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[minecrafts]

Hi! I'm new here, handshake and all that. Here's my not super fun times of being sick

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[bad_lcuk]

Im really sorry that you had to go through that with your grandfather, its understandable you would be skeptical of nurses now. :(((

In the future, sometimes its not always easy to see if growth is just small or if something is not a growth at all, and the antibiotics will stop or slow growth--you dont have to take them if prescribed, but if you get quite worse, it may be at least good to have them on hand. I know you dont like that they prescribed it for you anyways, but some people dont have the opportunity to get to the doctor whenever theyd like (or multiple times so soon), so i can understand a nurse giving a script and allowing the patient to chose.

[batman]

But if you do take them, you have to finish the entire course of antibiotics :(

[bad_lcuk]

Well, i mean you can chose if you get worse. I live in an area where many, many people (especially elderly) live hour+ away from closest walk in so here, it is quite common (even though it obviously can be bad to over-take, get resistant bacteria, etc). Many dont have many options for if/when they get in. I was just giving the OP another situation in maybe a different region where this may be practiced?? I usually try to think of some reason!! I like to think people are not just malicious? As in, trying to hurt OP? , sorry, i cant explain well!

(edit)oh and by chose i mean to start, obviously you must finish the set! I just meant if OP got quite worse.

[silvers_shadows]

Except there are pretty well-founded concerns that over-prescription of antibiotics is causing an upswing in antibiotic resistant bacteria, and doctors/nurses are being told not to prescribe antibiotics except where absolutely necessary. So while the OP probably does require antibiotcs (that rattle doesn't sound too stellar), the nurse shouldn't be giving out antibiotics willy-nilly, especially if they're not sure there's anything wrong ie: they think the OPs chest sounded clear.

/soapbox

[bad_lcuk]

I do understand that, but I can also understand a nurse offering a person a script-again, the person can chose whether they want to take it or not, but if i live in a small town an hour from the nearest doctor, id rather fill and not use a script then have to go back a week or two later because it advanced.

[hushdawg]

and in other parts of the world you can get broad-spectrum low-dose antibiotics without a prescription. I'm currently taking 500mg amoxicillin every 3 hours and nobody asked for a script when I got them at the pharmacy. There are at least four other antibiotics I can get without a prescription here so when I have a simple infection that doesn't go away on its own after 4 days then I'll take antibiotics for a week to knock it out and save myself the expense of a doctor visit.

Then again, my wife is a nurse so it isn't entirely self-medicating. XD

[minecrafts]

You know, I'd always thought that being given a prescription meant I had to take the medicine. It honestly hadn't occurred to me that she was giving me the choice - probably because I'd mentioned that my sister had had the same symptoms and they'd cleared up after a course. Honestly antibiotics were what I wanted purely because they'd worked for my sister with (IMO) clearly the same illness... I just didn't understand why she'd say she thought I was fine, and then give me them anyway. That actually clears that up for me, thank you!

... Turns out nothing I posted about was actually bad service then. Excellent first post, now I feel stupid...