Just started taking amoxicillin for an ear infection and starting to feel a bit nauseous, but not enough to throw up yet or decide to go back to the doctor. Would it go away after my body gets used to it? Eating saltines and also yogurt right now, but worried going to work is going to be a nightmare if this lasts the whole week I need to take the pills.
How long does nausea caused by the antibiotic amoxicillin usually lasts?
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Taking it with or right after meals may help reduce the nausea, but expect it to be a problem for at least the first half of your course of the antibiotic. Duration from each pill can be anywhere from a few hours after you take it to all the time the whole time you’re on it.
So, food will likely help- even if it’s a big glass of milk, bread, eggs, crackers…. but do it with a bigger meal if you can, and your stomach will thank you.
Yes, sometimes your body gets used to it in a day or two, and then you can take it on an empty stomach, no problem. But the yogurt and saltines are probably not enough. If it remains a problem with work, you can also try dramamine or chewing minty gum to help alleviate the nausea. (If the Dramamine doesn’t konk you out!)
Good luck, and stay with them for the week, even if the nausea stays. If you go off early, you run the rick of creating antibiotic-resistant bacteria! Then you’re kind of screwed because they have to put you on something more serious like Cipro that will make you even more nauseated! (Cipro SUCKS!)
i’ve been on it
eat a bunch of food before you take it and drink water.
that feeling will stay with you and you’re gonna have to put up with it.
I’ve also puked on that antibiotic before.
Everytime something goes off on that drug its because I didn’t eat enough prior to taking it.
I am on antibiotics right now and have been on others in the past. I am just past the midpoint and still have nausea from them. Every other time I have been on antibiotics I stay nauseous throughout the whole round of medication. There isn’t really any other way to get rid of the infection, and for me every antibiotic makes me nauseous. So, just know you are not suffering alone. Take care, and get better.