Doing more research on myasthenia gravis. When this started over a year ago I kept mentioning to the Doctor's that I thought it was tied to taking clindamycin two weeks before. JUST found a list of medications to avoid that are implicated in either inducing or worsening myasthenia gravis. Yep, it is one of them. IGNORED for over a year. Oh yes, will bring up it this week at my appointment.

Thanks Anacrusis (and all). Hopefully I'll be able to get some sort of preliminary answers when I go to the neurologist, whether it turns out to be MG or something completely different. Although, I presume it will take a little time to get any sort of official diagnosis.

Kathleenob- Glad you were able to find the article. Hopefully it'll help you and you and your doctor will be able to find a solution!

Now that you've clarified the question, this is extremely possible. My neuro at the time suspected MG, but it was brought out by an anesthesia that caused me to stop breathing. There were signs of it earlier, but doctors were able to either ignore them or right them off as part of another disease.

Z-pacs (that seemingly great one a day for 6 day antibiotic) are on the list but not as Z-pac's by name arithzy...something like that, but it is a ZPAC

Just wanted to throw something contradictory into the pot here, about contraindicated drugs and my own experiences:

The exact same drug that was provoking myasthenic weakness 8 months ago is the exact same drug that I was taking last spring when I went into quite a significant remission whilst in the process of actually taking it. (My progressive myasthenia felt like being on a 5 year roller coaster ride with pulls & releases, and at the very highest peak I got out, jumped and pulled my parachute landing 5 days later!!)

So what I learned in my own personal case here is that sometimes the drug dictates the myasthenia, but at other times the myasthenia has a life of its own and the power of a spontaneous remission from long term fatigable weakness can at times silence even the most offensive of drugs.