UTI not going away

[Anonymous]

are you sure it's a UTI and not a kidney stone? In retrospect I realized that most of my emergency situations with pain and bleeding were actually related to kidney stones. I also had a uti but that was just a symptom and not the actual problem.

[Anonymous]

Which antibiotic? Many UTI’s are resistant to Bactrim. I usually get macrobid and occasionally switch up with cephalexin if the macrobid isn’t working. Try to avoid Cirpro if you can.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Which antibiotic? Many UTI’s are resistant to Bactrim. I usually get macrobid and occasionally switch up with cephalexin if the macrobid isn’t working. Try to avoid Cirpro if you can.

NP. My understanding is that Bactrim is no longer the first line for UTIs, for that exact reason. I much prefer Bactrim (in my experience, it starts working much faster than Macrobid), but my doc won’t prescribe it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What was the culture result?

I seem to always get started on Macrobid. After the culture returns I might be switched depending what's happening.

Last time I wound up on Cipro even though the culture showed that the bacteria should have been taken care of by Macrobid. I was on Macrobid for a week without improvement, but Cipro wiped it out in less than 2 days.

I had that exact scenario last year. Thankfully I had no issues with Cipro and it did clear the infection in 1-2 days.