How do I know when antibiotic treatment succeeds?

T-T · 2019-03-03T19:26:51.036Z

I have taken 7 regular doses now, at times I get a green message about feeling a bit better after taking it, but my status effect doesnt change. Am I doing something wrong? Should I up the dosage or something?

Tazeell · 2019-03-03T19:27:33.127Z

Have you given it time to take effect or are you just standing in place shooting up a whole bottle?

T-T · 2019-03-03T19:33:20.336Z

The infection has been going for around 3 game days now, got lucky to find 2 bottles of antibiotics before the limb turned green and instantly took a dose, then took additional doses roughly every 12 hours, the infection has progressed to “badly infected” now. Been camping in a safe spot eating scrambled eggs and pine nuts, since I dont know if wounding the limb again would reset the process.

Tazeell · 2019-03-03T19:40:05.846Z

Just hope for the best. It’s not guaranteed you’ll survive so just keep taking em regularly and hope it will eventually go away. Preferably before you die. Been a long time since I had a character actually get infected and that cleared in the first dose and many many versions ago. Wiki is a good place to check for stuff like that though.
https://cddawiki.chezzo.com/cdda_wiki/index.php?title=Antibiotic

T-T · 2019-03-03T19:45:57.144Z

Yikes, looks like I’m just getting the short end of the RNG stick. I checked the wiki before posting here, but thought I’d ask here in case something had changed and I was doing it wrong. Anyways, thanks for the info!

T-T · 2019-03-03T20:30:43.866Z

Finally got the recovering status. Are further antibiotics required to keep recovery or is it fine to stop dosage? I’m guessing it’s latter.

Tazeell · 2019-03-03T20:32:34.850Z

Not sure but it’d be your life your risking if you stop taking it. I’d probably keep going if it were me until it’s dead all the way.

T-T · 2019-03-03T20:33:30.074Z

Got it, thanks again!

Mantar · 2019-03-03T23:57:22.572Z

It’s fine to stop once you get to “recovering.” I think boosting your health helps your odds of recovery, I had a character get all the way to “pus-filled” while I frantically downed herbal tea and protein shakes and stuff, then the antibiotics finally worked. I SO wanted to lance the infection site.