medicine for being sick

[MADE IT 2 MY GOAL..OH YEAH 0]

Ok so, about this time every year, I come down with strep throat followed by a hacking cough. I usually just call my doctor and they call me in some antibotics and I run out to Walmart and get some cough medicine. Just wondering if anyone knows what kind of cough medicine I can take now since I am not suppose to have any NSAIDS and are the antibotics ok to still take cause I still have some left and instead of calling the doctor, I can just take those if they are ok. It is amoxcil (however you spell it)

[RestlessMonkey 7]

PLEASE PLEASE don't self medicate w/antibiotics. In the first place, you should've taken all of them for whatever they were originally prescribed. In the second place, if you don't have strep, they won't help. If you DO and don't really take enough drugs, it will just go "underground" and move to another part of your body. It CAN come back to make you very very sick. Furthermore you are helping to create more super bugs (like MRSA...methicillin-resistant staph aureaus). PLEASE go to your doc.

AND NSAIDS are drugs like aspirin and ibuprofen and aleve. They aren't usually in traditional OTC "Cough" medicines but are in some cold medicines. Ask your doctor what you can take.

Hope I don't sound prissy but it is honestly bad to not take all your antibiotics, and/or to take some old ones on the chance that you do have strep.

[MADE IT 2 MY GOAL..OH YEAH 0]

NO, you don't sound prissy at all. I know, I am suppose to take all my medicine when I recieve it, but this one time I didn't take it all. I'll call my doctor in the morning and get me an appointment to see for sure what is going on.

[RestlessMonkey 7]

Good! I'm glad I wasn't prissy and I'm glad you're calling your doc. Strep isn't anything to fool around with and it is becoming more and more resistant to our antibiotics (could you guess I'm a nursing student? LOL) so you're safest to go to your doc. Hope you feel better really soon! :biggrin: