When you get a prescription, you're supposed to finish it, I know, and that's what my dad is telling me, but I don't want to. I still have a shitload of antibiotics left but I'm not sick and I don't want to take them because I don't even eat every 8 hours like it wants me to, and they make me feel 10x worse if I don't eat enough food when I take them... Basically, I stopped taking them and my dad thinks I should finish the prescription. I'd estimate that there's like 18 left, and I take one every 8 hours that I'm awake for...

All I wanna know is, does it really matter? I'd rather just stop taking them... I don't think anything is gonna happen if I stop taking pills that stop the replication of something in my body when it's not replicating at an overwhelming amount at all anymore... I'ma sell the antibiotics to middle schoolers as vicodin and make a pretty penny... and then move to Illinois.

The last sentence made me smile.

It's not going to kill you if you stop them now. Although you should run the course of the prescription.

Illinois, fuck yeah.

I think you should keep taking them. Just because you don't feel sick doesn't mean you aren't.

I don't know, in most cases it does. This is the first time I've gotten sick in years, and I've been 'sick' once since this year started. Not that it matters.

Feh. I wouldn't have a problem with it if I trusted the doctor's diagnosis... he made no notion of any notice that I said anything about some internal pain when coughing, and just gave me antibiotics, when there's obviously more than that that needs to be done. The constant flank pain went away, but if I bend the wrong way and stress the muscles around the area, it's enough pain to freeze up and yell out in pain. Definitely not anything I need fucking antibiotics for, but whatever. They helped with the cough, but that's it.

You should keep taking them. If you don't you can get back whatever it is you have, trust me. And eat pro-biotic yoghurt to get back the good stuff you killed off.

Bah, fine, I'll take 'em. lol.

I had a prescription for muscle relaxers, and once I didn't have neck pain anymore, I just saved them for whenever I needed to get to sleep, because those things knocked me out.

Give your doc a call?

I think if you stop taking antibiotics half way it's like you never took them at all. Something about the way they work makes it an all or nothing kinda deal.

If you stop taking antibiotics half way, then your body starts to build an immunity to them. It really is in your best interest to finish your prescription.

Likewise, not finishing the course can contribute to the evolution of resistant bacteria .

Eat them all at once in a bowl of milk.