I have been getting UTI's every 2 years or so since I was 18....It was after a bout of Food poisoning I had...anyways I have had them every 2 years ever since....Well a couple of weeks before i moved I got one..I started my regiment of cranberry pills (I cant stomach the juice)...and water almost a gallon a day...then I went to the doctor for antibiotics.....well he perscribed me this kind that I have never taken before called Macrobid......i was a bit skeptical but i took them for 7 days and nothing changed....I returned to the doctor and they gave me Bactrim (sulfa)...this is what I usually take...but yet again nothing happened...My docs office was closed do i went to the emergency room, and they gave me Doxyciclin....it seemed to be going away fine.....It got to the point where I had no symptoms...I went back to the doctor for a follow up, and they gave me a urine culture....and lo and begold i got a call today saying I still have an infection and that the doxyciclin actually hadnt dont anything...and now at my pharmacy waits a forth antibiotic...........
I am sure you can all understand my frustration......I have no syptoms....And concidering I have had this "Infection" for over a month I have not had any back pain, I have not had a fever, and I have not been nauseas.............
So now I am looking into alternatives...I will take the antibiotics, but I know that they can effect my immune system.....and I pride myself on have the immune system of a horse....besides the occasional UTI I dont get sick...I havent had a cold in 6 years...I have never had strep...or an ear infection, or a sinus infection, hell when I had Chicken pox I didnt even get sick, where as my sister had a fever and was bed ridden for 2 weeks....I even remember one timemy friends and I wanted to get out of school so we went to the back yard to a bush of poison ivy...we pulled off the leaves and rubbed them on our selves..(i know thats stupid but we were 9)....out of 5 kids I was the only one NOT to get a rash, and the only one to go to school the next day.......
I also have been reading about how UTI bacteria can grow resistance to antibiotics.....I am wondering if this is my problem.......
I am totally baffled, I feel 100% better since taking the doxyciclin, yet they say the bacteria didnt react to it.....The doctor thinks I might have had one infection after another or maybe even two at the same time.....but I am not sick..I have no symptoms..I am just so frustrated.......
I have been looking at alternatives like i stated earlier.....I have come across a couple of supposed 100% garunteed cured...antibiotic free....but I am not in the possition to be spending money right now on something that may be just a scam.......
So I guess I want from you guys good wishes, stories of a similar nature, and posssibly at home cures...I am stumped......
Thanks guys.......
I am sure you can all understand my frustration......I have no syptoms....And concidering I have had this "Infection" for over a month I have not had any back pain, I have not had a fever, and I have not been nauseas.............
So now I am looking into alternatives...I will take the antibiotics, but I know that they can effect my immune system.....and I pride myself on have the immune system of a horse....besides the occasional UTI I dont get sick...I havent had a cold in 6 years...I have never had strep...or an ear infection, or a sinus infection, hell when I had Chicken pox I didnt even get sick, where as my sister had a fever and was bed ridden for 2 weeks....I even remember one timemy friends and I wanted to get out of school so we went to the back yard to a bush of poison ivy...we pulled off the leaves and rubbed them on our selves..(i know thats stupid but we were 9)....out of 5 kids I was the only one NOT to get a rash, and the only one to go to school the next day.......
I also have been reading about how UTI bacteria can grow resistance to antibiotics.....I am wondering if this is my problem.......
I am totally baffled, I feel 100% better since taking the doxyciclin, yet they say the bacteria didnt react to it.....The doctor thinks I might have had one infection after another or maybe even two at the same time.....but I am not sick..I have no symptoms..I am just so frustrated.......
I have been looking at alternatives like i stated earlier.....I have come across a couple of supposed 100% garunteed cured...antibiotic free....but I am not in the possition to be spending money right now on something that may be just a scam.......
So I guess I want from you guys good wishes, stories of a similar nature, and posssibly at home cures...I am stumped......
Thanks guys.......