Re: Urgent need help! BUMP to mod please-alternate uti med info

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Hi Kem:

I recovered from a serious bladder condition several years ago, have done a lot

of research on this topic and ran a support group for a couple years afterward.

I hope this information helps you:

If you want to avoid risks with fluro based antiobiotics like Cipro, you can

call your doctor and ask for a copy of your urine culture results. When they

culture urine for a bacterial infection, they test for susceptibility or

resistance to several antibiotics at the same time. Then they prescribe based

on what antibiotics the bacteria were susceptible to the most. So you can ask

for an alternate prescription. If your organism is susceptible to Macrobid I

would recommend it because it is an antibiotic that stays in the urinary tract

almost exclusively (ie not blood), has been used since the 50's withOUT showing

any signs of having produced bacterial resistance and is very low on

allergenicity and side effects. Very safe and effective, in short.

Hope this helps,

Terri

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> > Over the last couple of days I've been feeling a UTI (bladder

> > infection) coming on and had been drinking gallons of cranberry juice.

> > It seemed to really help at first, this morning I felt good but by

> > noon I could tell I was in big trouble. I called my doc and she sent

> > a prescription of generic Cipro to the pharmacy. Is there going to be

> > any issue with my HC or T3 while I take this for the next 3 days? My

> > temps have been 98.4 - 99.0 today. Also should I stress dose HC if

> > it doesn't interfere with Cipro?

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> > Kem in Eugene

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