Or you can see your doctor to see if you can get off the pills so you don't continue to deal with any side effects or continue to take unnecessary medicine.
Usually they tell you how long to take the pills. Take them until that date, if you still have symptoms then talk to your doctor. If you don't, well hooray. Its very hard for them to know if there is still bacteria in you that can reproduce, but can predict how long from taking the medicine that all of it should have died
I can't stress enough how important this is. By not finishing a course of antibiotics, not only are the remaining bacteria able to reproduce, but they are more resistant to the antibiotic.
Exactly.
You're not leaving the "pitiful few", you're leaving the strongest, which will immediately start reproducing. By stopping an antibiotic regimen early, you're only making your (AND THE COMMUNITY's) situation worse.
PLEASE listen to your doctor.
You usually take antibiotics to also mend your stomach flora, the medication you are on that kills the antigens (or "bugs") also kills off some of your antibodies (or "good bugs"). The antibiotics help restore your natural balance of the two so you recover faster.
It's actually been proven that by stopping antibiotics once you feel better makes your immune system stronger, the meds act as a boost for your own system to take over. Look it up.
First guest doesn't know jack shit about immunology or antibiotics. By the time you are sick your immune system is already compromised, not taking your antibiotics is like jumping out of a plane saying," that's a nice parachute and all, but I'd rather use a bed sheet."
You're not leaving the "pitiful few", you're leaving the strongest, which will immediately start reproducing. By stopping an antibiotic regimen early, you're only making your (AND THE COMMUNITY's) situation worse.
PLEASE listen to your doctor.