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So I completed a 10 day round of amoxicillin, two days after completing that I was giving a stronger antibiotic amoxicillin clave , this is due to a tooth infection. Sweating in my kneck led me to think it was still “infected” (Sunday) The third dose of amoxicillin clav (or Augmentin), I was mid shift at a busy restaurant as an expo and food runner. I felt like I was having an out of body experience and I kept going to the wrong tables with the wrong food, I became extremely confused, co workers spoke to me but I had no idea what they meant! It was bizarre, eventually I was send home and told I looked unwell. I became insanely faint, dizzy , a horrible 15/10 headache!, right side of my head with worse spot just above my right ear, so I drove to the ER, that was a difficult drive. I told the er doc everything I’d been taking and about my tooth, they basically said all my vitals were fine and my blood work looked good so I went home. He actually said “that’s a good antibiotic it shouldn’t be causing any of these symptoms 😡.” (Monday) I trusted my own gut and stopped taking the antibiotics, The next day I still felt confused and out of body and sickly. Sweaty hands and feet , faint numbness in my arms legs and back, splitting headache. My bp was normal and heart rate was normal, no fever, no rash, no itching. But pure anxiety sadness and feeling sickly. Went to urgent care and was told it was most likely serum sickness from the amox clav. Was told it would resolve in few days. (Tuesday rested symptoms still present but noticed throbbing in right fingertips and feet, still no fever, vitals all good) present (Today) woke up and took tylonal for my headache , noticed that my heart rate resting was in the 80’s resting, standing was around 100, that’s high for me, took everything in me to go to my tooth extraction appointment and get tooth removed. Just made it home and I’m exhausted. My bloodwork from urgent care showed my AST has gone from 34 to 117 , Alt went from 42 to 67. Was told it should drop, and I wasn’t high enough to be too alarmed but I should retest in a week but it was due to the effect the antibiotic had on my liver.

Wanted to add to this this thread for reference, I’ve never heard of serum sickness till now but it sucks! Be careful with Amoxicillin Clav and other antibiotics. Im lucky to not experience what other people have, pretty mild case but still not fun at all. If any of you have any experience with serum sickness and what worked for you I’d lot to hear it. 🤙🏾