Azithromycin z pack dosing
Common Questions and Answers about Azithromycin z pack dosing
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This is a good question and the answer is that this is almost certainly effective therapy for chlamydial infection, HOWEVER, treatment of chlamydia with azithromycin has not been formally studied using this dosing schedule. Soon after azithromycin was released, it was shown that taking a Z-pack, consisting of 500 mg on day one, followed by several days of 250 mg per day was slightly less effective than a single 1.0 gram dose.
I see a lot of people asking about z pack curing chlamydia/gonorrhea and the common response is “It has to be 1g at once to work.” I’m confused by this. 1 g is 1,500mg. The typical z pack is 1,500mg total over the course of 5 days. 500mg on day one and then 250mg the next four days. So my question is, why would it HAVE to be 1,000mg of z pack at once to work rather than also 1,500 over 5 days?
I have been on Azithromycin (Z-pack) for 2 days and have a blood test schedule for Monday, so day 3 of a Z-pack?
Do you know if the antibiotics could mask or alter the test in a good/bad/neutral way?
Was prescribed a Z Pack taken in the 500mg first day followed by one 250 a day for respritory issue. NO change in penial symptoms. Along Ive had diarhhea for four months since this began. Never any discharge except a miniscule amount of clear one time. After a while the penile symptoms subcided. Went to doctor for the urine and diarrhea. He ran stool and urine sample which were ok. My question:
1 is are these typical urethritis symptoms?
I was very sick in December and was prescribed a five day dose of azithromycin in the form of a Z-Pack. I was recently told by someone I had sex with that they tested positive for gonorrhea. I have had no symptoms and it has been over two months now. Is there a possibility that the Z-pack effectively treated the gonohrrea?
0 gram dose of azithromycin or doxycycline, 100 mg orally, twice daily for 7 days. The Z-pack is the right drug but may not be the right dose. My advice would be to go get checked for gonorrhea and NGU. After that, therapy with doxycycline, given your modest response to azithromycin might be the way to go.
I hope this helps.
I was diagnosed with step and put on a z-pack. My throat is swollen and sore, I can barely swallow. I have also noticed a large pus pocket right next to my uvula.
It's been 3 days and I haven't gotten better at all. Is there anything else a doctor can give me to try and get the pus pocket and sore throat to go away?
I was diagnosed as positive for chlamydia but negative for gonorrhea on 7/17, did six days of doxicyclene starting 7/17, then a single dose of both azithromycin and metrodinazole around 7/23.) As of Sunday, I was still having occasional pain, so I started the Z-Pack on 8/2. Things seemed to be better until last night, 8/4, when I noticed evidence of a small amount of dried discharge in my black briefs.
Or, is it pointless to take a 3-5 day course of Z-Pack now since I already took the 1g of Azithromycin approx 11 days ago?
Please help!! Any advice is extremely appreciated!!
There is a fair amount of resistance to Azithromycin (Z-pack) secondary to its popularity among providers...
I have been to two optometrist and both prescribed me Z-pack because they believed it to be Chlamydia related. making a really really ....really long story short i have not taken either prescribed Z- pack antibiotics. I have been taking the precribed antibiotics my Primary Doc has given me but it wasnt Z- pack...this is such a long story and there is so much i want to tell and ask you but in short.
Does Chlamydia affect or infect the eye causing redeness?
Clarithromycin is essentially the same antibiotic as azithromycin (Z-pack) -- different dosing etc, but bioloigically identical in its activity against various bacteria. It protected you against all the STDs you mention, especially in the realtively high dose you are taking.
On the day I got tested, I was administered Rocephin (IM shot) and oral Z-pack (Azithromycin). I got retested last week and the rectal swab came back Negative, but the throat swab remained positive. The doc told me that gonorrhea in the throat is tricky to teat and that this was becoming common. He ordered a culture w/ sensitivity and resistance testing to be done from a new throat swab. Why is gonorrhea from the throat such a challenge to treat?
The azithromycin Z-pack would not help a virus, so your doctor must have thought a bacterial infection like strep was possible. However, with the symptoms continuing, a virus is much more likely.
As for the "ironic" timing with your sexual exposure, maybe the two events in fact were related; i.e.you might have caught that from your escort partner, since sex is obviously close enough contact to transmit garden variety cold viruses, strep, etc. Or it's truly a coincidence.
im 8 weeks pregnant and was giving a perscription for azithromycin for a bacterial infection is this harmful to my baby? when i take it each day i get really sick and tired what shouuld i do to make sure me and the baby are both healthy?
I was also just taking a 5 day dose pack of azithromycin for a sinus infection. I started having heart palpatations as well. I have tachycardia anyways so I didn't really associate it with the medicine. It really started worrying me when my left arm started feeling weak and tingling. This usually also happens when I have an SVT attack but it goes away quickly. This tingling lasted all day. My heart palpatations were more frequent as well.
ve never had one before so I started freaking out and got tested, negative for chlamydia and gonorrhea. So my doctor thought it was some form of Uti so she gave me a Z pack (azithromycin) which covered a 5 day period. Today is the 6th day and I still have symptoms! So I really am worried because I'm not sure what's wrong.. I've taken two different doses of antibiotics so it can't be bacterial.. could it be my prostate?
A z-pack is azithromycin. In the US, it comes in a pack of 5 pills, so its commonly called a z-pack. When taking it for chlamydia though, you just need 1 dose of 1000 mg. You wouldn't need the rest of the pills.
3) I have called my PCP and asked him to call me in a Z-pack, in case the symptoms I am currently having are due to some other type of infection. Will the Z-pack take care of any oral gonnorhea infection I may have?
4) Regarding syphilis, is there any concern at all? Is syphilis more common among Asians?
I have looked at other posts with similar problems, and I do apologize if this appears redundant in any way.
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