Need help preventing stomach aches while on anti-biotics.

I have been taking doxxycycline for almost a week now and have another week to go. Then today I get a call saying my culture shows I have walking pnemonia as well as strep and now I have to take the doxxycycline still and they gave me amoxycyline as well. I was already experiencing stomach upset from one antibiotic, but now that I am on two I feel really icky....I don't know how I am going to do this for another ten days. I've been eating before my pills and I still get stomache aches.
What can i do so I won't get cramping?
Any suggestions will be appreciatted

 

also, please don't tell me to take better care of myself in the future...I already got the lecture from everyone and am soooooo going to from now on

 

Some of the drugs don't do well taken with food -- what a damn nuisance -- but your best bet is probably, unhealthy as it is, snacking. That would help. Yogurt's also a particularly good thing for stomachs and GI tracts when on antibiotics.

Another trick that can be useful is drinking a glass of water with the pills themselves, especially for doxycycline. Doxy is a direct irritant in the GI tract, and so if you can dilute it out a little bit with water, that might help some.

 

I always do best when taking medication to drink an entire 8 oz. glass of milk with the pill....then my stomach doesnt hurt....and I would def. head out and get yourself some probios from the health food shoppe....that length and amount of antibiotics is going to cause some serious disturbances in your intestines! Hope you feel better sis!

 

Thanks guys I am feeling suprisingly well for having strep and pnemonia. I get up early to go to class and can do everything I need to do that they say I shouldn't be doing. I am supossed to be on bed rest for a week...oppps d:
ps-I started the yogurt and water with the pill that you guys suggested and it is working wonderfully. No tummy ache at all today.
I thought of a positive note-the weight loss it outstanding. All I wanna eat is yogurt, frozen yogurt and fruit.

 

So true! When I was in high school I had strep and mono and was so sick for weeks and weeks...it was horrible.....BUT I lost like 20 pounds hahaha!