Sulfa drugs are evil -- EVIL I tell you
For reasons that aren't worth getting into, I recently started to have to take an antibiotic -- sulfamethoxazole. I suspected getting the script that it was going to hurt my stomach, as Bonnie has had it before and is terrified to ever take it again. So I asked the nurse practitioner who gave me the script if it would bother my stomach and she said it shouldn't. Boy was she wrong.
After two days on it, I couldn't hold down any food. From Sunday evening through Monday evening, I was *running* to the bathroom to throw up, even during a restaurant dinner we went out to with my boss and his family. It was terrifying.
At first I thought I had a stomach flu or food poisoning, but there was no fever and no one else had it. What was so strange about it is that there was absolutely no cramping or onset. One second I'd be fine, the next I'd be throwing up.
The NP prescribed a new antibiotic (cipro) and I'm actually a lot better today. But let this be a lesson. Sulfa drugs are great, if you want to lose weight quickly and involuntarily.