re: Strangest side effect you had from a prescribed drug?

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Bactrim thought me I was allergic to sulfa. I looked like Carmen Basilio after his fight with Sugar Ray Robinson.

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My daughter (no pics) had an infection once and whatever reason they prescribed her a sulfa based antibiotic. Within 30 minutes of taking the first dose the skin all over her body had turned blood red, was puffy, and hot to the touch.

We carried her straight to the emergency room and they had to pump her full of so much steroids to get rid of the allergic reaction that her immune system was shot for about two years. Anytime somone coughed or sneexed around her she got sick.