I just had my post op appt today and my surgeon said everthing looked great but I am feeling really strange. I am taking the antibiotics but I started to feel like I was spaced out. My chest started to really hurt and I had to get home to take my vicoden. I feel really bizaar. What is going on with me? I hope surgery did not put me over the edge. My anxiety has anxiety right now. I feel crazy. Today I was fine and clear thinking and then BAM! Panic, dizziness, fog, feel like I am stoned and weak. I know I did not take my pain pill today and the pain crept up on me and then it was really hurting. My insides kind of feel like they are burning. Anyone get this weird burning sensation on the inside of their body. Help....Debra

you might want to contact your doctor, could be an after effect of what ever local ansthesia he gave you.

Debra - do you think you might be having a panic attack? It can make you feel spaced out, and feel pain more and notice other sensations you would normally ignore. I've had a lot in the past so it is just a thought which occured to me.

Debra
It sounds more like a reaction to the antibiotics to me. I had a poisoned finger last summer and I had to go on some antibiotics that I had never taken before. I felt very strange and spaced out on them-exactly as you describe. Antibiotics can make you feel terrible. I remember stopping mine after three days because I couldn't bear the anxiety they gave me. I don't recommend you do that without talking to your doctor-but maybe he could give you some different ones?

janet c

Hi didgegns, squiggle and janet c, I think you are all accurate. The local was injected in the fold of both breast. That wore off after a couple of hours on Tuesday. I thought maybe that was it but I realised that was not injected in my spine like an epidural so it was already out of my system. The antibiotics do have ugly side effects and maybe that is one of them. I also am taking vicoden for the pain and maybe that can give a headache. I let my pain get out of control by holding off on taking the vicoden and after I took it my panic attack started to subside and I was able to lay down. Now, I am left with the headache on the back side of my head at the base of my neck. Last night while stretching I felt a horrible muscle pull in that spot so maybe thats what it is. Thanks everyone.........Debra

Debra
I take vicodin for my back and crazy as it sounds my panic attack went away. But I never got a head ache from it. I haven't taken vicodin lately because of all the other meds I'm on. ugg
I hope you feel better hon. I'm here for ya....char

Totally agree!!!

Few months ago they put me on the Z-Pac, and perhaps for some ppl fine, but this stuff literally drove me nuts, and put me in full scale panic attacks.

Also since you are on antibiotics, I would ask your doctor when you could take a probiotic. When I was finished w/the antibiotics, my stomach was a mess. Antibiotics kill off both bad and the good bacteria in our stomachs which can lead to digestive issues. Just a suggestion.

I've never had a problem taking antibiotics and have been on them many times for sinus infections.

I didn't take them for about 3 years after finding an acupuncturist that basically cured
my sinus issues.

Took Septra last March for UTI and thought I'd lost my mind....my
anxiety and panic was tenfold...it took about 2-3 weeks for me to feel like I was back in
my body. Didn't really know it was from the atbx, so I took the whole bottle.

Had a dental issue in June and took Penicillin with no problems.
August, Sept took Penn, and Amox for same dental problem for FIVE weeks, no problem
just could not get rid of infection. Finally, took Clindamyacin and was successful.
Again, no problems with antibiotics. I was so worried as Clinda is harcore!
I took Natrol BioBeads probiotics each time I took a pill and had no stomach issues.

Fast forward to Feb of this year and had a horrible chest infection. Took a Zpack.
I always had success with it. It got rid of my sinus infections, no problem.
Had the same sense of increased panic, out of body, weepy, lost.....took it for 3 days, looked
back at my journals from last March and saw the same symptoms with Septra and stopped it
immediately. It took me a few weeks to get it out of my system. I talked to my
Psych, who is a genuis and she told me to avoid broad spectrum antbx.
Basically told me that people with panic disorder or adrenal or hormonal problems should try to avoid
the following:

DO NOT TAKE SULFA OR QUINOLONE antbx
or biaxin, levaquin augmentin avelox or cipro
or steroids, if at all possible.

I hate that my body has become so sensitive to medicines, foods, the freeking air that i breathe.
I want to go back to the old me.