Oral antibiotics don't work on me. Uti & kidney infection.
Posted , 3 users are following.
For the last 3 years I've been struggling with chronic uti that always turns into kidney infection. My urologist just keeps trying new oral antibiotics & they don't work. Sometimes I will be on 8 different oral antibiotics in a row with multiple visits to the ER for severe nausea & flank pain. I've now developed stage 2 Kidney Disease. I have had surgery on my ureters for abnormalities but the infections continue monthly. Why are oral antibiotics not working for my body?
0 likes, 2 replies
helen54849 Meadowblue
Posted
Hi,
I am sorry you are suffering. We are not drs on here, you could have become immune to the antibiotics after taking them for so long or the particular infection you have at the time has not been cultured and so the specific antibotic for the infection hasn't been given. They are guesses from situations I have seen. You are best speaking to your drs to ask why things no longer seem to be working for you, they are qualified and so best to advise medically. I hope you find answers.
MrsO-UK_Surrey Meadowblue
Posted
Meadowblue, I've recently experienced a couple of different UTIs and some of the antibiotics prescribed either made me feel sick or didn't work, with one causing such diarrhoea with blood that I was admitted to hospital with C.Difficile as a direct result of the GP prescribing too much.
As to your question as to why oral ABs are not working for you,one GP told me that we are becoming resistant because the ABs are clever and are mutating all the time. I'm just crossing fingers that my latest specimen results don't come back with yet another infection as I only have one kidney and an eGFR of just 38 CKD3b.