Antibiotics And Liver Damage

[dunnitall]

All I am asking is..has anyone experienced liver damage/compromised liver/liver failure after taking amoxicillin or antibiotics in that range? If so, could you please tell me how things progressed? Thanks so much for your help.

[Sqad]

No I have never suffered liver damage.
I have contributed to your previous thread and you know my views, but to answer your question.:

If..If ..your jaundice is due to Ampicillin, then your symptoms will subside within days and the liver will recover completely. Only rarely, very rarely does the condition develop into irreversible liver failure..

[dunnitall]

Just to add to this I saw Dr yesterday and he agreed my liver problem was caused by antibiotics and is sending me for a scan and blood tests. So it is possible for antibiotics to cause problems for the liver. If only I'd known before taking them I wouldn't have done so especially as I felt I didn't have a chest infection (my previous thread) and you too wondered that sqad, think you were right there!

[Islay]

Did you read the pamphlet that came with the tablets - is it one of those side effects that is mentioned in there.

I have just finished a course of these and my dr went through the side effects due to other health concerns and he did mention jaundice, but we felt the risks were minimal compared to the benefits.

If we all felt the way you do nobody would ever take antibiotics again.

[dunnitall]

Islay... I didn't have the choice to read any leaflet, hospital said I needed them at 4 a.m. In the morning whilst I was in A and E so they administered them then and there ...I have to have the suspension btw not capsules.

As for you saying with me feeling the way I do about this if everyone felt the same no one would take antibiotics.....that's a ridiculous statement. Each to their own and as this has affected me badly with the liver it's my personal choice thank you.

Each of us will act on experience and although this has caused me problems perhaps another antibiotic might not have done. If people don't have problems with them that's fine, but it's apparent that this caused the liver problem for me and I had to act on it. My OH has never had problems with this antibiotic and I expect countless others haven't either! Even my doctor agreed that I was right to stop them because they could have made the liver damage much worse.