Please help with UTI medicines
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I have a recurring UTI now for 5-6 months. I'm allergic to penicillin and sulfa so that only leaves Cipro & Macrobid (Nitrofurantoin).
The urine was clear but the culture came back with an infection and said that only penicillins & sulfas & Macrobid will work.
I'm currently on Macrobid, day 4 out of 7, and I'm feeling worse than I did when I started taking it. I called my urologists office and they said there was nothing they could do and that I had to finish the antibiotic.
Please, does anyone have any advice on what I should do? Why isn't the medicine working when the culture tested sensitive to it? Im so fearful this is going to turn into a kidney infection.
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anne_42380 Hayhue
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Hi Sorry I have no help for you Hayhue and am not sure where to post a new question so am putting it here. I have been prescribed Macrobid for uti, but am not convinced I have uti. My symptoms started 5, weeks ago, classic burning and need to go frequently. I drank loads of water and kept thinking it had gone and then after a few days it would come back. I took cranberry tablets for 5 days and golden seal for 10, as advised in a health shop. Symptoms carried on. Every time I thought it had gone it would come back. Currently I am on Macrobid day 6 and nothing has changed. But the thing is when the symptoms come I might go every 15 minutes for upto three hours and then as quickly as it started it will stop.I also get stabbing sharp pain just as a new attack starts.This might happen every two days, nothing in between. The other thing is I am getting prickling and burning in my vulva, which I put down to burning from my infected urine. Does anyone else have this strange cycle of 'attacks' with a UTI? Or is it something else causing them?
I generally drink a lot of lemon water, ginger and turmeric tea, and have started probiotics and Uva Uris for cystitis.
Any ideas really welcome as this is not acting in the same way as the one previous Uti I had 40 years ago (I am 60). I am asking here as I moved abroad three months ago and am finding it very difficult to explain and negotiate the medical system in French.
Takingtime anne_42380
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Hi Anne, I have (had) similar symptoms.....I had many cultures done, and there was never white blood or red blood cells found in my urine, but on occasion they would find bacteria that was called Strep b......My sysmptoms came and went, I had to treat the strep naturally because I could not tolerate antibiotics (allergic reactions), it took me months. The urologist said he was not going to treat it because I wasn't pregnant or diabetic even though I had symptoms. My symptoms have settled, however on and off I too get a burning, prickly sensation just about the urethra.....I have had no formal diagnosis, the urologist thinks it could be either urethral syndrome.......or a vulvadynia....but they are making this assumption without any further testing. I have found creams to soothe when I get a flare up.....I also do vaginal probiotics once a week to prevent vaginal infections, or UTI. I drink mainly water, I don't drink pop (soda), I drink herbal teas ...not green tea....I too do a shot of pure sour cranberry juice...and take supplements and probiotics that support my urinary tract. Have they done a culture on you? It is rare that a doctor prescribes antibiotics when there is no signs of infection, usually by the urinalysis....It is possible that the Macrobid might not be working against the bacteria.
anne_42380 Takingtime
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yes they have done culture and it was positive, Ifeel better this morning but that has happened very weekmformthe last five weeks and the symptoms return.
I just feel the symptoms are slightly strange as when I get the urgent need to,urinate and burning it lasts a few hours then disappears until another day. Also the burning and prickling around my vulva comes before the urge to,pee but lasts a lot longe. Wondered whether anyone else gets uti symptoms like this, or if something else is going on.
I am off tea, coffe, chocolate, wine, on ginger, turmeric, probiotics, urva ursi,andgenerally eat a healthy diet with loads of fruit and veg.
Takingtime anne_42380
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It sounds you are on the right path avoiding coffee, tea anything that is a diaretic....making you have to go more, I was told green tea is really bad as well. Good old water is pretty much what I drink 90% of the time, and then I do juicing too as I bought a juicer at the start o the year. It could be also lack of hormones you mentioned you were 60? Menopausal women can experience more UTI's as well as vaginal atrophy which can mimic a UTI...but again, if cultures come back posistve and there in no way there could be a contamination then it is likely a UTI.