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Old Mon Aug 9, 2010, 10:46 AM
halles25 halles25 is offline
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Question - Bactrim Causing AA?

Has anybody ever heard of the antibiotic Bactrim causing AA? During my treatment, after ATG, I was on Bactrim to prevent infection while my WBC was lower than normal, so my doc must not have been very concerned about the drug causing any sort of relapse. However, my sister was recently prescribed this drug for an infection, and as soon as she read in the symptoms that it can cause AA, she requested a different antibiotic.

I'm very curious if anybody has ever heard of AA as a symptom of taking Bactrim. I'm not sure, but I think it or a variant of it may have been prescribed to me as a teenager to prevent acne. I think it goes by any of the following names - Bactrim, Septra, Septrin, Apo-Sulfatrim, SMZ-TMP and co-trimoxazole.
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halles25, diagnosed SAA 2002, ATG & cyclosporine, healthy counts since 2005.
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