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lisa_h

Posts: 13
From: Nottingham
Registered: 19-Nov-2006

Dnase and Colomycin
Posted: 12-Dec-2006 13:34

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Hi all,

I have been on Dnase now for 4 weeks and colomycin for 1 year. I take my colomycin in the morning and evening and my Dnase in the afternoon as I was told to break them up and not to have them near each other. but for the last week I have been feeling like my brain in going slow, like slow motion and I feel like its taking me a little longer to register what I want to say to people. Can it have anything to do with these drugs or am I going totally made??? Oh I'm also on prozac and thought it might be that too???

Thank you

Lx

Darling

Posts: 731
From: Here
Registered: 06-Feb-2004

Re: Dnase and Colomycin
Posted: 12-Dec-2006 13:41

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It prob won't be colomycin or DNAse. Been on both for years and not done me any harm. Mooooooooooo!

lisa_h

Posts: 13
From: Nottingham
Registered: 19-Nov-2006

Re: Dnase and Colomycin
Posted: 12-Dec-2006 13:44

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Ok thank you. I will ring the CF team wonder what it would be????????

Lx

Merlin

Posts: 46
From: North East
Registered: 07-Nov-2006

Re: Dnase and Colomycin
Posted: 14-Dec-2006 05:18

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Hi Darling !

Forgive my ignorance,,but whats the Colomycin for,i've been on DNase for a long time also,and honestly i can say i dont feel the immediate benefits anymore. Or am i benefiting from it without realising it.
Does combining the Colomycin help ?

diddyangel

Posts: 25
From: Essex, UK
Registered: 08-Nov-2006

Re: Dnase and Colomycin
Posted: 14-Dec-2006 09:37

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Colomycin is an antibiotic - it can be nebbed or you can have it IV I personally have been on colomycin nebs for as long as i can remember!!
I am also on Dnase but both are for completely different things associated with cf

softie

Posts: 1,070
From: Croydon, Surrey
Registered: 07-Feb-2004

Re: Dnase and Colomycin
Posted: 14-Dec-2006 13:15

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Hiya Lisa,

From personal experience I doubt it's any of the drugs you are on — I've been on all of them and didn't find they had that sort of effect. If anything prozac amde me feel brighter and more quick-witted. What I *DO* ind makes me slow witted is a combination of bad sleep patterns, low oxygen levels and winter. If I have a chest flare-up then that slows me down, if I'm sleeping odd hours that makes me feel dull and slow, and winter also has that effect. Add the three together and tortoises react faster than me.

DNAse can make people a bit wheezier, have you noticed that? It may be if you are working harder to breath that that is leaving you feeling less energetic.

HOWEVER, this is personal experience, and anything is possible. How long have you been on the prozac for? If it's been more than a few weeks then I would be surprised if it's suddenly started to hhave this effect.

I dunno that this is much help, but it may give you a pointer or two as to what is going on.

Take care, look after yourself!

Richard.

lisa_h

Posts: 13
From: Nottingham
Registered: 19-Nov-2006

Re: Dnase and Colomycin
Posted: 14-Dec-2006 13:59

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Thank you all so much for your advice.

I have been on prozac for 6 months now and all I have notice is lack of sex drive which isn't like me but I feel happier, so don't know weither to get this changes luckily my hubby is really understanding.

Dnase has been fantastic for me I went down 25% and its gone back up since I started a month ago. So was worried incase this was causing me to feel dippy. Rang the CF nurse and she said she was wondering if it was a migraine??????? 2 weeks can that really happen?

Take care

Lis xx

softie

Posts: 1,070
From: Croydon, Surrey
Registered: 07-Feb-2004

Re: Dnase and Colomycin
Posted: 14-Dec-2006 20:52

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Saying it might be migraine sounds a little weird, and I've never heard of a migraine lasting two weeks! The very worst my mother ever had (and she used to have it very badly) was three days.

Another thought occurs to me, and that is that prozac can lower blood sugars a wee bit, and if they are chronically lowthen that can make people feel tired and slow. Eating extra carbohydrates can help with that.

It may be that there is something non-cf you need to have dealt with, such as anaemia, so I'd as your CF team to give you a thorough going-over to check that everything is OK.

Take care!

Richard.