amoxicillin and diflucan

blackswampboy
blackswampboy Member Posts: 341
in Head and Neck Cancer #1
back on amoxicillin for 21 days.
grrr. since amoxicillin is an open invitation for thrush to move in and party, my ENT gave me a script for diflucan.
so the kid picks up the prescription, and it's one pill. one lousy $4 pill.
what am I supposed to do with that? take it now? or wait until thrush hits?
I hate antibiotics.

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  • phrannie51
    phrannie51 Member Posts: 4,716
    #2
    Go to the health food store....
    and pick up some acidopholis...not in the caps but the pill form, then chew them...they are tasteless...I used this method many years ago when I got thrush during finals. It cured my thrush at that time, and it very well may prevent it, too.

    p
  • blackswampboy
    blackswampboy Member Posts: 341
    #3
    phrannie51 said:

    Go to the health food store....
    and pick up some acidopholis...not in the caps but the pill form, then chew them...they are tasteless...I used this method many years ago when I got thrush during finals. It cured my thrush at that time, and it very well may prevent it, too.

    p

    thanks, will do
    guess I'll just sit on the diflucan until thrush hits.
    I'm just amazed that it's one pill.
  • phrannie51
    phrannie51 Member Posts: 4,716
    #4
    blackswampboy said:

    thanks, will do
    guess I'll just sit on the diflucan until thrush hits.
    I'm just amazed that it's one pill.

    I am too....
    my doc gave me the liquid Diflucan, enough to carry me thru two weeks...

    Ya know, I wonder if the pharmacy read it wrong, or the Dr. wrote it wrong...I'd call the Dr. and ask, what the hell is one pill for??? Is this stuff THAT good?

    p
  • D Lewis
    D Lewis Member Posts: 1,581 Member
    #5
    blackswampboy said:

    thanks, will do
    guess I'll just sit on the diflucan until thrush hits.
    I'm just amazed that it's one pill.

    Sometimes all it takes is the ONE pill!
    But, I think you have to have the thrush first.

    Deb
  • Billie67
    Billie67 Member Posts: 898
    #6
    D Lewis said:

    Sometimes all it takes is the ONE pill!
    But, I think you have to have the thrush first.

    Deb

    1 pill
    I know that in the past when I have taken certain antibiotics I would develope a yeast infection an my OB/GYN would RX diflucan and it was one tablet. It usually did the trick. However, during rads when I got thrush my onc gave me an RX for diflucan and it was different tablets (not the little card with one tablet) but a bottle of tabs that I took for like 10 or 12 days. Different doses I guess? Anyway, I guess what I'm saying is I think both types work so give it a try. It got to the point in the past where I knew which antibiotics would bother me and I'd just take the diflucan at the start of antibiotics and it would prevent me from having a problem, your RX should say how and when to take it. If not call either your dr or the pharmacy.
    Hope this helps.
    Billie
  • katenorwood
    katenorwood Member Posts: 1,912
    #7
    Hopefully NO THRUSH
    BSB,
    I hope and pray you don't end up with it. NO FUN ! I will be checking into a few ideas P, and a few others gave me at our local health food store. Good luck, and I pray we can all keep it at bay from now on ! Katie

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