucane to shift it. That med is powerful ju-ju.

Diabetics are prone to yeast infection becsuse of the glucose in the wee. Bacterial UTI is not so common,
 



Thanks for your response, it does appear I do now have thrush too which I’m treating with Canestan, my biggest concern is the stubborn highs and fatigue that appear to be related to the Co-amoxiclav, I’m wondering if other diabetics have had similar problems. The initial infection certainly wasn’t thrush, unless thrush can cause orchitis!
 
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