Whaddabout you ?
On some nasty antibiotics which have a list of worrying side-effects. Fortunately, I only seem to be suffering one of those in a mild form. They seemed to have been doing something over the first 3 days, but little improvement over the last 2. Will see what the next couple of days brings. Pain levels have eased from 9 or 10 out of 10 down to 2 out of 10 and I can get around a bit better. Can't stand in one place for more than a minute, but I can hobble along for maybe 20 minutes before pain forces me to get off my feet. The only footwear I can tolerate is a pair of thongs/jandals/flip-flops. Glad I don't have snow to deal with. 
Right, those side effects.....so when your SO goes shopping it looks like she's stocking up on loo paper ?
If not she'd better as when the body needs them less things start to run....become urgent...get outta my way ! 
I hope you have a cast iron gut for them wretched things.
It may not be as simple as the squitts. A lot of the antimicrobials that aren't routinely used are that way for good reason. The side effects or contra-indications can be quite tricky.
I've had, on and off, recurring and recalcitrant foliculitis. Not a biggie, more of an annoyance, but it's meant that I've seen a few dermatologists over the years. Dermatologists often reach for drugs that the average doctor doesn't - you wouldn't be seeing a specialist if the "usual" treatment used by non-specialists had done the trick . So, my last dermatologist (who I might add turned out to be the best of the bunch that I've seen) went through a whole raft of second and third line antimicrobials with me. One of these drugs required that I took blood tests first to rule out a list of rare-ish conditions that you can have asymptomatically (like G6PD deficiency) before it was deemed safe to try the drug on me. Another required regular blood tests to make sure that I wasn't developing liver problems because of taking it. Another came with a quite high risk of rhabdomyolysis (sudden and catastrophic loss of muscle) as a side-effect while taking it; as I was at the time someone who was doing cycling training
very energetically I was smack in the sights for that one and had to refrain from my usual exercise regime - you can guess that a long break from training means that it fell by the wayside and I'm still in the phase where "I'm gonna start it again, soon.".
So, the side effects of the unusual antimicrobials used when something difficult to shift shows up can be more than just beating up on your gut flora, they can be really quite risky for other aspects of your health, some even potentially fatal in a few rare cases (cf rhabdomyolysis - your
heart is a muscle, you don't want
that to suddenly start wasting away). As always with these things, it's a question of balancing the risks of the drugs against the risks of the disease and part of that is that the riskier drugs get left on the shelf until they're really needed.
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