Should I Continue to Take Tamiful if It Makes Me Throw Up
I am unable to get flu shot again bc of a severe adverse reaction history and family history of severe reactions. Last year I came down with Influenza A, H1N1 and I started Tamiflu immediately when symptoms started, but it made me violently ill (profuse vomiting and dry heaving when nothing else was left). I had to discontinue it. But as flu season approaches, I am scared bc I can't get the vaccine and I can't tolerate Tamiflu.
What have others done to avoid vomiting with Tamiflu? I took the first dose on an empty stomach, but after that it was like an unstoppable cascade. My husband took it once a few years ago and didn't throw up at all. Tips?
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Why don't you wait and cross that bridge when you come to it
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No one in my family could tolerate it either.
Presumably, you'll have some natural immunity so if you do get it again this year hopefully the symptoms won't be as severe.
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Do you get the flu every year? I don't think you should assume that you'll get it. And also, Tamiflu just shortens the illness by 1-2 days. So, if I were you, I'd skip the Tamiflu as the benefits don't seem to outweigh the side effects. But mostly, just relax.
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The cure seems worse than the illness in your case, op! I would just skip it. I'm honestly a bit lazy about getting my flu shot, and I seem to catch it only once every few years. I'd focus on keeping your immune system healthy - take your vitamins, make sure your vitamin D levels are in the high normal range.
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everyone in my family got the flu a couple years ago and none of us took Tamiflu. The side effects seemed worse to me than the possibility of shortening the virus by a day or so. Keep in mind too, that Tamiflu is fairly new so people have survived ages without it.
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We all got the flu a couple years ago when the shot was a bad match. The urgent care we used, over the course of three days, gave us all a rx for zofran with our tamiflu rx. I didn't take the zofran--nothing ever bothers my stomach. But the tamiflu really made me nauseated. Took the zofran and did fine with the tamiflu through the remaining course. None of us had any other side effects.
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Anonymous wrote:We all got the flu a couple years ago when the shot was a bad match. The urgent care we used, over the course of three days, gave us all a rx for zofran with our tamiflu rx. I didn't take the zofran--nothing ever bothers my stomach. But the tamiflu really made me nauseated. Took the zofran and did fine with the tamiflu through the remaining course. None of us had any other side effects.
Thanks for this info. I also am someone who cannot tolerate Tamiflu. I have rarely vomited in my life (can probably count on one hand or maybe two the times I've puked, even during college drinking binges), but one dose of Tamiflu, and I was practically projectile vomiting, dry heaving, extremely nauseated. I never took a second dose. So it is helpful to know that there is a remedy (Zofran) for this situation, should it present itself again.
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How do you know tamiflu caused the vomitting?
I also thought vomitting/nausea was just part of having the flu regardless of whether you're taking tamiflu, no?
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Anonymous wrote:How do you know tamiflu caused the vomitting?
I also thought vomitting/nausea was just part of having the flu regardless of whether you're taking tamiflu, no?
In my experience, most influenza viruses do not cause vomiting. Yes to aches, chills, hit by truck feeling, fever, sore throat, etc., but vomiting is usually a GI thing caused by norovirus or rotavirus or another form. As someone who rarely vomits, with or without the flu, I knew it was the tamiflu when after one dose I got extremely nauseated and started vomiting and dry heaving. The vomiting stopped when I stopped taking the Tamiflu (although the other flu symptoms remain). There's nothing worse than being hit by a the flu truck and feeling crappy enough, only to then get the Tamiflu vomiting. The "cure" for me was worse than the flu.
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Take with food? I also threw up my first dose on empty stomach but did fine subsequently with food first.
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You MUST take it with food. You said you took your first dose on an empty stomach. That will make you very sick.
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OP I get the flu almost every year, and I seem to have no immunity to it. I have never taken Tami flu. Why do you feel you need to take it? The flu sucks, true, but after a few days the worst of the symptoms are over. It's the long-term coughing that I find the worst.
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Anonymous wrote:How do you know tamiflu caused the vomitting?
I also thought vomitting/nausea was just part of having the flu regardless of whether you're taking tamiflu, no?
That's because people throw around the word "flu" for everything.
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Anonymous wrote:OP I get the flu almost every year, and I seem to have no immunity to it. I have never taken Tami flu. Why do you feel you need to take it? The flu sucks, true, but after a few days the worst of the symptoms are over. It's the long-term coughing that I find the worst.
I am a CrNA and I am almost *positive* you do not get the flu every year. Influenza is often times confused with a stomach virus, a general feeling of illness, fevers, upset stomachs, etc etc. I would say out of every 10 people who have the "flu" only 3.5-4 of them would test positive for it. My advice is to wash your hands religiously through out the season and if you do indeed get sick just skip the tamiflu. You will probably have symptoms for 48-72 hours longer than with tamiflu but its obvious that outweighs the side effects of the drug for you.
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