Cefepime for Skin and Structure Infection User Reviews

• dyn...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• August 31, 2022

"If the patient has prior brain trauma or concussions, then best to consider alternatives to cefepime antibiotics or ‘managing’ dose: 14 days then reduce; did work for me, yet a 4-week x 4/day I.V. implementation. Antibiotic has side effects: headaches + felt like my brain was erased afterwards! Treatment caused concussion-like serious memory problems. I had a severe Pseudomonas a infection that my neurosurgeon actually refused to dispense antibiotics for over 45 days; he was negligent. I was placed on depression meds as a result of side effects, imho: excessive dose implementation, be sure you insist on full follow-up labs 14 days after all meds stop. Lots of negative effects. Verify infectious bacteria eliminated: insist on 2nd round of follow-up labs 14-21 days after all antibiotics have ceased, to verify Pseudomonas a no longer has any presence... due to biofilm! It has a large genome. It's only “hard to treat” due to lack of treatment; insist on continuous 4 weeks!"

• new...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• June 23, 2015

"I had surgeon-caused osteomyelitis, which did not respond to oral cipro. After an 8-week IV regimen of cefepime, the bugs seem to be gone. No side effects, but I ate tons of yogurt, hoping to replace my gut bacteria as fast as the drug killed them. It seems to have worked."

• Dan...
• June 14, 2015

"I have been fighting a pseudomonas infection in my knee for over 7 years, the infection laid dormant in my body and then came back. After two surgeries, one to remove hardware and then another to clean my knee, I was placed on this medicine twice a day by IV. After 3 weeks of being on the medicine, I got an emergency call from my doctor who stated I needed a white blood count right away. My labs from the day before showed my white blood count at 1.8 (which should be 4.5) and platelets at 99 (which should be 150). I had stat labs, and my white blood count dropped to 0.83, so due to the medicine, my bone marrow was shutting down. This is only a 1 percent chance it can happen. Of course, I had to stop that IV medicine. Other than that, this was very easy to use by IV and I felt fine."