I came down with a bad cold two weeks ago that seem to turn into a sinus infection about four days ago. I began taking Amoxcillian (antibiotic) three days ago. I feel much better but am getting my butt kicked in my training. Am I tired now because of the Amoxcillian? If I stop taking it will my cold/sinus problem come back? I am suppose to take it for one more week. I have a big race in six weeks. I can run easy just can't train hard.
Keep taking it. Just because you feel better doesn't mean the infection is gone. You stop taking it and the infection is likely to come back. Your doctor knows this which is why he gives you a 10 day prescription.
You are tired due to lasting effects of the infection and dehydration. Always drink lots of water while dealing with infection.
Alan
The lack of insight among (presumably) adults in general is astounding.
It's not the amoxicillin. It's the illness.
Why are you worried about your training if you are sick enough to need antibiotics? Priorities dude, priorities.
Your 3rd grade spelling teache wrote:
The lack of insight among (presumably) adults in general is astounding.
It's not the amoxicillin. It's the illness.
This.^
If anything, the amoxicillin is helping. You'd be even worse without it right now. Take it like your doctor says for 10 days.
doctortongue wrote:
Why are you worried about your training if you are sick enough to need antibiotics? Priorities dude, priorities.
This. Training while sick does not end well.
Get much better first.
When a Doctor prescribes an antibiotic, *always* take the full course unless you clear it with him/her beforehand. They will never have you shorten the course unless you have an allergic or other serious reaction to it, and they will always substitute some other antibiotic.
Skipping a prescribed dose is a monumentally bad idea, as bacteria left in your body may resist future antibiotic treatment.
Don't quit on it now, person!
Think of it this way: the amoxicillin is a flock of hillbillies trying to shoot some pesky raccoons (the infectious bacteria) that keep digging through their trash barrels and climbing into their attics. The fat and slow raccoons are the ones that get shot first, and clearing those chumps out will make it seem like there's less annoyance in the hillbilly community. There's a problem though: if the hillbilly mob stops now, the faster, stronger /more annoying/ raccoons that escaped that initial onslaught will just come back, breed with one another, and the whole hillbilly community will be even worse off than it was before they started their 'coon hunt! Instead, you need to keep chasing down those peskier, stronger raccoons until you've eradicated all of them so you don't just let the really troublesome raccoons come back and start really causing a ruckus.
Boom roasted.
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