I need some advice here. I've been anxious as hell lately due to a relationship ending and being sick, but now that I've gone on Augmentin (a form of penicillin) it feels like my anxiety is worse. I'm more spacey and jittery. Has anyone had these symptoms with antibiotics and do you think I should try something else.

Mack, best suggestion would be to talk with your doctor about the antibiotics you are currently taking. Ask him or even your pharmacist about the side effects of it.

mack

I'm not a doctor and so I cannot give you that kind of credible advice. I have however been trained in western medicine and I gave give you my opinion. Unfortunately there are drugs out there that help us which have side effects but luckily antibiotics aren't suggested to be taken over long periods of time. I agree with what Admin says with talking to your doctor and I definately advice you keep up with the penicillin as bacterial conditions can be very serious! I'm also assuming that since you're on these forums that you have some hard to maintain anxiety. This can supress your immune system and I really feel that right now you need to use whatever it is that will help you and afterwards you can work more on rebuilding it.


Mike

Hi Mack,
I'm not sure why you are on the antibiotics (what infection you have), BUT I wanted to throw something out here. Have you ever been tested for Lyme Disease, or have any of they symptoms?

I 'thought' I just had anxiety that would come and go for the past 12 years. I just found out that I have had Lyme for the past 12 years. Lyme Disease, it's much more common than people think. I never saw the tick or the rash, but I started getting panic attacks in 1996 and I'd never had one. Then I started sleeping a lot and felt like I was going to die, had muscle twitches, a lot of trouble swallowing.

I found out that Lyme causes panic attacks, I just met a guy on lyme.net who also thought he just had panic/anxiety for 18 years, nope just found out he has Lyme.

Anyhow, when someone with Lyme takes antibiotics, they feel worse, often very anxious, feel like they have the flu, ect because it is killing off the spirochete bacteria and as it dies, it emits a neurotoxin causing the anxiety.

I think there are many people who have anxiety that actually have Lyme, many of us on the Lyme boards think so too.

Just throwing this out as a possibility.

Take care,
Ocean

Ocean, I don't know if you are still here ... but I wanted to agree with you on the Lyme Disease stuff.

I was also undiagnosed for 12 years.