Does Antabuse Cause Severe Abdominal Pains?

Posted on Sun, 19 Apr 2015

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Question : Started antabuse a month ago. No side effects. Now two days of severe abdominal pains--like bad gas. Is it the antabuse? What to do? Like the security of being on it. 27 yo male with no other medical issues but bad alcohol abuse/binge-style.

Answered by Dr. Goswami Debopom (5 hours later)

Brief Answer:
It is probably not due to the antabuse.

Detailed Answer:
Welcome to Health Care magic. Thank you for posting your query.
I can understand your concern.

Hopefully yo haven't started consuming alcohol again.

I would suggest you to
- Avoid oily food
- I would start tablet Drotin DS and tablet norfloxacin - this will relieve your symptoms.
- Get a liver function test done.

However if the pain does not subside , stop the antabuse.

Visit a clinician. He/she can examine you and correlate clinically.

Hope this helps.
Write back to us.
Regards.

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Raju A.T