Today, I found out that when they put "Take with food" on the side of antibiotics, what they really mean is "Take with food because this stuff is gonna liquefy everything in your G.I. tract, and make you have to run out of the middle of calculus for the worst diarrhea ever." FML
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Today, I'm a week into a prescription of extremely constipating antibiotics. I also just caught the stomach bug going around at work that causes aggressive diarrhea. The two combined mean I have a constant, slow-moving stream of thick, foul-smelling sludge coming out of me. FML
Today, I was prescribed two different medications. I was also informed that they will both give me diarrhea for the next two weeks. FML
Today, my doctor put me on some extra strength antibiotics for an infection. On the label it says "WARNING: may cause Diarrhea"... 'may cause' is a funny term... this is the second time I've sharted in my pants today. FML
Today, the pharmacist warned me that my antibiotics might cause slight gastrointestinal distress. The fact that I have been on the john for the past 90 minutes drenched in sweat would lead me to believe our definitions of "slight" are a bit different. FML
Today, in preparation for a presentation at work, I decided to take a handful of vitamins to fight my cold. As I was putting the bottles away, I noticed one of them was a laxative. FML
Today, like every day since my wife was prescribed antibiotics for an infection, I had to hide one of the pills inside her food, because she'd apparently rather fall seriously ill than swallow them like an adult. FML
Today, I found out the antibiotics I'm taking can cause you to vomit unexpectedly. In the car. While driving. To work. FML
Today, I'm on my second day of a week of antibiotics to treat a bad urine infection. Incidentally, the pills seem to be giving me extremely loud, frequent, gut-wrenchingly painful and smelly diarrhea. Only 5 more days to go. FML
Today, I have bronchitis. A few days ago, my doc prescribed antibiotics, which are helping, but also cause a really nasty upset stomach. I tell ya, violent coughing fits and severe diarrhea do NOT go well together. FML
Today, I read the instructions on my new prescription constipation medicine: "For best results, defecate before use." FML
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perdix 29
Don't blame the anitbiotic. Calculus can give you the *****. Especially if you have a bad teacher.
elenaa_fml 0
hahaha this is how fmls should be.
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sjx 0
Wait, did OP follow the directions or not? Because the wording kind of sounds like he/she did, and then explosively shat it all out. BUT who can be sure...
Jaguaress 2
That sucks. They say to take it with food to prevent stomach pain. The reason the diarrhea happened is because the antibiotics killed a ton of bacteria in your system, so your body needed to get rid of it quickly. The best way to combat this is to take acidophilus - and even better, a capsule with acidophilus, b. longum and the other good bacterias - with each dose you take of antiobiotic. You must take probiotics with food, so that there's the best chance of the good bacteria making it to your intestines. Be aware that probiotics can cause diarrhea for a day or two, as the bad bacteria is overrun by the good, but since you had that reaction anyway to the antibiotic, you wouldn't notice it. The best probiotics say to refrigerate after opening, and I prefer capsules, since they're easier to take. Good luck.
beforethedawn09 0
Jaguaress is right, acidophilus is good, or at the very least eat yogurt. One time I didn't eat yogurt or take probiotics with my antibiotics because I forgot, and I woke up at 3 a.m. with incredible stomach pain (and went downstairs and ate some ******* yogurt). So you're probably just one of the people that's sensitive to antibiotics, but this is normal...and would probably happen even if you did take it with food. It sucks. I feel your pain, dude. But get some probiotics and you'll do better.
cmac86 23
op: guy or girl?
956TXking 0
it's there for a reason dumbass
Subjectzero 0
you soooo ******* deserved that. these instructions exist so you don't have to make a stupid mistake. so now you do know what you are supposed to do
Godavari 0
Instructions are there for a reason. YDI
nerdface89 2
ACTUALLY although some antibiotics can give you stomach upsets, the reason they put take with food is to do with the absorption characteristics of the drug. Food changes the gaastric pH and some drugs can only be absorbed at a certain pH. SO if you want to be a douche and ignore the instructions your drug will not be absorbed and you are effectively wasting your money :) Lesson to everyone in society that always thinks they know best: you don't
tropicthunder 3
Always follow instructions...tsk tsk
MoobyTheCow 2
@#9 It's not always because of side effects that they say to take with food. Most of the time it's because your body absorbs it differently when it's actively releasing digestive enzymes, so you're probably losing effectiveness from taking it on an empty stomach.
x0xcarolinex0x 4
well...they don't tell you to take it with food just for fun...there's a reason for it