UTI

[Lesley]

I have a bad one (like the ones I used to get once a month prior to bladder elevation surgery). I did a culture on MONDAY and picked up Cipro, but have been waiting for the results before taking them.
This week has been bad. A flare up. No real D but a lot of soft serve, weird looking stools, with a lot of mucous. Also, a lot of allergic reaction - phlegm, itching and so forth. Plus pain and exhaustion. I had to drag myself back to bed this morning. Not something I do unless I feel really bad.
This deterioration has to be connected to the UTI, so I am hoping that with the Cipro and improvement in the urinary department I can go back to the previous status quo on the MC scoreboard, which was a lot better than this. Not nearly good enough, which is why I did the MRT, but much preferable to this.

[starfire]

Lesley, Cipro might just make an improvement in your MC symptoms. Won't be permanant but I remember Polly saying that it improved her's.

I hope you are better soon.

Love, Shirley

[tex]

Lesley, Cipro might just make an improvement in your MC symptoms. Won't be permanant but I remember Polly saying that it improved her's.

Yep, I got a reprieve both times that I took Cipro, for the duration of the treatment, plus a few days afterward. It was soft serve, not Normans, but waaaaaaaaaaaay better than the secretory D that I had been having.

Tex

[Lesley]

I remembered your saying that, but didn't want to take the Cipro until I knew for sure the infection is sensitive to it.
I can't believe my doctor didn't let me know there were 50 colonies of ecoli in my urine sensitive to Cipro when 100 colonies represent an infection to them. She KNOWS I get these things, and am never wrong when I tell her I have one.
Actually, given their total incompetence lately, I can believe it.

I should feel better by Sunday.