Antibiotics before a race?

Depends on which antibiotic you're taking. DO NOT EVEN JOG if you're taking a fluoroquinolone antibiotic like levaquin or cipro. serious long term injuries can result! read the indications carefully!

You should always take your AB's out ;-) . Last year I have taken some AB's and had a setback of a whole month. You should take into account a 10 a 20% slower times then usually.

was sick wrote:

How badly do antibiotics affect your system, and how long before the effect wears off? Would I have to avoid hard training?

Other than the Fluoroquinolones, as the above poster mentioned, antibiotics themselves aren't going to effect you...but the illness itself will.

People love to attribute the fact that they run crappy after taking antibiotics, but neglect what led them to take ab's in the first place - illness!

Antibiotics or not, it takes a while for your body to recover from an illness.

Go get a strep test and STD throat test and a mono test.

If there is no positive for bacterial infection, then do not take the antibiotics.

If there is a positive for mono, then do not take teh antbiotics but refrain from running for a month.

Well, I'm taking the antibiotics starting today. I feel like I'm getting sicker again. This is the first time I've been sick since 2006, so I guess I'm not great at reading my body's signals when I am sick (also can't afford to take more time off work).

The antibiotic is clavamel, active ingredient amoxicillin, which is a member of the penicillin family. I can't find any evidence of bad side effects on google, so hoping I'm ok to keep jogging.

Course will be finished tuesday night, racing friday, hopefully enough time to recover!

Thanks to everyone who answered.

amoxicillin shouldn't be a big deal, but you have to do other things besides take meds to get healthy fast - the key is recovery - eat right, hydrate, and sleep, sleep, sleep!

was sick wrote:

Well, I'm taking the antibiotics starting today. I feel like I'm getting sicker again. This is the first time I've been sick since 2006, so I guess I'm not great at reading my body's signals when I am sick (also can't afford to take more time off work).

The antibiotic is clavamel, active ingredient amoxicillin, which is a member of the penicillin family. I can't find any evidence of bad side effects on google, so hoping I'm ok to keep jogging.

Course will be finished tuesday night, racing friday, hopefully enough time to recover!

Thanks to everyone who answered.

i took amoxycillin in high doses for a couple of years in college for some pretty bad acne. didn't feel any side effects...